error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.
After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.
Need Help :)
error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.
After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.
Need Help :)
Avoid *buntu.
Apparently this was a controversial take
When I first started learning how to Linux long ago everyone recommended Ubuntu… and I had a similar issue to the OP.
I had to dump the EDID of my monitor from a Windows machine to actually get X to recognise any kind of monitor modes …it was an eye opening experience for a newbie.
Today, I still dont really like it for other reasons (I’d take Debian over Ubuntu any day). Call me crazy here guys but I think its okay to share an opinion without being called an edgelord for it.
(I use arch btw 🎩)
What did I miss? Ubuntu used to be the shit.
Ubuntu has gotten worse that it seams to was a few years ago. I didn’t use it outside of servers. Many don’t like the direction that ubuntu goes with snaps. But use whatever distro you want
Welcome to the land of freedom
Oh right I forgot all about snaps. Yeah I haven’t used it as a dedicated desktop since probably 2006. It’s generally all server usage in the cloud for me these days, which basically means everything is disposable and I couldn’t care less about the full OS in general. I really do need to get back on Linux for personal use though. I don’t really care for running VMs on windows for my self hosted stuff.
Why would anyone use Ubuntu on a server? Ubuntu is basically Debian unstable + non-free drivers that they tried to get sorta stable in 6 months. That may be ok on a desktop where you can accept some bugs in exchange for newer versions of the software. But why would you not run Debian stable on a server instead?
Maybe 10 years ago when Debian stable got really out-of-date, but that hasn’t been true in a looong time. Debian releases much more frequently, much stabler, it has all the goid stuff from Ubuntu backported but none if the bad stuff.
Plenty of people use Ubuntu LTS on servers
That doesn’t mean it’s a smart thing to do…
It’s still good, it’s just popular now so the edgelords hate it.
They basically force you to use snaps, that’s why it’s not good.
They also have ads in the package manager.
Umm what ?
Misinformation.
They also show ads in the MotD on Ubuntu server.
So what’s the misinformation again?
The interpretation of this line. Calling this “ads in the package manager” is intellectually dishonest in my opinion.
How is that anything other than an ad in the package manager?
Calls facts “misinformation”, refuses to elaborate.
Talk about intellectually dishonest.
They have made quite a few questionable decisions over time and trying to push users into their own packaging format is a big no no for many. Yours is a very dumb take.
Thanks, edgelord
Can’t make a coherent counter-argument? Just call them and edgelord!
Please let me know which brilliant argument your peer has made that so excited you. Is it the vague “questionable decisions”, the “big no no” or that “Yours is a very dumb take?”
See the other replies that you’ve conveniently ignored for the meat of those decisions.
I don’t know, sounds inconvenient.
For me the question is rather, what’s the current raison d’être for Ubuntu if you’re not looking for Debian with paid support?
Granted it’s been long since I’ve used it (I used it from 2005 or so until 2008 when I switched to Arch), but there’s no really appealing quality for me there that I couldn’t have with Debian. Apart from that, Canonical makes questionable decisions – snap, as others have mentioned, a total disaster in my opinion; Mir was another of their misadventures (later retrofitted into a Wayland compositor); upstart didn’t turn out successful (though to give credit, it was an honest attempt at a new init system and lessons were learned); the LXD maintainer issue as of late leaves a sore taste in my mouth, plus they were always very community-unfriendly with their CLAs. And all this for what? Might as well use their upstream instead.
Ubuntu has the largest community around it, meaning you’ll find help for it the fastest.
Granted, some issues are distro-agnostic, but you can’t always know whether yours is, especially if you are newer to Linux.
Fastest help is Archwiki, even if you run Ubuntu…
Hard false. This is only true for experienced users. For me the Arch wiki is great, for a novice it isn’t.
I disagree. It’s very detailed and I think it can both help a novice and help a novice become less of a novice.
I’ve had a much easier time on Ubuntu with NVIDIA cards than with other distros. Also, I’m not sure how this is helpful advice to a new user at all.