Looks like it was fixed in 2004, and there were no messages any more recently. Looks like it was just never closed, not unfixed, unless I’m missing something.

Edit: the bug tracker it was fixed in 2.01, which came out 2004-07-23. But the changelog says #186085 was fixed in 2.00, strangely. And the current version, 3.73, was released 2023-05-25.

After more sleuthing, I hunted down the micronews mailing list where they discussed this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2025/07/msg00003.html

I guess in 2004 they made the criteria for inclusion on the task list stricter, so what’s being fixed now is that they’re changing the debian installer to include selections for tasks/blends like debian med? I don’t see where that’s indicated though.

You can have it right now if you download and compile it.

Tell me about it. I’ve been using Blender since before 2.5, when everything was garish 90s design. But I use it so sporadically that every time I use it again, I have to look up where all the buttons went. At least the search function is pretty good.

You don’t want Arch then. I’m sure other people will chime in with recommendations. I’m hesitant to make desktop recommendations because I mostly use Linux on the server, and I’ve never used an atomic distro or similar. But you probably want something mainstream, stable, and well-supported like Fedora.

Only the really big names like Intel, Dell, HP… but even then they’ll still go out of support eventually.

What are your goals or requirements? What have you found limiting in other distros?

tl;dr: windows is worse in each of their measures

Can you give me a link to that documenation and tooling? Because every time I go to troubleshoot an issue, I end up in a tangled mess of trying to figure out how systemd and NetworkManager have decided to configure themselves on this particular system, and I give up.

I don’t know how it happens, but I can set up Ubuntu on a dozen laptops in exactly the same way, and a week later they all have different configurations.

Even when DNS resolution isn’t working properly?

If your haven’t noticed much difference, there’s your answer.

A futex (short for fast user-space mutex) is a low-level kernel system call used in Linux (and some other operating systems) to implement synchronization primitives like mutexes, semaphores, and condition variables. It’s designed to minimize the need for expensive context switches between user and kernel space by handling most operations in user space with atomic operations.

Boot live media, mount the drive, copy it off.