Luke's Ubuntu and Linux Hacks

OS: Ubuntu 25.10 App: Files (Nautilus) Issue: For eternity (I've been using Ubuntu Linux exclusively for 12 years) I was able to right-click on a folder in Files and select "Open in Terminal." And then suddenly, I was not able to do that. Not being able to pinpoint anything that I had done to cause the problem, I turned to Gemini for an answer.  Diagnosis:  After a considerable amount of back and forth with Gemini (which is unusual), I THOUGHT narrowed the cause down to my having downloaded the New "Console" terminal, but kept the old term terminal as my default. Thus, I had a problem of the two terminals competing for default. As it turns out, something had changed in Nautilus, it seems. Don't ask me what. The Fix: NOT! (but in include this step here, because you probably should do this, too.) I uninstalled my old Terminal, which, among other things, was blocking my switching from the old Terminal to Console Terminal, using the Console settings Preference f...

I have been using Linux, exclusively, for 12 years. I have never installed it on any Microsoft computer that is newer than ten years old (using today's date) , and probably never will. Well, okay, maybe five years old using the date of this post, but that's the limit. Observation and Theory Here's my theory and point. Microsoft has, over the past ten years, increasingly considered Linux a legitimate threat. So MS has increasingly made it as difficult as possible for you to wipe their system and install a Linux OS. And they have made it even more difficult for you to dual boot or to run Linux as a subsystem, because they hate Linux and they want your Linux experience on "their" computers to be as painful and difficult as possible. Microsoft effectively has declared war, albeit a cold and silent war, against Linux. And since PC manufacturer's are completely beholden to MS, they just go along with the war like the good little MS soldiers they are. Let me be clear...