What happened to my machine?

[Robert Brooks]

While these things are annoying, I'd be happy(er) if the latest 
"upgrade" or two didn't break basic functionality:

1.  Clicking on a link in a Thunderbird email usually doesn't open the link.
2.  Clicking on a window doesn't bring it to the foreground anymore.  I 
have to click on the desired program in the left vertical panel instead.
3.  Doing "save as" frequently, perhaps always, doesn't work properly 
anymore.  I  have to use "print to file" as a workaround.

But I don't get Brian's weird df output, it's the same as it's always 
been, for me.

I'd migrate elsewhere, but I do business on this machine, and that 
scares me.

Here's my version:

LSB Version: core-11.1.0ubuntu4-noarch:security-11.1.0ubuntu4-noarch
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:    jammy



Robert



> Hmmm... why would I have a whole new bizarre name to handle logical 
> volumes?
> Besides, logical volumes have been around for a very long time.
> What sort of person thinks: /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root
> Is even marginally a good device name?
> What happens if I rename "dobby" to "winky"?
>
> As to "snaps ... don't pollute the system". It looks like they've 
> polluted my system to me.
> Seriously, Ubuntu keeps putting more and more things in snaps.
> My list is only that small because I have been consciously removing 
> snaps when I can.
> If every major package was in a snap there would be hundreds of "df" 
> entries.
> Why would anyone think this is a good idea?
>
> And who would design a modern packaging system that makes you stop 
> running the app before it can be upgraded?  Imagine what it would be 
> like once there are hundreds of snaps installed!
> All of them tell you to exit the app for upgrade.  At least Windows 
> and MacOS only make me reboot.
>
> Look carefully at the "disk free" output... not one of them is an 
> actual disk device.
> This is worse than systemd (which is responsible for /run/user/1000).
>
> Brian
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:13 PM Grant Johnson <grant at amadensor.com> wrote:
>
>     The dev mapper stuff is logical volumes, so you can add and
>     rearrange storage easier. All of the snap things are snap
>     applications you have installed, they have their own little fake
>     file systems so that they don't pollute the system.
>
>
>     On June 8, 2022 1:01:21 PM MDT, Brian Sturgill
>     <bsturgill at ataman.com> wrote:
>
>         For years I thought I was running Linux... but I just ran "df"
>         and clearly someone has replaced Linux with another operating
>         system!
>
>         brian at dobby:~$ df
>         Filesystem                 1K-blocks     Used Available Use%
>         Mounted on
>         udev                         1927400        0 1927400   0% /dev
>         tmpfs                         394484     1368  393116   1% /run
>         /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root 110774660 13632712  91471856  13% /
>         tmpfs                        1972412        0 1972412   0%
>         /dev/shm
>         tmpfs                           5120        0  5120   0% /run/lock
>         tmpfs                        1972412        0 1972412   0%
>         /sys/fs/cgroup
>         /dev/loop0                     56960    56960 0 100%
>         /snap/core18/2344
>         /dev/loop3                     63488    63488 0 100%
>         /snap/core20/1518
>         /dev/loop2                     56960    56960 0 100%
>         /snap/core18/2409
>         /dev/loop1                     63488    63488 0 100%
>         /snap/core20/1494
>         /dev/loop5                     69632    69632 0 100%
>         /snap/lxd/22526
>         /dev/loop4                     69504    69504 0 100%
>         /snap/lxd/22753
>         /dev/loop6                     48128    48128 0 100%
>         /snap/snapd/16010
>         /dev/loop7                     45824    45824 0 100%
>         /snap/snapd/15904
>         tmpfs                         394480        0  394480   0%
>         /run/user/1000
>
>         Seriously, what kind of device is /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root?
>
>         Just last week, it was constantly badgering me to exit Firefox
>         to upgrade its snap.
>         It said I had to do so within 12 days if I wanted to "avoid
>         disruption".
>         Sounded like some kind of organized crime racket.
>         I exited, waited, it complained again, (repeat 5 times)...
>         finally told snap to upgrade it
>         manually, but cannot remember what worked... I know it took
>         like half an hour to figure it out.
>         Snap upgrade is too easy of course.
>
>         Really, I get less crap than this from Windows or MacOS.
>
>         -- 
>
>         Brian
>
>     -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
>     brevity.
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Brian
>
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