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@lxmcf was the first time for me that it was this bad. I had mounting issues before but nothing this rediculous and bad.
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@hasu Yeah I try to stay away from stock ubuntu now unless I'm building for it in that case it stays in a VM.
Ubuntu is just becoing more and more fragmented and hard to keep track of supported hardware and half assed supported hardware anymore -
@irene not sure how well they go with ROS either. I'm used to my ubuntu with unity now so if I can mske it work I'll stick with it. Was cinsidering some as a plan b option though
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@Haxk20 as i mentioned before, ROS is not supported by Arch. A while ago a collegue tried anyway and wasted 3 months. No thank you.
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@Gaveuxifort i never had issues before either but this was so weird. I read that they have issues with old intel graphics cards and the machine is like 6 years old by now, so yeah.
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@hasu I used Lunar Loggerhead on ubuntu 17.04, with few issues. I have heard Kinetic Kame on 16.04 is even more stable. I strongly suggest you don't use 18 or any latest ubuntu os for ROS. It's a meaningless headache. And 18.10 has issues with all graphics, also with startup and shutdown
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@phreakyphoenix well, our tutors told us to upgrade to 18.04 since they wanted to upgrade the robot to it - for some reason connected to the manifacturer of the thing - but it ended up being a misunderstanding, the tutors apologized and said we can stay on 16.04.
Try to do something "on time" and "ahead" once.. goddamit.
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@hasu tutors? Is it those people who come with industry experience references? Where and what do you do, if I may ask.. Anyway 16.04 is still awesome I guess.
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@phreakyphoenix the tutors are phD students. I'm a masters student and am doing another project now in robotics :)
W...w...wha...whaaat?!
When you have something in your clipboard but then press Ctrl+C instead of Ctrl+V and end up with a blank line...
Avast. :/
Install 18.04 they said. It will be fine they said...
Well.
Apperently it hates my intel graphics card. It was giving me artifacts already during installation. It didnt boot after installation and got stuck on a purple screen with the mouse on it.
Got past that with recovery mode. Googled the solution snd they said "move mouse while booting" yeah that doesn't help.
It also didn't recognize the other monitors connected to it and since it comes without unity now everything was not where I'm used to look for it.
3 hours of grub mangleing, driver installing and a unity installation later, it finally works.
Installed terminator and oh, look, one of the most used short cuts is overwritten by some emoji pick bs.
Ffs.
Longest ubuntu installtion ever and it almost fked up the 16.04 aswell which is in dual boot atm.
And before someone says use Arch: ubuntu is a project requirement and Arch is not supported by the tools we need to use.
rant
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