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#3439587 2-Dec-2025 20:03

SirHumphreyAppleby:

PSA: The Wait Zone adjacent to the domestic terminal at Auckland Airport is now a meager nine spaces. It was more than half full when I visited, very much off-peak.

The pink zone? I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than one other car in there. Have people finally realised it exists and what it’s for?

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#3439650 2-Dec-2025 22:24

Here we go again: for example, 2x32GB DDR5 RAM modules are now selling for three and a half times their original price. This stuff is being snapped up by the huge AI centres being set up everywhere by BigTech. Good thing I bought mine earlier.

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#3439658 2-Dec-2025 23:12

Saw a headline that 780K people had switched from W10 to Zorin Desktop Linux. I have long hated desktop linux because it's never as good as either Windows or Mac for 'just works', but it had been at least 4 years since I last tried it. I have been considering ditching my older synology nas and just running what runs on it as containers in something linux something, and thought I'd take a look.

Nope, it's still finicky, slower than default windows, basic things like trying to get a remote access connection to it caused wayland to mess it up, had to switch to KDE, then it works, nek minnit, another error. Same old Desktop Linux. Decided to see if it was just that one distro, nope it's worse with Kunbuntu which takes 30 minutes of fiddling with extra cmd line options to get the INSTALLER to run.

It's 2025! Surely they know people are virtualising their distros on one of the 2 top hypervisors?! Surely, they test and make sure it works flawlessly.

Sigh.

Linux is a SERVER OS. It's brillant at that.

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#3439664 3-Dec-2025 00:25

Why are you making it so difficult for yourself? Just install Linux Mint with Cinnamon and you're done.

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#3439670 3-Dec-2025 06:41

networkn:

It's 2025! Surely they know people are virtualising their distros on one of the 2 top hypervisors?! Surely, they test and make sure it works flawlessly.

Interested to know exactly what you are trying to achieve and which of the hypervisors you are referring to.

My experience does not match yours at all.

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#3439679 3-Dec-2025 07:59

networkn: Saw a headline that 780K people had switched from W10 to Zorin Desktop Linux.

Problem started there. Influenced by advertising. It happens to the best of us from time to time.

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#3439864 3-Dec-2025 15:57

Pink Batts

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#3439882 3-Dec-2025 17:24

Kiwibank - Again, not dropping our mortgage rates by the same amount as the OCR drop, despite faithfully increasing it by the OCR the whole time the rates were increasing.

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#3439887 3-Dec-2025 18:04

Spark just charged my late Uncle a "Notice Fee" despite both one of the stores & the Estates team making notes on the account that we'd been told all notice fees would be waived (obviously). Sigh. Spark, Sky, Genesis & ADT really competing for the title of most frustrating to deal with.

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#3439894 3-Dec-2025 18:46

Tinkerisk:

Here we go again: for example, 2x32GB DDR5 RAM modules are now selling for three and a half times their original price. This stuff is being snapped up by the huge AI centres being set up everywhere by BigTech. Good thing I bought mine earlier.

Just as well I upgraded my PC to 64GB earlier this year (16GB per slot). Then again, it's DDR4 RAM instead of DDR5.

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#3439947 3-Dec-2025 19:34

networkn:

Saw a headline that 780K people had switched from W10 to Zorin Desktop Linux. I have long hated desktop linux because it's never as good as either Windows or Mac for 'just works', but it had been at least 4 years since I last tried it. I have been considering ditching my older synology nas and just running what runs on it as containers in something linux something, and thought I'd take a look.

Nope, it's still finicky, slower than default windows, basic things like trying to get a remote access connection to it caused wayland to mess it up, had to switch to KDE, then it works, nek minnit, another error. Same old Desktop Linux. Decided to see if it was just that one distro, nope it's worse with Kunbuntu which takes 30 minutes of fiddling with extra cmd line options to get the INSTALLER to run.

It's 2025! Surely they know people are virtualising their distros on one of the 2 top hypervisors?! Surely, they test and make sure it works flawlessly.

Sigh.

Linux is a SERVER OS. It's brillant at that.

Unfortunately I have to agree. Linux is one of those things I like the idea of, and I'd love to use it, but every few years when I try to do so I often run into silly problems really quickly. Your post prompted me to give Mint a go, since it seems to be the flavour (har har) of the month at the moment. I'm aware that it's intended for desktops but I'd imagine that a lot of people would want to give it a go in a VM first.

Hyper-V Gen 2: Fails to boot, with an error about a mismatching hash.

Hyper-V Gen 1: Attempts to boot, but crashes with some message about light (I didn't make a note of the actual text).

VMware: Gets to a mouse pointer on an otherwise black screen. It's progress, but it's not helpful.

Running in a VM is supposed to abstract the hardware, so my own specs shouldn't really matter. Nevertheless, Hyper-V was on a cheap business laptop of some description, and VMware was on a 10th gen i9.

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#3439957 3-Dec-2025 20:24

Ubuntu and Microsoft have a substantial relationship. Ubuntu standard would be my first pick for hyper-v for that reason.

I believe you can select it for download within hyper-v and it's all go from there. Probably similar for a few other distros in that respect. For most things with Ubuntu the LTS is usually the smart move.

Kinda surprised Mint was an instant fail on both platforms. Issues with Zorin, does not surprise me. To be fair Zorin appear only to have claimed 780k downloads originating from Windows as being a remarkable month. The rest seems to be a hyperbolic merry go round of fast following in the tech press. I took a look at the Ubuntu downloads page surprised how many variations they do now. Kubuntu would not be my first pick either.

I suggest the next attempt in another four years when you've cooled down a bit ; ).

Edit: I see Ubuntu are doing something called Ubuntu Pro free five licenses for personal use and looks like some kind of LTS. All new to me.

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#3440033 3-Dec-2025 23:40

Behodar:

VMware: Gets to a mouse pointer on an otherwise black screen. It's progress, but it's not helpful.

VMworkstation?

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#3440051 4-Dec-2025 07:07

It's a bit of a puzzle that some people have a lot of problems with Linux across multiple machines while others have few or no problems across multiple machines.

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#3440054 4-Dec-2025 07:13

Behodar:

Unfortunately I have to agree. Linux is one of those things I like the idea of, and I'd love to use it, but every few years when I try to do so I often run into silly problems really quickly.

Perhaps give FreeBSD a try? I'm a BSD user primarily because FreeBSD booted on my Pentium 166 all those years ago, when Linux (RedHat IIRC) did not.

In reality, I probably would have settled on *BSD anyway due to it providing a coherent system and their version of free being more free, but that's an annoyance that would need its own thread.

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