simonlang Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 is there. not only ubuntu but x/l/k ubuntu as well. anything about them, testing results, impressions etc. in this thread please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Tested Kubuntu 15.04, can't say I was impressed by anything other than how broken KDE/Plasma 5.2 was. (At least it was pretty!) Then I tested 15.04 MATE, and that one was sorta eh, ok ... had some issues but nothing that wouldn't be sorted out by release time (this was a month ago). Tested 15.04 Gnome-Shell Remix also. It had a problem where the Screen Locker wouldn't release the system -- nobody could login. Extremely frustrating. We'll see how far they've come in the month or so since all of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jub Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 <Snipped> Gonna pop this one on some servers later and see. I'm quite fond of my Debian but Ubuntu has an amazing community and newer packages. Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 Gonna pop this one on some servers later and see. I'm quite fond of my Debian but Ubuntu has an amazing community and newer packages. Yeah, I love Debian also, but after all the time I played with it, Ubuntu just seems like a better base. Might try out 15.04 on my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted April 23, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted April 23, 2015 <Thread cleaned> I'm not sure what someone's language skills have to do with Ubuntu, so let's just stick to the topic. Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Agreed. Debian was the tops but Ubuntu surpassed it in quality and ease-of-use over the years. Maybe I just got too used to the "easy", but that was the whole point of Ubuntu -- "Linux for Human Beings", as their slogan and selling point goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 The main thing that irritates me, Steam doesn't work on Weezy. And while it does work on Jessie, my fglrx drivers don't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Yeah. The AMD drivers really aren't where they should be relative to the Nvidia ones. For being a sitting member of several Open-Source initiatives, AMD really should be doing more to get the Linux and BSD drivers up to snuff. There's absolutely no reason for it to be the way it is. Canonical and Valve both have called AMD out several times on this issue. If I recall correctly, the Ubuntu Devs had offered to help AMD, even to the point of signing NDA's, so long as proper driver support could be established and maintained -- and the offer was refused on the basis that it wasn't needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 Who should decide that it is or isn't needed? dang... I should get a new nvidia card... let my 7850 rest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshie Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Who should decide that it is or isn't needed? dang... I should get a new nvidia card... let my 7850 rest... Keep in mind that was hearsay. Don't feel down about it unless you've seen an actual, documented response from AMD about it. People editorialize all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Why do I constantly hear something like a self-voice yelling at me : '' Don't buy any other computer component ! '' ? I've got stuck with '' smart '' stuff ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 Mike, what may be smart to you, isn't smart by all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Mike, what may be smart to you, isn't smart by all. Actually , I meant smartphones , phablets , tablets , Smart TVs ... aren't those smart stuff ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 Actually , I meant smartphones , phablets , tablets , Smart TVs ... aren't those smart stuff ? To you, maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 To you, maybe... Give me one of your examples . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 Smart to me, is get the best hardware at what I can afford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 @Mindovermaster if you are not in a hurry you might wanna wait a little bit longer, if AMDs new amdgpu kernel graphic driver will change anything to the better for you http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-AMDGPU-Released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 And there we have it. Moving right along. Download servers are somewhat bogged down, so I'll try the Ubuntu releases sometime tomorrow or the day after on a spare partition. My Mint 17.1 MATE install shall not be harmed! *pets the precious ...* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 And there we have it. Moving right along. Download servers are somewhat bogged down, so I'll try the Ubuntu releases sometime tomorrow or the day after on a spare partition. My Mint 17.1 MATE install shall not be harmed! *pets the precious ...* did you try the torrent method ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Updated from beta 2 to final packages without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Will be upgrading my two virtual servers probably over the weekend. One of them is sat on Azure - should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 did you try the torrent method ? I can't do torrents without my Internet Provider getting their knickers in a twist. Last time I downloaded a torrent (an Ubuntu release, in fact) they gave us a warning and throttled our bandwidth by half for the remainder of the billing period. Comcast ... gotta love 'em. /sarc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 damn that sucks. it only took me 2 mins to download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 I thought Ubuntu 15.04 was supposed to come with GNOME, not Unity, but, oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I thought Ubuntu 15.04 was supposed to come with GNOME, not Unity, but, oh well... Different distro/spin -- http://ubuntugnome.org/blog/ Mindovermaster 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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