On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I still badly regret I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04. My sound card started > stuttering, the WiFi hardware of my computer was no longer supported, and > I cannot use USB at all. I tried to install 12.04 on a virtual machine, > and the install made the VM crash. From what I have seen from other > people, 12.04 has a completely new user interface that is complete crap. I > would never want that on any computer I actually had to work on. So if > 10.04 gets unworkable, I guess I would have to switch to another distro > (people recommend Fedora).
I switched to Xubuntu and am at 14.04 now. Xubuntu uses a more traditional style of UI, reasonably similar to what you're used to. As far as I know, Fedora went with Gnome3, which to me is almost the same as Ubuntu's new Unity UI and just as unusable for desktop machines. Xubuntu has been a good solution for me, where I can get the frequent package updates but not have to use the crazy UI. You can try booting Xubuntu from a live CD and see whether the problems with hardware support of your machine are any better or worse.
