I’m planning to use a daily build of Ubuntu Budgie as a “rolling release” type of distro. I’m fine with the occasional breakage, but in general, how often do things go awry?

In general, we try not to push if it’s even possibly broken. I remember one occasion, fix was a matter of hours.

Ah I see, that’s great! So it’s decently safe to install a daily build as your primary OS? (if not, I’m fine with sticking with 20.04)

Aw, I get this error while installing 20.10 in a VM. [Screenshot_20200703_132047] It’s the exact same error that I get in Kubuntu, ubuntu mate, and stock ubuntu 20.10 daily builds in VirtualBox and GNOME boxes. Have not tested with 20.04 though. Any ideas?

It’s a good question. In terms of stability I think of the daily builds much like the arch model of rolling releases rather than the curated rolling releases of manjaro solus etc I.e. those distros that have a semblance of unstable + release rather than software immediately released from the packa…

… and that proves my point… for a couple of weeks now Canonical have been battling with that issue, various fixes have been proposed but things are not quite there just yet.

Thanks for the long and detailed explanation. I’m willing to be an active member of the Ubuntu community, report bugs, and try my best to fix them upstream. … and that proves my point… for a couple of weeks now Canonical have been battling with that issue, various fixes have been proposed but thi…

update-manager -d That will uplift 20.04 to 20.10 daily. Separately you can then switch to ‘Rhino’ to permanently leave yourself on a rolling daily build and never have to upgrade to the next distro series on release. How to switch to ‘Rhino’ is a different question…

‘Rhino’ requires a daily build to start with, sadly. On a side note, did gnome-screensaver finally get replaced with LightDM-locker? That’s one thing that really bugged me…

[image] Lets replace the lock-screen - a proposal Get Involved A while back I raised this topic How do I replace the lock screen? I’ve tidied this up with a proposal that I would like your feedback with. This replaces the current lock-screen with slick-greeter i.e. consi…

Ah, that’s sad. Is there a way to install another lock screen then, like i3lock? Would I have to recompile budgie?

How stable are the daily builds?

codic July 3, 2020, 11:03pm 13

Yep, split into Is there a way to change the budgie lock screen?

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How stable are the daily builds?

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