I have had issues with the installer crashing frequently. I’ve been unable to get it to run to completion. I am trying to install it on a ThinkPad which I replaced as my primary laptop a few months ago. The laptop previously had Windows 11 installed on it and the drive encrypted with bitlocker. When I could get the installer to the drive selection screen without crashing it wouldn’t let me install on the drive encrypted with bitlocker. It repeatedly prompted that I had to free space using windows or choose the option to erase the entire drive and then install. Problem is that I was choosing the option to install the erase the drive. I just wiped the drive using gparted. That got me passed that issue hit the installer never completed without crashing once I got beyond that. When I have bandwidth next weekend I’ll try the new Fedora release instead.
So the issue is mostly with the installer, I suppose? No surprise - I usually wait a while for dust to settle after a new lts.
So far I only tested the Noble release in VMs and containers (docker, incus, kvm on ARM and Intel) and that seemed to work just fine. LXC still broken, though.
I run Ubuntu server on all my home servers and the multiple Raspberry Pi’s I have deployed around my horse farm serving various purposes. I am quite happy with it. In the past I have greatly preferred Ubuntu over Fedora for the desktop and would have preferred to use it on the old laptop. Maybe they will have the setup issues resolved for the 24.04.1 release.
I've been using Ubuntu as my desktop for a few years already. Overall I don't have too many issues, but do you have any recommendations for an alternative?
I use debian on my servers and nixos on laptop. Both solid distros. They never seem to induce the kind of rage I used to feel with Ubuntu (although the last time I gave it a chance was right after they changed from alsa to pulseaudio and brought flashbacks to oss days).
