I'm really surprised to see so many people are currently (after release of 14.04) installing Ubuntu versions 13.04 and older. Apart from 12.04, these are not supported any more. I can see that someone really conservative will install Ubuntu 12.04, but anything else is just surprising to me. Can someone enlighten me?
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I would assume in 99% of cases it's lack of awareness: they don't realise their version is out of date.
Other reasons may include:
Don't have enough internet speed/quota to download an up-to-date CD image so they install from a bought/borrowed physical CD that's out of date.
They need an older version of some software (and don't realise the security ramifications of downgrading the entire OS for just one piece of software).
They installed Ubuntu some time ago and have never bothered upgrading (possibly partly because they don't have the internet speed or quota).
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We have a few answers to this...
It's what we know works. Fiddling is not free. People here know how to install 12.04 and 12.10. Also we often have a ready made virtual machine for Ubuntu 12.10 and all the software has been installed correctly.
We know that Ubuntu 13.10 has issues.
- The biggest one is that unity is there. Besides confusion, it broke vncserver.
- vncserver is extremely important to me. Serving a gnome desktop doesn't work.
- Virtual box guest top additions are problematic. Screen re-sizing doesn't work.
We know Ubuntu 14.04 has issues.
- vncserver - haven't tried it yet.
- here is some of the confusion: 14.04 VNC xstartup file
- I haven't yet seen a working 14.04 automated install from kickstart or preseed.
- the instructions are very poor for releases 12 and up.
- system-config-kickstart needed a hack from debian to run https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-kickstart/+bug/1260107
- xrdp doesn't work with Unity or Gnome and it doesn't work all that well with XFCE. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xrdp/+bug/1326273
