said Felix Miata:
| dep composed on 2017-07-26 19:47 (UTC-0400):
| > while i'm here -- there was talk that there was something wrong with
| > 16.04 and that 14.04 was preferable. as my current situation
| > demonstrates, i'm not a big fan of upgrading distributions, and going
| > only to 14.04 means i get to do this all over again in two years. so
| > -- have the issues with 16.04 been ironed out, or is it still to be
| > avoided?
|
| Are you sure the problem with 16.04 wasn't about KDE users upgrading
| from a mature KDE4 to a buggy Plasma 5 rather than 14.04LTS itself?
no, i'm not. if that is an issue that stops the show, then i'll do 14.04LTS
and hope for something happier by 18.04LTS.
| What does Ubuntu offer a TDE user over the Debian base on which Ubuntu
| is based anyway?
in my case, the fact that i'm using it, and unless i'm much mistaken (a
distinct possibility, maybe a probability), changing sources to debian and
giving it the dist-upgrade command would produce surprises of a kind i'm
hoping to avoid.
| Is going straight from 12.04 to 16.04 even supported? To keep trouble to
| a minimum or nil probably requires going to 14.04 first.
this is what i'm trying to find out, from someone more familiar with it
than i am -- i used to keep current on all this stuff but simply lack the
time for it anymore. hence discovering i've reached the point where my
12.04LTS has expired and i need to tend to it. (i am certain that i've
never gone 5 years without upgrading my OS anymore -- i remember covering
the rollout of new versions of OS/2 in new york so as to get the new
release earliest, and going from office to office in armonk until i found
someone with a copy of 2.0 when the initial all-IBM release came. then, we
*had* to keep backups of everything because there were several issues the
lone cure to which was the dreaded rf/ri -- reformat, reinstall. which i
am here kinda hoping to avoid.)
--
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