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    Sure, but some of my machines need to work without futzing about!<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/2017 01:51 PM, CrankyOldBugger
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      <div dir="ltr">Sanity is over-rated.  We're hackers!
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        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 13:50 Khalid Baheyeldin
          <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" moz-do-not-send="true">kb@2bits.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That is
          exactly my strategy.<br>
          <br>
          I learned a lesson the hard way around 10 or so years back
          when<br>
          I upgraded from an LTS to a non-LTS release, and got broken
          things<br>
          on KDE that almost drove me off from it then. Early this year
          I<br>
          switched from KDE to XFCE after I upgraded to 16.04 (one year<br>
          after it came out), and never looked back.<br>
          <br>
          Ever since, I only stick with LTS releases, and life has been
          easier<br>
          that way.<br>
          <br>
          Even with LTS, I tend to watch until at least the first .1
          release<br>
          comes out and the main kinks ironed out.<br>
          <br>
          Preserves your sanity that way.<br>
          <br>
          On 10/19/17, L.D. Paniak <<a
            href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
          > Is there anything compelling in 17.10 that I cannot get
          in 16.04 with HWE?<br>
          > It is to the point where I am ignoring non-LTS releases
          in general.<br>
          ><br>
          > On 10/19/2017 12:54 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:<br>
          >> I'm currently running Fedora 27 beta, and I'm really
          disappointed with<br>
          >> GNOME 3.26.1 until recently, Mutter would crash any
          time you closed a<br>
          >> maximized (or half-tiled) window. For a "stable"
          release, GNOME is<br>
          >> hugely disappointing.<br>
          >><br>
          >> The bugs in *vanilla* GNOME have been show-stoppers
          for the final<br>
          >> release of Fedora 27 -- I'm honestly surprised that
          Canonical decided<br>
          >> to release 17.10 with the current state of things.<br>
          >><br>
          >> Cheers,<br>
          >> Keefer<br>
          >><br>
          >> On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 15:27 +0000, CrankyOldBugger
          wrote:<br>
          >>> And a reason why I like to test new stuff out via
          virtual machines,<br>
          >>> not real boxes!<br>
          >>><br>
          >>> I had to submit two bug reports in the first few
          minutes.  But now it<br>
          >>> seems to be running a bit better after another
          reboot..<br>
          >>><br>
          >>> What can I say about it?  If you ignore the
          bright orange background<br>
          >>> and the dock, it looks just like Fedora GNOME or
          any other GNOME.  It<br>
          >>> will be interesting to see how Canonical keeps us
          interested in their<br>
          >>> desktop product if it's just like anybody else's.<br>
          >>><br>
          >>> Or maybe they'll just focus on the stuff they do
          well, like MaaS and<br>
          >>> server and docker, etc.<br>
          >>><br>
          >>><br>
          >>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 11:22 Khalid Baheyeldin
          <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">kb@2bits.com</a><br>
          >>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">kb@2bits.com</a>>>
          wrote:<br>
          >>>> On 10/19/17, CrankyOldBugger <<a
            href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a><br>
          >>>> <mailto:<a
            href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>>>
          wrote:<br>
          >>>> > I just downloaded the new Ubuntu 17.10
          and installed it in a virtual<br>
          >>>> > machine (virtualbox on a Windows host).<br>
          >>>> ><br>
          >>>> > So far, it's interesting, but I'm sure I
          don't need to remind the<br>
          >>>> people<br>
          >>>> > here to not drop a brand new release on
          a production box.  In<br>
          >>>> other words,<br>
          >>>> > I've come across quite a few bugs so
          far...<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>> One more reason I stay with LTS releases, and
          only after the .1 version<br>
          >>>> of them comes out.<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>> --<br>
          >>>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
          >>>> <a href="http://2bits.com" rel="noreferrer"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">2bits.com</a> <<a
            href="http://2bits.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">http://2bits.com</a>>, Inc.<br>
          >>>> <a href="http://2bits.com" rel="noreferrer"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://2bits.com</a><br>
          >>>> Drupal optimization, development,
          customization and consulting.<br>
          >>>> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
          --  Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>
          >>>> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
          --   Leonardo da Vinci<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>>
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          --<br>
          Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
          <a href="http://2bits.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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          Drupal optimization, development, customization and
          consulting.<br>
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          W.Dijkstra<br>
          Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da
          Vinci<br>
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