Ubuntu 10 vs 12

Question

linux

How much will I lose if I use Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS instead of 12.x LTS?
well, i.e. Are there any significant differences in this? will be used for web developer tasks and as a simple user. Thank you.

Answer 1

IMHO, a new installation of desktop 10.04 is not justified, support will end in a couple of weeks or a month.
Well, from my own experience, for various reasons, it will be necessary to install new versions of the software, as a result, the OS will turn into a zoo of repositories and self-installed components. A kernel to support trim and new hardware, up-to-date versions of libraries for building something,
then dancing with LD_PRELOAD to take the right version, not the system version, etc.
So 12.04 is more relevant.

Answer 2

Support for 10.04 desktop will end in April. The 10.04 server version will be supported for another two years. Therefore, if for some reason you need exactly 10.04 (well, for example, because the server on which you are going to deploy your web applications work on 10.04 and the administrator of this server, for some reason, does not want to install software from source or backports from newer distros, and uses software only from the 10.04 repository, and you want to repeat exactly the same environment as on the production server), then it’s better to install 10.04 in a virtual machine. And it is better to use on a desktop 12.04. Well, if Unity is disgusting to you, then there is xubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu or mint with MATE or Cinnamon.

Answer 3

Thank you, you convinced me that 10 is not relevant :)

Answer 4

You will have to change not only to the new release, but also to the new DE - Unity. This should be taken into account in the first place. If DE is critical for you, as it was for me, then look for something else. For myself, I found - Arch Linux with KDE. You may decide to stick with KUbuntu 12.04, although the Rolling Release model, which was originally built into Arch and which Canonical is only now seriously thinking about, is very relevant to me. I'm tired of these semi-annual, 2-year updates.

Answer 5

Yes, I thought I would stop at changing the shell, so I look at xfce, is it normal that I just do suda apt-get install xubuntu-desktop?