[conspire] (forw) Re: Night of the Living CABAL, Saturday, Nov. 14, 4-8pm

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:51:52 +0000 (UTC)
From: "paulz at ieee.org" <paulz at ieee.org>
To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [conspire] Night of the Living CABAL, Saturday, Nov. 14, 4-8pm
Reply-To: "paulz at ieee.org" <paulz at ieee.org>

I hope to make it, but a technical detail regarding the browsers.

I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu.   Firefox is standard part of the
install.  I can't seem to find Chrome or Chromium.   Well I do have a M$
machine with chrome if all else fails.

A couple comments on the install.  You might recall some years ago we
had a lot of "fun" trying to do a dual boot with EUFI.   This is the
same machine.  So long ago, I had set the bios to default to legacy boot
which then selected Debian. 

I also partitioned the hard drive to have /home in it's own partition
and most of my personal data files in yet another partition.  The
thinking was that when I did a re-install, I had a good chance that my
personal stuff would be there and not have to be restored.

Well it didn't work that way.  In 2020 ubuntu insists on having a EUFI
boot partition.   After some fussing around, I gave up, made sure I had
a full backup of my files and let the installer reformat the whole
drive.   The only other awkward part related to workspaces.   All
previous Linux distros I have used defaulted to more than one, typically
4.  Well Kubuntu only had 1 and therefore I couldn't find the selector
for the others and then I had a mental block on the keyword (workspace)
for which I needed to search.  

Overall the launcher was reasonably intuitive.  Discover is the first
GUI based installer I found easier than the traditional apt-get command
line.