Working Comupter

[unicornduke]

My computer appears to work properly now! 

And even faster than it had a month ago.

About two weeks ago, it was running 100% disk all the time, just really awful. Turns out there was an update it was downloading that was very big. But somehow it botched the download and once I tried installing the update, it didn't work. It ran worse.

So I did the thing that I can't remember the name of, but I rolled back the update. Then it worked much better for about 2 hours. Then it started downloading again. So I let it run and run and mostly didn't use it for a while and let it download. Then the day after my second covid shot, I started the update going. It ran from 8am to 3pm to install.

Still was having issues. Turns out there was two more freaking updates that needed to download and install and once I just let that all happen, my computer is finally running at normal disk and normal speeds and honestly a little bit faster than it had been.

why are computers like this.

Comments

[recently_folded]

Well, I don't get into the guts of my OS so can't speak to that. Basically for me, Xubuntu is like, oh, maybe WinXP: settings I can fiddle with to get things to work mostly the way I want and then software that does the things I want without too much of someone getting in the way and insisting that no, I have to do something simple all weighted down with enterprise features. And a much better update system that lets you review what is on offer and schedule it for later if you need to. I used to have Xubuntu on one machine at the library in amongst the Win boxes (I put it on a donated machine that was so underpowered that it took 20 minutes to boot XP, but "donated" was our budget) and most people never even noticed. All of which isn't to try to convince you, but simply to note that the experience of using it isn't quite the bad old command-line-only days, but rather a pretty usable-out-of-the-box gui.