[SOLVED] Moved to Kub 24.04 from Neon!

[Beerislife]

Well, it was bound to happen. I was having too many nagging problems with Plasma 6 on Neon so because
it was raining and didn't feel like getting wet, I bit the bullet and installed Kubby 24.04 over it. At last I can
type in Japanese on my system!

I miss KWeather and other nicities from Plasma 6 but I think it's best if I let it mature a bit!

Snap has gone and I'm using official Thunderbird and Firefox! (Thanks Black Kitten!)

I'm waiting for some of the PPAs I use and Backports to catch up with this release and then I'll be happy,
for a while!

[Schwarzer Kater]

You are very welcome.

Sad but true: at the moment I also primarily use Kubuntu 24.04 LTS and Debian 12, because of Plasma 6 in openSUSE Tumbleweed and TUXEDO OS 3…

KWeather is easily installed as a Flatpak in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS / Plasma 5.27.x, by the way.
What else do you miss?
I really like the digital travel assistant KDE Itinerary (also as a Flatpak) - but I don't know if it works as well in Japan or USA as in central Europe…

[Beerislife]

I can do without KWeather, I can just shouut out "OK Google" to my smart clock... It was just nice to have in front of me.

I can't remeber if I installed KDE Itinerary. My trips usually don't last much longer that two weeks so my memory works
better!

Talking about trips, I'll be back home in London at the end of the month for ten nights! I cn taste the beer already!

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Talking about trips, I'll be back home in London at the end of the month for ten nights! I cn taste the beer already!

We'll put it on to warm for you now!

[Beerislife]

I'll only be packing shorts and tee-shirts so it had better be warm!

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

I'll only be packing shorts and tee-shirts so it had better be warm!

I meant the beer!

[claydoh]

I couldn't sleep last night so I converted my i5 Chromebook to proper Linux. I was going to anyway, for my upcoming extended Oz visit.
I installed Fedora 40, for reasons. Mostly involving audio support.
The chrultrabook dev community is rather anti-*buntu in some corners, and the audio support scripting doesn't support it (for mostly valid reasons mind you) , yet they support Debian 12, which needs a custom kernel, which is available from them.
I just don't have the patience to decipher what needs to be done on a 22.04 base (neon ) or Kubuntu 24.04 at the moment.

But I do want Plasma 6. So Fedora 40 is a no brainer.

It has a couple of minor graphical glitches I don't have on neon but otherwise I only needed to get rid of software I don't need (not a ton), enable normal Flathub and disable Fedora's, and change the theme

I'll only be packing shorts and tee-shirts so it had better be warm!

I too am (mostly) packing shorts - it's all I wear. Except it is going into winter in the upside-down, so I promised the Mrs I would bring some (2).

[Schwarzer Kater]

OT(?):

claydoh : If you use SATA HDDs or SSDs with Fedora I would suggest to switch from their default bfq scheduler for those to the mq-deadline scheduler (as this is more efficient/faster in the huge majority of use cases - you could use the Phoronix benchmarks to validate this for example), e.g. in /etc/udev/rules.d with

ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="mq-deadline"

By the way: (K)ubuntu uses mq-deadline for SATA HDDs and SSDs by default.

See cat /sys/block/sd*/queue/scheduler .


PS: And if anybody wonders - [none] is the preferred one for (M.2) NVMes nowadays.

[Beerislife]

The boss has an ASUS Chromebook Flip CM5 (AMD CPU, 8Gb RAM)

https://is.gd/Ddd6ik

I've been thinking about swapping out the small SSD for a larger one and installing Mint for her. Thinking.....

Warm beer? Umm, I could murder a pint of Landlord or Titanic Plum Porter!

[Snowhog]

Warm beer?

Isn’t that the way Brits drink it?

[claydoh]

SATA HDDs or SSDs

SATA? SATA?? Whaddaya think I have some sort of server-type of chromebook
It would either be emmc () or nvme. And I refuse to use emmc again, so.......my i5-1135G7 Chromebook has its OEM 256Gb NVME sticklet, for the moment.
it is set to use [none] out of the box by fedora, as is the NVME drives on my neon desktop, as well as my Debian based OpenMediaVault NAS, while the SATA drives in each are set to [mq-deadline] .
All of this was OOTB, no mods by me.

Being me, I doubt I'd even notice the differences anyway.

[Beerislife]

One thing annoying on this machine that doesn't happen on my Belink Mini, is the looooong delay in
getting to the desktop after logging in! After entering my password the KDE gear spins for ages before
the desktop pops up, even the login sound has long finished.

Could this possibly be something related to having used Plasma 6 on this machine?

[Beerislife]

Another problem...

sudo dpkg -i balena-etcher_1.18.11_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for wayne:
(Reading database ... 334607 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack balena-etcher_1.18.11_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking balena-etcher (1.18.11) over (1.18.11) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of balena-etcher:
balena-etcher depends on gconf-service; however:
Package gconf-service is not installed.
balena-etcher depends on gconf2; however:
Package gconf2 is not installed.
balena-etcher depends on libgconf-2-4; however:
Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed.
balena-etcher depends on libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0; however:
Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package balena-etcher (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
balena-etcher
wayne@Wayne-IdeaCentre:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install gconf-service
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package gconf-service is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gconf-service' has no installation candidate

wayne@Wayne-IdeaCentre:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install gconf2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package gconf2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gconf2' has no installation candidate

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[Schwarzer Kater]

Another problem...

Without looking into your .deb problem: the AppImage of balena Etcher works in 24.04 (with a bit of "tuning") - see https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/...672#post678672

[claydoh]

The boss has an ASUS Chromebook Flip CM5 (AMD CPU, 8Gb RAM)

https://is.gd/Ddd6ik

I've been thinking about swapping out the small SSD for a larger one and installing Mint for her. Thinking.....

Warm beer? Umm, I could murder a pint of Landlord or Titanic Plum Porter!

That will work fine.
The hardest part is figuring out disabling write -protect. Which isn't hard, but may involve unplugging the battery.

After that, flashing the full uefi firmware is a simple script, and installing an OS is the usual

But you likely will need to do an extra step or two for audio support. My last CB had the same AMD hardware, but that was before usable kernels (6.5) were in *buntu

Mint won't have that ootb. And the likely audio fixes won't work on it either. So I highly suggest a different non-ubuntu based system at the moment

I didn't try Noble on my current device, but that's laziness. I didn't want to muck around and figure it out right now.


Oh, then there is the keyboard layout and making that work as expected. Or less unexpectedly.