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Ubuntu 17.10 Proceeding With Transition From LightDM To GDM
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Originally posted by Luke View Post
How do I make that work? I've never seen any wayland sessions I have installed come up in Lightdm's list of available sessions. I'd rather keep lightdm on my rather customized Debian setup so no part of the path to any one session depends on components of another
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Originally posted by bregma View Post
Yes indeed. The problem is that Gnome Shell is so tightly integrated with GDM that it would take too much effort to rewrite LightDM to provide the minimal level of integration to have Gnome Shell run, and since Canonical is no longer in the personal computing business, ain't nobody got time for that. It's classic embrace-and-extend: with Gnome you're their bitch and they want you to take it all or you don't get any. It's OK though, a lot of people here like it like that and most people just use Microsoft or Apple products and aren't affected.
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Originally posted by bregma View PostIt's OK though, a lot of people here like it like that and most people just use Microsoft or Apple products and aren't affected.
It's amazing how much the Linux desktop has devolved in just five years.
But nobody in the Linux community has the balls to talk about it, so it's the blind leading the blind.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Ubuntu 17.10 Proceeding With Transition From LightDM To GDM
As part of the switch over to the GNOME Shell desktop environment by default for Ubuntu 17.10, they are also abandoning the LightDM display/log-in manager in favor of GNOME's GDM...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...GDM-Proceeding
Case in point, I can't get my Bluetooth A2DP speaker working in Ubuntu without some nasty workarounds that stop working after a reboot, but it works fine on Fedora. One of the reasons that I don't use Ubuntu is because I don't like bugs and this one has apparently been floating around for at LEAST three releases according to information I've read on the internet.
I've tried reporting bugs to Ubuntu and they tend to just sit there with no activity on them or get a bunch of comments but no fix.
Another problem is how encrypted home folders are broken in 17.04 and it'll encrypt your home folder, but then it'll fail to read the swapfile on reboot and hang for two minutes trying to read it before it lets you log in, without the swapfile, because it has given up. They patched it but never re-spinned the installer ISO. Fedora respins their install media frequently.Last edited by BaronHK; 24 June 2017, 12:03 AM.
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Originally posted by SpyroRyder View Post
Advising someone to switch to a discontinued product (Ubuntu Gnome) because you think a continuing product (ubuntu) is going to be discontinued. I see your logic.
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