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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 viraptor »

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)

Alternative view: all distros have issues. It's better to go with the ones which clearly document the big issues in release notes. And possibly skip the initial big releases - use LTS after it gets some testing in public.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by jeswin »

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)

Many commonly used apps do not support Wayland - yet. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/102936/graphical-a...

It's available as an option at login, and mostly works without issues. The preference is sticky until you change it and I mostly boot into Wayland.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by quantummkv »

sunseb wrote: post #6
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/

It dosen't happen that way on windows. I had scaling set to 1.25 and got no issues anywhere.

The issue with linux is that X wasn't designed for this and Wayland is still unstable/unusable (thanks nvidia)

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by giancarlostoro »

brendaningram wrote: post #9

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 ever…

I havent had issues with Kubuntu honestly, but that's for my needs. The only thing that's gotten awful is the Nvidia driver I'm being offered up breaks my distro. I am never buying Nvidia after all the issues with them, I'm hoping AMD can push forward superrior graphics drivers for Linux, but I have had more issues with Nvidia on any OS I use (including Windows) than I ever had with AMD / ATI (only with Linux, or overclocked till it died).

I'm kind of excited about trying out Ubuntu Budgie though, it looks pretty smooth.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

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)

Heh, I've been running Cosmic for a month or so now and come across the VPN bug frequently. I find disconnecting and reconnecting to the wi-fi network resolves it. Other than that it's been very solid for me on my Dell XPS 15 9560.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by stplsd »

brendaningram wrote: post #9

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 ever…

What major issues you encountered on 18.04?

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by nanna »

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)

As quantummkv says, you could go for Ubuntu Long Term Support, or give 18.10 a go after a while when these bugs have been ironed out. No one's forcing an immediate adoption of the Short Term Support version, and it functions as a testing ground for the next LTS anyway.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by sunseb »

quantummkv wrote: post #13
sunseb wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

It dosen't happen that way on windows. I had scaling set to 1.25 and got no issues anywhere. The issue with linux is that X wasn't designed for this and Wayland is still unstable/unusable (thanks nvidia)

I think it's an issue with SVG icons (this format doesn't support fractional scaling, but TTF fonts do).

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by simion314 »

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)

Install a LTS versions 6 months after it is released, the .1 release
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