Since booting the official 24.04 LTS ISO seems to be not successful for everyone I decided to do a fresh install of Ubuntu-MATE 24.04 LTS on my old Thinkpad T420.
I discovered that it was abit less smooth sailing than the "daily ISO + updates"
Directly after a cold boot, I get:
error: file '/boot/' not found
but it starts anyway
plymouth changes size during this boot, probably because framebuffer is, as usual during boot, changing resolution.
It reaches the desktop no problem.
entering the installer:
enabling WiFi and logged on to my homenetwork
choosing full install
The installer behaves sometimes suspiciously sluggish, I will have to test this on my Toshiba C670D craptop.
Small visual glitch detected:
choices don't stay highlighted for the first few questions (at least, not visibly) but it works nevertheless.
Once installed everything was ok so after a global update I started exploring the system a bit.
I encountered some new bugs that I haven't encountered before (see end of this post)
I checked the new appcenter, or should I say snapcenter ? I really don't know.
It rubs me the wrong way that it is virtually impossible to discover which of these apps will run as snap and which wont. This information is important to me, and it is missing.
Here is a list of bugs I encountered that I will report in due time (launchpad):
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Locale bug 1 (./config/user-dirs.dirs):
Foldernames in homedirectory do not follow locale translation because xdg-user-dirs-update does not work from autostart. Even manually invoked and with a lot of luck it only does the job partly. -
Locale bug 2 (ayatana-date):
Day and month are swapped in my locale (nl_NL). Luckily I could work around this by enabling custom settings using dconf-editor. (I could also have used the old panel-date instead.) -
Appcenter bug:
visually horribly glitchy, switching compositing off mitigates this.
On the other hand, I experienced no bootproblems at all
So far so good.