From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com

On 1/21/26 16:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> To do some experimenting, I slicked my 2012 Asus laptop and
> installed Ubuntu Studio. I burned the ubuntu-studio ISO to a thumb
> drive and booted to it.
>
> It failed, reason unknown, though there was a command to get a
> log. I think it was an issue with dd'ing the ISO. The "Install"
> icon on the desktop wouldn't work. I tried running the command in
> a console window, and it commenced, but ultimately failed. For
> some reason it did not find an EFI partition, is what I think.
>
> Tried again with a different spare USB drive, decided not to save
> the /home partition, and things went a lot better. Interestingly,
> the GUI was in dark mode the second time.
>
> KDE Plasma looks pretty good. I'm going to keep it instead of
> fluxbox, because I won't be using this box a lot, at first, except
> through SSH, so the clumsiness of a ginormous desktop is not such
> an issue.
>
> One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
> Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
> this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
> blocking SSH.
>

	The OSes are quite different but when I do an install I use
GPartEd to make my partitions including the EFI partitions.

	PCLOS recently changed its whole install sequence and while
GPartEd is called at an appropriate point the use of a prepartioned
fixed drive is quite helpful and I have managed to retain /home across
installs.
	Screen locking during remote access is a definite security feature.
	I have been using KDE since starting with Linux in 2006. Plasma 5
was much lighter than Plasma 6 but fortunately the Dell 7730 has enough
horsepower to carry on.
	
bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026- Linux 6.12.66 pclos1- KDE Plasma
6.5.5

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