<div dir="ltr"><div>Despite my recent whining, and the mixed reviews on the internet regarding Ubuntu 22.04, I am still sticking with Ubuntu. Stay with what you know, right?</div><div><br></div><div>So far, one in-place upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04 went without a hitch, while a 20.04 to 22.04 (lts to lts) failed miserably (and I'm now repaving that system). I will say that normally Ubuntu upgrades usually fail for me, while Fedora upgrades tend work every time, so there's that...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 10:10 AM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:08 AM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20220502#ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20220502#ubuntu</a><br>
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I think the launch of Ubuntu 22.04 is a clear sign Canonical is much <br>
more interested in publishing releases on a set schedule than producing <br>
something worthwhile. This version was not ready for release and it's is <br>
probably going to be a costly endeavour to maintain this collection of <br>
mixed versioned software and mixed display server and mixed designs for <br>
a full five years. It's a platform I would recommend avoiding.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Usually, I wait until the .1 release before attempting to upgrade (i.e. 22.04.1). <br></div><div>This usually takes a few months at minimum. Trying to run do-release-upgrade <br></div><div>returns a message saying do you want to install a development release (implying</div><div>that the 22.04 upgrade is not ready yet. <br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Then, I downloaded and burned a DVD of the Xubuntu 22.04 64bit image. <br></div><div>One objective was to see if snapd is needed or can I just uninstall it like I do on 20.04, per <br></div><div>the recent thread. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Tried to install it on a spare old laptop, and it did not go well.</div><div>It took ages to just get a GUI going. Something like the good part of an hour. <br></div><div>Then it popped up a message about xfwm crashing, and kept accessing the DVD continuously. <br></div><div>Can't proceed with using the Live DVD nor install it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Attempted twice, same failure both times. <br></div><div>So I gave up and installed Xubuntu 20.04, and it installed without a hitch.</div><div>And indeed snapd can be removed without issues on a fresh install, and Firefox is an apt. <br></div></div></div>
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