How is gaming support on 16.04? On 14.04 I have a lot of steam and GOG.com games installed. Don't want to loose them.
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On 14.04 my Steam application, Universe Sandbox^2, ran slowly and I had to turn off the particles in order for the planets to move smoothly in orbit around the Sun. On 16.04 not only do the planets revolve smoothly with full particles, ALL the collision simulations do as well. On 14.04 I couldn't even run them because they lagged so much they brought my Acer to its knees."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Downloaded 16.04.1 this afternoon. sha256sum checked out good on the downloaded iso. Been looking forward to this! Looks like tomorrow will be a backup and install day.
While I would like to try the 14.04.4 to 16.04.1 upgrade path, I know I'll have success with a clean install on my / partition, with backup protection on /home data.
Fingers crossed.The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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IMO and experience a clean install is usually better than a version upgrade."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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It's been mixed results for me. The version upgrade from 13.04 to 14.04 went perfectly without a hitch. From 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS was a complete failure in that the OS didn't even run at all. It was worth a shot because my Kubuntu is so customized that it takes me a lot of time to get it all set up with the settings that I like and the programs I install.Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
I've upgraded (via an install from scratch) on my desktop, but not on my laptop yet. My laptop will take even more time because, unlike my desktop, I use VirtualBox to run Windows 7. With my desktop, I KVM to a separate Windows 7 PC.Kubuntu 22.04 (desktop & laptop), Windows 7 &2K (via VirtualBox on desktop PC)
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Well, got it done. It works, and all the stock stuff is there. All my /home stuff made it through just fine.
The stock look and feel REALLY sucks. I'll be looking for better themes, etc.The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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I switched to breeze oxygen. Much nicer"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Yep, it's getting better. I grabbed a couple of themes, but ...
Right now I'm using a slightly customized Oxygen. Still a bit dark, but at least not so boxy/square.
Just need to re-install a few more things (Clementine, Thunderbird/Lightning, etc.)The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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I have 14.04 LTS and some PPA added with backports (digikam, etc). What should I consider in that matter before making upgrade? Turn of those ppa?
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3rd party PPA's will be disabled during the upgrade process to protect the sanctity of the upgrade. This is done by the upgrade script placing an "#" character at the beginning of the PPA line in your etc/apt/sources.list file, along with a comment that the PPA was disabled due to the upgrade. I would back-up and rename this file prior to upgrading and, once the (hopefully) successful upgrade is complete, copy and paste your 3rd party PPA's back into your sources.list file AFTER you have made a backup of the new, default sources.list file in 16.04. Finally, you'll have to change the PPA's to match the name of your new Kubuntu release (ex. replace the word "trusty" in your PPA lines with "xenial").Originally posted by piotrlg View Post
You can easily do this manually line by line, or open the file in Kate (as Root) and use the 'Replace' option, or use the excellent Y PPA Manager app to do so. Now just reboot and re-install all those 3rd party apps. In the rare event that an app can't be installed or can't be found, go to the Launchpad page of that particular PPA and verify that the PPA has been updated by the maintainers to work with Xenial. If not, remove the PPA and look for an alternative.
Please keep in mind...without fail...Always keep a backup copy of the originally-installed sources.list file and a backup of your modified one. Rename them something like backup_orig_sources_list_file.txt and keep it in your Home directory in an easy to find location, or on a thumbdrive, etc.Comment
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dequire - couldn't agree more. I keep those things that have to be changed during an update from those things that I prefer to not change during an update. My / is on one partition, and my /home is on another. Plus I keep my videos, photos, music, etc. on a third partition (/home/multimedia) on a completely separate drive. Then I have started (going to 14.04 and to 16.04) doing a manual fresh install with a format on root only and a total backup on the rest. A lot of work, but well worth the results.The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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For completeness, someone should mention the /etc/apt/sources.d directory. Rather than adding to sources.list, files with entries can be dropped in that directory with ".list" as the file name suffix. IIRC to disable these they are renamed to .list.save or some such. So, when copying sources.list, copy everything in sources.d too.Originally posted by dequire View PostRegards, John LittleComment
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What's the current status of 16.04.1 stability. I have help off my main rig update, due to real life pre-occupations. This thing is up 24/7 and can't afford any downtime. I wan't it done before the new season of Agents of SHIELD starts.Comment
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Let me answer my own question. I bit the bullet and did 14.04 to 16.04.1 upgrade and it was mostly painless. Some ppa's got f'ed up, and my wine programs don't seem to work, but I can fix that manually later.
I may do a full wiipe and re-install later at some point to get a "clean" system that is more responsive, but for now it will do.
What nvidia drivers should I use? Default seems to be 361 (gtx 970)?Comment
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