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kenneth@jojje From my understanding it's part of a Media package, most distros  do the same with kmail because kmail brings in lot's of other apps and there dependencies so to reduce the size or lighten things up.00:12
kenneth@k__2 I think most people are using qemu and kvm these days.00:18
k__21) i use from win7   2)sory but this is not an answer00:30
k__2@kenneth 1) i use from win7   2)sory but this is not an answer00:30
kenneth@k__2 I was just saying lol, Hum do you have virtualbox extensions installed on the vm? that's about the only thing I can think of.  "sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso"00:48
k__2@kenneth Yes. installed.  And i wrire before: "mint work with audio"00:51
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user|6where i can get the original md5sum of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS?01:45
kennethin term md5sum  your.iso the md5's are listed here https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/01:55
tomreynthose MD5 checksums are actually SHA256 checksums, though02:36
niels84Good morning03:54
IrcsomeBot<RikMills> https://twitter.com/kubuntu/status/151780721588488192010:08
IrcsomeBot<adhooooooooom> When we can upgrade from 21.10?10:31
IrcsomeBot<RikMills> When some known bugs for upgrading are fixed, and when the Ubuntu release team decides it is ok. An exact ETA on those is not certain at the moment (re @adhooooooooom: When we can upgrade from 21.10?)10:36
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GlumfishRikMills: apparently there is some bug with `snapd` and `update-manager` and upgrades will be delayed for some days10:47
IrcsomeBot<RikMills> I know10:57
tanociao11:45
BluesKajHi all12:27
k_hi12:53
user|31How to upgrade to 22.04 online13:13
tomreynuser|31: see the release notes (/topic) - upgrades are not supported, yet13:14
user|31thanks13:14
tomreyndepending on what you run now, it will be a matter of days or weeks, and months13:15
k_ъ13:50
IrcsomeBot<niksingh710> Kubuntu 22.04 hotspot is getting generated but when trying to connect via mobile sometimes it gets connected some times it just shows connecting and then says network not found.13:53
aYo96Hi there14:49
aYo96I jut installed 22.04 - no surprises a few things do not work , I know they will come online in the fullness14:50
aYo96I did want to ask about the full screen application dashboard -  I cannot find it14:50
aYo96Is it there? or it's just something I've missed14:51
cbreakaYo96: that's already in 21.10 I think14:53
cbreakyou can add it to your widget bar if you want14:54
aYo96On my other laptop it's in 20.04, however I've spent the whole afternoon trying to find where to activate it with no success14:54
aYo96the launcher at the moment is the standard Left aligned one - I cannot recall but I think in 20.04 you could chose how you wanted the launcher to display14:55
cbreakaYo96: what happens when you right click on your pannel thing, can you select "add widget"?14:56
aYo96Please pardon me - are you saying I need to choose a different widget that's full screen?14:57
cbreakif you want a full-screen launcher, you have to add it to the pannel14:59
aYo96Thanks, much appreciated - Hmmm it seems the configuration use-case is a little more cloudy this time around - 20.04 was straightforward to implement. I believe in set upp time you had options to choose Launcher and a few other bits n pieces. Much appreciated dude15:02
aYo96Have you also noticed that a lot of the cursors when installed do not show up in the cursor list15:03
aYo96I guess those will be rectified as the updates keep coming in and things get updated15:03
IrcsomeBot<Oov> Gs there a biult in screen recorder in kubuntu 22.04?15:47
EkusheyAny way to increase the icon sizes on taskbar on 22.04?17:30
EkusheyOn 20.04, adding "iconSize=3" on ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc used to work, but not any more.17:32
GlumfishEkushey: can't you change it from system settings?17:38
GlumfishIn Appearance -> Icons -> Configure Icon Sizes -> Panel17:39
GlumfishKeep in mind if you are utilizing display scaling on X11 you need to set an environment variable17:39
KilosHi all. I just downloaded 22.04 kubuntu. Is the /home folder not tere anymore or will I only see it after installing17:40
KilosI have been using kde LTS since 14.04 I think it was, and I am too old and stupid to learn everything from scratch again17:42
EkusheyThanks @Glumfish, just changed the icon size to highest from there, but that didn't make any difference. Maybe I need to logout and login again?17:42
Ekushey@Kilos, are you doing to fresh installation?17:43
Ekushey*doing a17:43
Kilosmost likely yessir, on a new ssd17:43
EkusheyOh OK, did you setup the /home partition while installation?17:44
KilosI have not started an install yet. I am still using 18.04 kde here because 20.04 has too many hassles getting mobile internet in south africa17:45
EkusheyI always do manual partition and configure my /home, / and swap, there's a step for that while installation.17:45
KilosI do as well, but when running live from a stick I think I used to see /home even from there17:46
cbreakKilos: if you create a user, its home directory will be in a subdirectory of /home by default17:46
cbreakthere's no point in having /home if you don't have any user that has a home directory inside it17:47
Kiloswell I will be the iuser of course17:47
cbreakif you make ubuntu install with root on zfs, you'll get your own dataset mounted inside /home17:47
Kilosand I dont use a sawp partition on an ssd but a swapfile instead17:48
Kilosoh my, not ext4 anymore?17:48
cbreaknormally you get ext417:49
cbreak(on lvm or so... there are a bunch of options)17:49
KilosI make a / and a /home partition normally17:50
IrcsomeBot<niksingh710> ufw is blocking me to connect to the hotspot generated by my laptop kubuntu 22.04 any solution?17:51
cbreakKilos: I never liked having partitions in old-school filesystems17:54
cbreakthey'd always be too big or too small17:54
cbreakwith zfs I don't have that problem... unless they're all too small :D17:54
Kilosoh my17:54
Kilosi dont even know what zfs is17:55
Kilosi make 35g root and the rest home normally17:55
cbreakamong the many things you get is "filesystems" (similar to partitions) without static provisioning17:56
KilosI am just worried about all the changes in 22.0417:56
cbreakif you install fresh, on a separate ssd, you can always go back :)17:56
Kiloslol yes you are right17:57
KilosI am just past 70 years old and all the new stuff baffles me17:57
Kiloslike installing 20.04 and copying my /home from my 18.04 and then after the first update upgrade no more internet17:58
Glumfishcbreak: does ZFS support extending a filesystem "upwards"? Typically you can shrink or grow the end of a partition in other filesystems, but not the top18:03
Glumfish(or shrinking the volume from the start)18:04
Glumfishby filesystem I mean volume/partition18:04
Glumfishand I mean doing it in a non-destructive manner18:04
cbreakGlumfish: not directly, now18:07
cbreakbut it supports redundancy expansion18:07
cbreakso you can add a new disk that's bigger18:07
cbreakthen replace the old one with itself shifted18:07
cbreakand remove the other disk again18:08
cbreakGlumfish: zfs is not a simple filesystem, it's a bit like software raid, filesystem, logical volume manager and some other things in one18:08
KilosThanks guys, let me go experiment18:10
Glumfishcbreak: yeah I am aware of such features, I mean as a complete package if it offers such abilities18:21
Glumfishscratch that I saw the messages above18:22
Glumfishalthough I'll probably never use ZFS I am excited to tree Btrfs on Fedora18:23
cbreakbtrfs is a quite inferior alternative :P18:31
cbreakit has many of the same capabilities though18:31
Glumfishcbreak: I'm planning to use it for a single drive setup on my desktop maybe with a raid of 1 or 2 disks so the benefits of ZFS don't outweigh the pains of getting it setup18:51
GlumfishIf I was building a server I would use ZFS as well18:51
keithzgI've always found ZFS such a pain, I'd be hard pressed to call it a dramatically superior option; being far better in theory doesn't matter that much if it's a pain in the ass in practice!18:52
keithzgAnd there are some weird deficiencies of ZFS, especially for a non-enterprise user, although maybe some of them have been solved since I last played around with it, like ZFS's insane inability to shrink a volume18:53
cbreakI found the setup quite painless18:53
cbreak20.04 had installer support for it, and later they also added a shoddy encrypted zfs option18:53
cbreakkeithzg: it still doesn't shrink easily18:54
keithzgcbreak: Ah yeah see there's a few times in recent memory where if I was using ZFS that woulda completely screwed me. I totally get that it's not part of ZFS's intended use-case but that kind thing in turn largely puts ZFS out of *my* use cases, there always seems to be *some* gotcha if you don't have huge budgets to throw at large orders of hardware.18:55
keithzgOf course if it's working well for you, rock on!18:56
cbreakI've used zfs a lot over the years18:56
cbreakon my from my old Mac, to my MacBook, a hackintosh, some servers at work, freenas here at home, and now booting off of it on ubuntu18:56
cbreaknever had the desire to shrink a pool :P18:57
keithzgOh man that reminds me of a friend of mine who went big on ZFS when an OSX preview integrated it, then he had several years of complaining about having to use BSD when Apple removed ZFS from the final release hehe18:58
keithzgI was like, dude maybe don't base your entire storage strategy around a feature of a tech preview :D18:58
cbreakI started with zfs much later18:58
cbreaklundman's zfs was quite stable when I started18:58
cbreakit's too bad apple abandoned it18:59
cbreakzfs is still superior to their new APFS (in reliability)18:59
keithzgYeah alas that's a common motif in Apple's history, they *could* just adopt an external standard or piece of software but instead go it alone on something that, despite having more money than God, they don't actually develop into a superior product than the open and free alternative they're giving the cold-shoulder.19:04
keithzgReminded of that recently trying to help a friend play Among Us from her Mac; no Proton on MacOS because Apple decided to be almost agressively hostile to Vulkan...19:05
keithzgAmong Us works perfectly fine here on my Kubuntu system of course hehe19:05
cbreakI think there's a vulkan -> metal layer somewhere19:05
cbreakmolten-vk or so?19:05
cbreaknever tried it19:06
keithzgYeah, third parties have hacked stuff together that apparently does work, but not nearly reliably (ah, another motif) enough to be baking it into Steam or such, especially when it's still largely at Apple's mercy, they could change something in an update and break it all tomorrow.19:07
keithzgLike, it wasn't *that* hard to get Wine and Among Us wrapped up in a .app for my friend, but it's a fragile and fiddly setup and I can entirely see why Valve wouldn't bother.19:08
Glumfishcbreak: although its not really a fair comparison as APFS was never really intented for the same goals as ZFS19:11
keithzgI mean, it does seem like a HUGE improvement over HFS+ but HFS+ was one of the absolute worst file systems in common usage...19:12
cbreakwell, there's a reason I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu...19:12
cbreakwell... many in fact.19:12
cbreakZFS support is a big one though :)19:13
keithzgGlumfish: APFS, I must say, fails the "doesn't crash Disk Utility on a Mac whenever I try and do anything with it" test but I do, I must admit, have a spectacular ability to find edge cases without even trying. Still, compressing a .dmg that's internally using APFS doesn't seem like something that should be so easy to go wrong!19:15
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ILOVEROCKANDROLLhilfe19:18
Glumfishkeithzg: I've used APFS for on both machines (one in fact where the filesystem was upgraded from HFS+), never had any problems with it although I also don't do anything crazy with it19:19
GlumfishAs a product I don't think its designed for any type of advanced usage and the average MacOS user isn't even going to know or mess with a filesystem in general19:20
GlumfishIf you wanna have fun with your computer and try out new things switching to Linux is probably the best idea19:21
keithzgGlumfish: I'm sure it mostly works fine for most people, but I've had problems about 80% of the time I've had to interact with it, heh. And it's particularly crazy to me that it causes problems when creating and running standard operations on a disk image within Apple's built-in Disk Utility program!19:21
GlumfishI'm currently running a 2013 trashcan Mac Pro on Kubuntu19:21
Glumfishkeithzg: what sort of work do you do (Mac related)?19:22
Glumfishand with APFS specifically19:22
keithzgGlumfish: Generally helping friends with something or another, in the most recent Disk Utility case it was the aforementioned packaging up of a PC game into a Mac .app file. I was like, oh I remember Apple apps tend to come in .dmg files, I should shove this into one then to send along. Hooooo boy did I not know what I was getting into.19:23
keithzgI mean in the end the CLI tools that also ship with the OS worked fine, but simply the act of compressing a .dmg file in Disk Utility, that had been created with Disk Utility, was enough to crash Disk Utility?!19:24
keithzgIf I went out of my way to change the default filesystem used from APFS to HFS+ it worked fine, but.19:25
Glumfishhmmm, interesting19:30
IrcsomeBot<Roesti> Hi friends 👋19:33
IrcsomeBot<Roesti> Relatively new to the linux world and I just gifted myself a new laptop for my learn-linux journey. It has 32GiB RAM and  and I'm just wondering if I need a swap partition? Is it even advisable with an SSD/nvme?19:33
cbreakIrcsomeBot: Roesti: I don't think you strictly need one. Ubuntu can use swap files too.19:36
keithzgAh yeah I was gonna say I often have installed without setting up a swap partition, and sometimes found myself kindof needing one and just using a swap file instead.19:37
keithzg@Roesti: Modern SSDs don't have the low write lifespans of older ones, so especially if it's new and expensive enough to be an NVMe drive I don't think you need to necessarily worry about it being inadviseable, just potentially unnecessary.19:38
keithzgGlumfish: For what it's worth, my most recent Disk Utility tribulations were with MacOS 12.1, on an old "Late 2014" Mac Mini.19:40
GlumfishRoesti: You can always create one later20:10
GlumfishI'm running 64GB of RAM now and I haven't really needed one20:11
GlumfishEven Chrome with many tabs open doesn't manage to get it all20:11
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IrcsomeBot<Roesti> Nice, thanks for the response! The use case I had in mind is hibernation of my system since I'm a bit lazy and want to preserve my open applications etc. but also having the security to have it locked by luks21:35
user|9Hi21:54
user|9I21:55
penfeldhello21:55
user|9I've a question, by upgrading my Kubuntu from 21.10 to 22.04 LTS, will my personal data be wiped?21:55
user|9Note that I'll follow these steps https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JammyUpgrades/Kubuntu21:56
penfeldwell I'm not near expert but I would expect that if you are using an automated update you would be fine21:57
user|9Many thanks penfeld! :)21:57
user|9it looks that I should wait my Kubuntu prompting and asking for the update!21:58
penfeldI'm just learning linux and have made a separted partition to store files for when I break everything waiting will be long since they usually want each distro to last 5 years awayfrom keeybord21:59
valoriepenfeld: I usually take the occasion of a major upgrade to do a backup, but I've never yet lost data in well over 10 years (almost 20!) of using Kubuntu22:01
valorieI mean I've lost data but that was all on me and not on upgrades22:01
penfeldif you haven't broken it you really weren't trying hard enough were you?22:06
user|9Hmm22:07
user|9By following these steps https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JammyUpgrades/Kubuntu22:07
user|9What is the chance for my data to be lost?22:07
penfelduser|9: note first instruction is to read a presumably huge disclaimer file so like in mountain climbing how well and often you tie off should be dictated by how far you are willing to fall22:11
penfeldyou probably should have at least 3 copies of everything you want to keep lying around your "data center" see comment by valorie.  I don't know anyone who actually owns fail proof hardware so what do you backup to?22:14
penfeldvalorie: you still there?22:15
penfeldis anyone alive out there?22:46
cbreakpeople are here22:47
penfeldI was wondering22:48
penfeldmy kubuntu stick is almost ready and I was wondering if there were anyone around who could suggest an information source for setting preferences22:50
cbreakI recommend trying the defaults first22:58
valoriepenfield I have two portable drives and back up first to one, the next time to the other23:14
valorieand yes, all hardware will fail23:14
valoriesadly23:14
penfeldcbreak: <begin snark mode> gosh, why didn't I think of that? after 49 years in computer science and information technology who am I to think I can aid my own user experience. and jeeze try to learn new things how dare I. <end snark mode>23:14
valorieI rarely change the defaults23:16
penfeldValorie: sadly isn't that hardware fails it's that they quit making disaster recovery hardware23:16
valorieif you want to, it's easy because they are all in text files23:16
penfeldI looked over books from o'reilly (used to be fairly usable) and found nothing in linux that wasn't so long in the tooth I doubted it would be usable.23:19
penfeldfound some videos in english but most seem painfully slow (going through each bash command one at a time for 3 hours)23:21
penfeldvalorie: so which text files? located where? and how should I have known that if you had not been gracious enough to tell me?23:22
valoriethey are all in $HOME in ~/.config23:23
valoriepenfeld: we do have a manual, available on the website, kubuntu.org23:24
penfeldsoo cool!23:25
valorieI use lots of cli commands because they are short & quick, but the application versions are very good these days23:30
valorieand there is an app called yakuake that will pop up a konsole with a single key, which I use F1223:31
valorieand very often, just up-arrow to get to the most used commands23:31
penfeldI've spent six months with mint and the nearly complete lack of a hood latch has become frustrating  (I've learned to look and point and ask many questions before sticking my fingers in the fan blades), so far I'm able to find magical commands to paste into the shell but nothing to sink my teeth into23:32
valorieI'm just a user, maybe a "power user" but no coder23:32
valoriemy tech blog is called Linux Grandma23:33
valorieeverything I write about there still works23:33
penfeldI suffered a power outage while installing a game (of all things) I know the source list of apps is broken but since the list is no longer supported and is a text file saying this is just a place holder don't edit it, I'm moving on to a different distro of linux23:35
valoriegot it23:36
penfeldcould you share the secret of "plasma"?23:36
valoriewe do have a list of installed apps but it is a bit tricky to get to23:36
valoriebut I think I blogged about how to get to it23:37
valoriethe secret of plasma? Lots of years of love and dedication by volunteer (mostly) devels23:37
penfeldwhat is it? ubuntu is the kernel, kde is the gui, bash? is the command processor/shell/terminal what's left?23:39
valorieubuntu is a project, there are lots of "flavors" most of which are different desktops/guis, some of which are like Ubuntu Studio, set up for creatives23:41
valoriePlasma is the workspace, and yes, gui23:41
valorieKDE is the community that makes loads of different software23:41
valorienot just Plasma23:41
valoriethe kernel is Linux23:42
valorieyou can use bash or other terms23:42
valorieI mean, the sky is the limit with linux distros23:42
valorieI like the choices that Kubuntu has made23:43
penfeldyou ever heard of System V?23:43
valoriebut it's not religion23:43
valorieto me, it's a fit tool for what I want to do, and that's mostly genealogy and admin stuff these days23:44
valoriesure23:44
valorieI used to run CP/M23:45
valorie:-)23:45
valorieon my ADAM computer!23:45
penfeldWhen I passed my first and last sys admin for Unix it was still a product from bell labs23:45
valorieseems like a long time ago23:46
valoriealthough it really isn't23:46
penfeldmy first computer was used by neil armstrong, yes it was23:46
valorieshorter than my lifetime23:46
penfeldreally the exact same computer I learned to keypunch on was sold by nasa to caltech, but 18 months in human has been 40 years in computer23:48
penfeldkubuntu.org has a picture of a guy with " sudo apt -remove sudo" I almost get that... i think23:50
valorieheh23:50
valorieI doubt the system allows that command, but I could be wrong!23:51
valoriethere is always a first time23:51
valorieI gotta go rustle up dinner23:51
valoriettyl23:51
penfeldthank you for your patience23:52

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