Ubuntu Lucid - anyone else make the jump?

[Soul Surfer]

In an unprecedented display of nerdular nerdence, I actually stalked the site for several hours today, waiting for the ISOs to drop. Fortunately, for me the downloads were speedy and I'm now running the latest LTS on both my desktop workstation and my netbook. I've done some FTPing, image editing, and other light duty stuff. So far, so good.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has made the upgrade, and what they think of it so far? I think that the new theme might be a bit over-hyped, but otherwise, it seems pretty sweet.

 

[s1mp13m4n]

You know, not trying to be a downer but I have never understood the hype between any new or updated OS release. It all pretty much does the same things as before when you get down to it. LOL I am running Ubuntu on my older slower laptop. I am running Fedora 12 on the newer one. I am not sure that I prefer one over the other. I did not make the leap yet simply because as with any new OS upgrade there might be bugs like with the login issues with 9.10. I prefer fast and stable, tried and true over bleeding edge. I may wait a few weeks and make sure things work ok first and let other tell me how well it works first.

 

[beyboo]

My desktop runs jaunty and my laptop runs karmic. I will be doing a scratch install of Lucid on my laptop. Ubuntu has been making giant strides in its 6 monthly cycles and I find that in spite of all the bugs due to the stress of a 6-monthly release cycle it was way feature rich and far more stable than Windows !!

 

[ALL HANDS WORKING]

I've been using Fedora for several years. I have a friend at Red Hat, so when I need technical support it is only a phone call away, and its free.

 

[Soul Surfer]

My desktop runs jaunty and my laptop runs karmic. I will be doing a scratch install of Lucid on my laptop. Ubuntu has been making giant strides in its 6 monthly cycles and I find that in spite of all the bugs due to the stress of a 6-monthly release cycle it was way feature rich and far more stable than Windows !!

I've been finding much the same thing. That said, I plan to stick with this LTS for the forseeable future. FWIW, I also did a scratch install.

 

[RichGem]

Just dropping in to do my "due diligence" in reminding y'all (who haven't joined) of the linux social group "the shaved penguins."

 

[Confuzius]

I've been running beta on my desktop, so I guess it's final now. My laptop was an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 so I'm gonna do 10.04 from scratch, maybe this weekend.

 

[Fairlight]

I was annoyed enough when I upgraded from Karmic to Jaunty and it installed the x86 version instead of AMD64 (Guess who has an Athlon X2 in his laptop?).

Did they recant their decision to move the minimize/maximize/close buttons yet? I'm boycotting Ubuntu until they put them back in the right place. Can you believe the nerve of that guy?

 

[Confuzius]

I was annoyed enough when I upgraded from Karmic to Jaunty and it installed the x86 version instead of AMD64 (Guess who has an Athlon X2 in his laptop?).

Did they recant their decision to move the minimize/maximize/close buttons yet? I'm boycotting Ubuntu until they put them back in the right place. Can you believe the nerve of that guy?

FWIW that's just on a handful of default themes, and it's easy to change. When you've got the millions of dollars to propel your distro of choice to the top of the Linux pile you can put the buttons wherever you want, and I can still change them.

 

[Blaireau&Lame]

FYI, it's always quicker to get the .iso from BitTorrent; though, getting updates from the repos were slow, since everyone else was doing the same thing last night. I'm running the 64-bit version on my desktop and lappy. For the most part, everything works out-of-the-box hardware-wise (video, sound, etc.). My only tweak was for TrackPoint scrolling on my ThinkPad; it seems with every release, there's a new way to configure it.

 

[Soul Surfer]

FYI, it's always quicker to get the .iso from BitTorrent; though, getting updates from the repos were slow, since everyone else was doing the same thing last night. I'm running the 64-bit version on my desktop and lappy. For the most part, everything works out-of-the-box hardware-wise (video, sound, etc.). My only tweak was for TrackPoint scrolling on my ThinkPad; it seems with every release, there's a new way to configure it.

I'd normally go for the torrent, but since I managed to start the downloads before the ISOs were live everywhere, I was more or less maxing out my connection

 

[DoctorTattoo]

What Netbook do you use? I have a Toshiba NB310 that I would love to try Linux or whatever other than windoze on. My Normal laptop and desktops are Apple but I like the portablity of the Netbook (damn you Apple, build a freakin netbook already, the iPad doesn't cut it)

Please let me know if Linux will work on my Netbook.

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[Dharion]

Shawn, as long it is somewhat similar to a computer there is a way to run Linux. Ubuntu on the other hand has a netbook edition (URL) which should work for you.

 

[RichGem]

What Netbook do you use? I have a Toshiba NB310 that I would love to try Linux or whatever other than windoze on. My Normal laptop and desktops are Apple but I like the portablity of the Netbook (damn you Apple, build a freakin netbook already, the iPad doesn't cut it)

Please let me know if Linux will work on my Netbook.

Thanks,
Shawn

Yep, you can run it. If you look hard enough (and usually not that hard at all), there's a version of Linux for nearly every processor you can name. There are several that are designed for netbooks and automatically take into account tiny screen real estate. etc.

xandros, ubuntu (netbook remix), fedora, come to mind immediately, but there are others. I'd search around and see what others have tried on for your particular netbook as you may run into some functionality issues with some linux netbook versions such as hot keys or wifi cards that don't work on your specific hardware.

 

[Speedwell68]

I'm new to these forums and I am pleased to find that there are many Linux users here. I updated to Ubuntu Lucid with the release candidate. I have been running Ubuntu for around for years now and I will never go back to Windows. I run Ubuntu on my desktop, Mint on my laptop and Xubuntu on my Netbook.

I have found Xubuntu to be better for netbooks than actual Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Xubuntu is much less resource hungry than UNR.

 

[soapbox]

I'm new to these forums and I am pleased to find that there are many Linux users here. I updated to Ubuntu Lucid with the release candidate. I have been running Ubuntu for around for years now and I will never go back to Windows. I run Ubuntu on my desktop, Mint on my laptop and Xubuntu on my Netbook.

I have found Xubuntu to be better for netbooks than actual Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Xubuntu is much less resource hungry than UNR.

Welcome to B&B, Speedwell! Glad to have another Linuxy wetshaver around here.

I've been a fan of XFCE ever since GNOME started getting resource-hungry. GTK is a great toolkit, and I still use GNOME on most of my Linux boxen, but XFCE is great for netbooks and other places where fluxbox isn't quite enough, but you'd prefer to avoid a full-on GNOME application. (like, say, a network monitoring box).

10.04's release day meant all my updates were sloooow, but a few days on, it was a speedy download and I've got it running on my primary Linux box now, plus the Boxee box.

 

[DougK]

I just upgraded my desktop with Lucid 64-bit and it seems to work just fine, so I'll probably install the 32-bit version on my laptop in the very near future.

 

[Bertilak]

I got the upgrade notice in the "Upgrade Notifier" but I looked at the Kubuntu forums and got scared off. I'll stick with my 9.10 for a while and let the gear-heads be the first adopters and get things sorted out for us yokels.

I have enough things going on in my life right now to risk a major disruption like this! Last time I upgraded (to 9.10) I upgraded to new hardware at the same time and started from scratch. Took a week to get it set up to my liking but I had the other system going in parallel to ease me through the transition.

 

[patrisVII]

I had an issue with my upgrade that turned out to be minor.

I had no sound following the upgrade - no volume on any file played or even via the CD drive. I spent about 3 hours researching, looking for hardware dirvers, changing kernels - all to no avail.

Then when I went to reboot, I noticed restart, hibernate and suspend were not in the power pulldown menu - only shutdown was and this did not work. I hard powered down the system and it worked fine upon restarting. It looked like it was just an incomplete install (BTW I also noted the window close/re-size buttons were on the left and tiny - they returned to the normal size and right hand location after the restart.)

 

[psychlopath]

I'm running 9.10 and will probably run it 'till it stops failing me. Then I'll upgrade 'till that stops failing. Why, WHY must I keep fooling with it this way?

'Case a netbook is fun.

I'm thinking my old desktop will have fun running Ubunto before I donate it. I dont feel comfortable enough getting rid of a computer that could have my info on it. A whole new OS, while confusing to whomever gets it, will probably solve that.