[PLUG] Xubuntu 20?

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu Nov 19 05:45:05 UTC 2020


On 11/18/20 6:34 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:30:11 -0800
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
>> Any Xubuntu 20.04 users who used to be 18.04 users out there?
> Me! On two computers.
>
>> I have three machines running 18.04. I've heard positive and negative
>> things about 20. I won't "upgrade" them but will do a fresh install on
>> them, one at a time, starting with my least used machine. If that
>> works okay, I'll move on to the next one.
> I did dist-upgrades, not fresh installs. All went fine, except (as
> usual) the xfce4 panel needed tweaking - on 18.04 Xfce was version 4.12,
> while 20.04 uses 4.14, which replaced some of the panel widgets with
> new ones that don't work. I also had to spend about an hour messing
> with the Xfce4 video settings for my UHD displays.
>
> I delayed the upgrade until 20.04.1 was available for upgrades. I should
> add that there was a long delay on 20.04.1 because of problems with
> grub - lots of complaints about systems that wouldn't boot, mostly on
> fresh installs.

Thanks. I feel comfortable trying a fresh install on the first of the 
three computers.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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