tankman1989
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Been runing an Ubuntu variant since 6.04 and every time it has installed like a dream on about 40 different computers, always recognizing the NIC and only stumbling on the wireless card a few times but that is because they were really cheap and kind of rare chipsets in those wireless cards. Every Live CD would allow for internet connection immediately at bootup and I could pull down security updates.
Been running 12.04, 13.10, 14.04 on a few machines and on my 14.04 I decided to upgrade to 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04 and in each case, not one NIC would work out of the 10 on my one machine (2 on board and 2 4 port cards - Intel Pro chipset - very high end when they came out so they should be supported...).
They also did away with /etc/network/interfaces file (at least moved it and even editing it did nothing to get them working). They changed how to restart the network and may other network options and commands. It was a total cluster F for someone who has been used to it since 2004 (and had Debian experience before that...).
There were some other major issues that made the system not work well and I couldn't get it to run correctly where as when I installed 14.04 on my dual graphic card (plus onboard graphics) for 7 monitors, it just worked, but on 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04 I could only get one card to work and it was turned 90 degrees off vertical and the monitors were mis-aligned by 50% vertically and they COULD NOT be changed in the settings - it just wouldn't allow it, like I was locked out or something (I was logged in as root).
There were a number of other hideous issues that made me give up on it and plug my old drive back in (good thing I didn't install over it!!)
One odd thing with 14.04. On first install I had the perfect monitor arrangement - 2 rows of 3 wide screen monitors and a tall ultra wide monitor on the side. The mouse ran fine from one screen to another, I could go from top left to bottom right across about 4 screens. Then for some reason after an nvidia driver update, I lost the bottom left monitor (always black) and now the screens are arraigned in a horizontal line as per the way the computer sees them though they are in 2 rows of 3 and ont vertical on the right. I just had to get used to moving the mouse differently but it actually has some advantages I didn't think would be helpful (bit still want it back). Tried rolling back driver and it was a no-go. Once in a while when I boot, it will come up with the normal 7 screen display but that only lasts till the next reboot and then it is back to the one screen that is blacked out. I got a new video card and the same thing, so it isnt' that. Very odd and there isn't anything on the net that I could find about it.
Has anyone had any problems upgrading to release 16+ of any ubuntu flavor? I think there are many more depricated commands which supposedly ****** a lot of people off.
Been running 12.04, 13.10, 14.04 on a few machines and on my 14.04 I decided to upgrade to 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04 and in each case, not one NIC would work out of the 10 on my one machine (2 on board and 2 4 port cards - Intel Pro chipset - very high end when they came out so they should be supported...).
They also did away with /etc/network/interfaces file (at least moved it and even editing it did nothing to get them working). They changed how to restart the network and may other network options and commands. It was a total cluster F for someone who has been used to it since 2004 (and had Debian experience before that...).
There were some other major issues that made the system not work well and I couldn't get it to run correctly where as when I installed 14.04 on my dual graphic card (plus onboard graphics) for 7 monitors, it just worked, but on 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04 I could only get one card to work and it was turned 90 degrees off vertical and the monitors were mis-aligned by 50% vertically and they COULD NOT be changed in the settings - it just wouldn't allow it, like I was locked out or something (I was logged in as root).
There were a number of other hideous issues that made me give up on it and plug my old drive back in (good thing I didn't install over it!!)
One odd thing with 14.04. On first install I had the perfect monitor arrangement - 2 rows of 3 wide screen monitors and a tall ultra wide monitor on the side. The mouse ran fine from one screen to another, I could go from top left to bottom right across about 4 screens. Then for some reason after an nvidia driver update, I lost the bottom left monitor (always black) and now the screens are arraigned in a horizontal line as per the way the computer sees them though they are in 2 rows of 3 and ont vertical on the right. I just had to get used to moving the mouse differently but it actually has some advantages I didn't think would be helpful (bit still want it back). Tried rolling back driver and it was a no-go. Once in a while when I boot, it will come up with the normal 7 screen display but that only lasts till the next reboot and then it is back to the one screen that is blacked out. I got a new video card and the same thing, so it isnt' that. Very odd and there isn't anything on the net that I could find about it.
Has anyone had any problems upgrading to release 16+ of any ubuntu flavor? I think there are many more depricated commands which supposedly ****** a lot of people off.
