I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

The Ubuntu App Center throwing an error reading “Something wen’t wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.”

Even when it wasn’t failing quietly, Ubuntu was throwing truly useless errors. | Image: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge

It’s a complete coincidence that I installed Linux around the same time as my colleagues Nathan Edwards and Stevie Bonifield. A few months ago, I decided to breathe new life into a 2019 Dell XPS 15 that had been collecting dust for a couple of years.

Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to install updates. So in early 2024, I gave up and switched to an M1 MacBook Pro.

But I wanted to give my oldest child something to practice typing on. Plus, I’d been trying to find a suitable di …

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