[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[Bob Jonkman]

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I was an Ubuntu user (with the old Gnome2 desktop, or the Gnome
Fallback desktop) until about 2013, switched to Mint Debian Edition
2013 because it promised to be a rolling release (no 6 month upgrades,
just continuously up-to-date). This got me hooked on Mate, the
replacement for Gnome2. But come 2014 the Mint people decided that
Debian Edition would need upgrades after all, so I went back to Ubuntu
LTS releases, still with the Mate desktop. I'm now transitioning to
Debian Testing on desktops/laptops, and Debian Stable on servers, in
the hope of getting back the equivalent of rolling releases.

I used to run SuSE servers for work, but only briefly experimented
with that for a desktop solution. The dpkg packaging system is much
better than YAST, Rug, RedCarpet, and whatever else SuSE was using.

Haven't experimented with Fedora/Red Hat except on VMs.

- --Bob, who's looking forward to James's installation presentation.


On 2018-01-23 12:02 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I never jumped on the Mint bandwagon for a simple reason: I want my
> servers and my desktops to be from the same set of repositories.
> Since Ubuntu is offered by most hosting companies (dedicated and
> virtual), that is what I use on the desktop. Not many (if at all)
> offer Mint for servers.
> 
> I did move from KDE to XFCE about a year ago after I moved from
> 14.04 to 16.04 and found it lacking a few things that I was used to
> (working weather widget, removing options, such as notification
> history). So I moved to XFCE after a decade with KDE. Don't miss it
> really.
> 
> As for interim releases, I have learned my lesson and never ever
> bother with interim releases. Only LTS releases (12.04, 14.04,
> 16.04) for me. And I move from one to the next after they have been
> out for many months do I bother upgrading to them. Two or so point
> releases. Let others be the guinea pigs. I stick with stable stuff.
> Less drama ...
> 
> 
> 
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