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Thankfully Ubuntu 12.04 is the Long Term Stable release. I think I'll be sticking with it for a really long time partially due to all this nonsense.

If 12.10 was the LTS I would probably have looked at switching distros.




What has 12.04 got that 12.10 hasn't?

Not challenging, just interested. Both have fallback, both allow the installation of XFCE4 desktop, both have the Lubuntu-desktop packages?


Mostly not having to worry about removing shopping lenses and any other things. It's a growing lack of trust in Canonical.

I don't use my Linux boxes as a desktop most of the time otherwise I would be giving XFCE a proper try. In fact the main desktop use is child use so I don't want to change it too much.


LTS is the way to go for stability, especially with 5 years support on stock Ubuntu.

Regarding the Amazon search stuff in 12.10, there is a kill switch in system settings, it was added in an update after all the hooha.


I was thinking on using CentOS6 on the desktop for this very reason. I'm sad.




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