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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 bpye »

s_kilk wrote: post #27
sanqui wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Sample-size of one here, but I switched to Fedora a few years back after growing tired of Ubuntu's bugs. I haven't had any real issues since, it's just solid.

I'll make it a sample-size of two, Fedora has been rock solid on my desktop and my Chromebook-turned-laptop. Relatively recent software but no noticable bugs. I am using Nouveau and Intel graphics drivers so I'm not sure what it's like if you want Nvidia's proprietary stuff or AMDs, but for me it's great.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by bpye »

vmp wrote: post #66

Personally, I've only ever had issues with Ubuntu Server and have since switched back to Debian. I don't know if I'm extremely unlucky or if the choices I make are really that bad; - I've hit a bug with amavisd and bitdefender[1] - Recently, Ubuntu pushed for 'netplan' instead of ifupdown and that didn't work with an empty bridge for LXC[2][3] - They broke a (convenience) script for remotely unlocking a LUKS rootfs[4…

netplan seems to be a nightmare, I ended up falling back to ifupdown when trying to setup libvirtd.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by grawprog »

teekert wrote: post #100
sritrisna wrote: post #75

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Using Ubuntu in our development and production environment. It's rock solid. However might switch to Kubuntu as it appears to have better HiDPI support through plasma compared to gnome.

You should also consider KDE Neon, an 18.04 base but KDE/Plasma directly from the devs. If you use Snaps for your useland tools you have very stable base and a super up-to-date userland. I'm very happy with it.

Just wanted to add my support for KDE neon. I used kubuntu back in 16.04 and switched to neon instead.of the next LTS kubuntu and I haven't regretted it. Plasma feels a lot more stable and up to date than it did with kubuntu and I haven't had any problems since switching.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by bpye »

hannasanarion wrote: post #35
martinsbalodis wrote: post #25

Does 18.10 solve the Dropbox sync problem?

You mean the fact that Dropbox only supports unencrypted ext4 now? No, that is Dropbox's new intentional behavior, they have no plans to resume sync support for linux.

Wait, if I have ext4 on LUKS Dropbox will refuse to sync? That kinda blows.

Any suggestions for a xplat alternative to Dropbox that works well for Windows, Android and Linux? Up until this Dropbox seemed like the best bet.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by pyrophane »

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)

Canonical can only be blamed for this if you disagree with their decision to move to Wayland and Gnome. Fractional scaling has been planned in Gnome for some time now (it was originally supposed to be in 3.26).

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by barrow-rider »

bpye wrote: post #126
apexalpha wrote: post #71

Despite recieving enormous amounts of backlash and criticism from the tech comunity every release Canonical is the one company making Linux desktops available for less technical people and I applaud them for doing so! Rocking the latest LTS here, and Ubuntu server on my homeserver. Wish them all the luck!

I had been running Ubuntu but I recently switched to Fedora as a desktop OS. I've found it a much more pleasant experience. Ubuntu is by no means bad but their changes from upstream seem to cause friction.

Been using Fedora as a daily driver since '09. Generally liked it more, and I do CentOS/Red Hat all day at work so I'm a little more familiar with the internals.

Steam and Proton work pretty well on it, too.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by barrow-rider »

jki275 wrote: post #118
dunpeal wrote: post #107

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I converted several of my non-technical friends to Ubuntu, including various other people I know. Many of them are running Ubuntu on a laptop that would cover half the cost of a macbook. Not everyone can afford Jobs' prices. Even if Apples were cheap, I consider Ubuntu a much better choice for an aspiring hacker / programmer.

What does a Linux machine do better than a Mac, if price were not a factor?

Support machines older than 6 years. Got a ThinkPad from 2008 that's still kicking, rocking the latest Fedora release.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by severino »

bpye wrote: post #130
severino wrote: post #109

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What I don't like about Fedora is its release cycle, forcing you to upgrade every year or so. With Ubuntu I can still be getting updates for a sytem installed four years ago now. I also don't like the lack of many packages inside the official repositories, compared to Canonical's. And lastly, well, I feel a little bit uncomfortable when using their specific tools like, for example, dnf, or their configuration convent…

Would RHEL/CentOS not serve a similar purpose to the Ubuntu LTS releases, if a little less suitable for workstation use?

I guess so. I've never used CentOS but it may be somewhat similar, despite being considered more of a server distribution.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by k_bx »

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)

17.10 had fractal scaling setting on Wayland (not X.org). Not sure if you can enable it in 18.04, probably possible.

Re: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

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Post by Fnoord »

hannasanarion wrote: post #47
marenkay wrote: post #40

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Couldn't you just fake it in a container pretending it was ext4? Apart from the real question: why Dropbox when you can rsync and others.

... because dropbox is cross-platform, user-friendly, doesn't require use of the commandline or configuring an upstream source, has a web interface, simple sharing with others, etc etc etc etc Those kinds of "can't you just..." or "why use [easy user-friendly popular thing] when you could [complicated nerdy feature-bare alternative]" answers are rarely helpful and typically come across as condescending. Yes, there ar…

I got 1 TB for free with TransIP STACK. They use encryption on their end, I use on mine as well (Cryptomator). Its cross-platform (basically their clients are a fork from OwnCloud/NextCloud), there's a web interface, simple to share with others, and it works on every filesystem AFAIK. No vendor lock-in.

The only thing Dropbox has going for it, is that it was the first one which was both easy and popular when there was demand for it. That's all. Network effect example numero uno.

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