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For more than a week I have been using now and then Ubuntu 24.06 LTS on
a GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra AMD Ryzenrao 5 7640HS Mini PC.

My experience so far:

- tumblelog in docker is extremely fast [1] A speed up of close to
10x compared to a dated Mac mini late 2014. Look forward to test
this on a Mac mini M6 :-p.
- I managed to crash Nautilus once. Can't remember how I did it,
though.
- VirtualBox crashes when the lock screen comes up (always, known
issue).
- Tor Browser crashes when the save as / open dialog is confirmed
(always, known issue [2]). I could work around this in part by always
saving PDF files without a dialog. However, I can't change the
location as that dialog also crashes the browser :-(.
Downloaded files end up in:
~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/Browser/Downloads
Program works fine on macOS (same version).
Work around seems to be to install the program manually.
- Trashing (moving to Trash) a file on a thumbdrive is slow (takes
seconds) compared to on macOS.

Besides those issues I am very happy with how snappy Ubuntu feels. Disappointed that one *still* has to jump through hoops to install
things :-( (e.g. installing Docker engine the official way [3],
installing Tor Browser manually)

[1] <https://plurrrr.com/archive/2026/08/25.html>
[2] Has to do with how the Launcher installs Tor Browser is my
understanding. Manually installing Tor Browser should work.
Haven't tried this yet.
[3] <https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/linux/ubuntu/>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 17:46:42 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

- Tor Browser crashes when the save as / open dialog is confirmed
(always, known issue [2]). I could work around this in part by
always saving PDF files without a dialog. However, I can't change
the location as that dialog also crashes the browser :-(.

I must never have tried it. Confirm Tor 15.0.20 crashes on save on Ubuntu 26.04.

torbrowser-launcher/resolute,now 0.3.9-1build1 amd64 [installed]

Appears to be an Ubuntu problem. I can save files on Fedora 45 (beta).
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On 01/09/2026 22:53, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 17:46:42 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

- Tor Browser crashes when the save as / open dialog is confirmed
(always, known issue [2]). I could work around this in part by
always saving PDF files without a dialog. However, I can't change
the location as that dialog also crashes the browser :-(.

I must never have tried it. Confirm Tor 15.0.20 crashes on save on Ubuntu 26.04.

Thanks for checking.

torbrowser-launcher/resolute,now 0.3.9-1build1 amd64 [installed]

Appears to be an Ubuntu problem. I can save files on Fedora 45 (beta).

Yeah, and from what I've read a Linux Mint issue as well.

Is Nautilus also somewhat unstable? I managed to crash it a second time
:-D. Again I can't recall what exactly I did to crash it.
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:30:57 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

Is Nautilus also somewhat unstable? I managed to crash it a second time
:-D. Again I can't recall what exactly I did to crash it.

I don't use it very often but I haven't had GNOME Files crash. It hasn't
been called Nautilus in a while.
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On 02/09/2026 16:07, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:30:57 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

Is Nautilus also somewhat unstable? I managed to crash it a second time
:-D. Again I can't recall what exactly I did to crash it.

I don't use it very often but I haven't had GNOME Files crash. It hasn't
been called Nautilus in a while.

Ah, ok, when I used Ubuntu as my daily driver it was called like that
and it stuck.
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 17:34:03 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

On 02/09/2026 16:07, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:30:57 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

Is Nautilus also somewhat unstable? I managed to crash it a second
time :-D. Again I can't recall what exactly I did to crash it.

I don't use it very often but I haven't had GNOME Files crash. It
hasn't been called Nautilus in a while.

Ah, ok, when I used Ubuntu as my daily driver it was called like that
and it stuck.

I remembered the name from back when. I installed 22.04 on a new mini in
2022 and I think it was 'Files' on the toolbar and I didn't give it any
more thought. idk when or why they changed the name.
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