On Wednesday 26 July 2017 20:05:07 Felix Miata wrote: > dep composed on 2017-07-26 19:47 (UTC-0400): > > while i'm here -- there was talk that there was something wrong with > > 16.04 and that 14.04 was preferable. as my current situation > > demonstrates, i'm not a big fan of upgrading distributions, and > > going only to 14.04 means i get to do this all over again in two > > years. so -- have the issues with 16.04 been ironed out, or is it > > still to be avoided? > > Are you sure the problem with 16.04 wasn't about KDE users upgrading > from a mature KDE4 to a buggy Plasma 5 rather than 14.04LTS itself? > A MATURE kde4? Thats an oxymoron from where I sit, and fully explains why I've been running TDE for a couple years now. > What does Ubuntu offer a TDE user over the Debian base on which Ubuntu > is based anyway? > > Is going straight from 12.04 to 16.04 even supported? To keep trouble > to a minimum or nil probably requires going to 14.04 first. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting