Comment by skeeterbug | Hacker News Reader

Comment by skeeterbug | Hacker News Reader

I switched recently from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 16 at home (I use a Mac at work). Here has been my experience:

* Audio works perfect (Astro mixamp)

* Video works perfect (NVidia)

* Installed several games on Steam

  * TF2, CS, Factorio, Kerbal, etc all run great

  * Rust is laggy, however is alpha, I am not sure how much time they have spent optimizing linux at this point

* XBox 360 controller works perfect

* GnuCash wouldn't open the file saved from the windows version

  * Installed a sqlite lib to resolve this

* TrueCrypt volume mounts OK

* A few sites fail to detect Chromium properly, I use FF to work around this

* Crashplan backups work without issues

* Cisco VPN client works great

* Remote desktop software works OK

The development experience on Linux is a lot better. You get a nice shell, package manager, and compilers. Docker containers launch very quickly. No more windows path limits. Unity has grown on me as well. I couldn't be happier with my choice right now.

Not necessarily that important, but Ubuntu's versioning scheme doesn't work the way you think it does.

It's <year>.<month> and they release a new version almost always in April and in October, meaning that the past few Ubuntu versions were 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, 15.10 and now 16.04, which is what you're running.

They then have the usual dot-releases appended to that, so you're probably actually running 16.04.1, the first revision of 16.04.

So, yeah, you would usually say that you're running "16.04", not just "16", as 16.10 will be a completely different version, again...

I am aware. Thanks for the detailed response though.

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, and I've had problems with the Software Manager simply just not doing anything. (there's a bug filed for it) and I can't get VPN stuff from Private Internet Access working either. Attempts to connect and then just drops.

Firefox and Chrome have worked ok.

But not really being able to update or install software from the GUI is frustrating. I can do it myself from the command line, but the girlfriend is not a command line user at all.

Are you using Synaptic? There are other package managers out there... I can't think of the name but KDE has one - you also could try getting rid of ubuntu-desktop and going w/ Kubuntu-desktop (or you can install side-by-side and pick your poison at the session screen. ) -- Kubuntu has it's own different package manager.. though I prefer using apt-get to install things...Synaptic if I'm just browing what's available or looking for something not-specific for a task or something.

if you're using the default software manager, and not synaptic - try running: sudo-apt-get install synaptic It should fix all your issues.

Why not use Google Chrome or Google Chrome Beta -- they usually seem to work better than Chromium in my opinion...

> * A few sites fail to detect Chromium properly, I use FF to work around this

What does that mean?

They are looking at the user agent and determining that I am using an "Unsupported" browser. Some sites show a banner, others (OWA) fall back to a different UI.

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