I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up on Ubuntu again. …
I have forgotten what it doesn’t come with. I can’t find my install stuff script, and have installed using apt, samba, bluetooth, git, & net-tools. I need to fix my whatsmyip.
I should read this, Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 20.04
How to do it!
I found another computer, and looked for these links, https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#2-download-an-ubuntu-image
Firefox Video
ffmpeg is needed to make amazon video player work with firefox.
Samba
I had problems with samba, as it seems I still need smb version 1. The smb.conf file requires the following line,
client min protocol = NT1
am getting browser problems
failed to retrieve share list from server connection timed out
This it seems to need the following line in smb,conf
name resolve order = bcast hostBluetooth Speakers
These, Lenure A15 by Meguo, have now worked but I need to check the documentation which is quite clear, it will only pair/connect to one device at a time. I still need to check on this, it worked once, but I am now using the audio cable.
XRDP
install xrdp, then hack the startwm.sh file with the following code, just before the invocation of Xsession program
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR . $HOME/.profile
3rd Party Tools
Visual Code & Skype, I installed using the software centre
Look & Feel
How to make it look and feel like a Mac