Ubuntu

It is so funny, I always start looking at alternatives just to come back to a “one-true-fits-all” solution. Welcome back Good Old/New Gnome with Ubuntu 22.04-23.04.

Time to celebrate, today Ubuntu 23.04 is officially available, so time for a blog entry. For Ubuntu Mate users, not much news, except for some cosmetics and AI-generated wallpapers. I am writing this while using Ubuntu Mate 22.04. Some issues I had on my Thinkpad T470 with dual-boot with Windows 10. In the end, some complaints about Linux in general.

Let’s connect MySQL database installed in Ubuntu (WSL2) with Pycharm Professional on Windows.

In my spare time, I am creating small Django web application, designed for language schools administration. This month I decided to deploy it to the server finally. Quick research gave me a few possibilities: home setup with raspberry pi (kind of free), pythonanywhere.com (free/paid), heroku.com (free/paid), digitalocean.com (paid), linode.com (paid). I have chosen DigitalOcean, and here are is why.

One month of fighting with Mate I returned to “classic Ubuntu” with Unity desktop. And it just works. That’s it.

Update (December 2018): Ubuntu 18.04 is running fine as well. Even my bluetooth headphones ;)

Update: After recent update laptop freezes at boot!

I was looking for a new laptop for some time now, and specifically, I wanted to try ThinkPad series, based on sound reviews. Electronic equipment in Poland has a higher price compared to for example the USA, but I bought on a sale a T470 without Windows preinstalled for 1140$ (3800 PLN on 26 Jan 2018). The usual price for this model was around 5000 PLN. Anyway, I was going to install Ubuntu, with choices between Lubuntu (my long-time favourite on all virtual machines) and Ubuntu Mate (more pretty but not so heavy as default Unity or currently Gnome 3).