Installing Linux and some Substack
Weblog notes from June 7, 2026 that were compiled and shared
Last week we jumped back into writing on the weekend. It was a good adventure back into the flow of writing. The Functional Journal is converted back into a regular Substack landing page with the theme fully in effect. That shift seems to be working well enough. I really did not like the feed version. That is what I learned in the last few weeks. It turns out to effectively use Substack you have to treat it like a social network for the most part and interact with people via notes and the other social features. To do that well you would have to invest time every day into ensuring the experience is social first which is something that I have just missed over the last 5 years of posting content to Substack. I just treat it like a posting platform for written missives. We will see if that changes in 2026, but based on my previous usage pattern I probably won’t successfully leverage the social features they have built.
Yesterday, I ended up downloading Rufus to load up an ISO of Edubuntu on a USB stick. It turned out my old Dark Base computer had encountered some type of fatal error with a previous Ubuntu installation and needed to be refreshed. The new version of Edubuntu actually installed without any issues and even picked up the external wifi device without any issue. Finding all the right drivers is always the biggest concern with any Linux based installation. My old founder’s edition Nvidia card is still plugging along providing decent graphics. The older CPU and motherboard setup on that system won’t support TPM 2.0 and as a result Windows 11 is not an option, but Linux loads and works fine. This is the first time I had installed the Edubuntu flavor and so far I have been pleasantly surprised.
This weekend has been about recharging and getting refocused on some research efforts. Sometimes it is nice to just take a bit of time and avoid any real commitments for a couple days. Not having a plan was the right plan for this weekend. Taking a little bit of a break was really what I needed. I even had time to watch Star Wars Episode VII (2015) and the 7 episodes of The Book of Boba Fett (2021).