I have used popos for many years on my desktop and laptop and I’m a little worried about upgrading to the 24.04 version and was planning to wait until mid Jan. when hopefully the upgrade will be officially “stable”, i.e. with a nice little upgrade-notification. But now Spotify has released a version that requires a newer version of glibc so currently the apt-version of Spotify won’t run on my machines. So, how has it been for you? Have you upgraded without problems or did you do a fresh install ?
I upgraded in October and ended up going back. Some issues I had were:
Constant freezing
Some apps such as VLC taking a long time to open
After a week or so my dock stopped working completely
Tiling was really messed up for me. Windows would not snap correctly into sections
It wouldn’t ever remember my monitor configuration. Every time I’d want the device from sleep I had to reset things like resolution, scaling, etc
Those are just a few things off the top of my head. And this was also early October. They may have fixed those things by now. My plan is to upgrade next fall and if those issues still aren’t fixed for me then I am headed to another distro.
So if I were you, I’d make sure you have a proper backup, and just got back if you need to.
Yeah, maybe I’ll take some time and make sure to actually restore from backups before I do the upgrade. And maybe I’ll go for the fresh install instead and try make sure that all my unfinished projects/dotfiles etc are up to date on my remote git server so that I can bring them back one by one. The Spotify thing is irritating though… I am building a little Spotify game and both the dev (on my desktop and laptop) and the actual server has been on U22.04 based systems.