[ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

[Iqbal Nanabhay]

Hi

Sorry to hear of your frustrations.

I'm a light user of Ubuntu for a few years now, my laptop (laptop is over 6
years old) was freezing since 16.04.

BTW, we have 2 laptops now, running on 18.04., one is a budget and mine is
a bit better, i3


On my laptop, the freezing seemed to be less with an update to 18.04.

Recently, I upgraded from 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM and, I installed an SSD to
replace my HDD and, did a fresh install of 18.04.

I had issue of not finding WiFi adaptor, however, having had the issue in
the past, I knew that I had to download some files and it would work.

So, at the moment, I'm happy with my laptop, hope you are sorted.

Thanks


On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 10:53 Bill Cairns, <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rant: I have been a faithful Linux user and advocate for more nearly 15
> years now. It was way back in 2004 that I first committed my major machine
> to running Linux. Never in this time have I experienced the problems that I
> have had with the various versions of Ubuntu 18.04. Nearly every time in
> the past Ubuntu has just worked after installation. This time I have had to
> spend days getting Ubuntu to work to my satisfaction – and even after a
> couple of months some stuff is still not right. (Ok so the conversion away
> from Unity is part of the problem.)
>
> Xubuntu, which I have run on my (12 year old) laptop for the past 6 years
> or so, was so slow under 18.04 that it was unworkable. OK , after a couple
> of hours, I managed to improve that by making a minor fix. (If I could find
> a minor fix by searching the net, why can't the minor fix be incorporated
> in the standard version?) It is still slow though. So I decided to try
> Puppy Linux. That is a mess: the ubuntu startup disk creator does not work
> with Puppy. Use Unetbootin they said. So I install Unetbootin but it does
> not work on 18.04. OK – I eventually use mkusb (finding out about that was
> not trivial either). Puppy eventually works but will not save the
> configuration from session to session. I waste some more time trying to
> find out what is wrong. Eventually I say what the hell and decide to give
> Lubuntu a try. (I don't like the fact that Puppy only runs in administrator
> mode; that it is still stuck with 14.04 repositories ...) So I download
> Lubuntu. The first thing I find is that Lubuntu does not give the option to
> run live from a USB so I have to install it. It takes longer to install
> than Ubuntu did and gives me far fewer options about how and what I want to
> install. Then the wireless connection does not work. Just flat does not
> work. I do some more research – Google likes me, I have spent more time
> with Google than my wife lately. There are a stack of suggested fixes. I am
> not sure that I have the interest to pursue them any more. At least Xubuntu
> worked even if it was very slowly.
>
> I am really beginning to doubt my commitment to Ubuntu and Linux.
> Torvaldes recently said that the big problem with desktop Linux is that
> people don't want to download and install operating systems themselves. I
> would agree but would add that if I do have to download an operating
> system, I would expect it to work. I think that all the 18.04 releases that
> I have seen have clumsy and incomplete and just not up to the standard that
> I have come to expect from past versions of Ubuntu. I am afraid that I have
> become very pessimistic about the future of desktop Linux.
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