Ubuntu 14.04 LTS support ends on April. BUT you can pay royalties to Canonical Company Computer Products (CCCP) so they continue your support.
It is dangerous to use 14.04 after April because there is no security updates unless you are willing to pay.
You can opt into updating your system into Ubuntu 16.04 and hope everything will be transitioned smoothly into new system without re-installs. But if you need to re instal everything the most sensible route is to simply install 18.04.
14.04 cannot be upgraded to 18.04 without going first into 16.04, that is if you arent doing a complete wipe of HDD first.
>18.04 DOES NOT HAVE THE OLD UBUNTU UI. Shut the fuck up. Everybody who used XP had to suck it up, everyone who's using Windows 7 has to suck it up. You're gonna fucking suck it up, too. Or move to another desktop environment.
Brody Jenkins
You know OP, there's also 16.04 LTS. Same UI as 14.04 LTS. Also, Xfce has a plugin in that puts application menus in the title bar.
tl:dr; use 16.04 and wait for 20.04, quit bitching
Angel Ross
>people clinging to old linux distros can't say i imagined that would happen
Juan Murphy
The only people worried about moving from 14.04 to a more modern version are those using it on a server. Nobody uses Ubuntu desktop professionally.
Michael Allen
>Nobody uses Ubuntu desktop professionally. Entire google does that.
Evan Williams
>18.04 DOES NOT HAVE THE OLD UBUNTU UI. their shitty homemade DE was forked but thuh community after they abandoned development. non issue, learn to computer thx
Considering Microsoft fucks something up every 6 months now, Ubuntu still seems to be a better choice.
Landon Taylor
Windows 10 is shit, but Windows 7 has been around since 2009 and still has 4 years of support left. That's 14 (fourteen) years total.
Robert Bailey
Not him but long term support in Linux is very long too, if you are willing to pay for it. RedHat, Suse, Oracle, etc. And in contrary to Microsoft, the tech support is actually good.
Julian Nelson
It's finnish bro
Jack Baker
yes user, but you're talking about it like it's free, you can pay a lot of corporate linux places for them to keep updating whatever version you're using, just like windows.
Aiden Harris
Would we even have KDE if CDE was open-source from the start?
Ian Parker
user, no ubuntu user cares about their old version being phased out, only windows users do. (if you actually do run your corporate stuff on ubuntu you were just asking for it. That's life tells you to choose redhat next time)
>It is dangerous to use 14.04 after April because there is no security updates It's dangerous to us it now.
Aaron Morgan
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Aaron Peterson
you'd be surprised how often I encounter 2.6 kernels at work
Jaxson Bailey
>OObantooh No
Nathan Bell
Icons of that era looked aesthetic as fuck. Designers of that time really knew how to create something with taste. Current design lacks something in its core. It's like comparing sketches of novice artists with the ones that learned proper technique, anatomy, shading/light, motions etc.
Owen Ross
ok. so mint and ubuntu are shit. what is a good distro for a complete retard who wants something that just works for personal use and gayming?
Kevin Phillips
>18.04 DOES NOT HAVE THE OLD UBUNTU UI. install 18.04 server and apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
>18.04 DOES NOT HAVE THE OLD UBUNTU UI and nothing of value was lost
lxde is better than both anyway
Aaron Morales
The only distro that has unity is gentoo.
Austin Myers
you shouldn't be afraid of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything, it's just natural with software. shit breaks all the time, software becomes deprecated or abandoned, bloat accumulates over time. back up your data and configs and start anew and get used to this, you fragile snowflake.
