These packages are not available in other distros and you can get them for free for up to 5 machines. Previously you weren’t able to get them at all without paying for corp support.
I don’t run Ubuntu, but was surprised I’d not heard of this.
This is canonical trying to make money for security updates, and stopping companies just running it for free, instead of using a licence (my own take). They are following a model by IBM, apparently.
That’s not at all what’s happening. Canonical have not put anything that was previously available without an account, behind this service. As others have noted, they’re making something that was previously paid-only, free for up to 5 machines.
Could try a new hdmi cable or if possible another hdmi slot on the card as well as the display if it has one. I would start with switching over teh next slot on the GPU, then switching over to the next slot on the display, then a new cable
AskUbuntu.com by far. Many years ago it replaced ubuntuforums.org for support queries. As others have pointed out, the current discussion place is discourse.ubuntu.com. But for support questions AskUbuntu.com is the best place and the best format because it’s easy to find the questions and the answers from within and via search engines without having to sift through tons of discussion responses. Anything that’s already answered becomes easy to find for the next person having this problem. Sometimes when I find the solution to a problem I had that wasn’t obvious, I add a question and answer it myself for others to find. Of course you can ask here as well. ☺️
My understanding (and I’m happy to be corrected) is that feature and security updates will continue to be provided for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Pro’s update badgering seems to allow for updates to be provided for packages that aren’t part of the base distro makeup - like packages that are held in non-Canonical repos.
For home users, Ubuntu Pro is free… for now.
I don’t think it’s anything horrendously bad, but the way it’s been rolled out is pretty fuckin’ far from good too.
This is correct. There’s no need for Ubuntu Pro to get the updates you used to get prior to Ubuntu Pro’s introduction. Ubuntu Pro gives additional updates that were not available before and the community does not provide. It’s free for up to 5 machines so you should register and enable it. There’s no downside for now.
Thank you for this. I did give this an attempt, I didn’t find the manual partitioning. I found an option to create a new partition table, I don’t think I was in the right spot. I couldn’t figure out how to configure the one partition just for boot, and what to select on the drop down menu. “Physical encryption volume?”
I think I’ll just create an encrypted folder until hopefully a fix is made for the installer.
So if I boot into recovery mode, and it does end up asking me for a password again, does that imply a bad actor has changed my root password? If that’s the case, will a fresh install solve my problem?
I’m very new to linux so I’m not really sure what best practices you should follow after an install. Should you immediately change your root password and install a firewall, first steps taken?
If you typed your password wrong too many times you may have been locked out for a certain amount of time (normally 30 mins after 3 wrong attempts). In this situation sudo will not display a different error it will still say the password is wrong. You can clear the failed attempts using the command “faillock --reset”. Hopefully that solves it if not check your caps lock, and keyboard layout.
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