Good bye to Ubuntu 10.04

Just tripped over a comment suggesting to say good bye to Ubuntu10.04 due to new software upgrades.

The current choices seem to be a a flavor of Debian or Ubuntu 12.04.

Any recommendations and gotchas with respect to either option? Life expectancy of either installation?

Much obliged.

I said goodbye to Ubuntu 10.04 and although I have installed Linuxcnc on Linuxmint mate (following the JohnT's instructions), that according to my modest opinion is 100 times better than Debian, still miss Ubuntu since I can not update to the latest version 2.7.6 yet... :sick:

Note: I speak from my ignorance but I think it was a mistake to pass the development of LinuxCNC to the Debian platform, a mistake that discourages all new users and beyond. I'm kindly asking to the LinuxCNC programming team please adopt an user-friendly distro

Just my 2 cents,
LinuxMint is awesome in every way you look at it and i have it on at least 5or 6 of my laptops and desktops, but it is on the slugish side even on the core i5 @ 3.2GHz with Nvidia graphic, while debian wheezy runs very usably on an AMD Geode 1 GHz procesor with 512MB ram.
Then again, Ubuntu 10.04 was (sigh) built like a tank, it never broke, it never complained, and things just worked. It was extremely reliable as far as software goes. I still use it on several laptops and desktops ( don't ask me how many computers i have, there must be over 20 just in my workshop).
So i choose the distro based on the task at hand and move on. All of them work, and all of them will get the job done properly.
Regards,
Tom

I have been using Linux for some time now and never understood what makes Ubuntu so highly recommended. I first explored Linux in depth using Ubuntu 8.04, because the community support was so much better than other distros but never could get used to the unity interface in 10.04 and eventually settled on Mint mostly because it uses APT which I was familiar with in Ubuntu, and the gui was more pleasing to me than unity, switching to the Debian wheezy distro for LinuxCNC was pretty painless, although the gui is not as pretty as mint I have found everything else adequate, as well as any of the other distros that use the Debian based repos.the biggest difference I can find is in the display manager. What is it about Ubuntu or Mint that people love so much that Debian is missing? Other display managers can be installed in Debian.

10.04 does not use unity ( i personally hate unity ), later versions do. Debian is the ultimate Linux for a lot of Linux users ( i mena A LOT ), as it is stable and quick and works without issues for years and years ( something no Windoze known to man can do ), but it is more demanding for beginers as they have to learn to deal with sources and dependencies etc.
The best thing with Linux by far is that you can find a distro fitting your needs always, just search for it.
Regards,
Tom

Right 10.04 moved the window minimize maximize and close buttons to the left side of the window, otherwise it was fairly similar to previous versions of Linux. It's only been 6 years I can't believe I forgot that unity was later.

At any rate, why are so many people afraid Debian isn't enough like ubuntu or mint? From the command line they are nearly identical. Other differences are cosmetic for the most part, Debian is only marginally more difficult to learn to use. I think those who haven't used Debian are afraid of it because they heard it was difficult to use from someone who had never used either Debian or Ubuntu