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I actually spoke too soon. The networking dropped several times during the install, and started moving at a crawl.
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Rich Nost 4mo ago

Disabled networking during the install. Now booted and updating, and I think one of the package repositories is extremely slow right now.

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Rich Nost 4mo ago

Could never get the software updater to work properly. The entire system became unusable after attempting to run it.

Flashed a Ubuntu 22 LTS image and installed / updated with no problems. Now attempting to get to 24 LTS by way of the 22 upgrade path.

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Ryan 4mo ago

Fwiw I have good luck with MX Linux, everything works oob on a new install. The only necessary change I make on a new install is to install mbpfan to better control thermals.

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Rich Nost 4mo ago

That systemd shim layer sounds weird!

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Ryan 4mo ago

I've never had trouble with it. I've ran it on a MBA for ~6 years. It's a decent light Debian spin, with a lot of options. I like the xfce version, but there are other flavors.