Ubuntu Upgrade Hell

aaronmfeld

Did the latest upgrade after seeing prompts pop up. To Noble.

So I figured, its 2024, of course that old thing where upgrading Ubuntu hoses your machine has to be in the past now, right?

Nope.

Upgraded and got the "Snap..." onto my screen.

What works? lightdm, sddm, KDE, Budgie, Mate etc. Nautilus (but slow in Budgie), sshfs, all my custom network stuff, shared folders, mounting of remote directories.

What does not work? GDM3, the default terminal emulator, All flavors of Unity, All flavors of Gnome, Both Wayland and X flavors. Switching in Grub to earlier kernels, nope.

A resurrection of the bad old days, when upgrading Ubuntu just was not something to do.
Its almost like Ubuntu is trying to convince me that I should really stay away from all flavors of its own Desktop manager.

What did I try? Reinstalling Gnome, reinstalling Ubuntu desktop. What am I not willing to do? Reinstall and lose all my settings.

Get your act together Ubuntu. I'm loyal, have been for years. And I don't mind a little bit of work. But this is ridiculous.