To do some experimenting, I slicked my 2012 Asus laptop and
installed Ubuntu Studio. I burned the ubuntu-studio ISO to a thumb
drive and booted to it.

It failed, reason unknown, though there was a command to get a
log. I think it was an issue with dd'ing the ISO. The "Install"
icon on the desktop wouldn't work. I tried running the command in
a console window, and it commenced, but ultimately failed. For
some reason it did not find an EFI partition, is what I think.

Tried again with a different spare USB drive, decided not to save
the /home partition, and things went a lot better. Interestingly,
the GUI was in dark mode the second time.

KDE Plasma looks pretty good. I'm going to keep it instead of
fluxbox, because I won't be using this box a lot, at first, except
through SSH, so the clumsiness of a ginormous desktop is not such
an issue.

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

--
Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over
the first one.
-- Confusion

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
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On 1/21/26 16:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

To do some experimenting, I slicked my 2012 Asus laptop and
installed Ubuntu Studio. I burned the ubuntu-studio ISO to a thumb
drive and booted to it.

It failed, reason unknown, though there was a command to get a
log. I think it was an issue with dd'ing the ISO. The "Install"
icon on the desktop wouldn't work. I tried running the command in
a console window, and it commenced, but ultimately failed. For
some reason it did not find an EFI partition, is what I think.

Tried again with a different spare USB drive, decided not to save
the /home partition, and things went a lot better. Interestingly,
the GUI was in dark mode the second time.

KDE Plasma looks pretty good. I'm going to keep it instead of
fluxbox, because I won't be using this box a lot, at first, except
through SSH, so the clumsiness of a ginormous desktop is not such
an issue.

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

The OSes are quite different but when I do an install I use
GPartEd to make my partitions including the EFI partitions.

PCLOS recently changed its whole install sequence and while
GPartEd is called at an appropriate point the use of a prepartioned
fixed drive is quite helpful and I have managed to retain /home across installs.
Screen locking during remote access is a definite security feature.
I have been using KDE since starting with Linux in 2006. Plasma 5
was much lighter than Plasma 6 but fortunately the Dell 7730 has enough horsepower to carry on.

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026- Linux 6.12.66 pclos1- KDE Plasma
6.5.5

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On 2026-01-22 01:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

That's odd.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES??, EU??;

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Carlos E.R. wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 2026-01-22 01:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

That's odd.

I was able to turn that off in the KDE "control panel".

--
ICELAND!

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
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On 2026-01-22 14:46, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 2026-01-22 01:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

That's odd.

I was able to turn that off in the KDE "control panel".

Still, surprising that such a feature exists.

Maybe, if a machine is on battery, to conserve battery... :-?

Arguably, though, it may use less power to connect via ssh with display off.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES??, EU??;

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-01-22 15:32, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2026-01-22 14:46, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 2026-01-22 01:10, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

One odd issue is the screen locking freezes an SSH session.
Unlock and it's fine. I think I found the session setting to stop
this, but it's a surprise to me that session lock included
blocking SSH.

That's odd.

I was able to turn that off in the KDE "control panel".

Still, surprising that such a feature exists.

I forgot to say, even more surprising that such a feature is enabled by default.

Maybe, if a machine is on battery, to conserve battery... :-?

Arguably, though, it may use less power to connect via ssh with display
off.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES??, EU??;

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
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