When I decided to switch to using Linux as my primary OS I had Artix and Debian dreams (personal and work/enterprise) but the refurb dell 5420 rugged I got had other ideas... Tried many distros and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was the only one that worked without nomodeset. (Funnily enough that's the version Dell officially supports who would have thought..)

Guess I now have a year to figure out how to get these darn Intel GPU drivers to work on an up to date distro before I stop getting security patches..

(Still gonna run KDE tho)

My business VPSs are running Debian with windows server VMs and this laptop's main purpose is gonna be SSH connections to those anyway but still.

 

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I'm still having issues seeing posts on sailing communities but also buycanadian@lemmy.ca won't show any of the new posts unless I happen to catch them in my subscription or the ALL page.

Lemmy.ca com I'd hope would work... https://lemmy.ca/c/buycanadian?dataType=Post&sort=New&showHidden=true

Small sailing com we got to federate properly in my last post on here is back to showing no posts https://lemmy.ca/c/Sailing@thebrainbin.org?dataType=Post&sort=Active&showHidden=true

Bigger sailing community also won't show posts newer than 1 year old https://lemmy.ca/c/sailing@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=Active&showHidden=true

 

After searching for Sailing@thebrainbin.org specifically on Lemmy.ca it seems to get federated as it now shows up in https://lemmy.ca/c/Sailing@thebrainbin.org but even after successfully posting to the com from my Lemmy.ca accout (as can be seen https://thebrainbin.org/m/Sailing/t/1867184/Fog-fog-WHALES-and-then-more-fog) I can't view any posts including my own from this instance without a direct link.