Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS or Quantal Quetzal 12.10?

[smitty4478]

I currently have Quantal Quatzal 12.10 but I'm wondering if I should switch to Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS...I heard 12.10 was less stable and more things are available for 12.04. Also, why is 12.04 being supported longer than 12.10, I don't understand why there are LTS ones and newer ones aren't LTS, unless 12.10 is like some sort of "beta"...Thanks

[3rdalbum]

12.04 might be a little more stable because it has been made more conservatively, but unless you are having trouble with 12.10 there is no need to downgrade.

12.04 is supported for 5 years, for businesses using Ubuntu. Individuals usually prefer to stick with the latest release, which is not "beta" but just a little more experimental as it will only be supported for 18 months. The longer support time for LTS is for businesses. You, as a regular user, would not want to stay on 12.04 for five years as everything would be old and crusty by that point.

[kansasnoob]

This may be helpful:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

I maintain 40+ individual PC's spread across two counties so I keep most of them running the LTS versions. Otherwise it would be nearly a full time job just keeping them all up to date every six months

[Temüjin]

If you don't like upgrading, go with 12.04/LTS. If you would rather upgrade for every release to take advantage of newer software, use 12.10.
Personally, I like rolling release distros (I'm running Debian sid).

[lovevn]

I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 and sometimes I also have same your question. Should I continue to using 12.04 or upgrade to 12.10? (And 13.04 will be released ).
Although 12.04 version is supported up to 5 years but 5 years later, when I want to upgrade my Ubuntu, that is very serious! The best way is installing Ubuntu again
So in my opinion, you should upgrade Ubuntu to 12.10 .

[Joao Lacerda]

Hi friends,

I have had the Same question,
When 12.10 came out it was indeed not so stable as 12.04, but now it works wonderfully,
I do have Ubuntu installed on 2 desktop and 1 laptop, and it works really fine. The only big difference
for me is the fact that I can not use NVidia drivers on 12.10, but the open sorce of X-Org works fine.

All the best

[iowabeakster]

It depends on your style

I'm pretty lazy, and hate updating OSs. So I stick with LTS. I just made the jump from 10.04 to 12.04 a couple weeks ago.

I also take the approach that if it ain't broken don't fix it. I also don't believe in reinventing wheels. The changes are often not significant.

Updating invariably wastes a number of hours that I'd rather not spend wasting. Then there is a week or so of finding things that need to be changed or replaced, and me often just reverting to my old OS so I can just get things done, without solving any new problems. A transitional period...

That said, the transition from 10.04 to 12.04 went pretty smoothly.

I also use Xubuntu on my Desktop, which has a shorter LTS period than the current LTS 12.04 standard Ubuntu.

[smitty4478]

Alright, thanks for the info everybody, I'll stick with Quetzal!

[ACubed10]

For me having a newer nvidia card, I was forced to use 12.10 . Couldn't even get the 12.04 disk to boot my graphics card works out of the box with 12.10