Canonical Make Me No Happy
I installed a copy of Ubuntu 25.04 into a virtual machine just because I wanted to grab their most recent kernel config for 6.14.x to compare it to my own to try to figure out why my configuration breaks nvidia display.
What a clusterfuck. Now that bastard Poettering has taken over the login function with systemd-logind and what a pile of shit.
From a graphical terminal, with the sole exception of gdm3, I can not login as any user other the one I created at install time, and even with gdm3 I can not login as root.
Window 11 Linux Style Here We Come. Fuck You Canonical. Guess I'm going to be forced, after 14 years, to switch distros again.
Florence Pugh
in reply to Nanook • •GenevievePayne
in reply to Nanook • •Disables root GUI login by default for security reasons.
Only the initial user gets desktop access by default unless others are explicitly configured.
Geometry Dash
brunomars
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in reply to NadiaEira • •@CrazySlope2 I get the frustration. One of the reasons I’ve been moving more of my hobby projects to simple browser-based stacks is exactly this — fewer hidden layers, fewer things silently taking over core functions.
Devuan might be the right move if you want to stay closer to the old philosophy.
AdamBailey
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