Ubuntu upgrades
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 28 01:23:59 UTC 2014
On 9/26/2014 11:18 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Sajan Parikh wrote:
...
>> For desktop users, at this point, there is almost zero conceivable
>> reason not to upgrade to the new releases. If you want, you can wait
>> until 14.10.1 for some early adopter bugs to be fixed. However, for
>> the MOST part, I don't think anyone really gains anything by sticking
>> with an LTS version for desktop. Unless you've completely gone into
>> /etc and customized every bit of your system.
>
> Well, I am a desktop user but I prefer to use LTS versions. I don't
> really need the very latest version of every application with all the
> new shiny features (for which I may not have a use case) and with all
> the hard to find feature changes of features I do want to use.
> Especially I don't like to find problems with the new version of a
> program when I need it urgently. So if I upgrade to a new release, I do
> it when I have enough time to check all of the applications I use
> frequently for changed / missing / faulty features. As I try to use only
> LTS versions, I have to do that only every two years and not twice a
> year which is a big difference.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
+1
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