Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?

Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by keyle on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:13PM (#17538501)

Wow. Some of the bug reports here sound pretty obvious. I wonder if your touch screen is the reason why so many issues are occuring... That or Wayland/Ubuntu isn't right at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by sathackr on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:18PM (#17538514)

I don't know if I would call all of them bugs.

The non-registering clicks thing, yes.

The rest...are likely just preference issues, difference in features, and intended behavior. Such as the lack of keyboard shortcuts in the alt-space menu.

Most can probably be dealt with in one way or another. It's just going to be time consuming to go dig and find out how to make the OS stay out of my way. I'll likely be going back to 16.04 soon until 18.04 gets a little more baked.

It looks like I can get Wayland with 18.04[1], so I may try that first.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029436/enable-fractional-sc...

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by flukus on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:11AM (#17538721)

> Some of the bug reports here sound pretty obvious

That describes the state of ubuntu these days. More often than not when you get an issue you can find a bug report for it to and the bug report was opened 3 versions ago, never addressed and closed automatically by a bot. It seems they've been busy chasing squirrels and ignored the desktop.

My pet peeve with all recent versions (so xorg and wayland) has been user switching not working, but at least 18.04 is the first version that doesn't boot to an unusable resolution.

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