Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur - impressions

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Just installed the minimal 23.10 Xubuntu version on a 2 Gig ram Compaq CQ61 seems really nice and fast on such an old machine.

Anybody else tried it yet?
 


I'm on my primary workstation, and a neofetch -off reports

Code:
OS: Lubuntu Mantic Minotaur (development branch) x86_64
Host: OptiPlex 7050
Kernel: 6.2.0-21-generic
Uptime: 9 days, 8 hours, 50 mins
Packages: 3266 (dpkg), 12 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1080
DE: LXQt 1.2.0
WM: Openbox
Theme: Greybird [GTK2/3]
Icons: oxygen [GTK2/3]
Terminal: qterminal
Terminal Font: IBM Plex Mono Medium 14
CPU: Intel i5-6500 (4) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530
Memory: 11589MiB / 15842MiB

and whilst I've seen many packages upgraded since I bumped to mantic, I really consider my install as ~equal to a lunar system. It's still very early in the development cycle.

FYI: I'm using Lubuntu/LXQt currently as I am most of the time, but this install also has ubuntu-desktop (GNOME), xubuntu-desktop (Xfce) & more installed on it.

If interested in the mantic cycle, the minutes (or meeting notes) of our recent 'Ubuntu flavor Sync' meeting notes are up. Each team will have their own intentions of course, where these notes largely relate to what will impact us all (or details that impact more than a single flavor).

 
Anybody else tried it yet?

Technically, no... However, I've tested Lubuntu 23.10 a whole bunch of times. It's looking pretty good from my view - but I (pretty much) exclusively test just the live instance. I do this twice a day, every day there's a new .iso for testing.

There's an interesting Picom bug that people are seeing when it is installed normally or in a persistent USB installation. That doesn't manifest in the live version, so I have no experience testing it - other than kinda testing for it by just hanging around and waiting to see if errors appeared.

I have no idea if Xubuntu uses Picom. I am interested in the 'minimum install' concept, though I'd likely never bother with it. I'll just go ahead and install all the things. All of 'em... That's what disk space is for, I suppose.
 

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