Hello All,
Please accept my apologies for the large font but I am low vision.
This is my first post and my first and only introduction:
I am 71 years old and retired in the Dom. Rep. I assemble all my pc’s and I have been running Linux as my primary OS since Ubuntu Dapper Drake, 6.04, and RHEL before that. I consider myself an advanced beginner in that as re: CLI (BASH), I do not write scripts; I know a few discrete commands but mostly copy/paste.
I distro hop on a VM always looking for that grass greener on the other side. In spite of 100+ distro hops over 15 years or so, I have stuck with Ubuntu Gnome/Unity/Gnome. Until now. There is a good chance that Kubuntu Plasma will be my primary distro and OS.
The reason is that the breadth of precise config. options is probably two orders of magnitude greater than Ubuntu. I give one example: I am low vision. For digital clock and calendar, I can increase the panel width such that I can tell the time! Or another: I am now running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. With the pro option turned on, I’m good until about 2035. Fine. But I want to upgrade to 24.04 LTS. But Dropbox is broken. The taskbar icon is unclickable. But in the latest Kubuntu it works great—even better, with a transparent icon to show status.
However, Kubuntu has a problem. The same “power” that enables massive config. options, entails a brief learning curve where lots of everyday stuff does NOT work out of the box. An example is the virtual pager. However, this post is not about that. I’ll come back to that later.
Meanwhile, I’m running Kubuntu in a VM (Boxes). I have a long list of stuff, a check-off list, of stuff I must be able to implement, if I am to do a permanent install. Some of these items, if they do not succeed, will be deal-breakers for this distro. I think what I’m going to do, is to install Kubuntu on the ssd of my travel laptop (now running Ubuntu 22.04 MATE) and if and when I can get everything functioning on my travel laptop, then I’ll do an install on my primary machine. This will be better than trying to run stuff on a VM. END OF INTRODUCTION.
First Post
Here is a deal-breaker for Kubuntu. If you are not familiar with it let me introduce you to Warp (warp.dev) an AI Mac terminal that accepts natural language inputs that has now been ported to Linux from Mac. It is free albeit “freemium” model. The devs are very keen and enthusiastic about this project. This program has radically changed my interaction with CLI for the first time in 20 years. I can query any use case and it will give me code with option to execute. I recently had trouble installing the alpha version of Kokua SL viewer. It output exact steps and the install was perfect.
Needless to say, warp.dev is a game changer and any distro or OS that will not run it, I will not use.
Warp on Kubuntu:
1. Go to warp.dev
2. Download the .deb file
3. Use GUI Ark to unzip
4. terminal: warp
You will find “unmet dependencies.” I used this flag:
warp -f and 1000+ Rust files were installed. But when executing [warp], the program hangs.
Solutions? Opinions? Ideas?
I highly recommend evaluating Warp in a Kubuntu VM.
Please accept my apologies for the large font but I am low vision.
This is my first post and my first and only introduction:
I am 71 years old and retired in the Dom. Rep. I assemble all my pc’s and I have been running Linux as my primary OS since Ubuntu Dapper Drake, 6.04, and RHEL before that. I consider myself an advanced beginner in that as re: CLI (BASH), I do not write scripts; I know a few discrete commands but mostly copy/paste.
I distro hop on a VM always looking for that grass greener on the other side. In spite of 100+ distro hops over 15 years or so, I have stuck with Ubuntu Gnome/Unity/Gnome. Until now. There is a good chance that Kubuntu Plasma will be my primary distro and OS.
The reason is that the breadth of precise config. options is probably two orders of magnitude greater than Ubuntu. I give one example: I am low vision. For digital clock and calendar, I can increase the panel width such that I can tell the time! Or another: I am now running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. With the pro option turned on, I’m good until about 2035. Fine. But I want to upgrade to 24.04 LTS. But Dropbox is broken. The taskbar icon is unclickable. But in the latest Kubuntu it works great—even better, with a transparent icon to show status.
However, Kubuntu has a problem. The same “power” that enables massive config. options, entails a brief learning curve where lots of everyday stuff does NOT work out of the box. An example is the virtual pager. However, this post is not about that. I’ll come back to that later.
Meanwhile, I’m running Kubuntu in a VM (Boxes). I have a long list of stuff, a check-off list, of stuff I must be able to implement, if I am to do a permanent install. Some of these items, if they do not succeed, will be deal-breakers for this distro. I think what I’m going to do, is to install Kubuntu on the ssd of my travel laptop (now running Ubuntu 22.04 MATE) and if and when I can get everything functioning on my travel laptop, then I’ll do an install on my primary machine. This will be better than trying to run stuff on a VM. END OF INTRODUCTION.
First Post
Here is a deal-breaker for Kubuntu. If you are not familiar with it let me introduce you to Warp (warp.dev) an AI Mac terminal that accepts natural language inputs that has now been ported to Linux from Mac. It is free albeit “freemium” model. The devs are very keen and enthusiastic about this project. This program has radically changed my interaction with CLI for the first time in 20 years. I can query any use case and it will give me code with option to execute. I recently had trouble installing the alpha version of Kokua SL viewer. It output exact steps and the install was perfect.
Needless to say, warp.dev is a game changer and any distro or OS that will not run it, I will not use.
Warp on Kubuntu:
1. Go to warp.dev
2. Download the .deb file
3. Use GUI Ark to unzip
4. terminal: warp
You will find “unmet dependencies.” I used this flag:
warp -f and 1000+ Rust files were installed. But when executing [warp], the program hangs.
Solutions? Opinions? Ideas?
I highly recommend evaluating Warp in a Kubuntu VM.
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