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Installed 16.04 last Saturday no large issues but then my scope of customization is really small. Nvidia drivers also installed without an issue which is honest

Installed 16.04 last Saturday no large issues but then my scope of customization is really small. Nvidia drivers also installed without an issue which is honestly a first (for me on any distro).

jsvaughan 10y ago
I had a few weird small things - I was using Gnome on the desktop and after the update I couldn't mouse click on anything (MS wireless mouse), but all works in Unity. One of my ssh keys stopped working, the font (possibly consolas) i was using in the terminal stopped rendering nicely and for a while Terminator thought a pipe symbol was a < (despite it being ok elsewhere). I am using an nvidia card and have had no issues with that.
- drewg123 10y ago
  Your ssh key probably stopped working because they deprecated support for older, weaker keys. I had an old dss key stop working. You need this line in ssh_config and sshd_config: PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss
drewg123 10y ago
The actual Nvidia drivers from Nvidia? That's great news. In the past, it has always been quite a bit of a struggle to get nouveau fully blacklisted, and has made me dread new installs.
- valarauca1 10y ago
  I was very careful in my base install to ensure Nouveau wasn't included initially or updated in. Fedora makes this far easier as there is a kernel module (which sits in RPM Fusion) that will download proper driver, install driver, strip nouveau, modify x on boot. But I'm not sure what changed in Fedora23 but I can't make boot-able USB's anymore. It just hangs on an early memory mapping error.
pmontra 10y ago
They worked for me too (Nvidia Quadro K1100M). I don't like Unity because of the top bar (I move everything to the bottom) so I use Gnome Flashback with Compiz. It works well, almost good as 10.04 and much better than any intermediate release. It's not perfect because of some work still to be done by Gnome on supporting the flashback environment (eg: no File, Edit menu on Nautilus, a menu which I very seldom use). Apparently they're working on that. Overall I'm happy with the upgrade (I was coming from 12.04 on this laptop).
pjmlp 10y ago
Although I am mostly a Windows guy nowadays, I started using GNU/Linux distributions back in the day with Slackware 2.0. Tried dozens of distributions and spent endless hours trying out desktop themes and other desktop customizations. Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid.
- valarauca1 10y ago
  >Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid. Same boat. After ~15 years of nearly daily fighting with computers to do the right thing. Fighting with them to look pretty WHILE doing the right thing just seemed like wasted effort. Also modern slackware is pretty nice.

Installed 16.04 last Saturday no large issues but then my scope of customization is really small. Nvidia drivers also installed without an issue which is honestly a first (for me on any distro).

jsvaughan 10y ago

I had a few weird small things - I was using Gnome on the desktop and after the update I couldn't mouse click on anything (MS wireless mouse), but all works in Unity. One of my ssh keys stopped working, the font (possibly consolas) i was using in the terminal stopped rendering nicely and for a while Terminator thought a pipe symbol was a < (despite it being ok elsewhere). I am using an nvidia card and have had no issues with that.

drewg123 10y ago
Your ssh key probably stopped working because they deprecated support for older, weaker keys. I had an old dss key stop working. You need this line in ssh_config and sshd_config: PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss

drewg123 10y ago

The actual Nvidia drivers from Nvidia? That's great news. In the past, it has always been quite a bit of a struggle to get nouveau fully blacklisted, and has made me dread new installs.

valarauca1 10y ago
I was very careful in my base install to ensure Nouveau wasn't included initially or updated in. Fedora makes this far easier as there is a kernel module (which sits in RPM Fusion) that will download proper driver, install driver, strip nouveau, modify x on boot. But I'm not sure what changed in Fedora23 but I can't make boot-able USB's anymore. It just hangs on an early memory mapping error.

pmontra 10y ago

They worked for me too (Nvidia Quadro K1100M). I don't like Unity because of the top bar (I move everything to the bottom) so I use Gnome Flashback with Compiz. It works well, almost good as 10.04 and much better than any intermediate release. It's not perfect because of some work still to be done by Gnome on supporting the flashback environment (eg: no File, Edit menu on Nautilus, a menu which I very seldom use). Apparently they're working on that. Overall I'm happy with the upgrade (I was coming from 12.04 on this laptop).

pjmlp 10y ago

Although I am mostly a Windows guy nowadays, I started using GNU/Linux distributions back in the day with Slackware 2.0. Tried dozens of distributions and spent endless hours trying out desktop themes and other desktop customizations. Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid.

valarauca1 10y ago
>Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid. Same boat. After ~15 years of nearly daily fighting with computers to do the right thing. Fighting with them to look pretty WHILE doing the right thing just seemed like wasted effort. Also modern slackware is pretty nice.