[ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

[Frank Sokolic]

I found that the implementation of Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 was a bit rough 
around the edges so I switched to Xubuntu 18.04 and am very happy with 
this flavour of Ubuntu.

Frank.

On 2018/10/16 10:53, Bill Cairns 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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