Hello. I've been testing 16.04 lately with a view to finally upgrade to it since I've stayed loyal to 10.04 all this time. For some reason, I keep stumbling on bugs right out of the box, bugs that aren't there in either Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 or Xubuntu 16.04.
Discover in particular seems pretty buggy. At some point it seemed to forget that it's connected to the internet so it kept failing to fetch titles and screenshots of the programs. That got fixed on its own somehow. Probably the first update.
The persistent problem is that basically, the search function seems to suck. It just can't find anything relevant and even when trying to look up programs listed under Most Popular and Best Rating (shouldn't that be Best Rated anyway?), it still won't find them. I was lucky to find Synaptic on the front page otherwise I'd have to go apt-get it instead. When I tried to use the search feature for Synaptic, VLC media player, Geany, GParted etc. it turned up nothing. When it can find something, it's usually completely irrelevant and it will either only search through plasmoids or will just throw up a very long list of programs (plasmoids and regular progs) that's basically more or less its entire list.
Is this how Discover's behaving for others as well?
I'd like to add the package managers for the xfce and gnome versions too but obviously I can't find them through Discover so easily.
Discover in particular seems pretty buggy. At some point it seemed to forget that it's connected to the internet so it kept failing to fetch titles and screenshots of the programs. That got fixed on its own somehow. Probably the first update.
The persistent problem is that basically, the search function seems to suck. It just can't find anything relevant and even when trying to look up programs listed under Most Popular and Best Rating (shouldn't that be Best Rated anyway?), it still won't find them. I was lucky to find Synaptic on the front page otherwise I'd have to go apt-get it instead. When I tried to use the search feature for Synaptic, VLC media player, Geany, GParted etc. it turned up nothing. When it can find something, it's usually completely irrelevant and it will either only search through plasmoids or will just throw up a very long list of programs (plasmoids and regular progs) that's basically more or less its entire list.
Is this how Discover's behaving for others as well?
I'd like to add the package managers for the xfce and gnome versions too but obviously I can't find them through Discover so easily.
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