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From your comment, it sounds like you are completely unfamiliar with how distros releases are organized. Learn about it, if you want to use Linux. Ubuntu LTS i
by shmerl 8y ago
From your comment, it sounds like you are completely unfamiliar with how distros releases are organized. Learn about it, if you want to use Linux.
Ubuntu LTS is not a desktop oriented option, so surely it's quite behind in desktop usability. Especially when you aren't even using the latest one, but one version behind the latest LTS. That's really old. Get some up to date modern distro, select KDE and enjoy.
TL;DR: don't use server distros for the desktop use case.
- Animats 8y agoLTS is Long Term Support, so I don't have to deal with every new bug. Upgrading always produces problems with ROS for the first year or so.
- shmerl 8y agoLTS is targeted for servers for a good reason. Desktop is going to be very much behind if you use it. Sure, some might be OK with it, but then they shouldn't complain about this very point. Otherwise it sounds like they didn't make an educated choice when using LTS.
- flukus 8y agoThe server editions are targeted at servers, the desktop LTS edition is targeted at desktops, specifically the desktops of people that don't want things breaking randomly, who don't need the latest and greatest and who don't like updating every 6 months.
- shmerl 8y agoNot Ubuntu at least. For instance Mesa in Ubuntu LTS is a lot behind the current release. So it is clearly not properly desktop oriented. This isn't simply about "latest and greatest", but about timely bug fixes as well. Thinking that LTS provides stability can backfire, if you'll be stuck with the same bug for months and in the end won't have stability either. Proper desktop oriented LTS updates some things frequently (backports idea).