{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Alcoholic Beast (drinkingpony)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-19 08:40:05 UTC","author_name":"Alcoholic Beast (drinkingpony)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/drinkingpony","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/5465452","html":"The laptop I was going to use to properly use ( learn by using ) Linux on has a full hard drive and I am like 99.9% sure the propblem lies with Ubuntu's desire to create some sort of swap file on EXT1 for Gnome to start so the whole boot process halts indefinitely.<br \/><br \/>Any wise words like &quot;Go back to a proper Distro&quot; for me ?<br \/><br \/>Meanwhile I'll go look if I have a near empty USB somewhere so I can put a Knoppix rescue bootable together or something."}