error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.

After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.

Need Help :)

      • iloverocks@feddit.de
        191·
        1 year ago

        Ubuntu has gotten worse that it seams to was a few years ago. I didn’t use it outside of servers. Many don’t like the direction that ubuntu goes with snaps. But use whatever distro you want

        Welcome to the land of freedom

        • dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh right I forgot all about snaps. Yeah I haven’t used it as a dedicated desktop since probably 2006. It’s generally all server usage in the cloud for me these days, which basically means everything is disposable and I couldn’t care less about the full OS in general. I really do need to get back on Linux for personal use though. I don’t really care for running VMs on windows for my self hosted stuff.

          • Maestro@kbin.social
            7·
            1 year ago

            Why would anyone use Ubuntu on a server? Ubuntu is basically Debian unstable + non-free drivers that they tried to get sorta stable in 6 months. That may be ok on a desktop where you can accept some bugs in exchange for newer versions of the software. But why would you not run Debian stable on a server instead?

            Maybe 10 years ago when Debian stable got really out-of-date, but that hasn’t been true in a looong time. Debian releases much more frequently, much stabler, it has all the goid stuff from Ubuntu backported but none if the bad stuff.

          • CazRaX@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Since I reinstall Windows (trying different versions just because) as often as I distro hop I just started using different distros in WSL. Let’s me distro hop in both OSes as I want and at the same time without any kind of dual booting problems.

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s always seemed to me that Ubuntu has a pattern of going “Ick, NIH! Let’s replace it!” about some important system component, then giving up on their reimplementation a few years later and moving back to an equivalent mainstream component. Upstart, Unity (third parties have taken over, but Canonical no longer develops it), Mir as an independent display server . . . There are probably more that I’m missing, since it isn’t my distro. But snaps seem to me to be in the first half of that pattern. Probably they’ll give up on the system in five years or so and replace it with Flatpak.

      • ElRenosaurusReg [fae/faer, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Forced Snaps is a big one. If you’re not familiar, Snap is Canonical’s proprietary alternative to Appimage and Flatpak. While the Snap Store is open source and can be forked or modified as needed, the backend is completely closed source, which has vexed many members of the Open Source community.

        While the distribution itself is currently pretty solid, they’ve made questionable decisions in the past like including an amazon search function in their fork of gnome (Unity). Snap can be removed by a skilled user or someone well versed in search-fu, but their choice to have it installed by default, the be the default for package management, and to inject snaps in place of deb packages when installed via Apt, are all big red-flags given that nobody can see what is in those snaps til they’re installed except for canonical.

      • WasPentalive@lemmy.one
        41·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know about anyone else, but, I went from Kubuntu to Debian/KDE because I don’t like seeing all the Snap-fake hard drives in lsblk.

        • FMT99@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I even put mint on my mom’s pc and she very rarely has any issues. Works for almost everything out of the box.

    • Ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net
      121·
      1 year ago

      Apparently this was a controversial take

      When I first started learning how to Linux long ago everyone recommended Ubuntu… and I had a similar issue to the OP.

      I had to dump the EDID of my monitor from a Windows machine to actually get X to recognise any kind of monitor modes …it was an eye opening experience for a newbie.

      Today, I still dont really like it for other reasons (I’d take Debian over Ubuntu any day). Call me crazy here guys but I think its okay to share an opinion without being called an edgelord for it.

      (I use arch btw 🎩)

    • Nicbudd@beehaw.org
      31·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had a much easier time on Ubuntu with NVIDIA cards than with other distros. Also, I’m not sure how this is helpful advice to a new user at all.