Story time

Thank you.

>nightly auto-upgrades
what the actual fuck ?
This has got to be bait. No one that got into a position of controlling 300 professionals could be this stupid.

Wow what a great evolution of the thinkpad general thread meme where you give out free laptops.

This is what Canonical recommended us to do, to be able to provide LTS and security. Who am I to go against the recommendation of the creator of the product?

Tech consultants tried to remove the GPU's and start from the onboard VGA. BIOS booted up fine but the graphical system did not even load. It just dropped us into a console.

Hmmm why not RedHat?

>install Lubuntu
>use this trash heap of an OS for a month, just glad to have a Unix-like development environment
>apply updates and, at some later date, reboot
>black screen and coil whine
>can't switch to any of the ttys
>just black, forever
>same in (recovery mode)
Very stable OS with well tested packages.

Well, in hindsight, that is a very good question. We took the bait and bought into it. I would not do it again.

>All workstations and laptops gets automatic updates (basically a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) nightly to ensure security and feature updates.

>NOT DOING ROLLING SOFTWARE UPDATES
>IN TWENTY FUCKING SEVENTEEN

DO YOU THINK THOSE STORIES YOU HEAR ABOUT ENTERPRISES RUNNING OLD SOFTWARE IS BECAUSE OF INCOMPETENCE?

NEVER UPGRADE ANYTHING UNLESS

1. YOU ARE SURE YOU CAN ROLL IT BACK
2. YOU HAVE TESTED IT.

THIS SHIT COULD HAVE EASILY HAPPENED ON WINDOWS.

You should never install feature updates, only security ones. I’m sorry to hear about your situation but if microsoft had a similar bug, would you say “windows, never again!”. Probably not, you would get mad and then accept it and go about your business, like most companies do. That’s the issue with GNU/Linux, ONE bug and it’s “linux is broken!!!”, but windows can literally do anything and that’s okay, right?