Ubuntu 16.04?

[FrankRamiro]

Hi guys 3 month past since release of 16.04,has anybody seen over all improvement of bugs wise in 16.04,i tried a clean install 3 months ago and it was disappointing,it was the worse release of Ubuntu ever,i'm running presently Ubuntu 14.04 which is running great, have the issues with ati drivers been resolved,or everything still a mess, crappy distro?

 

[Essence_of_War]

Hi guys 3 month past since release of 16.04,has anybody seen over all improvement of bugs wise in 16.04,i tried a clean install 3 months ago and it was disappointing,it was the worse release of Ubuntu ever,i'm running presently Ubuntu 14.04 which is running great, have the issues with ati drivers been resolved,or everything still a mess, crappy distro?

I have major problems with my desktop gpu, a 7870 Tahiti LE on 16.04, and no problems previously on 12.04 or 14.04 :/

Open source radeon driver doesn't seem to support it. The new AMD binaries don't support it. I was planning to upgrade to a 480 anyway, and admittedly the 7870 LE is sort of a niche card, but this has been a bit annoying.

 

[FrankRamiro]

Hi guys;Today i decided to give Ubuntu 16.04 one more try on my Desktop ThinkCenter71 Intel (core)tm) I5 2400 CPU 3.10GHZ,
Mem 3.8GB,Socket 1155, Video card ATI 6450, since i had it installed on an Extra HDD and all i did was to update,so far it's doing great for now special on what i use it most ,streaming live TV

 

[sweenish]

It's nice to see that users of OS's other than Windows still blame the OS for something like bad drivers. On the one hand, Linux can be held a bit more accountable due to repositories, and I did hear Canonical did something weird with respect to ATi drivers. On the other, a driver has nothing to do with the main OS. That beef is with AMD.

 

[PingSpike]

Its unclear to me what happened with the ATI drivers. The fglrx driver was dumped from support by...some one...and can't be used with 16.04. This move could make sense if they'd finished the replacement, but they haven't. You're stuck with the radeon driver for a lot of cards because support hasn't trickled down to older (not really old at all) cards. And even if you had one of the newer cards, it seems like things are still pretty unsettled.

I ended up sticking with 14.04 (mint 17.03) from an AMD card based build.

 

[Ken g6]

I've been on Xubuntu 16.04 for some time, with Intel drivers. I can't recall many major bugs, and I haven't seen any recently. (Knock on wood!)

 

[Anteaus]

I find 16.04 to be noticeably buggier than 14.04 was when I first adopted it. First, I'm getting a bad delay at shutdown which from what I understand is related to systemd. I also have general system stability issues which sometimes end up with a hard crash that requires a physical power button override. I can't exclude drivers as a strong factor in the crashes, but I'm using a Lenovo T420 which worked fine under 14.04. I feel that issues that originate with the included drivers are still considered bugs.

 

[Bryf50]

Its unclear to me what happened with the ATI drivers. The fglrx driver was dumped from support by...some one...and can't be used with 16.04. This move could make sense if they'd finished the replacement, but they haven't. You're stuck with the radeon driver for a lot of cards because support hasn't trickled down to older (not really old at all) cards. And even if you had one of the newer cards, it seems like things are still pretty unsettled.

I ended up sticking with 14.04 (mint 17.03) from an AMD card based build.

Do you have a GCN based GPU?

 

[o306]

The past two weeks there were updates for AMD drivers that supposedly solved a lot of problems with detection, compatibility, and bugs.

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/ope...kernel-supported-amd-radeon-gpus-508363.shtml

http://news.softpedia.com/news/linu...and-amdgpu-improvements-bugfixes-508063.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/linu...and-usb-drivers-fixes-btrfs-bugs-508116.shtml