From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/21/26 16:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > To do some experimenting, I slicked my 2012 Asus laptop and   
   > installed Ubuntu Studio. I burned the ubuntu-studio ISO to a thumb   
   > drive and booted to it.   
   >   
   > It failed, reason unknown, though there was a command to get a   
   > log. I think it was an issue with dd'ing the ISO. The "Install"   
   > icon on the desktop wouldn't work. I tried running the command in   
   > a console window, and it commenced, but ultimately failed. For   
   > some reason it did not find an EFI partition, is what I think.   
   >   
   > Tried again with a different spare USB drive, decided not to save   
   > the /home partition, and things went a lot better. Interestingly,   
   > the GUI was in dark mode the second time.   
   >   
   > KDE Plasma looks pretty good. I'm going to keep it instead of   
   > fluxbox, because I won't be using this box a lot, at first, except   
   > through SSH, so the clumsiness of a ginormous desktop is not such   
   > an issue.   
   >   
   > One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.   
   > Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop   
   > this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included   
   > blocking SSH.   
   >   
      
   	The OSes are quite different but when I do an install I use   
   GPartEd to make my partitions including the EFI partitions.   
      
   	PCLOS recently changed its whole install sequence and while   
   GPartEd is called at an appropriate point the use of a prepartioned   
   fixed drive is quite helpful and I have managed to retain /home across   
   installs.   
   	Screen locking during remote access is a definite security feature.   
   	I have been using KDE since starting with Linux in 2006. Plasma 5   
   was much lighter than Plasma 6 but fortunately the Dell 7730 has enough   
   horsepower to carry on.   
   	   
   bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026- Linux 6.12.66 pclos1- KDE Plasma   
   6.5.5   
      
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