Re:The Decline of Usability
by eitland on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:45AM
(#22907323)
> Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a simple, minimal, admin friendly hacker vm inside Ubuntu desktop?
> Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation.
If there's anyone like me here they might be happy to know that KDE Neon exists and is something like:
> Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation.
If there's anyone like me here they might be happy to know that KDE Neon exists and is something like:
- Stable Ubuntu base.
- Infinitely (almost) customizable KDE on top.
- And (IMO unlike Kubuntu) sane defaults.