[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

That is exactly my strategy.

I learned a lesson the hard way around 10 or so years back when
I upgraded from an LTS to a non-LTS release, and got broken things
on KDE that almost drove me off from it then. Early this year I
switched from KDE to XFCE after I upgraded to 16.04 (one year
after it came out), and never looked back.

Ever since, I only stick with LTS releases, and life has been easier
that way.

Even with LTS, I tend to watch until at least the first .1 release
comes out and the main kinks ironed out.

Preserves your sanity that way.

On 10/19/17, L.D. Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com> wrote:
> Is there anything compelling in 17.10 that I cannot get in 16.04 with HWE?
> It is to the point where I am ignoring non-LTS releases in general.
>
> On 10/19/2017 12:54 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:
>> I'm currently running Fedora 27 beta, and I'm really disappointed with
>> GNOME 3.26.1 until recently, Mutter would crash any time you closed a
>> maximized (or half-tiled) window. For a "stable" release, GNOME is
>> hugely disappointing.
>>
>> The bugs in *vanilla* GNOME have been show-stoppers for the final
>> release of Fedora 27 -- I'm honestly surprised that Canonical decided
>> to release 17.10 with the current state of things.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Keefer
>>
>> On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 15:27 +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>> And a reason why I like to test new stuff out via virtual machines,
>>> not real boxes!
>>>
>>> I had to submit two bug reports in the first few minutes.  But now it
>>> seems to be running a bit better after another reboot..
>>>
>>> What can I say about it?  If you ignore the bright orange background
>>> and the dock, it looks just like Fedora GNOME or any other GNOME.  It
>>> will be interesting to see how Canonical keeps us interested in their
>>> desktop product if it's just like anybody else's.
>>>
>>> Or maybe they'll just focus on the stuff they do well, like MaaS and
>>> server and docker, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 11:22 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com
>>> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>>>> On 10/19/17, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> > I just downloaded the new Ubuntu 17.10 and installed it in a virtual
>>>> > machine (virtualbox on a Windows host).
>>>> >
>>>> > So far, it's interesting, but I'm sure I don't need to remind the
>>>> people
>>>> > here to not drop a brand new release on a production box.  In
>>>> other words,
>>>> > I've come across quite a few bugs so far...
>>>>
>>>> One more reason I stay with LTS releases, and only after the .1 version
>>>> of them comes out.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>>>> 2bits.com <http://2bits.com>, Inc.
>>>> http://2bits.com
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