- use another distro that works for you
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds and https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archiv...aphics-drivers until HWE catches up with what you need
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Likely To Ship With Linux 5.4 As Opposed To 5.5
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Canonical's primary mission is now the server space. It's what pays their bills and their salaries. A choice like this basically alienates 1% of the user base with newer hardware, and for these you have two choices:Last edited by royce; 07 February 2020, 08:11 AM.
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by Britoid View PostUsing LTS distros on new hardware or on non-enterprise desktop machine has never made sense. It probably doesn't help that Ubuntu recommends users install the LTS version, where they then experience bugs that have most likely been fixed and the whole Linux desktop gets a bad name.
Microsoft puts most users onto non-LTSC versions of Windows for a reason.
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Guest repliedUsual idiotic strategy of shipping with old software - on the other hand, AMDGPU in Linux 5.5 is pretty buggy for my R9 390. Here we go again, with broken support that won't be fixed for months.
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Originally posted by TemplarGR View PostIt is not like this will increase their workload by a lot, i mean most of the work they are doing between the 2 versions would be common, they would release the exact same LTS distro they are doing now but with a more recent kernel/mesa and other software. It is not a huge amount of work and people will get the benefit of both worlds.
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Originally posted by DanL View PostIt'll be 5 years if you're willing to use 20.04 for that long. I wouldn't call that short. Anyway, I think Ubuntu and other LTS distros probably would have been able to patch Nvidia 390 to work with newer kernels as long as the changes between kernel versions weren't too radical.
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Ubuntu users are often as much obnoxious as Windows users.... Instead of admitting that their distro of choice has faults, they always claim "there is a ppa for that". Yes, ignoring the fact that once you begin using ppas everywhere your installation ceases to be Ubuntu and becomes something else. Something with less testing and more breakage. But of course they don't really care, they can always reinstall (like windows users do every once in a while), right?
If you have to use ppas, then what is the point of having an LTS in the first place? If your main software components are derived from an untested/not officially supported repository, you might as well use Debian Sid. The only thing you gain by Ubuntu is the easy graphical installation (a must have for those obnoxious windows-type people since they typically can't do anything in a terminal) and a nice default look and feel.
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Originally posted by sverris View Post
You can always install the newest kernel from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ if you so desire... (there even is a simple utility named 'ukuu' for this)
I have already 2 softwares that have problems with it.
ROCm which is the worst, will actually refuse to install on Ubuntu LTS if you upgrade the kernel.
Virtualbox will not start the virtual machine complaining about some kernel module they use.
And these are only 2 that I need and found, I bet there are many more that have problems when you upgrade the kernel to something newer than what what they expect to be installed for that version.
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Canonical did the right thing although some features will arrive slightly later. Keeping with Linux upstream LTS means good security patches. Looks like they finally listened to Greg KH.
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Originally posted by Joe Braga View PostWhy anybody utitilize Linux Distros Like OpenSuse Tumblemweed or Fedora that are rolling release/Bleeding Edge unlikely Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS that these should be Fixed Release without packages freezing like OpenSuse Leap and CentOS
They're both brilliant distros and imho they do things a lot better than the Ubuntu, Debian etc (zypper/dnf throws apt out the water), it's a shame they're not suggested enough.
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Originally posted by sverris View PostYou can always install the newest kernel from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ if you so desire... (there even is a simple utility named 'ukuu' for this)
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