[ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

[Iqbal Nanabhay]

Yes, I'm on 18.04.1

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 11:58 William Walter Kinghorn, <williamk at dut.ac.za>
wrote:

> Hi Miles,
>
> Ubuntu 18.04.1 was on July 26th
>
> William
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-za <ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Miles <
> msdomdonner at gmail.com>
> Sent: 16 October 2018 11:54
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I am still running 16.04 as I read somewhere thatsome things in 18.04
> such as using your past home partition would not work till after the
> 18.04.1 release. I tried it anyway and it did not work. so I am waiting
> for the .1 release. Also I use kubuntu. it was getting slow but they
> have worked on it and it is much faster. I think the .1 release is 27
> weeks after the first release. Then they should have fixed most of the
> bugs and issues. Good luck
> Miles
>
>
> On 16/10/2018 11:05, Iqbal Nanabhay wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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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