About a week ago I setup Ubuntu as my primary OS on an old machine. It is my first time trying a unix based OS (previously windows). It has been ok, but it seems like every time I try to install something I run into problems. The app has the wrong permissions or I don’t have the right packages or I need to change port settings ect… I was expecting a learning curve but I wanted to know if this is something I should expect to be a long term issue or if I will aquire the skills to side step stuff like this over time?

Update* I got it working. Last night I reinstalled it and figured it out. Two issues. On initial install I failed to update one of the packages needed. I also assigned the service to a group without the required permissions. On reinstall I rectified both of these issues and it works flawlessly. Thanks all for your help and input (and ignoring typos in the title)!

  • flashgnash
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    1 year ago

    Ubuntu kinda sucks from my experience with it, but it will be a learning curve

    You do learn to deal with those kinds of issues pretty quickly eventually but at least at the moment you’re realistically not going to have a completely seamless experience with desktop Linux for a while yet

    You’re probably better off going with snaps/appimages/flatpaks than apt-get I think because they come with all their dependencies