And here we set a root password and a user password, and we don't bashfuck settings and configs so badly that you assume you're the administrator of your system, get a request for a root password, use the one for your account, discover that it's not the root password, and have to do root-level hackery and fuckery.
I had to Google that shit - not often I gotta reboot and take over a system from the ground up.
Okay. Here's the printer: XM7170 printer, per Lexmart, rebranded as a Dell 962 or some damned such.
Spent a little long while "hacking" into the fucker to just try and clear a "right cartridge error!" error - jesus, I hate Lexmark.
I bought Brother this time around; just works. Still expensive cartridges. Got bro-bro $10 off on an authentic one; shipping killed us.
Can't actually test the fucking driver until I have a printer that doesn't bleat about cartridges. (And I told my brother I was doing this stupid shit because I had to and joked about being a superhacker...
I'm gonna check to see if the /home folder is still there and just overwrite with Leap, I think. I'm done with 3 hours giggling at "I look like such a hax0r!" to deal with stupid problems in a terminal that tells me to go fuck myself on every other turn of the wheel.
(And I told my brother I was doing this stupid shit in the terminal because I had to ((I did)) and joked about being a superhacker...the teaching moments were explaining the stuff I'd done - which is confusing to anyone without a Google reference, and showing how I searched for a solution, why I evaluated a link's veracity for troubleshooting, etc.
He thinks he needs courses. I'll get him up to speed.
If and when he gets a computer that isn't a nuclear bomb that people are worshipping,
Fire, die, still strangely okay with that. Think I could get on with Fedora more than Ubuntu, packaging be damned.
Sounds like a CPU scheduler issue in your case? Maybe hardware related, but the kernel tends to be kinda boring and monolithic in that regard; sounds like Ubuntu hacked some damned thing to fix a hardware glitch and didn't upstream.
...Which is why I'm probably going with Leap for user-friendly installs; I'll just dial in kludgy things like software updates and streamline zypper and packagekit to behave as well as I can.
SELinux - I'm gonna be trying to get Linux running on one of two old ass computers with a severely outdated but HDMI capable video card that I can plug into the Sempron Masheen I un-trunked from the car tonight.
Ideally, I'd like to build a passable Kodi box and give it back to the donor bro, but the small-form-factor of the (maybe? ORANGE LIGHT OF DEAAAATH!) better computer has me in a bit of a bind along with memory issues - dunno if I have anything compatible that is more than 512.
Guess we'll see.
I'm not in IT. At all, never have been, don't even know if people would hire me when they have Tata and Friends to fill roles just as cheaply as I would...I just do this for the lulz and satisfaction. :)
SELinux has no power here!
(It uses a sane(r)? AppArmor setup built by smarter people than I am...and like becoming an expert on Windows, how the hell are you gonna pull Group Policy experience out of your ass with one computer? Can't even do it on Win10, Shitty Upgrade Edition).
You're getting more into static applications and implementations with SELinux than anything, IMO - design it from the ground up based on what you need, and if you have to "adjust" things...just design a new implementation after a fuckton of testing.
SELinux don't fuck around. Thought about trying it out, but on a desktop system, it'd be a disaster.
What I did for life, love, money, God, and country...wasn't military and wasn't meth, satisfying, but broke me early all the same.