[xubuntu-users] Happy with 24.04 Xubuntu

[Mike Squires]

I've just upgraded my primary system from dual boot 22.04 and Windows 10 
x64 Pro to 24.04.

The system is now running quite smoothly; thank you!

The move was triggered by the inability of the current version of 22.04 
to support my nVida M5000 video card.  The Linux version installed by 
24.04 is now a step above that provided with 22.04 after an upgrade, and 
this makes the proprietary nVida driver (550) fail to install when 
upgrading 22.04 or installing 2204. fresh.

The system uses a 2 TB RAID 1 array (Seagate Constellation, 3ware 9750 
controller) created as an MBR drive.  2 TB is the largest size MBR drive 
for Windows 10 (it's running on 4 different systems in our house at this 
moment).  Since the T7600's were $125 each and 2 TB drives are $20 each 
total system cost is very low.

Dual booting worked without a hitch after 24.04 installation. After an 
update, however, the menu disappeared and I had to edit the grub 
configuration to use "menu" instead of "hidden" after which dual boot 
worked fine.

The PC is an old Dell T7600, dual Xeon , 32 GB RAM, which is quite fast 
after OS startup.  The UEFI implementation seems to be broken, I've been 
unable to install using UEFI since installation media are not found and 
I don't know enough about  UEFI to redo the configuration.  Discussion 
online indicates the UEFI implementation was incomplete.

Mike Squires