This Is Not A Real Ubuntu Bug

31 thoughts on “This Is Not A Real Ubuntu Bug”

• This is the equivalent of unironically using Contoso when setting up a windows server

• There is a mad lad in your matrix legit on maverick…. the dude legit cant be arsed to update. Old timers smh

• Time traveler problems

• Out of interest I looked up removing/adding mirrors on ubuntu and ended up looking at instructions from 2009

• Have I done something similar? Oh, boy, have I! A couple of years back I removed python 2 from my Ubuntu 18.04, because who uses that any more, right? Not that I intended to actually remove it from the computer, it's more that I wanted to make sure I personally always ran 3 whenever I ran python. And I went one step too hard.

• When I started using Linux and had an issue I copied random commands from the Ubuntu forums in my terminal. I had no idea what they would do to my system. Sometimes it worked but most of the time not so much! Nowadays I use the Arch wiki when something goes wrong (which is never).

• I've been a Gentoo user since the early days and the clumsiest thing I ever did was depclean gcc without having built the new version … ooops .. They've safeguarded against this happening now. I forget how I fixed that but I think I must have downloaded a stage3 and installed it on a VM, then created a bin package from there, or possibly chrooted to the stage3 and did similarly, can't quite remember now, but, a bit of an embarrassment !!

• A real Linux mystery

• In my early Linux days, I wanted to switch from Ubuntu to Arch, I had backed up everything properly, installed Arch correctly, and then I proceeded to put the files from the backup back onto the system. Not surprising then, that my system suddenly thought it was Ubuntu again; as in, neofetch displayed Ubuntu logo, information about the distro showed Ubuntu, everything basically. Except I could of course still use Pacman and the AUR. I had essentially created a frankendistro lmao

  I ended up reinstalling and then hand-picking what files to use from the backup.
  Still a funny moment for me

• 8:35 "Would've heard of it or would've been documented." Wow, didn't realize Brodie had a crystal ball that sees every possible error that can occur on Linux.

• I've upgraded Ubuntu a few times before and about every other time broke the sources and left the old ones. I got sick of that for my parents computer because I was sick of having them complain of update errors while I'm out so I just switched them to Arch instead and things have been so much smoother

• That was my first thought – an old tutorial

• Not unlikely someone copy pasted some command lines or downloaded a shell script from a guide in order to get something done, but the guide was 10 years old and "updated" his sources. For new linux users this is always a risk.

• Lol, but "Linux is ready for the normies." someone says.

• Seeing as though the first version of Ubuntu I ever used was 8.04 “Hardy Heron” and the first version I daily-drove long enough to upgrade (since my WiFi drivers finally worked on it) was 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” I could recognize this user’s mistake from a mile away.

  Yeah, if you’re using a version that old, I don’t care what needs you have, UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. Not only is modern software not likely to support a release that old, but, and this is by far the most disturbing part, you’re going to have a lot of unfixed security vulnerabilities on that ancient system just waiting to be exploited.

• I'm glad to be using an Arch based Distro

• Is this thumbnail a reference to "those aren't the droids you are looking for…"?

• I never used Ubuntu, only Mint. I used Mint for 3 weeks, then installed Arch. Planning to reinstall Arch since my install’s a bit bloated

• I looked at their GitHub repos and they got a shell script, last updated on may 29th 2023 with the description of "How to set up NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, Cudnn on Ubuntu 16.04".

  So, I guess they just have a weird fetish for old operating systems. I also into "fights" with people on YouTube explaining "how to survive on Windows 7 in 2024" and stuff like that… Those lunatics are out there.

• Canonical moves old releases to "archive" after a lot of years – if you install an old Ubuntu you have to edit the URLs to add archive to get the sources.list working. Chances are, the guy was on 11.10 the whole time – I would think around 2018 or so Canonical would've moved the files to archive and the guy updated his sources.list but never did a distro upgrade. Maybe he thought his Ubuntu installation dated to 2018 because he reinstalled it then from an old CD and assumed the installer would just download and install the latest version of the OS for him?

• Websites need to value good info over clicks and SEO. Part of the problem in Ubuntu land is websites like Ask Ubuntu and others where people put up wrong answers that get up-voted because they are quick and dirty. Some have people run desktop apps under sudo. Bad move if those apps update dconf or other things. Then you get to enjoy using the find command and changing the user ownership. People get told to edit sys files with personal changes. Hello, we're in Unix world, not Windows 98 world. There is so much stale info. There used to be a few third-party scripts and helper apps that preserved configs before an update, then restored them afterward. Most of these programs have been replaced by official distro tools. Adding stuff onto the sources.list file is moving toward obsolescence in favor of using the sources.d directory. But old tools do not respect new best practices.

• Could it just be his comment “I’m on Ubuntu 18” just means “I’m on Ubuntu 18 now”?

• I don’t know how many people got the joke at the end except us aussies. Which I didn’t know you where @BrodieRobertson

• the O-Brien reference

• My gaming PC still has Ubuntu 16.04, I never updated again because updating to 16.04 broke LXDE for me, also big fan of ckb-next, still works great on that machine.

• WOW! I mean WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! I cannot even imagine what all one would have to do wrong to get that kind of far out problems!

• Followed a tutorial? I bet they just copypastad it without reading anything.

• I guess the user just copied a old script for adding some PPA or installing some package with dependency issues and the script was from Oneric.

• Bugs happen everywhere because someone somewhere made a mistake & broke something.

• I'm not sure any non-australian will appreciate your final line/joke like we do.

• What you mentioned about them likely following tutorials they found through a Web search seems the likeliest to me based on my own experience, because when I was getting into desktop Linux for the first time in the late 2000s, I found what I think were some tutorials about installing "Red Hat Linux", but never figured out how to download it as I was getting info about "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" when I searched, but it would turn out years later that I was reading outdated tutorials that had never been updated to mention "Fedora" instead.

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