I’ve so far installed 16.04 on 3 machines, it only works perfectly on 1.
My Lenovo Z50-75 laptop the external display won’t work, it won’t even boot with it connected where it functioned perfectly with 14.04 (but the wifi didn’t), unfortunately the wifi only functions with the new kernel (after tweaking) so that machine is stuck with 16.04 and I’m stuck without extended desktop.
My HP 450-a24 desktop machine kept locking up after installing 16.04 and I went back to 14.04.
Only my Lenovo T400 laptop works perfectly with 16.04.
That being said, I love the MATE flavor of Ubuntu and it’s become my one-and-only Ubuntu. I sincerely hope that these issues I’ve mentioned get ironed out in the next few months, I don’t have time to screw with them.
I think more testing needs to be done with newer machines before new releases, as those are the ones that are problematic with these new releases.
Where it works properly I love 16.04, not so much where it doesn’t…
Thanks for the suggestion, but I run all SSDs, I’m not going to abuse them with excessive OS swapping. I’ll keep an eye on the Z50-75 and try 16.04 on another machine when I get my external display operational with an update.
I’ve never had major issue with new releases on older hardware, both machines I have issues with are less than 2 years old. Testers should do more testing with new hardware and less testing on the old laptop/desktop they no longer depend on to get things done.
I’m not hating on anyone, just making an observation. So I hope that my post is taken as the constructive criticism that it is intended to be
My Lenovo T400 laptop is perfect with 16.04, they even made the volume icon work with the scroll-wheel, I’m thrilled with 16.04 on this machine, improvements have been made over 14.04
Wow, what a job distro maintainers have. Question: where are they supposed to obtain all the different hardware that they should be testing before releasing new versions? An OEM selling windoze machines has the hardware and can check everything before it goes on sale. So it works out-of-the-box (as well as windoze can). If you buy from a linux-builder you get basically the same experience.
It is a wonderful thing to be able to take a windoze or apple computer, an ISO of your favourite linux distro and perform the ultimate upgrade these machines can have. Marvellous. Sometimes it works flawlessly, sometimes not. You didn’t buy a guarantee. It can be disappointing, it can be frustrating. But at the end of the day, if you want to compare linux with windoze or apples there’s only one fair comparison - buy a pre-installed computer from a linux builder. Until we make linux our first choice when we buy new hardware we remain one step behind.
I’ve recently replaced my ageing HP AMD machine (circa 9 years old) with a new silent desktop from a European linux builder.