[xubuntu-users] Happy with 24.04 Xubuntu

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 07:16, Mike Squires
<michael.leslie.squires at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just upgraded my primary system from dual boot 22.04 and Windows 10
> x64 Pro to 24.04.
>
> The system is now running quite smoothly; thank you!
>
> The move was triggered by the inability of the current version of 22.04
> to support my nVida M5000 video card.  The Linux version installed by
> 24.04 is now a step above that provided with 22.04 after an upgrade, and
> this makes the proprietary nVida driver (550) fail to install when
> upgrading 22.04 or installing 2204. fresh.

550? I think that's now been replaced by 570.


> The system uses a 2 TB RAID 1 array (Seagate Constellation, 3ware 9750
> controller) created as an MBR drive.  2 TB is the largest size MBR drive
> for Windows 10

This is not correct; a more accurate statement is "2TB is the maximum
drive size for MBR". What OS makes no difference.

> The PC is an old Dell T7600, dual Xeon , 32 GB RAM, which is quite fast
> after OS startup.  The UEFI implementation seems to be broken

What firmware version are your machines running? Have you updated it?

Latest seems to be version A17.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=40d08&oscode=w764&productcode=precision-t7600

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