I don't see the point of updating to 12.10 - it's so much of pain having to re-download apps, set up to stop the backlight switching off on my Acer Laptop at boot up. If there were significant changes between these different releases it might be worth it, but what's the real benefit of using 12.10 as opposed to using 12.04?
Is it really worth it?
Tom - 12 years ago
It was such a pain in the ass getting the nvidia video drivers installed on 12.04 I do not plan on upgrading to another edition anytime soon. Ubuntu really needs to update their video drivers for nvidia graphics adapters and nvidia graphics cards for PC. Because I will tell you right now it almost made me want to switch back to windows or mac - that is how lousy it was trying to configure Nvidia on Ubuntu 12.
JohnP - 12 years ago
We need our systems to work. There are enough issues making that difficult already, so we stay with LTS releases for our deployments of both desktops and servers.
We wait a few months before deploying even LTS outside our labs to be certain mitigations are ready for issues that end-users experience.
Heck, even the resolvconf change made us rework our deployments. Sorry, but I don't see the reason to make it so complicated. Editing /etc/resolv.conf was too easy? Some changes feel like changes just to change. I'd love to have a way to ignore "sticky" ethX devices too. We move installs around to different physical hardware and constantly need to go into udev to delete the leftover 70-network lines. For servers with multiple NICs, the sticky is nice, wanted, necessary, but on systems where none of the old NIC is seen, please automatically drop back to eth0 with whatever single NIC is available.
Today, we run a mix of 8.04, 10.04 and 12.04 servers and both 10.04 and 12.04 desktops. None use Unity by default, though a few users have insisted. It simply doesn't work well with our limited GPUs and most company users aren't interested in "new" things to learn.
Jeremy - 12 years ago
I just installed Debian, for a Unity-free, Amazon-free, Ubunu One-free, desktop experience.
ubuntu supporter - 12 years ago
Ubuntu realy must do something to make their theme ,desktop more user friendly personal.
I dont want to see software that I can install and their rating .
That you can leave to the Ubuntu sofware installer it also appear their.
The menu on the right hand side is out of your focus piont it must move to the top mioddle screen .
Unity is stack left top .I need to move it top bottonm middle where my focus piont is on the screen
Brian Vidal - 12 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu, but 12.10 is a no-no for me with this marvelous 12.04 =P
Rob - 12 years ago
I have been testing Kubuntu 12.10 since Alpha 2 everything has been running smooth, I don't see much of a change in appearance. Kubuntu is worth looking at if you do not like the "Touch Screen" feel of Unity as Lee points out.
Lee - 12 years ago
While it is amazing the catchy eyecandy developers come up with I am left wondering what happened to the desktop. This all appears to be geared towards touch screens and tablets.
TenLeftFingers - 12 years ago
Sticking with LTD from now on so I can support the installs I've done for friends and family. I envy this of you that well be using it, the animations are a great addition.
I don't see the point of updating to 12.10 - it's so much of pain having to re-download apps, set up to stop the backlight switching off on my Acer Laptop at boot up. If there were significant changes between these different releases it might be worth it, but what's the real benefit of using 12.10 as opposed to using 12.04?
Is it really worth it?
It was such a pain in the ass getting the nvidia video drivers installed on 12.04 I do not plan on upgrading to another edition anytime soon. Ubuntu really needs to update their video drivers for nvidia graphics adapters and nvidia graphics cards for PC. Because I will tell you right now it almost made me want to switch back to windows or mac - that is how lousy it was trying to configure Nvidia on Ubuntu 12.
We need our systems to work. There are enough issues making that difficult already, so we stay with LTS releases for our deployments of both desktops and servers.
We wait a few months before deploying even LTS outside our labs to be certain mitigations are ready for issues that end-users experience.
Heck, even the resolvconf change made us rework our deployments. Sorry, but I don't see the reason to make it so complicated. Editing /etc/resolv.conf was too easy? Some changes feel like changes just to change. I'd love to have a way to ignore "sticky" ethX devices too. We move installs around to different physical hardware and constantly need to go into udev to delete the leftover 70-network lines. For servers with multiple NICs, the sticky is nice, wanted, necessary, but on systems where none of the old NIC is seen, please automatically drop back to eth0 with whatever single NIC is available.
Today, we run a mix of 8.04, 10.04 and 12.04 servers and both 10.04 and 12.04 desktops. None use Unity by default, though a few users have insisted. It simply doesn't work well with our limited GPUs and most company users aren't interested in "new" things to learn.
I just installed Debian, for a Unity-free, Amazon-free, Ubunu One-free, desktop experience.
Ubuntu realy must do something to make their theme ,desktop more user friendly personal.
I dont want to see software that I can install and their rating .
That you can leave to the Ubuntu sofware installer it also appear their.
The menu on the right hand side is out of your focus piont it must move to the top mioddle screen .
Unity is stack left top .I need to move it top bottonm middle where my focus piont is on the screen
Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu, but 12.10 is a no-no for me with this marvelous 12.04 =P
I have been testing Kubuntu 12.10 since Alpha 2 everything has been running smooth, I don't see much of a change in appearance. Kubuntu is worth looking at if you do not like the "Touch Screen" feel of Unity as Lee points out.
While it is amazing the catchy eyecandy developers come up with I am left wondering what happened to the desktop. This all appears to be geared towards touch screens and tablets.
Sticking with LTD from now on so I can support the installs I've done for friends and family. I envy this of you that well be using it, the animations are a great addition.