• Ubuntu 20.04

    From Davey@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 20 09:55:17 2021
    My old laptop had Ubuntu 16.04 on it, and everything I needed worked.
    Then it needed replacing, and I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on the new
    laptop. I could not get xsane and my Artec scanner to work, despite
    following loads of troubleshooting links. It is clearly 'an issue'. I
    installed ver. 18.04 alongside the 20.04, and it works fine with the
    scanner. Hmmm.
    Then I tried to use the Wifi facility. Again, no go, and lots of people
    in forums (fora?) have the same issue. Some have found solutions,
    others haven't. In ver. 18.04, it's fine.
    So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
    and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
    page.
    Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical will
    have made its current version user-friendly again.
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    Davey.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Davey on Tue Jul 20 12:21:56 2021
    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
    So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
    and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
    page.
    Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical will
    have made its current version user-friendly again.

    Not really, as long as you accept the shorter support lifetime. Software packages will be less up to date, although you can mitigate that somewhat by installing apps from snaps (where you get the opposite problem - things are constantly upgrading to the latest - and the sandboxing model can sometimes
    get in the way).

    If you're doing dev stuff it gets more annoying as things are starting to depend on more recent tools (cmake, LLVM), but probably OK for general
    desktop use.

    Theo

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Theo on Tue Jul 20 12:24:04 2021
    On 20 Jul 2021 12:21:56 +0100 (BST)
    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
    So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
    and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
    page.
    Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will
    be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical
    will have made its current version user-friendly again.

    Not really, as long as you accept the shorter support lifetime.
    Software packages will be less up to date, although you can mitigate
    that somewhat by installing apps from snaps (where you get the
    opposite problem - things are constantly upgrading to the latest -
    and the sandboxing model can sometimes get in the way).

    If you're doing dev stuff it gets more annoying as things are
    starting to depend on more recent tools (cmake, LLVM), but probably
    OK for general desktop use.

    Theo

    Thanks. That sounds like less of a problem than the annoyance of the
    current situation.
    Thanks.
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    Davey.

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