13.10 vs. 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Final Beta

[O. Sinclair]

I am on the beta myself and I DO have some issues:
1. apt-get or aptitude update consumes 25% CPU on a quad-core i5
2. if you use Kmail filters seems totally borked
3. desktop search is erratic but that can be due to frequent updates

generally, if I were you I would actually go 12.04 with backports. You 
get kde and libreoffice and so on updates, it is just the kernel that is 
"old". Then go for LTS upgrade once 14.04 is released.

Why did I not myself? Well I was stuck on 12.10, 13.04 was a nightmare 
for my hardware and so I did go for beta 14.04

/Sinclair

On 25/03/2014 20:21, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
> I took the beta plunge myself, and it is going ok.  Simply based on my
> own experience, I would install 14.04.  Then it is quite painless to
> upgrade since it basically just upgrades itself.  That's what I would
> do, not what you should do.
>
> I wouldn't say that installation issues are the problem for betas.  In
> my experience, that's the alphas.  You should look over the release
> notes [1].  That has a very good list of issues many people are facing.
>
> [1] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/TrustyTahr/Beta1/Kubuntu
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Cliffe <mattjcliffe at gmail.com
> <mailto:mattjcliffe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi David
>     Personally I would install kubuntu 13.10. As it would be the easiest
>     upgrade option.
>
>     If you can have you home dir on a separate partition incase the
>     upgrade messes up.
>
>     Matt
>
>     On 25 Mar 2014 17:43, "David Johnson" <davidjohnson at brownmailbox.com
>     <mailto:davidjohnson at brownmailbox.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I have a new computer that needs to be set up within the next
>         few days. I want this computer to ultimately run Kubuntu 14.04
>         LTS Final Release. If you were in my situation, which of the
>         following versions of Kubuntu would you install on this computer
>         within the next few days?
>
>         * 13.10 -- The latest Final Release.
>
>         * 12.04 LTS -- The latest LTS release. Some users claim that
>         they encounter fewer issues when upgrading between LTS releases.
>
>         * 14.04 LTS Final Beta -- ETA is March 27. Some users claim that
>         the biggest issues with beta releases are installation issues,
>         and if a user can successfully install a beta release, then
>         they're all set for the most part.
>
>         I'd really appreciate any advice you have to offer.
>
>         Thanks,
>         David
>
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