Extensive discussion about this release commencing 20 hours ago and still on page 2:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931491" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931491</a>
I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now.<p>I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kernel, I think, since the kernel is pretty darn stable and rarely has regressions, at least in my experience.<p>I also learned that there's an official plan for 18.04.1, to be released July 26th. This is the release that will prompt 16.04 LTS for an upgrade. In other words, the official upgrade path for an LTS is to wait for the first patch release, and not upgrade immediately. So I'm considering waiting to update from 17.10 until 18.04.1 is out.
Great release, with great features, and still a really (really) bad UI. The new theme has so many inconsistencies and bad decisions made. And I find it really cringy for an LTS release to distribute this new theme as the default one.<p>I hoped hard the communitheme would be the official theme of this release, but no.<p>Examples:<p>- The active directory effect in Nautilus's sidebar makes me thing there were two sidebars with different purpose [1]<p>- Changing the background of every other rows in the settings look weird. The fact they are splitting settings by group do not help. I thought it was a theme glitch, and found out it was an actual feature [2]<p>I understand why people are interested in more serious theme (arc-theme) or even other Ubuntu-based distros (elementary...).<p>[1] <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dbxn7TrV4AItn2f.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dbxn7TrV4AItn2f.jpg</a><p>[2] <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbxoSISVwAAn1fV.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbxoSISVwAAn1fV.jpg</a>
Weird, I am still getting "No new release found." when running `do-release-upgrade`...<p>EDIT:
Found the answer in another comment:<p>> I also learned that there's an official plan for 18.04.1, to be released July 26th. This is the release that will prompt 16.04 LTS for an upgrade. In other words, the official upgrade path for an LTS is to wait for the first patch release, and not upgrade immediately. So I'm considering waiting to update from 17.10 until 18.04.1 is out.
> Window control buttons are back on the right.<p>Does anyone have a list of how this has evolved? Are we getting more or less stable on this, the ultimate bikeshedding issue?
I wonder if they had this Bionic Beaver in mind, I hope not :)<p>THE FAMOUS BIONIC BEAVER Our Signature Drink for Sharing! Seagrams Vodka / Gin / Rum / Triple Sec / Peach Schnapps / Light Beer / Grenadine / Splash Cranberry<p><a href="https://guava-beach.com/menus/drinks/" rel="nofollow">https://guava-beach.com/menus/drinks/</a>
Any news on Powermac build?
I know there is a Community effort behold the ppc big endian build.<p>I am praying to the open source gods for it to happen.