what version do you use?

[chancuu]

just curious as to what most people are running? me personally right now i have 16.04.3, was thinking about upgrading to 17, but i'm afraid some packages will break, and not everything will work right. Thinking i'll just stay with LTS for a while till i get better at linux. i know a decent amount but by no means am i a pro at it. But just wondering what other poeple are using, do you guys upgrade to the newest a lot, or do you stay with LTS till it ends?

[cariboo]

I'm running 18.04 with proposed enabled. I like living dangerously. :)

[DuckHook]

I go from LTS to LTS, but only after first point release. So it's not to EoL, but every two years. Because I help out on these forums, I also multi-boot with latest standard release: one in a regular partition and another in a LVM so I can roll back to last known good snapshot. That's the one I experiment on. However, 98% of time is spent in LTS. Unlike cariboo, I don't like living dangerously. :P

[sawfish2]

I am a Linux newbie and have been using 14.04 LTS for nearly two years and was planning to upgrade to 18.04 LTS, after it had some time to settle in (very cautious I know). But the fact that 17.10 used the coming standard desktop made me curious and until know the curiosity haven't killed the cat. There is some minor issues I can live with, but when 18.04 LTS is released and if it works satisfactory I might stick with that. But then again, the experience with 17.10 would certainly not hold me back if there is an intermediate release I would like to explore.

Kind regards
Sawfish2

[poorguy]

Lubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit because it works well on my old computers like what is listed in my signature.

[oldos2er]

Xubuntu 17.10, because xfce4 seems to be a better fit for me personally than Gnome3.

[VMC]

I'm also on Xubuntu 17.10. It has worked flawlessly. I occasionally will install 18.04 to see how it runs, but use 17.10 almost exclusively. I may keep it until its "batteries" run out :)

[chancuu]

i'm liking 16.04 so far, i've had it pretty much since it came out. i tend to get a little froggy though and try to tweak the desktop and install new ones. ended up having to make a thread to fix some issues i ran into haha. and then of course i get it fix and find out about budgie, ended up installing that, wasn't as good as i though, but thankfully it didn't mess up things like last time. so now i have unity and part of budgie running right now. not gonna get froggy any more on my desktop environment. i think when 18 comes out i'll upgrade to that. i installed it once just to test it, i liked it for the most part, just some apps didn't run well with it. thats the only reason i didn't keep it. so hopefully when it's out everything will run smooth on it

[mastablasta]

2PC and server on 14.04 LTS. one will get an upgrade to 16.06 (probably in the summer) the others will get it later (next year probably).

[speedwell68]

Xubuntu 16.04 X64. These days I just go from LTS to LTS. I used to reinstall every 6 months, but just can't be arsed anymore.

[P-I H]

I use a Ryzen system with three ssd:s and three Ubuntu versions.

p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$ screenfetch
./+o+- p-i@pi-MS-7A34
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-041500rc7-generic
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 0m
.:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 2039
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 4.4.12
.:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Resolution: 1920x1200
.++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. DE: GNOME
/+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. WM: GNOME Shell
\+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM Theme: Paper
.++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. GTK Theme: Ambiance-Ubuntu [GTK2/3]
.+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ Icon Theme: Suru
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ Font: Ubuntu 11
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 16x 3.687GHz [30.0°C]
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series (AMD POLARIS10 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-041500rc7-generic, LLVM 5.0.0)
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ RAM: 1531MiB / 16053MiB
````` +oo+++o\:
`oo++.
p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$


p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$ screenfetch
./+o+- p-i@pi-MS-7A34
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 17.10 artful
://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-041500rc8-generic
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 0m
.:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 1933
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 4.4.12
.:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Resolution: 1920x1200
.++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. DE: GNOME
/+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. WM: GNOME Shell
\+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM Theme:
.++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. GTK Theme: Ambiance [GTK2/3]
.+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ Icon Theme: Suru
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ Font: Ubuntu 11
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 16x 3.644GHz [29.0°C]
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series (AMD POLARIS10 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-041500rc8-generic, LLVM 5.0.0)
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ RAM: 1215MiB / 16053MiB
````` +oo+++o\:
`oo++.
p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$


p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$ screenfetch
./+o+- p-i@pi-MS-7A34
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 17.10 artful
://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-041500rc7-generic
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 6m
.:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 1939
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 4.4.12
.:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Resolution: 1920x1200
.++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. DE: GNOME
/+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. WM: GNOME Shell
\+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM Theme: Arc-Dark
.++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. GTK Theme: Arc-Darker [GTK2/3]
.+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ Icon Theme: Papirus
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ Font: Ubuntu 11
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 16x 3.002GHz [29.0°C]
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series (AMD POLARIS10 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-041500rc7-generic, LLVM 5.0.0)
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ RAM: 1524MiB / 16053MiB
````` +oo+++o\:
`oo++.
p-i@pi-MS-7A34:~$

[uRock]

I have upgraded a couple of machines to 17.10 for fun. They had no issues from the upgrades. In the end, I put them back on 16.04. I prefer the LTSes.

If I get my little home business started in the near future, then I want to get into running the dev versions to help find and fix bugs.

[lammert-nijhof]

Laptop Ubuntu 16.04. Desktop I have upgraded this year from Ubuntu 16.04 -> 17.04 -> 17.10. The intermediate upgrade to 17.04 has been a complete disaster. The system did freeze after login, all inputs were disabled and only conky has been displayed and the launcher was missing. Trying to upgrade to 17.10, loading 17.10 from an USB stick, the system started working again. After repairing the package structure, it seems fine again. I get used to 17.10 and I like it better than 16.04 to be honest. After the problems with 17.04, I'll wait 3 month and directly upgrade the laptop to 18.04. The end goal is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS of course.

278231

I use a Virtual Machine with also 17.10 to do all my banking and Paypal stuff. It is more secure, because it is only "powered on" when needed, the firewall is blocked for incoming stuff and it is completely separated from email and general browsing.

[Perfect Storm]

Ubuntu 17.10 here. Not much else to add other than I'll stick to LTS when 18.04 is ready.

[qyot27]

I always fresh install the newest six-month release the day it comes out (or possibly the next day if real life intervenes and I don't have the time). I just keep /home on a separate partition and do one of:
A) Take 15 minutes to curate the contents of the apt history logs into two or three apt-get install commands before doing the OS install, or
B) Just copy all the apt history logs to /home so that I can go through them after the install.

Either way, paring those down to just what I ended up needing over the last six months takes very little time, so after the install is done, I'm 85-90% back to normal within an hour. My cross-compilation environment lags behind since I build all of that manually, so getting all of that refreshed takes a few days (but it would whenever there's a new stable release of GCC; it doesn't have to coincide with new Ubuntu releases, and could happen more than once during any given Ubuntu release cycle).

[PJs Ronin]

Currently running Arch as my production system but also have a Xubuntu 18.04 partition that I use to see where Ubuntu is going after the right turn from Unity. The Xubuntu partition was a step-wise dist-upgrade from 16.04. I tried to upgrade from 16.04 direct to 18.04 but had no success. I'm happy with 18.04 stability... so far :)

[vasa1]

I'm slowly working my way through the flavors: Unity, Xfce, LXDE, plain Openbox, now Kubuntu. Will move to Lubuntu's LXQt whenever that's ready, and then Budgie when it moves to Qt.

[galacticstone]

Ubuntu 16.04 - started out on it as a noob and still on it. So far I like it and it does everything I need it to do to run light business work, web browsing, and streaming. I like to get comfortable and settle in (that's why I stayed so darn long on WIndows), so unless a new release has some new feature that I absolutely must have, then I might ignore it (other than updates for security reasons). I'll ride a horse all the way to end of life if I can. But, I am watching the new LTS release with interest. I use Gnome anyway, so the new one turning away from Unity doesn't rule me out.

[oldos2er]

Currently running Arch as my production system but also have a Xubuntu 18.04 partition that I use to see where Ubuntu is going after the right turn from Unity. The Xubuntu partition was a step-wise dist-upgrade from 16.04. I tried to upgrade from 16.04 direct to 18.04 but had no success. I'm happy with 18.04 stability... so far :)

I wonder, if you set 16.04 to only upgrade to the next LTS release, then run do-release-upgrade -d would it upgrade to 18.04? Not something I've looked into personally, just curious.

[deadflowr]

I wonder, if you set 16.04 to only upgrade to the next LTS release, then run do-release-upgrade -d would it upgrade to 18.04? Not something I've looked into personally, just curious.

It does.

[oldos2er]

Thanks! Good to know.

[Frogs Hair]

17.10 , Budgie , and Deepin 15.5. Looking forward to Budgie on QT post 18.04

[marciomj]

Main computer: Ubuntu 16.04. Plan is stick to it until EOL (or something very interesting appears in the middle)

Secondary computer: Ubuntu 17.10, upgraded since 16.04. Once this computer is too old, I'm plannig to freeze upgrades with Ubuntu 18.04, or even Xubuntu 18.04.

And I have some Ubuntu virtual machines, running different versions.

[marciomj]

278231

I use a Virtual Machine with also 17.10 to do all my banking and Paypal stuff. It is more secure, because it is only "powered on" when needed, the firewall is blocked for incoming stuff and it is completely separated from email and general browsing.

Hey, lammert-nijhof, this is cool.

I always find interesting when I see people who use virtual machines to solve personal problems.

I have some Linux VMs for testing and dabbling, and since I work in a very Windowscentric environment, I need to have a couple of Windows VMs at hant to perform my job.

[corradoventu]

Artful, sometimes i enable proposed ...

corrado@corrado-p6-aa:~$ uname -a
Linux corrado-p6-aa 4.13.0-31-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 19 16:34:46 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
corrado@corrado-p6-aa:~$

[Qew]

Main laptop is on 16.04.3 LTS running with XFCE (not Xubuntu). I'll wait till the first point release of 18.04 before upgrading or doing a fresh install. My wife's laptop has 16.04.1 LTS on it running with Unity, and is likely to also to be upgraded to 18.04 once it gets to its first point release.

[yetimon_64]

Trusty 14.04 with Xfce is my main and most fully set up Ubuntu version, used probably about 75% of the time. The rest of the time I switch to Xenial 16.04 with Unity and only occasionally across to Debian Stretch in this triple boot dual boot set up. Of the Ubuntu only installs I prefer to stick to the LTS releases as my installations are pretty comprehensively set up and I like to be able to continue using them for more than just a "few months" (9 months for intermediate releases only :-)).

Like a few others have mentioned, I will probably go for Xubuntu or a minimal install and build up to an XFCE desktop set up when I get around to installing 18.04 (I'll likely wait a few months for the bugs to be ironed out, that is the 1st point release). I'm not too interested in Gnome these days, though I did like it in the early days of Gutsy and Hardy.

[SantaFe]

`:+shmNNMMNNmhs+:` santafe
.odMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMdo. -------------------
/dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmMMMMMMMMd/ OS: Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64
:mMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNM/`/yNMMMMMMm: Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic
`yMMMMMMMMMms:..-::oM: -omMMMMMy` Uptime: 3 hours
`dMMMMMMMMy-.odNMMMMMM: -odMMMMMMd` Packages: 3115
hMMMMMMMm-.hMMy/....+M:`/yNm+mMMMMMMMh Shell: bash 4.4.12
/MMMMNmMN-:NMy`-yNMMMMMmNyyMN:`dMMMMMMM/ Resolution: 1920x1080
hMMMMm -odMMh`sMMMMMMMMMMs sMN..MMMMMMMh DE: MATE
NMMMMm `/yNMMMMMMMMMMMM: MM+ mMMMMMMN WM: Metacity (Marco)
NMMMMm `/yNMMMMMMMMMMMM: MM+ mMMMMMMN WM Theme: Dark-MATE Redder
hMMMMm -odMMh sMMMMMMMMMMs oMN..MMMMMMMh Theme: Dark-MATE Redder [GTK2/3]
/MMMMNNMN-:NMy`-yNMMMMMNNsyMN:`dMMMMMMM/ Icons: Dark-MATE Icons [GTK2/3]
hMMMMMMMm-.hMMy/....+M:.+hNd+mMMMMMMMh Terminal: mate-terminal
`dMMMMMMMMy-.odNMMMMMM: :smMMMMMMd` Terminal Font: Cousine 14
yMMMMMMMMMms/..-::oM: .+dMMMMMy CPU: AMD FX-8370 (8) @ 4.000GHz
:mMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNM: :smMMMMMMm: GPU: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation GP108
/dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMdNMMMMMMMd/ Memory: 1598MiB / 16063MiB
.odMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMdo.
`:+shmNNMMNNmhs+:`

While it says Ubuntu, it's really Ubuntu MATE. ;)

Don't know why it's showing GP108 instead of GT 1030. ;)

[jpberes]

I'm running 17.10 without any problems, never had some, everything worked and still works fine...
Soon of course I will update towards the 18.04 LTS, but when 18.10 will be available I will update towards that too ;-)

[lighthousebeacon]

Ubuntu Mate 16.04.4 LTS. Loving it. When 18.04 gets released I will upgrade.

[sevendogsbsd]

18.04 beta 2 and it is working great. I have been hopping for years and am trying to find a "home" so to speak. Ubuntu (pre 18) was always broken in one way or another for me but this beta is, in my experience, rock solid so far. I just hope the upgrade from dev branch to release goes smoothly on Thursday...

[coffeefiend]

17.10 for now.

[RobGoss]

18.04 only the LTS

[pretty_whistle]

I'm running 16.04.4 with Unity right now. I'm considering upgrading to 18.04.1 when it comes out although with that Gnome desktop I'm a bit reluctant, afraid it'll have a bug that renders it unusable. Reluctant or not 16.04.4's end of life will be in 3 years and then I'd have no choice but to upgrade it! :o

[sevendogsbsd]

Oddly enough, 18.04 looks exactly like Unity...to my disappointment but I am getting used to it. I have been running the beta for a week now with no issues. Today's updated changed the details logo from "18.04 Development branch" to "18.04 LTS" but I am sure there are more updates coming since the official release isn't until tomorrow I think. I did a clean install of the beta and have been updating daily all week with no problems so far (crosses fingers).

[Laui]

still lubuntu 17.10, but waiting for the 18.04 release. come on i need it!! :-D

[tinylagarto]

At the moment still 17.10 but usually jumping from version to version every six months without any important issues, yes it is possible. :) So it will be 18.04 in a while.

[pearlyjam]

Still 17.10.

[corradoventu]

using 18.04 and testing 18.10

[poorguy]

I have moved to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver as I'm really impressed at how well it works so no point in staying with the old. :)

[rsteinmetz70112]

16.04.x I will move to 18.04.1 LTS when it's availible

[tinylagarto]

Finally every machine is now running 18.04.

One is running Xubuntu upgraded from 17.10, another is 18.04 clean with added Unity session and the work horse is running a fresh Kubuntu 18.04 from the new minimal install option.

[xubu2]

Xubuntu-minimal 18.04 installed with the net iso.

[axiomanarcho]

Kubuntu-full 18.04 I fricken love kde5 and plasma and it looks awesome if you take the time to customize it to perfection, not to mention the stability of ubuntu has gone up a lot over the last few releases it is now my permanent desktop os.

[SantaFe]

Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS, with Cinnamon, & LXDE De's added. :P

[poet1]

Xubuntu 18.04. Could go with a heftier GUI buuuuuuut ya know performance, yep.


16.04.x I will move to 18.04.1 LTS when it's availible

Do iiiiiiiit, dooo iit naaaaoooww. (Arnold voice)

Edit: 18.04.1 will be available in August 2018, ignore me.
Edit 2: JULY 26th 2018. Not August! (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule)

[iggywrite]

Running Lubuntu 18.04. Just returned from a long exodus back to Linux. Glad to be here again.

[vagent]

Iam from VN, using Linux now and it seemly very difficult with the window version i used to do, i come here to learn but cant find threat, can everybody show me. Thank

[bodhin2]

wanting to install the new bionic beaver. i am asking questions prior to install.

[Han_Held]

Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS, I'll probably play with other DE's eventually (what's KDE up to these days?) but not immediately.

[uRock]

Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS, I'll probably play with other DE's eventually (what's KDE up to these days?) but not immediately.

I switched to Kubuntu for this LTS and love it. I have tried it in the past and wasn't very impressed, but I think the devs are doing a really good job. I recommend giving it a try, even if only in a VM.

[SantaFe]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmds+. OS: Mint 18.3 sylvia
MMm----::-://////////////oymNMd+` Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.13.0-45-generic
MMd /++ -sNMd: Uptime: 3h 38m
MMNso/` dMM `.::-. .-::.` .hMN: Packages: 2861
ddddMMh dMM :hNMNMNhNMNMNh: `NMm Shell: bash 4.3.48
NMm dMM .NMN/-+MMM+-/NMN` dMM Resolution: 1920x1080
NMm dMM -MMm `MMM dMM. dMM DE: Cinnamon 3.6.7
NMm dMM -MMm `MMM dMM. dMM WM: Muffin
NMm dMM .mmd `mmm yMM. dMM WM Theme: Mint-X-Red (Mint-Y)
NMm dMM` ..` ... ydm. dMM GTK Theme: Mint-X-Red [GTK2/3]
hMM- +MMd/-------...-:sdds dMM Icon Theme: Cheser-XFCE
-NMm- :hNMNNNmdddddddddy/` dMM Font: Verana Sans Medium, Medium 16
-dMNs-``-::::-------.`` dMM CPU: Intel Core2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.2GHz
`/dMNmy+/:-------------:/yMMM GPU: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
./ydNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM RAM: 2179MiB / 3907MiB
\.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM


Decided to replace Peppermint 8 with Linux Mint 18.3 on my laptop/ ;)

[littlefoot505]

^I love your username. I'm from Santa Fe!!

I use Kubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside Mint 18.3, Q4OS (not sure what version, and Windows 10.

[mbott]

Currently running 18.04 here, but not by choice. I much prefer 14.04, but when I purchased a Linksys EA7500 wifi router, my ASUS G551JW laptop did not want to communicate with the Linksys at 5G consistently. Had the same issue with 16.04, but 18.04 has been without issue.

--
Mike

[exploder]

I have switched all my machines over to Kubuntu 18.04. KDE has really impressed me lately with the way they are doing things and the LTS base is very solid.