>Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) releasedIs /g/ downgrading?
>>106837737Who tf use Ubuntu in 2025?
>>106838635Pedos
Why should I upgrade if LTS is like 10 years now?>>106838635I used it half as much as I use your mom.
>>106838635tell us what are you using, anon.
>>106838901openSUSE Tumbleweed
I am planning to switch from Windows to Ubuntu.Still not sure if I want to be on the LTS cycle or the 6-motnhly cycle. Halp.
>>106839053install gentoo
>>106839034trannyware
>>106839098But it works (better than Ubuntu)
>>106839034>openSUSE Tumbleweedany past and future opinions discarted.
>>106839053LTS definitely. If you absolutely NEED the latest kernel for hardware enablement/improvement, you can just look up how to change the kernel in Ubuntu. You really don't need the non-LTS. Important stuff is going to be backported to LTS, the rest is just bullshit, you're almost like a beta tester if you use it. >>106839123>(better than Ubuntu)that's not saying much>>106838635/g/ uses Ubuntu to spin up archlinux VMs and post in fetch threads
>>106837737>sudo-rs>uutils>gnomeNO
>>106839350what are you using, anon?
>>106839350Which distros are safe? Fedora? Debian?
>>106838635I do>>106838640Correct
>>106837737I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora.Ubuntu was far slower to boot, snap applications take noticably longer to launch, and the flipping system monitor has a memory leak!Fedora has none of these issues and just works.I was running on an i5-8250u with 8gb btw
>>106839462>>106839381Fedora KDE, Opensuse, OpenMandriva
>>106839605>KDEopinion immediately discarted
>>106839462Debian is still ok
>>106838901macOS
>>106837737have they added the ability to sort the app grid alphabetically with a right-click menu?
>>106839609sorry didn't know you are retarded
>>106839822sorry didn't know you are Ktarded
>>106839214Can I switch lanes or am I stuck to my intial choice? Let's say I choose 6-month, but then I want to switch over to LTS. Once the versions converge (evennumber.04), can I then hop over to the LTS cycle?And vice-versa, if I choose LTS but am tired of always being behind/outdated, when the next convergent version comes out (evennumber.04) can I then switch over to 6-month?My main computer is my laptop, and on W11 it uses smart charge (limited to 80%). I read that Ubuntu has that but only in their recent 6-month versions, not in the latest LTS, need to wait until the next LTS 26.04 for that. I don't want to rape my battery for the next 6 months, so either I hop on 6-monthly now and then switch over to LTS if possible. But if not, think I'll wait until next April to switch over from Windows. It's nto even the enshittification of Windows, it's that it's buggy and unreliable now. It keeps fucking up for me. I have to dedicate time to fixing it when it borks itself. Before, I could rely on it to at least JUST WERK despite the botnet. Now I can't rely on it to JUST WERK either.
>>106838635I use Lubuntu and Kubuntu and will upgrade my Win10 machine with Kubuntu 25.10 for a fantastic future. It is smooth, elastic and futuristic.
even retards switched real production use systems from ubuntu to debian by now for the most part
>>106839214>Important stuff is going to be backported to LTS, the rest is just bullshit,What utter fucking nonsense, so much good stuff doesn't get backported otherwise it would be the same distroA lot of performance enhancements and new features are only on these releases and need years before they'll get into lts with much stricter stability requirementsI had one issue in 6 years of 'buntu new distro releases, it fine.
>>106840067>I had one issue in 6 years of 'buntu new distro releasesoh boy this version's gonna be a doozy
>>106840052Mostly because of snap, but minimal installs now mean you can opt out of it now anyway. We have a lot of ML stuff at work, vm's and containers, Ubuntu means far less fucking around for a lot of these libraries
>>106840017sauce?
>>106839992you can ut reinstalling would be better. it takes less than 20 minutes to do in most cases
>>106840105You mean in addition to the great big URL in bright read at the bottom of the image? I guess you could get more fromhttps://xcancel.com/lxxt_artist
>>106839053>I am planning to switch from Windows to Ubuntu.In that case go for Kubuntu, with the following crucial notes: - do not ever use Kmail - it is so destructive it will tirch your file server and then destroy itself and the host - do not ever use Akonadi, it is a hive of evil that will try to take over the world.Follow this advice and Kubuntu will be rock solid.>Still not sure if I want to be on the LTS cycle or the 6-motnhly cycle. Halp.I am going to use Kubuntu 25.10 and then switch to Kubuntu 26.04 LTS when it arrives. Most likely it will use the same kernerl.
>>106840218It's there really much advantage of a reinstall? If I wasn't a lazy cunt and properly partitioned along with having a coherent dotfiles backup then it sounds good, but my shit is everywhere, I've got random configs for work stuff all over the placeTimeshift and do release upgrade is sorta just comfy without worrying about that every 6 months. Maybe on my next system I'll do it right from the start
>>106840334during brown ubuntu era an update from one version to another would mostly end badly. why, when all you do is copy and paste a command into the terminal, i don't know. after a few times of that happening on different desktops i just went with telling people to move their pics and vids onto another drive so i can nuke and rebuild.rip mrs bucket ;_;
>>106839053The difference is not that big since the LTS gets new drivers and graphics stack every 6 months.I run Kubuntu 25.10 because I want the very latest KDE Plasma, which the LTS won't provide.
>>106840374Actually have solid 321 backups because I'm the sort of retard to use btrfs so not particularly worried about losing anything. It's more the effort involved, a lot of work things are in incus/lxd containers on /var/lib and that involves a bunch of compress/archive/restore to get back normal.I'm not going to upgrade anytime soon, probably start of next year, if it's broken just roll back on timeshift and wait longer.>>106840739>I want the very latest KDEThis is basically my only reason too, Plasma is so fucking comfy right now, even on Nvidia and Wayland, think I got lucky with the sweet spot of a GPU not too old and not too new.It's unreal how much better it's gotten in the last few years. I would have laughed if someone told me to use Wayland on this computer not long ago
>>106840270>>106840739>>106841066Last time I checked out Kubuntu (probably around 2020 was the last time I dabbled in Linux) it felt too busy. Too much shit going on, too many options. Reminded me of modern Windows. Ubuntu with Ubuntufied GNOME felt much simpler and thus confier desu. Even thoguh the superficial layout is different, Ubuntufied GNOME felt more like Windows of old (7, XP) with its simplicity. KDE felt like 10 or 11, too much unnecessary stuff going on, too much to sort out and switch off, too much to unfuck.
>>106837737>lust provoking image
>>106841162>Reminded me of modern Windows.Sure, and the very premise was indeed that >>106839053 was switching from Windows. And why would you want Gnome?https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
>>106838635Me.
>>106837737I wouldn't mind it since 25.04 was actually pretty fucking good, but there's no chance in hell that I'm beta-testing that rust shit though. I'll wait and see how 26.04 turns out.
The last time I used Ubuntu was last year as a live iso because I wanted to use gparted on my drives. Its a well put together experience, I like it infact, but at this point I'm so locked in on Tiling window managers/Arch Linux that I just can't handle it. Not to mention I just don't like GNOME's philosophy at all. I want to add stuff to my taskbars and GNOME fucking hates that shit.
yeah, I've been waiting since August for thisI am downloading it right now on a spare laptop. If it's stable and comfy, it'll be my daily driver.I've used 22.04 since the end of 23.10 support and it's been great.23.10 was great too.24.04 is glitchy on my laptop. The screen always flashes, and 22.04 never did that when it was on my laptopI was skeptical about the new terminal, but folks say it's been battle tested for 9 months already. The developer, Christian (Hegert?), seems normal and professional.
I had expected a 4Buntu by now with Xlibre and without systemd.
>>106842862hell ya
>>106837737why ever use a non-lts?
>>106843259Why not? Newer software, kernel etc. good if you want features from gnome 49 or have newer hardware the benefits from a newer kernel
>>106841393uutils is already in 25.04 tardo
>>106843337
Don't upgrade if you use flatpaks, should be fixed in a few dayshttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug
>>106841066KDE is really good these days, it's the only DE that I think comes closest to being full featured, if that makes sense. I don't want to go into a terminal just to change my laptop's battery options
>>106838635I use Ubuntu in my work laptop, it came preinstalled even. You can get Lenovo Thinkpads with Ubuntu preinstalled in corporate channels.
>>106840739>I want the latest *krashes*FTFY
>>106844537Dell also sells computers with Ubuntu preinstalled, they're cheaper as well
inb4 beefschizo
>Snapbuntupass
>>106844569Read >>106840270
A new Ubuntu is dropping?Sick. That means a new Mint (the number 1 linux distribution) will be coming out soon
as far as mainstream distros go the most painless, flexible and supported distro has been fedora by farwasnt like this in the past but it genuinely has better out of the box compatibility with the dell craptops ive been installing it on than windows 11
>>106837737That explains why my Ubuntu shop PC immediately shit the bed and failed today.Thanks Linux.
>>106839034>using modern tumbleweedEverything that made tumbleweed good is bend actively gutted as we speak anon
>>106844714nah I'm good.
>>106841289What the fuck>>106844724>the number 1 linux distributionThat's Debian
>>106845459wrong, that would be android, just in terms of numbers of devices.
>>106844724they should be going full LMDE already
>>106841066Cute webm, I want a pretty blonde blue eyed germanic gf to do that with. It is owed to me
>>106838635My entire workplace actually just switched from Ubuntu to Debian recently. Mostly because of snaps.
>>106846498Wtf enterprises use Debian?
>>106846760It's extremely stable and #JustWorksUbuntu is based on it for a reason.
>>106846890I know but I didn't think enterprises use a community backed distro (which basically doesn't guarantee any support, you can't pay a company to troubleshoot your issues)
>>106846498doubt.tga
>>106840218"Just reinstall everything, you only have 14kb of private files to transfer, right?"
>>106839992>Once the versions converge (evennumber.04), can I then hop over to the LTS cycle?There is no "hopping", the upgrade process is initiated only with your approval so, if you decline, it stays on that version forever (or until you decide to initiate the release upgrade).
>>106838635Me. Had to install a new OS since my last one was going to get deprecated. >try tumbleweed>installer hangs>try fedora>installs nicely but post-install configuration program hangs>try arch>installing it is total anus, I don't want to manually write my uuids on some config file to get FDE working>try debian>software is so old and the debian devs do retarded shit from time to timeso I bit the bullet and just installed ubuntu. Snaps are awful, but it's still the least awful experience when I just want to get shit done.
>>106841546i have ubuntu on a very old laptop, (macbook 13 mid 2010) and 22.04 was buttery smooth, 24.04 and beyond have been glitchy, graphicallyfinally figured out the ancient graphics arent going to be supported any moreso in 24 onwards it was using some generic graphics drivers which wasnt good enough as opposed to specifric drivers for it which i think have been removed from the kernelso is your laptop an ancient toaster? because in that case it might be the same deal as this ancient toaster of mine, 22 etc is the last good version. i.e. it's not gonna get better with 26. just enable pro to extend the support of 22.04 and use it until 2032, then it's ogre.
>>106837737They actually fucking released it?I thought it was having a shit ton issues just a month ago?
>>106848315Yes, and I have it running on my bullet shield machine (pic related)I'm quite impressed by the updates, especially ptyxis (pronounced texas)https://en.ubunlog.com/This-is-Ptyxis--the-new-Gnome-terminal-for-modern-Linux-environments-that-will-use-Ubuntu-25./
>>106848262>until 2032, then it's ogre.If your macbook doesn't die till then, call Louis Rossman
>>106848315>thought it was having a shit ton issues just a month agoHence the "downgrading"
>>106840270Somehow my Kmail setup has been working just fine since I upgraded to Kubuntu 25.04. I only use it for reading emails from several different addresses tho.
>>106850306https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Talk:List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software>Is it really a good idea to recommend Kmail when the bug list reached epic proportions years ago? Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package kmail is quite severe but the KDE tracker shows 2456 bugs, some dating from 2003.
>>106850530>bugs existing since 2003Damn.Well I don't see any other "stable™" email client written with Qt that works on the system tray without workarounds.
what the world woud look like if canonical gave up on snaps
>>106850664For real. Hopefully it fails like Unity and Mir and we can get back on track.
>>106850560May I introduce you to an alternative so edgy that r/Ritalin had a meltdown?https://betterbird.eu/Long story short, he is protesting against the drivel masters by patching their filth so that it ends up working. This has made a lot of people angry.
>>106850664windmills......
