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All considered, I'm happy with 16.04 and I'm staying here at least until 18.04. Having moved from 14.04 to 15.x, I cannot agree more. However, many packag
by 0xmohit 10y ago
All considered, I'm happy with 16.04 and I'm staying here at
least until 18.04.
Having moved from 14.04 to 15.x, I cannot agree more.
However, many packages aren't updated in the LTS releases which prompt one to move over to the intermediate releases. I wish Canonical were more agile about updating compilers and such on LTS versions.
- Rezo 10y agoYou can find a PPA (apt repository) for almost any app or tool these days. I find that just adding a few of these for specific cases to a LTS release gives you the best of both worlds. My current ones: git, Google chrome, flux, node, nylas, spotify, tarsnap, blender
- 0xmohit 10y agoI was referring mainly to compilers and system libraries; stuff like gcc, glibc, ...
- pmontra 10y agoI went from 12.04 to 16.04. I skipped 14.04 because of the DE which I couldn't bend to my will. I remember that I had similar problems in the last months on 12.04, with some new versions of some programs unavailable on 12.04. I guess that I could have installed them in a 14.04 docker container (would the kernel version have been ok?) Maybe you can do the same for a compiler. I don't know if it would be convenient. I'm more into scripting languages and I use gcc directly only every other year or more, so no big deal for me.