Oh, FFS. Really. FFS.

Weirdness abounds all of a sudden. First up, Plasma Discover is acting strange. I get this when I launch it:

Dunno why. Researching online shows that I may have (re)configured repositories when installing my shit. Or not. Who knows really.

I do know that when I uncheck all of these:

The error goes away, but then I have problems installing shit. Windscribe was a particular pain to get on here even though I’ve never had issues installing it in the past. I did find a fix for this (the missing dependencies bit), however it included rechecking all of those Other Software options. So now the error is back in Discover… until I pulled the nuclear option and ran sudo rm -r sources.list.d (after I backed it up, of course). That removed all of those entries on that list and I probably have to build the repositories again… we’ll see I guess.

Another thing to note is that my computer is randomly freezing. No rhyme or reason. Just in the middle of something, anything, and boom! Frozen. Hasn’t happened since early this morning, so maybe that nuke I dropped on the repository sources fixed up something else that fixed the freezing? I’ll never know.

I’m kind of kicking myself since the Ubuntu Studio install I had prior to the complete wipe and reinstall was humming along just fine. Or was it? everything but my gamez was ok. Now my gamez are ok.

Make of it what you will.

I’m not adverse to wiping and starting all over again, but I’d much rather not.