Re:Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]
by chtfn on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:15PM
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You are using a version that has reached its end of life months ago. If you are looking for stability, you should stick to LTS versions. 16.04 should be reliable enough by now, and you can stick to it for years.
The 2010 version you speak of should be 10.04. Or do you mean 14.04, which was released in 2014?
Re:Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]
by tannhaeuser on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:24PM
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No you're right, I meant 10.04 LTS.
16.04 isn't that different from 15.10, though, and I believe I can dist-upgrade to 16.04 LTS.
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and it's broken in so many basic ways; like, it crashes when you open the calender widget on the wrong day of the month, apps only refreshing the UI when you move the window around, isn't even able to format an USB stick with FAT out of the box, etc.
I can't back it up with numbers, but my feeling is that desktop Linux has peaked around 2010 (Ubuntu 14 LTS), and is regressing since. In times of shrinking desktop usage, rather than inventing new stuff all the time, it'd be nice if distros could focus on providing a robust runtime environment for the OSS desktop software we have. Maybe I should use Slackware 14.2 (systemd-free; its setup on modern hardware with nvme, uefi etc. seems painful, though).
But I'm not complaining; all the work is done mostly by enthusiasts, and commercial OSs don't work well either.