Mint all the way for me. Mint’s based on Ubuntu unless you’re adventurous and choose LMDE which is based on Debian instead (Ubuntu is also based on Debian, so it cuts out the middleman.)

And the Cinnamon desktop, which is the default, is very Windows-like and native to Mint. Perfect for refugees. I was one when my Win 7 SSD died and I thought that that was a perfect time to switch.

I can’t speak to Fedora (I still haven’t forgiven Red Hat for what they did to CentOS), but Mint has honest-to-goodness old-school forums where you can ask for help if you get stuck.

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Binface could easily do better than Farage has. I mean, it’s not exactly a high bar.

Farage barely shows his face there and almost never in Parliament.

You can guarantee that Binface would be more than willing to show up in both places frequently. He might even go so far as to represent Clacton properly. Perish the thought!

(I can imagine that if he won they wouldn’t let him into the Commons due to not being dressed sensibly and then refusing to recognise him if he does so, because that’s the sort of dirty trickery I’d expect from Parliament. So I’d be very interested to see what he does in order to comply with both directives at the same time.)

Do you use the “Restore Previous Session” feature of your web browser between reboots? Do you use keyboard controls to open new windows like Ctrl+N?

If yes to both, chances are that your mystery window had remained part of that continued session, and was reactivated with a Ctrl+Shift+N or equivalent. Shift is right next to Ctrl so if you fat-fingered a Shift at the same time that could explain the apparent necromancy.

As to where it went originally, you could have moved it to a different virtual desktop, moved it off-screen accidentally or, heck, even misclicked or miskeyed to have it actually close. A reboot would then have closed it for certain, except for the fact that it was still lurking in your session.

Another thing that can cause windows to move around is when a HDMI or DisplayPort monitor disconnects. Unlike with older connection types, those disconnecting is detectable and modern window managers try to “save” windows by throwing them on any remaining active monitors. If you have both types of monitor connection, or had at some point in the past, it could be that your mysterious window was lurking on a screen you couldn’t see but the system still thought exists, at least until it was closed for certain.

Admittedly unlikely, but you could rule that out by checking the system monitor arrangements in the settings.

Easy way to blow up crematoriums.

Don’t you think he looks tired?

Until I saw this, I assumed it must be a problem with newer Nvidia cards because I almost never had a problem with my ancient GTS450 on Mint and LMDE.

And that “almost” is because of the one time something got added to the kernel that didn’t play nice with the OEM driver. Later kernels didn’t have the same problem.

All that said, I’m team AMD again and am likely to stay that way. The old computer was built during a very brief window about 15 years ago where it wasn’t uncool to buy Intel CPUs and NVidia graphics and, I assume, AMD were having problems.

The PC before that was AMD/ATI, hence “again” now.

Much as I’d like this to be 100% true, I’m taking it with a pinch of salt. Some of the way the article is worded seems off, especially if we assume, based on the name, that the author is a native English speaker.

I really hope I’m wrong because the Ukrainian counter-propaganda folks ought to be able to do better.

Corbyn was and is no more pro-Russia than Starmer, despite the fact that a lot of anti-Corbyn propaganda painted him that way back when he was in charge of the party.

Because, for all his faults, he’s critical of Russia.

Russia would much rather have someone at the helm more amenable to Russian politics, seeking to undermine the European help that Ukraine has been getting from other nations.

And they’re getting impatient, running out of money and can’t wait around for the next UK general election.

If I correctly remember the minimum number of moves required to get all the disks from one tower to another, 10 layers is going to be a slog.

Seems like removing the file from /home/YOURUSER/.config/autostart/ ought to have undone the problem. Booting from external media of course, so as to be able to get to it, which you have to do anyway to reinstall.

I realise this is long after the fact.

Having something just sitting there in /usr/local/sbin shouldn’t have any effect at all, so I can’t imagine that was the issue, so calling it must be.

And the only thing I can think of is if there was a permissions problem and Cinnamon choked because the exec-er refused to run.

[Many problems]

Well shoot. Now I want to know why that didn’t work. But I don’t fancy having to work my system back to useable if it refuses to boot.

If that’s an every time thing, I’d be tempted to compile myself a very simple C program that uses system or execl to run /usr/sbin/iwconfig and my preferred parameters. Then I’d change the owner to root, give it the SUID bit and then put a call to it somewhere in my startup.

(As to where on the system I’d put it, /usr/local/sbin is probably the best choice. Where/when in the startup is slightly more difficult. On a single user machine, it might be OK, or even work best, in the GUI’s Startup Applications, rather than anywhere like /etc/init.d/)

If I was really curious, I’d go digging to find anything else that might already be doing that and if not, where the default settings are kept and see if they can be changed, making the above unnecessary.

For the sake of this comment I had a quick dig around and didn’t find anything obvious on my own machine, but then, this isn’t a Mac nor do I use wireless, which might be hampering my efforts.

I was thinking “The Poot-Trumpin’ Fart Tube”, but yours might be more suitable for business purposes.

There’s a minimum temperature for indoor work in Britain, but no maximum. The minimum for sedentary work used to be 17°C, but they reduced it to 16°C during the last government. Notably, it hasn’t been increased again under the current one. (For active indoor work, it’s 13°C. Outdoor work has no limits otherwise the country would be even less functional in extreme weather than it already is.)

Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

They generally share quite a bit of policy with the conservative party though. And where there are politicians changing parties in order to follow the gravy train (rather than the party itself moving right), it’s often from a conservative party to an up-and-coming even-further-right party.

Basically, love of money and sticking the boot in to those who don’t have it.

Only in America

Sadly this part isn’t true. If you want to find a hateful regressive, you only need to look to the right-wing parties in many countries. Sure, there are a few regressives in the fringe left-wing parties too, but the political right has a far more mainstream problem, worldwide.

And it seems like a handful of the party faithful might be waking up to that fact.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?