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[DanL]

6 month releases are dumb

I wish they would just do the LTS releases and roll along with Debian sid between them. I also wish Debian sid would keep rolling along at normal pace when Debian is preparing for release. I understand if they freeze testing, but preparing for release really shouldn't affect sid/experimental.

[Slithery]

Instead I got a login loop bug because of my xorg.conf (generated conf not hand written.)

Why on earth did you have an xorg.conf in the first place? That's not been a good idea for years, especially if you used Xorg -configure to generate it.

[uid313]

He posts like this on any announcement ever. His fixation on the latestestest version reminds me of webdevelopers.

I am a web developer.
But not only a web developer, also a developer.
So then I read the release announcements for every new version of things that come out, and I get excited by it and think oh that will be nice!

[bug77]

I am a web developer.
But not only a web developer, also a developer.
So then I read the release announcements for every new version of things that come out, and I get excited by it and think oh that will be nice!

Yeah, well, many things would be nice. Yet merely talking about them, rarely leads to anything constructive
Get a rolling distro or Fedora or something and start enjoying your life instead

[cynical]

Yeah, well, many things would be nice. Yet merely talking about them, rarely leads to anything constructive
Get a rolling distro or Fedora or something and start enjoying your life instead

Would much prefer to suffer with a month or two older version than put up with either of those headaches.

Too bad Python is at 3.6, not 3.7.

sudo apt install python3.7

[richardnpaul]

Slithery don't ask me, I didn't generate or write it and I have tens of backups in the directory too. My guess is its some kind of nvidia thing, I've also tried out the various ppas to try to fix various issues over the last couple of years.

P.S. This forum is not intuitive to use on mobile and the cursor jumps about leaving you with this kind of sentence really software

[dungeon]

6 mpnth releases are dumb

14 years ago Fedora started that, 13 years ago Ubuntu appeared because of that, 13 years ago SUSE Linux, 12 years ago now openSUSE follow suit...

It is matter of popularisation and call for testing, but in the same time inability to produce stable rolling Desktop for an average Joe or as vice versa as - rolling can't be stable

[uid313]

sudo apt install python3.7

It is great that it is at least available for install, but then the Python code I write doesn't work for anyone but me when I distribute it.

[bug77]

Would much prefer to suffer with a month or two older version than put up with either of those headaches.

I would prefer that, too, but that's not always an option with Ubuntu. Even in the upcoming Cosmic, Go, for example is still at 1.10, even though 1.12 (2.0?) is almost out the door. Rust is also one version behind, but at least in this case rustup will fix that.
This is a big deal for these younger languages that get tons of additions with every release.

[johanb]

You just can't wrap your head around the idea Ubuntu is not about including the latest and greatest, can you?

You just can't wrap your head around the idea that Ubuntu is not about including the latest and greatest but still striving to be later and greater, can you?