Linux Anyone else jump from 11.10 to 12.04 (Ubuntu)

As title states, anyone else make the jump?

I'm pretty disappointed in the jump. I love the unity shell despite many others but it was a step closer to a very functional GUI. They've improved the dash but the launcher with its chameleon colour changing is just a POS. It feels like the dev's got caught up in the moment creating new lenses.

I actually wish i never hit the update, as its broken alot of my tweaks, like key mapping of my X61 tablet screen buttons and the rotate function. It took me days to figure it out and sort of stumbled upon a solution.

So far thats the biggest failing i've found in the last 12 hours of use.

 

is 12.04 the new LTS version?

My Linux boxes are all telling me about the update, but I don't think I want to do it because it might make everything not work that I have running on the boxes, they are all currently on 11.10.

 

Upgraded all my systems (desktop/server/htpc/netbook) at the weekend - no issues to report.
I did however backup /home & clean install each system.

 

yeah 12.04 is the LTS, so it should be rock solid really however its been noted a few features to still be buggy. I think 12.04 server edition is stable as thats the major one concerning alot of people.

 

Long live Debian stable, when you really need a stable OS.

 

avoiding ubuntu from 12.04 onwards I can not stand unity. I'll stick with xubuntu on my netbook instead.
Not sure what to do with the mother-in-laws PC though. Not sure she would get unity. I may update it and install cinamon, or switch to kubuntu or xubuntu.

 

I am upgrading to 12.04 right now. But I have had enough of Unity - as soon as the upgrade is complete, bring on XFCE! Although I am glad about certain software changes - like Banshee to Rhythmbox, and dropping Mono.

But to be completely honest, as long as I have my Two Steps from Hell playing, I will be fine

 

i only use ubuntu in a vm atm and as gnome shell seems to not want to work in my VM and i'm still not sold on unity [but I'd rather take that than metro as it stands currently], I've switched to KDE for the time being. Pity i can't get on with any of the KDE default apps...

also changed my sources.list to the quantal repos because i'm a glutton for punishment.

 

Just installed ubuntu 12 last night is there a better alternative?

 

Upgraded one of my servers (the physical host, not the virtual webserver yet) to 12.04 last week. Only issue I had was with the server - a bad line in my smb.conf caused the upgrade process to freeze. Killed the process and then kicked it off again after removing the erroneous line, and it carried on fine.

I've been running it since alpha on my aging laptop though, and it's been fine, apart from a few weeks where an update made unity really slow, so I switched to LXDE for a bit.

 

so far only problems are minor... KDE's network manager doesn't pick up the VM's network adapter... and i appear to have broken the software properties dialog...

 

The best feature about about the new desktop LTS version: It has 5 years support (same as server always has)!

This means I don't need to touch my parents laptop in 4 years rather than 2

 

I upgraded a test laptop and I'm happy enough, I've not really noticed any changes so far but barely used it as well.

I'll be switching to the LTS version on all my servers soon enough.

Need to run LTS on desktops as while some software we use at work is available on Linux, the vendors will only certify it to run on LTS (with a "YMMV" if you try on anything else in between....) so 12.04 is a fairly big jump from 10.04.

 

Haven't used Ubuntu since they introduced Unity (Can't stand it), may well install it just to compare against Fedora.

 

What desktop environment do you prefer?

 

Installed on my netbook via Wubi. I like it so far. Battery life improvement is huge.

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I went from Xubuntu 11.04 to 12.04, via a very short stay at 10.10.
I find Xfce more lightweight and consistent than the moving target that is the Ubuntu UI.

I found the upgrade painless after I remembered to downgrade from all the ppas I'd been using.

 

nearly 18 days with the LTS and its grown on me and i've noticed in the last few days that power management has improved for me as i am getting an extra 20min from my battery.

 

I also use xubuntu. Fed up of gnome. Recommend it highly.

 

I'm running Linux Mint on my laptop at the moment, but I'm tempted to try out this new version of Ubuntu.