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Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by KeitIG »

As always, kudos to Canonical to deliver one of the most mature distribution.

But. 2018. And still no fractional scaling. This drives me mad. (changing the text scaling is not a solution).

Ok, there was Mir, Wayland is late (again)... how can this problem not be solved in 10 years? (genuine question)

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by Insanity »

tumetab1 wrote: post #3

I'm amazed at Canonical policy of releasing new versions with these kind of bugs open https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes#Known_... Anyone care to recommend a distro which has better policy on quality? (for desktop usage)

Depends what you want. If you like Debian based distros, maybe just use Debian?

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by quantummkv »

tumetab1 wrote: post #3

I'm amazed at Canonical policy of releasing new versions with these kind of bugs open https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes#Known_... Anyone care to recommend a distro which has better policy on quality? (for desktop usage)

Ubuntu LTS? Fedora?

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by sunseb »

KeitIG wrote: post #2

As always, kudos to Canonical to deliver one of the most mature distribution. But. 2018. And still no fractional scaling. This drives me mad. (changing the text scaling is not a solution). Ok, there was Mir, Wayland is late (again)... how can this problem not be solved in 10 years? (genuine question)

Maybe it's because when you set fractional scaling you lose pixel perfect design (icons, images, and so).

https://icons8.com/articles/make-pixel-perfect-icons/

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by sanqui »

tumetab1 wrote: post #3

I'm amazed at Canonical policy of releasing new versions with these kind of bugs open https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes#Known_... Anyone care to recommend a distro which has better policy on quality? (for desktop usage)

The planned release of Fedora 29 was just yesterday pushed back by a week due to blocker bugs. Personally, this sort of quality control is what makes me really appreciate Fedora.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-2...

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by brendaningram »

Unfortunately, I think Canonical has lost their focus on the desktop user. Every version of Ubuntu since 16.04 has had major issues for me. I have given every one of them a chance to redeem themselves, right up to today trying 18.10. Still no dice...

For me, as boring as it sounds, Debian 9 (Stretch) with XFCE is rock solid as a daily driver. I'm not some fuddy duddy doing nothing but text editing either. I code every day with Golang and Postgres 11 using VSCode. I make music using Bitwig (and sometimes Ardour). I use Shotwell and Gimp for my photography. I run the latest Krita in the (probably vain) hope that I can become a better artist. And I write my always-in-progress novels with the latest Libreoffice 6.1 and FocusWriter.

So to the people asking for a distro that has a better policy on quality, I don't think you can go past Debian.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by brendaningram »

tumetab1 wrote: post #3

I'm amazed at Canonical policy of releasing new versions with these kind of bugs open https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes#Known_... Anyone care to recommend a distro which has better policy on quality? (for desktop usage)

Debian Stretch (see my separate post here for more info)
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