how would you rate ubuntu 8.10 ?

[fix-this!]

i give it a thumbs down, very slow, non-responsive and a bit buggy yet. im actually thinking of going back to 8.04 or maybe try out fedora 10.

do you guys have any complaints or issues as well ?

[Ricardo Gil]

Still the same issue I've had with all the previous versions: wifi doesn't work on my Dell D620 :(

[fix-this!]

Still the same issue I've had with all the previous versions: wifi doesn't work on my Dell D620 :(

what kind fo chip do you have ? i got my wifi to work with a guide i found. i just find 8.10 very buggy still, not ready for primetime yet.

[Ricardo Gil]

what kind fo chip do you have ? i got my wifi to work with a guide i found. i just find 8.10 very buggy still, not ready for primetime yet.

I think it's a standard Intel one, but only the ethernet gets recognized. It should work without any additional guides imo, but since I don't use Ubuntu that often I never went to that trouble :/

[_neutrino Veteran]

i think that it runs great ( i have rather suped up hardware) however i have to say the more and more i update ubuntu to the newer version the more it is starting to remind me of windows with bloat and with the last few versions their own version of UAC pops up every ten seconds asking you for a password. but when not doing much it runs great.

[LTD]

If you don't like Ubuntu for whatever reason, Fedora 10 is looking very, very good.

[fix-this!]

If you don't like Ubuntu for whatever reason, Fedora 10 is looking very, very good.

its not that i don't like ubuntu, but 8.10 is very slow to me. im shocked because 8.04 was faster than my vista install but that's not the case now for some reason ?

how different is fedora from ubuntu ?

[ViperAFK]

fedora 10 is no faster than 8.10, in fact phoronix just did a bunch of benchmarks on the two and they are the same speed. 8.10 is no slower or faster than 8.04 for me.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...ra_10&num=1

[JamesCherrill]

8.10 broke my BlueTooth mouse, which worked perfectly on earlier versions. In 8.10 it connects once, then never again. There are lots of posts about this, but no sign of action yet. It's a show-stopper and I'm VERY unimpressed

[Napalm Frog]

For me it was the opposite, 8.10 runs so much better than 8.04. I even ditched Gnome and compiz, and am just running XFCE with nothing fancy, and it's so freaking fast, especially compared to my Windows install.

[fix-this!]

For me it was the opposite, 8.10 runs so much better than 8.04. I even ditched Gnome and compiz, and am just running XFCE with nothing fancy, and it's so freaking fast, especially compared to my Windows install.

that's another thing i noticed, the windows borders in gnome are very distorted.

i was thinking about going to mandriva 2009 but that is totally different than ubuntu, not sure if im ready for that.

[Fish]

Compared to the last 3 Ubuntu releases, I'd say 8.10 is easily the best in terms of usability and features. Slower? Possibly, but tbh not really noticeable.

If I was thinking of Distro-hopping (and I am actually) I would probably go with Arch instead. I like it's approach; it's simplicity and "honesty" (in a way). I've tried Debian (too bland after Ubuntu), Suse (now that did seem slow) and Fedora (good, but imo nothing different enough to warrant not continuing to use Ubuntu), but I found that it was Arch that gave me that "something else" that I would be looking for. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, but if you're interested and willing to learn more about how Linux actually works, then it's at least worth a look before you go ahead and install one of "the big four".

[markwolfe Veteran]

8.10 has been running smoothly for me. I even did the oft-discouraged "upgrade" in-place. Went from 8.04 to 8.10 using synaptic update, and didn't have anything break or go horribly slow.

I guess I don't use Gnome or Compiz, so maybe that is where the problems are coming from?

[+John. Subscriber¹]

I'd definitely rate it out of ten somehow.

Nah, seriously, it's pretty damned good.

[i_was_here]

Ubuntu itself is great but GNOME is rather slow :x

[Stetson]

Set it up for my dad on his 8+ year old Thinkpad. After turning off several of the services he doesn't need (bluetooth, etc) it works fine for email and web browsing. It even detected his Verizon EVDO card out of the box!

Probably about the best experience you could get out of a machine that old. :)

[Zickar]

I was actually looking forward to trying Ubuntu out in general and the interface looks appealing although I'm coming from Xubuntu 8.10 and its very very fast compared to the Windows XP, everything is ten times faster, even the connection (although it might not be physically possible). I Haven't tried Ubuntu 8.10 Yet but I will be downloading it soon but like I said I have been using Xubunu (Just for a few weeks now) and I don't know if they use the same code or not but I definetly am very pleased in Xubuntu and matter of fact despite Xubuntu's Dullness I'm feeling homesick for it now when I'm on Windows ... The more desktop effects you have the slower your system gets I guess and I guess the GNOME Desktop environment does look sharp but will be hogging your system ...

The bad reviews seem a bit dissapointing and disencouraging specially that Ubuntu has a good philosphy behind it, Its something you'd want to suceed and its a dissapointment some people are starting to say its beggining to feel like Windows

[markwolfe Veteran]

If you have Xubuntu, that is the 'buntu base, plus XFCE for the desktop environment.

Ubuntu is the 'buntu base, with Gnome for the desktop environment.

I think you can just do a sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to get the Ubuntu stuff, rather than redownloading and burning, and installing from CD.

In fact, you can test all sorts of different environments by installing them, and you have the option to select which to log into as your "session" on your login screen. (Y)

[gigapixels Veteran]

8.10 is an excellent release if you ask me. 8.04 needed quite a few modifications from me to work with my school's wireless, while 8.10 worked right out of the box. Other than that I don't really see too many differences, but it's fast and stable and does what I need it to do.

[rpgfan]

I'm using Xubuntu 8.10 right now because, as someone mentioned earlier, Fedora 10 is slow. And I was using Xfce without much running except standard services. And that was on a fresh install!

I'm still not fond of the Debian-based distro... I might move back to Gentoo... At least then I can do everything myself... That way I know what should and shouldn't be around, and what might slow my system down. ^_^

[fix-this!]

If you have Xubuntu, that is the 'buntu base, plus XFCE for the desktop environment.

Ubuntu is the 'buntu base, with Gnome for the desktop environment.

I think you can just do a sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to get the Ubuntu stuff, rather than redownloading and burning, and installing from CD.

In fact, you can test all sorts of different environments by installing them, and you have the option to select which to log into as your "session" on your login screen. (Y)

how would you do this so i could test out kde & xfce environment by choosing them at login ? right now i use gnome, will i loose any installed programs i had for gnome ?

[Fish]

Not at all.

In fact, if there is a downside to Ubuntu, it is it's use of metapackages. Ubuntu (Gnome) comes with a suite of apps that will cover almost everything you would want to do with your computer. The same applies to Kubuntu (KDE) and Xubuntu (XFCE).

What this means is that if you open a terminal and

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

for example, you will get the entire XFCE desktop environment which will include it's "lighter" alternatives to apps you've already got installed.

Same applies to KDE.

You won't break your computer in any way, and this use of metapackages really does make trying different desktop environments very simple, but if you're not totally familiar with what you've already got, you probably won't fully appreciate the differences between them in terms of the specific apps that each environment offers.

At least it's just a simple case of

sudo apt-get remove xubuntu-desktop

if you're not happy/impressed (in theory) ;)

Swings and roundabouts.

[phot0nic]

I'm very happy with 8.10. So far, this has been hands-down the smoothest upgrade (for me) since I first started using Hoary.

[Zickar]

If you have Xubuntu, that is the 'buntu base, plus XFCE for the desktop environment.

Ubuntu is the 'buntu base, with Gnome for the desktop environment.

I think you can just do a sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to get the Ubuntu stuff, rather than redownloading and burning, and installing from CD.

In fact, you can test all sorts of different environments by installing them, and you have the option to select which to log into as your "session" on your login screen. (Y)

Yeah I forgot about that, Xubuntu's manual (Which is probably one of the friendliest manuals I have ever stumbled upon) made it clear that you can try all three environments in Xubuntu But I just want to ask something, if'I'm running Xubuntu 8.04 (Hypothetically) and I choose to download the GNOME Desktop environment would that install the latest one or would it install the one that is as old and compatible as my system ?? And would downloading the GNOME Desktop environment mean I have Ubuntu or would that just mean I have the look of Ubuntu ??

[Fish]

No, it would download the version in the 8.04 repos, which would be the last version, not the current (sorry, not sure of the version numbers off the top of my head).

You could then log in using Gnome as your "session" instead of XFCE, and it would look visually just like a regular Ubuntu intallation. The difference is that in your Apps menu you will see all your Xubuntu apps plus all the Ubuntu equivalents.