[TriLUG] Ubuntu 18.04 Problems

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

Peter,

I have avoided upgrading for the very reasons that you give. There are just 
too many reports of problems with 18.04.

I use Xubuntu 16.04 LTS. End of Life (EOL) for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is April, 
2021. While Xubuntu bug fixes are stopping soon, Ubuntu's are not. By this 
time, Xubuntu is pretty stable and unlikely to have significant bugs, at least 
compared with U 18.04.

Here's the "secret:" since Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will continue to be updated, all 
important security updates will continue as will other updates. So, the usual 
updating will continue to 2021. Hopefully by then 18.04 will be better. At 
least there will be time to think about it.

Caveat on 18.04: READ THE RELEASE NOTES. In particular, at my last reading, 
one can NOT keep an encrypted /home directory. Whole disk encryption is the 
default. One could encrypt /home *after* upgrading to 18.04.

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 6/7/19 3:30 PM, Pete Soper via TriLUG wrote:
> Curious: Did you put it back and confirm it breaks booting?
>
> Coincidentally, I have hair-pulling changes happen to my Ubuntu 18.04 system 
> to the point of not wanting to install updates. I don't have a good story 
> for why I moved from Debian stable to Ubuntu some time ago, but I regret it.
>
> -Pete
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