[ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

Tue Oct 16 09:58:22 UTC 2018

Hi Miles,

Ubuntu 18.04.1 was on July 26th

William
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From: ubuntu-za <ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com>
Sent: 16 October 2018 11:54
To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

Hi Bill,

I am still running 16.04 as I read somewhere thatsome things in 18.04
such as using your past home partition would not work till after the
18.04.1 release. I tried it anyway and it did not work. so I am waiting
for the .1 release. Also I use kubuntu. it was getting slow but they
have worked on it and it is much faster. I think the .1 release is 27
weeks after the first release. Then they should have fixed most of the
bugs and issues. Good luck
Miles

On 16/10/2018 11:05, Iqbal Nanabhay wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry to hear of your frustrations.
>
> I'm a light user of Ubuntu for a few years now, my laptop (laptop is
> over 6 years old) was freezing since 16.04.
>
> BTW, we have 2 laptops now, running on 18.04., one is a budget and mine
> is a bit better, i3
>
>
> On my laptop, the freezing seemed to be less with an update to 18.04.
>
> Recently, I upgraded from 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM and, I installed an SSD to
> replace my HDD and, did a fresh install of 18.04.
>
> I had issue of not finding WiFi adaptor, however, having had the issue
> in the past, I knew that I had to download some files and it would work.
>
> So, at the moment, I'm happy with my laptop, hope you are sorted.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 10:53 Bill Cairns, <cairnsww at gmail.com
> <mailto:cairnsww at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Rant: I have been a faithful Linux user and advocate for more nearly
>     15 years now. It was way back in 2004 that I first committed my
>     major machine to running Linux. Never in this time have I
>     experienced the problems that I have had with the various versions
>     of Ubuntu 18.04. Nearly every time in the past Ubuntu has just
>     worked after installation. This time I have had to spend days
>     getting Ubuntu to work to my satisfaction – and even after a couple
>     of months some stuff is still not right. (Ok so the conversion away
>     from Unity is part of the problem.)
>
>     Xubuntu, which I have run on my (12 year old) laptop for the past 6
>     years or so, was so slow under 18.04 that it was unworkable. OK ,
>     after a couple of hours, I managed to improve that by making a minor
>     fix. (If I could find a minor fix by searching the net, why can't
>     the minor fix be incorporated in the standard version?) It is still
>     slow though. So I decided to try Puppy Linux. That is a mess: the
>     ubuntu startup disk creator does not work with Puppy. Use Unetbootin
>     they said. So I install Unetbootin but it does not work on 18.04. OK
>     – I eventually use mkusb (finding out about that was not trivial
>     either). Puppy eventually works but will not save the configuration
>     from session to session. I waste some more time trying to find out
>     what is wrong. Eventually I say what the hell and decide to give
>     Lubuntu a try. (I don't like the fact that Puppy only runs in
>     administrator mode; that it is still stuck with 14.04 repositories
>     ...) So I download Lubuntu. The first thing I find is that Lubuntu
>     does not give the option to run live from a USB so I have to install
>     it. It takes longer to install than Ubuntu did and gives me far
>     fewer options about how and what I want to install. Then the
>     wireless connection does not work. Just flat does not work. I do
>     some more research – Google likes me, I have spent more time with
>     Google than my wife lately. There are a stack of suggested fixes. I
>     am not sure that I have the interest to pursue them any more. At
>     least Xubuntu worked even if it was very slowly.
>
>     I am really beginning to doubt my commitment to Ubuntu and Linux.
>     Torvaldes recently said that the big problem with desktop Linux is
>     that people don't want to download and install operating systems
>     themselves. I would agree but would add that if I do have to
>     download an operating system, I would expect it to work. I think
>     that all the 18.04 releases that I have seen have clumsy and
>     incomplete and just not up to the standard that I have come to
>     expect from past versions of Ubuntu. I am afraid that I have become
>     very pessimistic about the future of desktop Linux.
>
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