said Slávek Banko: | On Thursday 27 of July 2017 02:05:07 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? | > | > 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. | | On my test machine, I have encountered substantial problems when | updating 14.04 => 16.04. The network was not running, NIS was not | working ... it was not good. The only function I've found is to update | through all the versions in between 14.04 => 14.10 => 15.04 => 15.10 => | 16.04. | | It was terrible, but otherwise I did not have a properly functioning | system. Therefore I definitely do not recommend updating from 12.04 | directly to 16.04. Thanks very much. 14.04 it is, then! -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
