More dysfunctional Ubuntu-isms

[Michael Butash]

Funny you say that - that's exactly what I am talking about that server 
is pooping out and not finding the cdrom in d-i.  With the kubuntu 
installer being wacky, I just figured I'd go server and install 
kubuntu-desktop after which almost always works.  When server fails, so 
does much hope.  I left off friday burning a netboot cd and neon to try 
when work leaves me be finally.  This eventually worked.

That's also exactly where I was going with neon - start with kde (fail) 
and move on to neon.  I'm doing that with my current desktop, as 
surprisingly I found finally amd drivers and mesa aren't too terrible to 
use, so native kernels have been great alone, only kde's support has 
been crap, particularly 16.04 default 5.5 plasma builds.  Multi monitor 
support is and has been highly broken, but somewhat getting better in 
neon, so my current is a bit of a frankenstein combo of kubuntu+neon, 
but it's been somewhat stable (finally) with my 3x 4k displays + amd vid 
with plasma 5.7.2.

My laptop with neon is more of a mess right now, but a whole other thread...

-mb


On 11/08/2016 08:59 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>
> In my experience the server install is pretty much just a minimal 
> install that asks you at the end if you want to install certain 
> typical server software.  I just normally just pick SSH server and 
> then add whatever I want after the first boot.  I've always had less 
> problems installing the server over rather than the desktop install 
> because of the odd graphics card problems that pop up from time to 
> time (but hardly ever these days) since the server install uses a text 
> based installer.  The server install will allow you easily install a 
> basic system and then install the proprietary graphics drivers 
> afterwards skipping having to have them to install in the first place.
>
> The only real gotcha is that it takes longer to install since much of 
> your software (aka your entire desktop environment) will have to be 
> downloaded over the Internet rather than coming off of nice fast flash 
> drives or DVDs.  You could, if you are in a hurry, install via the 
> server install disk and then use the packages on the desktop install 
> to feed your desktop install, but in the long run it probably won't 
> save you any time since you would still want to update everything over 
> the Internet and that would take just about as long.  Then again, if 
> you have the server installed, you can actually be doing stuff to 
> customize your install at the same time that it's installing/updating 
> so it's probably all in all a speed win.
>
> Brian Cluff
>