Since I need to upgrade my software in bits and pieces, and I have no idea how a lot of these packages interplay, I’ve had a few interesting situations develop. I seem to have borked my screensaver; and today’s adventure is in progress—the Synaptic package manager asked me a question, I responded, but now it doesn’t seem to be doing anything further and every time I navigate away from that window it complains that it wants my attention. I don’t see a way to get out of the situation. I also haven’t found a way to get a proprietary nVidia driver working. It’s installed, but when I try to enable it via the “system settings” interface I get a complaint. Maybe I should have just waited for the Heron OS.

That thread is an interesting cautionary tale; thanks for bringing it to my attention.