My continuing misadventures with Linux, Part 27 (or so): Ubuntu (again)

For a time I was running three OSes, each on its own physical drive: Windows 11 Linux Mint CachyOS Technically, four, but my Mac Studio (circa 2022) mostly sits powered off these days. Up until yesterday all three were working fine. Windows 11 and CachyOS still are. I was noodling around in Mint and it needed updates, as OSes do, so I installed them and it suggested I reboot, so I rebooted. It came back with errors, crashes, and weirdness. I tried some fixes, including boot repair, but could not get the system running stable. I’d also not created any backups prior to the screwy update. Whoops! I thought about my options and decided I’d give Mint a break for a bit (a major update is due next month, I’ll probably give it another go then) and so today I installed Ubuntu over top of it. Yep, plain old Ubuntu, with its Snaps and GNOME and all that. My experience so far: Snaps have been glitchy. In one app, the mouse pointer was tiny. In a weather app (Mousam) it would not let me add a…

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