Just Updated Ubuntu and restarted my pc.
Shit...
It's just sitting there blinking..

Oh no... :(

Ubuntu seems to be the only distro that gets worse with age.

I installed 17.04 (yes, I know, it's not LTS - but STILL) and wow... '/swapfile' doesn't mount, recovery mode hangs, and if I don't disable nouveau (OSS Nvidia) I can't even get it to boot.
And on top of all this, the Intel GPU drivers are terrible - the UI works fine on Win10 with all effects and no lag, why is Ubuntu lagging so bad it's barely usable?

Seriously, Ubuntu was never perfect, but when did it turn to shit?

And don't even get me started on Canonical, they killed all my favorite projects... The more I think about it, I'm ready to ditch Ubuntu for Fedora, Gentoo, or CentOS. Man...

@GhostInTheShell I am playing around with Arch on my old T60. If everything runs smoothly on there, then bye bye Ubuntu 😄

I don't trust ubuntu on a physical hard drive I always use it in a VM
The ones I trust on a hard drive are:
Mandriva Linux (R.I.P)
Mint Linux (though it is Ubuntu based)

To be honest those are the only ones I tired, also Fedora but for a few mins

@Pauly69 never got into Arch. But I hear a lot of Arch fans sometimes get sucked into Gentoo after a while. My old favorites were Yoper and MEPIS... Yoper is dead and MEPIS is barely hanging on now. It's saddening to watch your favorite distros die.

@GhostInTheShell
if you want something that is Ubuntu based but get better instead - Linux Mint is for you

@Linux eh... better is subjective, there's a reason I don't call out Ubuntu forks as a suggestion.

@GhostInTheShell
Ubuntu and forks of it has always had better support for many hardware components without wasting hours.

Arch is for people who think they know much and has to much free time.

@Linux "To much free time" is exactly why I am on the fence with Arch 😅

go for debian if you are looking for stability

fedora if you are looking for latest software

@jpichardo @torbuntu @criticalfailure

@linuxxx it is ubuntu, i cant help, there is no help for ubuntu users 😂😂

get mint or arch

@Torbuntu restarted numerous times, no grub, no nothing, I was depressed, ready to hit it with a live usb. Then my friend suggested unplugging the mouse aaand it worked for some weird reason. Now I am back on ubuntu and thinking of a switch of distros 😅😅

@Torbuntu Just dl'ed, the iso, I'll have a fun evening today, as everything needs to be sat up by morning on a shitty 4g internet. 😄

@Torbuntu
Probably going to stick with Cinnamon for a bit till I set up Awesome or I3wm.
Cause Tilling and Gaps are just sexy.. 😍

Slackware is pretty excellent too, just be ready to compile pretty much everything. Runs so, so well once it's set up.

Change your boot mode to uefi it worked for me

I've had very few problems with Ubuntu, but don't get me started on Arch. Nvidia and AMD drivers on Linux are just fuckey in general. You should try opensuse leap, it's quite good.

@GhostInTheShell Where do you live, coz on my planet Ubuntu works with Intel HD just fine even better than on windows...

Just to pour all the salt into that open bleeding wound.. Windows would've booted.😊

@daintycode To be brutally honest, I probably had more issues with Ubuntu in 1 month, that with Windows in a year 😂

@lamka02sk brand new 8th gen i5, fresh 17.04 install. Dragging and scrolling has massive tearing. Scroll lags like crazy.

This, combined with all the other issues, is what makes me call the new 17 release junk. I've never had this much trouble with Ubuntu in the past.

You should put "nomodeset" or "nouveau.modeset=0" in the boot params. After you get it to boot shit around video drivers...