[kwlug-disc] Xubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Upgrade

[Doug Moen]

Good to hear that the upgrade was smooth. I appreciate hearing experience reports with Linux distros.

I'm still running Linux Mint with Cinnamon. It continues to be fine.

I'm quite curious about the Cosmic Desktop Environment from System 76, currently in alpha. It's written in Rust, and I've been looking at the source code a bit. Once it is released (in a few years?), I would like to try Cosmic + Fedora and see what that is like. By the time Cosmic is ready, maybe Wayland will be mature enough for me to use. (It was Gnome and Wayland that forced me off Fedora the last time.)

Doug Moen.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, at 2:56 PM, Charles M wrote:
> This morning one of our Xubuntu 22.04 workstations at Computer
> Recycling prompted us to upgrade to 24.04 (the 24.04.1 point release
> came out August 30th). Since the machine isn't mission critical I
> decided to try the upgrade to see how painful it might be.
>
> The machine didn't have any PPAs (Personal Package Archives), or other
> sources, but did have snaps for antsy-alien-attack-pico (a pico-8
> shoot 'em up by Martin Wimpress/Ubuntu Mate), blender (3d modeling),
> freac (a great little audio cd-ripping program), krita (paint), and
> the office 365 webapps, in addition to the Firefox and Chromium snaps
> 22.04 came with.
>
> Only 1 program was listed as unsupported (Cheese, we install this
> webcam program as an extra on all machines so we can test out webcams
> on laptops). Oddly, after the install cheese was still installed on
> the system, and from what I can tell they didn't switch to a snap,
> it's still from the ubuntu universe repository.
>
> The update went pretty uneventful. There was a bit of prompting for
> some of the extra packages we had installed (ms truetype fonts). On
> reboot I noticed an exclamation mark in the top right corner, but no
> crashing (the machine is a custom system with a Z270X-UD3 motherboard,
> 7th gen i7-7700K, 16GB, and an SSD). The issue was some broken
> dependencies for a kernel. Right clicking gave some instructions for
> fixing the issue. Ultimately a sudo apt --fix-broken install -y fixed
> that issue.
>
> I also noticed the "software" centre was missing, and the upgrade had
> not replaced it with the snap store (if you do a fresh install of
> 24.04 you will get the snap store). Instead, synaptic and gdebi were
> present.
>
> Thunderbird got replaced with a snap, but afaik this is the only
> program that we didn't install that got a snap replacement (FF and
> Chromium were snaps in 22.04).
>
> Snaps are still underpinning 24.04.1. It looks like I could just
> install the snap store with sudo snap install snap-store. On other
> machines where we've installed 24.04.1 we've noticed that the snap
> store is a lot faster than Gnome software - faster starting, faster
> populating, and faster searching. With this point release I noticed
> that they seemed to have added a differentiation between snaps and apt
> packages (before the point release it just seemed to be all snaps).
>
> That's all I have for now. I'll be upgrading a bunch more machines, so
> I expect I might have some updates to report.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles
>
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