About a week ago I setup Ubuntu as my primary OS on an old machine. It is my first time trying a unix based OS (previously windows). It has been ok, but it seems like every time I try to install something I run into problems. The app has the wrong permissions or I don't have the right packages or I need to change port settings ect... I was expecting a learning curve but I wanted to know if this is something I should expect to be a long term issue or if I will aquire the skills to side step stuff like this over time?
Update*
I got it working. Last night I reinstalled it and figured it out. Two issues. On initial install I failed to update one of the packages needed. I also assigned the service to a group without the required permissions. On reinstall I rectified both of these issues and it works flawlessly. Thanks all for your help and input (and ignoring typos in the title)!
I'm using MX Linux, I try to avoid snap and flatpak...nothing like a good old .deb installing right away
EDIT because someone wrote non-sense below, MX is the #1 distro on distrowatch for years and the latest MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It’s using 6.4.4 kernel from last week as of writing. This is a cutting edge distro.
What are you talking about? MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It's using 6.4.4 kernel from last week.
Please edit your message.
Crazyyy. This must be because of the stable fixing phase. Now everything is set and the distros will diverge some more again. On Fedora I am on Kernel 6.4.x too