As soon as 16.04.1 came out, I downloaded the iso, backed up /home, burned the iso to DVD, and custom installed it.
Right out of the box, no problems - ugly as mud, but functional. So I went back and installed Synaptic, so I could install Muon. Don't get me wrong, Synaptic is nice, but I'm very much at home with Muon. As for Discover - meh. I got Thunderbird/Lightning, Clementine, screensavers and a few others of the packages that aren't stock. I promptly dumped Kmail, Kontact, etc. Don't get me wrong, I just prefer TBird.
I played around with various themes, and combined some features, along with FF and Tbird themes. Don't get me wrong, but I hate the flat, square, un-colorful stuff that was in the stock install. After much playing, my desktop is almost inviting again.
Just out of curiosity, I looked for, found, and started up Amarok. I haven't like Amarok in a very long time, but this time it just ran. I could start to like it again.
So I bid adieu to Trusty, and look forward to what seems to be a fine, stable Xenial (whatever that is!) for the next couple of years. Just gotta whup the ugly, other than that the devs have done a very good job.
Right out of the box, no problems - ugly as mud, but functional. So I went back and installed Synaptic, so I could install Muon. Don't get me wrong, Synaptic is nice, but I'm very much at home with Muon. As for Discover - meh. I got Thunderbird/Lightning, Clementine, screensavers and a few others of the packages that aren't stock. I promptly dumped Kmail, Kontact, etc. Don't get me wrong, I just prefer TBird.
I played around with various themes, and combined some features, along with FF and Tbird themes. Don't get me wrong, but I hate the flat, square, un-colorful stuff that was in the stock install. After much playing, my desktop is almost inviting again.
Just out of curiosity, I looked for, found, and started up Amarok. I haven't like Amarok in a very long time, but this time it just ran. I could start to like it again.
So I bid adieu to Trusty, and look forward to what seems to be a fine, stable Xenial (whatever that is!) for the next couple of years. Just gotta whup the ugly, other than that the devs have done a very good job.
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