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The Ubuntu blog has a report on installation metrics:
We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February. Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool. You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page.
At first login users are asked if they would like to send the information gathered and can preview that data if they wish.
One thing to point out is that this data is entirely from Ubuntu Desktop installs only and does not include users of Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, our cloud images, or any of the Ubuntu derivatives that do not include the ubuntu-report software in their installer.
For example, the average install took 18 minutes, but some systems were able to install in less than 8 minutes. Available RAM was most frequently reported at 4GB followed closely by 8GB, but there were systems reporting in with as little as 1GB and as much as 128GB.
How do your system(s) compare?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:08PM (4 children)
It's 2018. Periodic reinstalls should not be necessary for any operating system. Fetishists enjoy the process of reinstalling, normal folk like me don't.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:16PM (1 child)
Sorry man, that just sounds dumb.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 25 2018, @01:03AM
Doesn't take longer. Especially if you follow your own prescription and set up your partitions right.
In production, I run a rolling release (Manjaro) and a Periodic Release (Opensuse). Manjaro is WAY easier to maintain and keep current.
Opensuse is becoming wackier and more problematic with each release (every 18 months).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @01:03AM
"it's $CURRENT_YEAR"
mate, that doesn't matter, it's not like the various issues of long-standing OS installs disappeared
mind you, I haven't absolutely had to reinstall anything in a while, other than a Windows 10 machine (bleh) that was choking on its own ass trying to update itself and getting nowhere quickly
but in terms of various small issues piling up over time, sure -- some shit doesn't install or uninstall correctly, various settings alterations you made forever ago or some program you used to use had causing issues, package conflicts (because of pure human oversight), disk usage piling up (annoying on Windows in particular)
these aren't the issues of ten years ago, these are issues that happen right now
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday June 25 2018, @04:06AM
I upgraded on every release of Kubuntu for five years without a problem, as a data point. I eventually reinstalled as I upgraded to SSDs. Exceptionally stable as well (now).