Trying Kubuntu while waiting for Neon
I downloaded the 18.04 Kubuntu ISO and burned it onto a USB stick.
I replaced the HD (/dev/sa) with a Samsung EVO Pro SSD and installed Kubuntu using Btrfs as the root filesystem.
The installation completed without a hitch.
As you would suspect, my wifi took my password from the install process and I had a wifi connection automatically. I ran the updates in a Konsole and some 300+ apps came down the pipe, making my 18.04 installation an 18.04.1 installation.jj
I was going to install the printer and checked to see if HPLIP was installed by default. It was. I opened its GUI up and was surprised to see my HP Lazerjet P1606dn duplex laser already installed and configured for duplex printing. Printed a test page, which came out perfect.
I opened a Konsole and entered
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
A couple of minutes later it was done. I rebooted and was greeted with a desktop powered by the NVidia 390 driver. No artifacts or tearing were evident nor have any appeared since then.
I installed Thunderbird using muon. When I opened it I was asked for my account name and email address. I entered that information and within seconds my email account was configured and worked properly. I changed the default email to "Thunderbird -u%" in the "Applications" setting of System Settings, and added the email icon to the FF toolbar. When I was on a web page I clicked the email icon and the write message popped up with the title of the article in the subject line and the URL as the first line in the body of the message. It sent off nicely.
I needed to move my data over from one of my recent Neon subvolume snapshots. I opened a Konsole, "sudo -i" to root, mounted the backup HD to /backup, fired up mc, which was pre-installed, and put my home account in the right panel and the home account from the snapshot in the left panel. Selecting the directories and files I wanted to move I hit F5 and in a few minutes my home account was populated with my data. I imported the HTML of my FF saved links.
The last thing to do was to connect with my IPv6 tunnel, which involved pasting some lines which were created by a tool on tunnelbroker.net for debian/ubuntu computers into the /etc/network/interfaces file and then rebooting. Now I have IPv6.
One last thing to do tomorrow is complete the Steam install so I can run Universe Sandbox^2.
It's been about 3 years since I ran Kubuntu. It is every bit as good as I remember it.
I replaced the HD (/dev/sa) with a Samsung EVO Pro SSD and installed Kubuntu using Btrfs as the root filesystem.
The installation completed without a hitch.
As you would suspect, my wifi took my password from the install process and I had a wifi connection automatically. I ran the updates in a Konsole and some 300+ apps came down the pipe, making my 18.04 installation an 18.04.1 installation.jj
I was going to install the printer and checked to see if HPLIP was installed by default. It was. I opened its GUI up and was surprised to see my HP Lazerjet P1606dn duplex laser already installed and configured for duplex printing. Printed a test page, which came out perfect.
I opened a Konsole and entered
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
A couple of minutes later it was done. I rebooted and was greeted with a desktop powered by the NVidia 390 driver. No artifacts or tearing were evident nor have any appeared since then.
Code:
:~$ [B][FONT=courier new]systemd-analyze[/FONT][/B]
Startup finished in 3.837s (kernel) + 8.276s (userspace) = 12.113s
graphical.target reached after 1.841s in userspace
~$ [FONT=courier new][B]systemd-analyze blame[/B][/FONT]
7.117s configure-printer@usb-003-002.service
752ms keyboard-setup.service
741ms dev-sda1.device
413ms mpd.service
273ms NetworkManager.service
217ms systemd-resolved.service
214ms systemd-logind.service
190ms systemd-rfkill.service
174ms systemd-timesyncd.service
150ms upower.service
147ms gpu-manager.service
141ms snapd.service
141ms networkd-dispatcher.service
121ms udisks2.service
86ms motd-news.service
76ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
74ms systemd-udevd.service
74ms home.mount
73ms ModemManager.service
72ms thermald.service
...
I needed to move my data over from one of my recent Neon subvolume snapshots. I opened a Konsole, "sudo -i" to root, mounted the backup HD to /backup, fired up mc, which was pre-installed, and put my home account in the right panel and the home account from the snapshot in the left panel. Selecting the directories and files I wanted to move I hit F5 and in a few minutes my home account was populated with my data. I imported the HTML of my FF saved links.
The last thing to do was to connect with my IPv6 tunnel, which involved pasting some lines which were created by a tool on tunnelbroker.net for debian/ubuntu computers into the /etc/network/interfaces file and then rebooting. Now I have IPv6.
One last thing to do tomorrow is complete the Steam install so I can run Universe Sandbox^2.
It's been about 3 years since I ran Kubuntu. It is every bit as good as I remember it.
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