rtheren@Ubuntu-Aspire:~$ wish-luck --to lucifertdark
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Luck found, sending...
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Luck given to lucifertdark!

Thanks RTheren looks like your luck wishing worked, just got to finish a few small updates & reinstall the video drivers & Ubuntu will be back to full strength again. :D

My son, who built this machine for me, says he's going to ban me from updating anything in future cause it always goes wrong when I do it.

Glad to hear :)

I should put it on github, since it's working well :D

#WhyIDontUseUbuntu

Ubuntu is more unstable than Arch. Seriously, I've had more issues with Ubuntu than Arch. Not to mention, Ubuntu is a commercial distribution. I highly recommend you to move away from Ubuntu.

This probably isn't particularly helpful at this point, but it can serve as future advice (or maybe now if you plan to do a clean install anyway).

I would really do a fresh install and create a seperate home partition. That way you can do a clean install from a livecd without problems whenever you feel like it and you won't lose all your installed games, etc. It's what I've been doing for the last couple of years now because I got tired of experiencing the same issue as you and wanted to leave the door open for switching between different *buntu flavours.

Quoting: StianTheDark#WhyIDontUseUbuntu

Ubuntu is more unstable than Arch. Seriously, I've had more issues with Ubuntu than Arch. Not to mention, Ubuntu is a commercial distribution. I highly recommend you to move away from Ubuntu.

I'm thinking of doing this eventually as well. Just way too lazy at the moment.

Go with a rolling release & forget about those problems.
Debian Testing, Antergos or Manjaro are awesome distros for people past the Ubuntu phase :-)

There is nothing wrong with Ubuntu being a commercially run distribution. It's like hating GOL because I am trying to make a living doing this :p

Ubuntu does have frustrating issues at times though, and I am going to personally look at a rolling distribution again sometimes soon.

Quoting: liamdaweThere is nothing wrong with Ubuntu being a commercially run distribution. It's like hating GOL because I am trying to make a living doing this :p

Ubuntu does have frustrating issues at times though, and I am going to personally look at a rolling distribution again sometimes soon.

You know whats wrong with a commercially run distribution? They prioritize themselves over the community. As example, Mir. What they're trying to do is obvious! They want to force developers to use Mir instead of Wayland because Ubuntu has a bigger userbase. Then it will just grow because it's a requirement to use Ubuntu to use a lot of software. Also, Mir is proprietary. That is a massive issue.

Quoting: StianTheDark

Quoting: liamdaweThere is nothing wrong with Ubuntu being a commercially run distribution. It's like hating GOL because I am trying to make a living doing this :p

Ubuntu does have frustrating issues at times though, and I am going to personally look at a rolling distribution again sometimes soon.

You know whats wrong with a commercially run distribution? They prioritize themselves over the community. As example, Mir. What they're trying to do is obvious! They want to force developers to use Mir instead of Wayland because Ubuntu has a bigger userbase. Then it will just grow because it's a requirement to use Ubuntu to use a lot of software. Also, Mir is proprietary. That is a massive issue.

Seems to me the code is quite open https://code.launchpad.net/mir Also if you think someone like Red Hat doesn't have their bottom line in mind when they support projects you would be very wrong, Also if you use Samba you might want to stop using it cause you know there is code from Microsoft in there as well. Why oh because it helps their bottom line when Samba plays nice with Microsoft's stuff. Any company that contributes to open source 99.9% of the time does so for their bottom line and nothing more. Do not think that they do it out of the goodness of their hearts in spite of the "this is for the community" pr spin they may try and put on it.

Ubuntu user for hmmm... 7 years I guess. And I have to say - there is always something wrong with updates / upgrades. I have a fresh ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed 4 years ago, updated to 13.04, then to 14.04 :LTS , then to 15.04. For some reason I don't like releases from October :D. I am going to update to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well, but have to say - I am thinking about changing distribution, mainly because... since Unity was introduced I didn't see big progress in this distro.
But have to say - I've not switched distro so far because I am lazy :(

Quoting: darkone778Seems to me the code is quite open https://code.launchpad.net/mir Also if you think someone like Red Hat doesn't have their bottom line in mind when they support projects you would be very wrong, Also if you use Samba you might want to stop using it cause you know there is code from Microsoft in there as well. Why oh because it helps their bottom line when Samba plays nice with Microsoft's stuff. Any company that contributes to open source 99.9% of the time does so for their bottom line and nothing more. Do not think that they do it out of the goodness of their hearts in spite of the "this is for the community" pr spin they may try and put on it.

Have you checked the license? Wait, you haven't checked the license? Well, read the license and then we'll talk.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: StianTheDarkHave you checked the license? Wait, you haven't checked the license? Well, read the license and then we'll talk.

You mean [this licence](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mir-team/mir/development-branch/view/head:/README.md)?

There's also the Canonical CLA. So it's true that the code is available under GPL3, but Canonical retains the exclusive right to use and distribute any code you contribute under whichever license they see fit, free or non-free. This is the real reason they didn't go with Wayland.

[More on the subject from someone who knows this stuff.](https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html)

It does. Definition of proprietary: belonging or controlled as property

It's working fine for me now, I'm not messing about with partitions or different Distros for at least the next two years.