As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall. The latest one went fine but i lost all networking no wifi

By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card.

I have rolled back for now but questions are;

Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. ts quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal.

Is it better to fix or try another distro?

  • emotional_soup_88@programming.devEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    I don’t know which network manager Ubuntu uses, so I’m not sure whether this applies to you. I’m using Arch with the network manager systemd-networkd. I set it up manually from the CLI by creating a so called .network file in the /etc/systemd/network/ folder.

    To “setup” and start using systemd-networkd, do sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd.service. You will probably also need to setup systemd-resolved with sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved.service because some services and/or programs need this for domain name resolution.

    Then, check out point 3.5 on this page in the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-networkd

    Use the section that applies to your setup depending on whether you are wired, wireless or both.

    This of course assumes that Ubuntu doesn’t use another network manager.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    GTX 580? Maybe you have to install an older driver, like the 470-series of the driver appears to support it: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/ Ubuntu has a bunch of older series of nvidia driver you can install for this purpose.

    That would not explain your networking though. Unless that is also some older hardware too… But, a common thing to do as a new user in linux may be to find posts which answer “how do I install x in ubuntu” and they usually involve editing files under /etc/apt/sources.d/. This can wreck your system in this kind of way, so: have you done that? Or this is pure ubuntu, just regular apt update/upgrade and some apt installs?

    • Cherry@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Not altered anything just saw the pop up for update now…which i did and all looked to be fine, aside from the no networking.

      I tried the install extras option and that’s when i got the 580 errors. I might be wrong that they are the problem.

    • Cherry@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      That’s what i thought, it is good excuse to explore. I am just a bit frustrated as a new user to be bumping into roadblocks so early in my linux journey

      • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
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        37 minutes ago

        I was on Ubuntu for like 3 years, a few days ago switched to Debian. I installed Ubuntu because I thought it would “easy” and “just works” and all that. I’m not very computery person, I know some basics but I’m mostly confused about everything.

        What I’ve learned from using Debian is I should have just gone for that from the beginning. Its not that different and somehow it feels nicer and more capable. If your Ubuntu keeps giving you grief, try Debian or whatever you think looks nice.

        • Cherry@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          I thought i completely removed windows when i did the install. I was mac in a previous life. I picked up a old pc that had a fresh install of windows and i thought i just installed linux straight over it…when it asked if i wanted to install over the full drive.

          I will try and find out…