If the package manager leaves you with broken dependencies, a broken system, or a system that “doesn’t work,” then there are significant bugs in how the distro has packaged things. It happens, but seldomly.

Package managers aren’t “hard.” There are GUIs where you can search and install packages, even. In my opinion, if you have a Linux user that has avoided learning how package managers work, then they’re skipping a core foundation of how to use their operating system.

You’re recommending Flatpak for users that are confused by packages?

It looks like sonarr is not in the official Ubuntu mirrors. The website mentions adding a new repo to apt. Is this what you did, or something else?

https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux

Also, how are you starting it? I’m looking at the Arch package in the AUR (not your distro, but just looking), and I notice that it includes a .service file. This means that it would be started as a service, and not as a user, like you’re probably attempting to do.

What directory is it trying to write to? Can you show us the full error, preferably as text and not a screenshot?

What happens when you try to start it?

If there is a dependency problem in the upstream packages, then there is a bug in Ubuntu. This doesn’t happen often, and isn’t a good reason to go to Flatpak by itself. A bug should be filed upstream and it’ll likely get fixed quickly.

What did you download?

If I need more space or more speed. Otherwise, it’s a waste.

For real. It’s so much better to think about using the screen space you already have. People can do what they want, but I am happy with one screen, a tiling window manager, and workspaces. I can have a dozen or more things going on, and have it packed on a workspace. Fullscreen a window of I need to, then pop it back.

It’s incredibly efficient. I see stuff like this, and I imagine what it’s like to have text several feet away, screens covered by other screens, lots of neck fatigue, all the monitor borders… like it’s truly bad. It feels like someone watched a lot of TV and “felt” that this was the best way to do it without trying it.

Butt I digress. It’s not my setup. If they’re efficient with it, more power to them.

From man systemd:

DESCRIPTION
       systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. When run as first process on boot
       (as PID 1), it acts as init system that brings up and maintains userspace services. Separate instances
       are started for logged-in users to start their services.

       systemd is usually not invoked directly by the user, but is installed as the /sbin/init symlink and
       started during early boot. The user manager instances are started automatically through the
       user@.service(5) service.

       For compatibility with SysV, if the binary is called as init and is not the first process on the
       machine (PID is not 1), it will execute telinit and pass all command line arguments unmodified. That
       means init and telinit are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal login sessions. See telinit(8)
       for more information.

       When run as a system instance, systemd interprets the configuration file system.conf and the files in
       system.conf.d directories; when run as a user instance, systemd interprets the configuration file
       user.conf and the files in user.conf.d directories. See systemd-system.conf(5) for more information.

Wow, what a horrible setup.

On a side note, I would appreciate it if it was opt-in. Ask when the profile is being set up. Don’t be sneaky about it. I understand that this means less metrics for Mozilla, but consent is more important, imo.

On my Ubiquiti APs? I suppose I could. I’m also looking to upgrade the network capabilities to a modern 6E setup if I can swing it.

Yeah, Ubiquiti has the “great at most things with a point-and-click UI” market down pat. Although, personally, I don’t really care about webapp UIs and such for networking gear. Give me a man page and configuration file, and I’ll get down to it.

Here’s a small ad block list for your Unifi controller, if it helps: https://github.com/synthead/unifi-adfree

This is what’s important. If you don’t enable power saving in some fashion, your hardware will always be “on” at full specs. Even if the machine isn’t actually being used, it’s still powering everything to be ready to jump at any opportunity to process something quickly without ramping down.

TLP has pretty excellent default settings. Simply turning it on will likely make your battery life go 2-3x longer than without it being on, and you will have about 80% of the performance from a UX perspective. And if you want to crunch numbers faster on battery, you can tune TLP or turn it off temporarily.

Pull requests welcome

FL Studio. I’ve been using it since the late 90s. I know it like the back of my hand.

The uptime on lemmy.world is terrible. https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io currently shows 95% uptime, but it has been “down” from a UX perspective more than half the time I attempted to use it. The uptime reporting is simply not picking up when something is off as much as it should. And they recently added an archive.org proxy for when it goes down… what the heck? I understand that it is run by volunteers and all, but what a buzzkill.

Too many places let you drive if you do the happy path stuff right: stopping at a stop sign, changing lanes safely, etc. But the most important time of your driving is when you’re about to hit a semitruck and you need to get your car out of the way, and there is no training material for this at all. People often panic and slam the brakes and aggressively turn the wheel, which is a perfect setup for understeer and losing control of your car. They are literally getting in a situation where they are about to die and they choose to greatly increase their risk due to negligence.

It’s cheaper to run simulators than purchase cars and hire trainers. Get em in nasty situations and teach them how to get out of it. For real, if mom and dad can’t evade sinking their freeway missile into a van full of kids, they shouldn’t be able to get behind the wheel and be presented with opportunities where this might happen any time they drive.