My old laptop had Ubuntu 16.04 on it, and everything I needed worked.
Then it needed replacing, and I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on the new
laptop. I could not get xsane and my Artec scanner to work, despite
following loads of troubleshooting links. It is clearly 'an issue'. I
installed ver. 18.04 alongside the 20.04, and it works fine with the
scanner. Hmmm.
Then I tried to use the Wifi facility. Again, no go, and lots of people
in forums (fora?) have the same issue. Some have found solutions,
others haven't. In ver. 18.04, it's fine.
So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
page.
Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical will
have made its current version user-friendly again.
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Davey <[email protected]d> wrote:

So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
page.
Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical will
have made its current version user-friendly again.

Not really, as long as you accept the shorter support lifetime. Software packages will be less up to date, although you can mitigate that somewhat by installing apps from snaps (where you get the opposite problem - things are constantly upgrading to the latest - and the sandboxing model can sometimes
get in the way).

If you're doing dev stuff it gets more annoying as things are starting to depend on more recent tools (cmake, LLVM), but probably OK for general
desktop use.

Theo

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On 20 Jul 2021 12:21:56 +0100 (BST)
Theo <[email protected]> wrote:

Davey <[email protected]d> wrote:

So I am considering switching everything to ver. 18.04, as it works,
and I won't have to reboot into a different version just to scan one
page.
Are there any reasons not to? Ver. 18.04 is an LTS version, so will
be supported for a while. Maybe by 2022, or even 2024, Canonical
will have made its current version user-friendly again.

Not really, as long as you accept the shorter support lifetime.
Software packages will be less up to date, although you can mitigate
that somewhat by installing apps from snaps (where you get the
opposite problem - things are constantly upgrading to the latest -
and the sandboxing model can sometimes get in the way).

If you're doing dev stuff it gets more annoying as things are
starting to depend on more recent tools (cmake, LLVM), but probably
OK for general desktop use.

Theo

Thanks. That sounds like less of a problem than the annoyance of the
current situation.
Thanks.
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