Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience
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A couple weeks ago, I posted a thread about intermittent issues I was having on Ubuntu 18.04. Since RC came out yesterday, I decide to upgrade to the Beta a few days before as I figured Beta issues were mostly ironed out by now.
On my Ubuntu 18.04 host I began the update process via CLI which download 2G or so and began to run. Near the end of the upgrade my screen went gray and was unresponsive. I waited in this state for approximately an hour, before forcibly rebooting the system. After the reboot, the system did not come, I would just get a gray screen after unlocking the disk.
So off to my other Ubuntu 18.04 laptop to create a 20.04 Live USB. I was able to unlock the drive and copy my files using Live OS. I only needed to grab a few things because I do everything on Office Online.
I grabbed
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User configurations
/home/user/.config(mainly for/home/user/chromium/default/Bookmarks) -
Network and VPN connections (very convenient)
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SSH keys
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Some other things here or there
Clean install went great. I wiped the disk and most of the little nagging issues I had are gone. I have had wireless die on my twice in 4 days. This was fixed my restarting
network-managerUbuntu 20.04 seems to be an awesome OS. I wish the upgrade would have worked, but I really needed a clean install anyway.
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I've got maybe a dozen servers that have been on 20.04 for a week or two. So far, been really good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
I've got maybe a dozen servers that have been on 20.04 for a week or two. So far, been really good.
I am surprised you would put servers on the beta version.
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@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
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@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
We do minimal because there's little need for most of those apps.
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@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
Having a minimal option is awesome for those who don't need any of the extra applications.
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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
Having a minimal option is awesome for those who don't need any of the extra applications.
The ones that they tend to include are more consumer than work related. We tend to want to remove most, and sometimes add none back. Some things that we almost always want, like Remmina, I don't think are included anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
Having a minimal option is awesome for those who don't need any of the extra applications.
The ones that they tend to include are more consumer than work related. We tend to want to remove most, and sometimes add none back. Some things that we almost always want, like Remmina, I don't think are included anyway.
Remmina is included with the normal install.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
IMO minimal for workstation usage is pretty useless and makes more work unless you have your setup scripted or managed already.
Having a minimal option is awesome for those who don't need any of the extra applications.
The ones that they tend to include are more consumer than work related. We tend to want to remove most, and sometimes add none back. Some things that we almost always want, like Remmina, I don't think are included anyway.
Are you managing everything through Salt? That's also a great reason to do a minimal install and just have Salt take care of the rest for you.
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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:
@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?
Normal because I'm lazy
