Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 21:19:10 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

What I can say for sure is that while an Ubuntu 14.04 user will
immediately be familiar with 24.04 if he jumps from one to the other, he
might find it faster or discover that it has prettier icons. Otherwise,
the applications he used in 14.04 will look and operate the same in the
new version, the interface will be the same, and the commands will not
have changed. He probably won't notice that his applications are now
Snaps or notice that pipewire is now the default instead of PulseAudio.

I certainly noticed when an update broke my sound output leaving only
Dummy to select. After screwing around for a couple of days I got
Bluetooth speakers since it could handle that.

Note: Fedora uses pipewire and when I plugged the speakers into the Fedora
box they were recognized and worked fine. I lay this one on Ubuntu.

snap rears its ugly head when it can't update a running program, even if
doing a full upgrade from 22.04 to 4.04 to 24.10.

You pick of ranges is not very good. The Unity desktop was introduced as
the default in 11.04, and replaced with GNOME 3 in 17.10. Whether your
14.04 user is a happy camper with 24.04 depends.

Stuff like that gets noticed. Transitions like from X to Wayland might go
unnoticed unless it breaks stuff initially.  systemd probably unnoticed
except by those who hate it. UEFI was a major pain in the ass for a
while.

gcc updates may or may not be noticed. It never was a good idea but some
of our legacy code defined variables in the header files. I forget if it
was gcc 11 or 12 that considered that a multiple redefinition and a
showstopper unless you used a flag to the compiler. Then there was the
notorious RedHat gcc 2.98 that couldn't compile the kernel. You can bet
your bippy that got noticed.