[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[Darcy Casselman]

I went to 17.10 (vanilla Ubuntu) on my desktop with the assumption that I
could just use my laptop if I didn't like it. But I've mostly switched to
using it as my main machine.

Mind you, I'm not doing much more than web surfing and occasional Steam
game playing.

I've noticed some apps fail to load. Like Abiword. Which is a bit
frustrating. But I kind of like the UI overall. And I fully expected it
would be kind of unstable, being the first interim release after a hugely
major architectural change.

For the most part, I'm using it and I'm happy.  Looking forward to 18.04.
I might upgrade early.

I'm using Mate on Oracle Linux (basically Red Hat) at work, because a
stupid kernel update killed the proprietary nvidia drivers which led to yum
destroying Gnome. I'm definitely sticking to apt-based systems where I can.
Mate feels old and clunky.

Darcy.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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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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> - --
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