Winds of change. After five years, upgrade we must. This review tells the story of all about how I turned my life upside down, and went forth with an upgrade process from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver on my dual-boot Asus Vivobook, including upgrade details, system and data integrity, niggles, and more. Have fun. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-trusty-bionic-upgrade.html Cheers, Mrk
Interesting. I remember being asked if I wanted to upgrade to 18.04 as well, but I thought I was seeing things lol. I'll give Xenial a bit more time before I upgrade. Personally I find Xenial more stable than Trusty. A third of the time I put the laptop into sleep mode in Trusty it would wake to a black screen. That hasn't happened in Xenial yet. I'm looking forward to your next instalment when you add Unity back!
I too dreaded partitioning but once I got over that bump, all was good. I now have Ubuntu 16.04 (pre-installed on my Dell laptop), Ubuntu 18.04, KDE Neon, and Kubuntu 18.04. The last is the one I use daily. I also have other *buntu flavors and versions as virtual machines.
I'm partitioning allergic too; rather use a virtual machine if I'm curious about some OS. As to using more than one OS, it makes no sense under my usage scenarios.
Well, I wasn't happy with the default Ubuntu 16.04 supplied with the laptop but didn't want to wipe it out with a new install and so I took the plunge after a lot of reading and watching YouTube videos
What didn't you like about 16.04? People seem divided about it as a whole. Some have told me it was probably the worst Ubuntu release ever, and some have said that they think it was the most stable they'd used up to that moment. I honestly can't fault it.
I used Ubuntu during 11.04 (my first taste of Linux) through 12.04 but left Ubuntu behind at 12.10 switching to Lubuntu's Openbox session. But then when I got my current laptop I decided to try Kubuntu because I read it's more customizable. I don't have anything against Ubuntu. I just like Kubuntu more.
Kubuntu looks nice. I'm not much of a distro hopper. If it runs well, isn't Windows and I know how to use it; I'm happy.