Release 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) 64-bit
It is very stable and reliable.
I get occasional power outages and never any corruption that was not automatically fixed.
I have also accidentally pulled out the power cord, and again no problems.
It works great with all my hardware.
I once had some issues with Bluetooth, that technology is still "teething."
Hi. I have Jammy and Ubuntu Pro, so the system is supposed to be secure until 2032; I was told that this claim was only useful as an experiment, and that by that time, my system would be badly outdated. I wish Cairo Dock worked on this computer, but I have Latte Dock, so at least there's a dock with big date and clock number/letters. How long do you think I can keep Jammy, since everything else is great?
About for "Cairo Dock" ...
You can get the PPA for that:
You can always try to build it yourself:
Or ... have you checked the package list ?
My system:
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
I think the devs did new work? Great! Expecting it to work on this computer now. Still having trouble with what CD reports as crashing; contacted Github. Thanks.
Cairo-Dock version: 3.6.0
compiled date: 2025-09-28T21:51:32
I used the PPA method-- would using Synaptic, and thus software built for the OS, be a better method?
I don't know enough to say whether the version offered via Synaptic, from default repositories, is an "Ubuntu-tweaked" version.
The PPA would give you the latest and greatest "cross-distro" version, with the most resolved issues.
Once you advance to a Wayland-based Ubuntu (I'm putting that off as long as I can), you will need to revisit the source of the PPA to see where they stand with Wayland compatibility/integration.
Hi--Will do. Does anyone have any thoughts about how long I can keep Jammy?
I think someone mentionned elsewhere 2032, with UbuntuPro for security backports, but everything else frozen, unless various sites migrate to a new security model making the existing capabilities defunct.
Hi. This Ubuntu Pro thing is great! Windows doesn't usually cover a decade of security for the majority of their releases, I don't think. My choice was either to pay for Vista or the free Ubuntu path; awesome choice to go with Ubuntu!
Win 10 support ending--at least they mention Mint avoid hackers
Wish the author of linked article had mentioned that Linuxd had 200+ operating systems (website years ago to try Linux systems had about that many; Wikipedia states thousands of OSs). Also, they could definitely have mentioned Mate having different looks in one OS.
@ericmarceau Thanks for alerting me to the new work on Cairo Dock-- couple of issues to smooth out on Github, but mostly working now. Besides Latte Dock I can now have even more looks to GUI--cool.
Cairo-Dock version: 3.6.0
compiled date: 2025-09-28T21:51:32