Marked me impressed!

**lsutiger** · June 25th, 2016

I guess you could call me an early adopter on Ubuntu. My first installation was 5.10 on a dual boot with XP. It was a large learning curve, but I stuck with it. I lived through the good times and the bad. And after many bad experiences trying to upgrade, bought myself a second hard drive just to do test installs on. I still practice this to this day.
With 16.04 I was extremely impressed. My computer is running quicker, the install and transfer of files and settings(the big one here) was pretty dayum simple. I had my system back up and running in less than a few hours from a new install, just as if it was the old install. Seriously the only change I see is that it is running quicker. AND! Wireless worked out of the box.

This install was from 14.04 to 16.04. I have not read all of the documentation on what is and has changed, but I like what I see!
PS- This is on the laptop in my sig.
That's all!

**wildmanne39** · June 26th, 2016

I am glad all went will with your install and that you like it so much. I installed ubuntu mate 16.04 and it worked will the first time too.

**HermanAB** · June 26th, 2016

Linux is very boring these days. Usually it "Just Works". If you want excitement, try installing Windows 10...

**Bucky Ball** · June 26th, 2016

I have had nothing but good experiences installing on three totally different computers: an 11" HP Stream, my custom-built high-end desktop, and my mid-range Toshiba Satellite Pro L510. Xubuntu-core all of them. Not an issue.

Will be installing on my wife's new MSI sometime this week and expecting (hoping) that will go as seamlessly.

**Linuxratty** · June 27th, 2016

I installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and it works great..I've never had a hard time with Ubuntu and used 10 10 long after support ended. I used EOS for a good long while,but it's just so locked down,it's sad.
Anyway,I'm glad it's worked out for you.

**yoshii** · June 28th, 2016

I had a few relatively minor issues, but I've been able to workaround them. Since then, I've been feeling really good about Xenial (v16.04 LTX) on my Ubuntu Studio distro.
My other computer is really comfortably running v14.04.x LTS but I think I will try upgrading it later this summer.

I turned a nice corner when I found out how to do offline upgrades with elsewhere-downloaded .DEB files. Thanks to that, I got my home system running smoothly.
I've been working on a lot of music lately.

**Liam_Murphy** · June 28th, 2016

Agreed, my only issue has been the classic one of third party debs not installing properly through the Software Center.

That's where gdebi comes in for me.

Glad all went well for you!

**mikodo** · June 29th, 2016

Twas impressed too. As I said before, I only Installed Xubuntu 16.04 on this older desktop to try an app I was having trouble with in 14.04.1. Turns out, it was an user error in 14.04, again.

But, I liked 16.04 so much, I went ahead and spent the ~ 25 hours I usually spend configuring it to my liking. It really is smooth.

My initial plan had been to do my first LTS release-upgrade or whatever it is called from 14.04 for the experience. Now, I want this 16.04 in its' pristine state. I may still do the release-upgrade from 14.04.1 just for the sake of trying it. I was going to wait until the .1 release of 16.04 as I always do with fresh installs but, I think I will do it for the experience sooner than later now then, in all probability I'll update-grub in 16.04 and do away with it. Oh, for the hell of it, I tried Ubuntu 16.04 and its' running smoothly too. I haven't given it the symlinking to my data partition yet though, so I haven't given it the full user test yet and, it has been so long since I installed Unity, I really don't have any reference to compare it to.