[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 17.10

[L.D. Paniak]

Is there anything compelling in 17.10 that I cannot get in 16.04 with HWE?
It is to the point where I am ignoring non-LTS releases in general.

On 10/19/2017 12:54 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:
> I'm currently running Fedora 27 beta, and I'm really disappointed with
> GNOME 3.26.1 until recently, Mutter would crash any time you closed a
> maximized (or half-tiled) window. For a "stable" release, GNOME is
> hugely disappointing.
>
> The bugs in *vanilla* GNOME have been show-stoppers for the final
> release of Fedora 27 -- I'm honestly surprised that Canonical decided
> to release 17.10 with the current state of things.
>
> Cheers,
> Keefer
>
> On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 15:27 +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>> And a reason why I like to test new stuff out via virtual machines,
>> not real boxes!
>>
>> I had to submit two bug reports in the first few minutes.  But now it
>> seems to be running a bit better after another reboot..
>>
>> What can I say about it?  If you ignore the bright orange background
>> and the dock, it looks just like Fedora GNOME or any other GNOME.  It
>> will be interesting to see how Canonical keeps us interested in their
>> desktop product if it's just like anybody else's.
>>
>> Or maybe they'll just focus on the stuff they do well, like MaaS and
>> server and docker, etc.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 at 11:22 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com
>> <mailto:kb at 2bits.com>> wrote:
>>> On 10/19/17, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > I just downloaded the new Ubuntu 17.10 and installed it in a virtual
>>> > machine (virtualbox on a Windows host).
>>> >
>>> > So far, it's interesting, but I'm sure I don't need to remind the
>>> people
>>> > here to not drop a brand new release on a production box.  In
>>> other words,
>>> > I've come across quite a few bugs so far...
>>>
>>> One more reason I stay with LTS releases, and only after the .1 version
>>> of them comes out.
>>>
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