My path was similar except it started with SLS. Followed the shiny for far too long. Installed Ubuntu while it was still shiny and then stuck with it as I realized that following the shiny is a fool's errand. On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 12:16 Brett Delmage < brett [ dot ] delmage [ at ] twobikes [ dot ] ottawa [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> wrote: > I've used Slackware, Mandriva, something or two or three handed out at > OCLUG meetings around the Corel Linux era (does anyone remember their > names?), Redhat, SUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. > > I haven't switched from Ubuntu for about 6 years now on server and > Kubuntu on desktop. > > For me, it's been reasonably up-to-date, rarely broke badly, and worked > well enough. As for choosing Kubuntu - it was better than gnome at the > time, and now it's intertia. :-) > > I recently upgraded my web/dns/list server from from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 > LTS Bionic Beaver to get recent versions of apache, wget, php etc. which I > was installing from PPEs (alternate repositories). The upgrade went very > smoothly. I quickly ripped out netplan, "The network configuration > abstraction renderer" (bleah!) after installation though. netplan.io is > one of those bad choices that sometimes come with Ubuntu, I'll admit. > > I reinstalled good old ifconfig, which took about 5 minutes and others > have already provided instructions for. > > Of course the great thing about the Linux ecosystem is choice and > customizability. > > Brett