Hi all,

Just reporting for anybody who might be interested. I installed Ubuntu Server 16.04, added the neon repositories and installed the neon-desktop. Everything worked flawlessly and my system has been very stable for a couple of weeks now. Not a single crash. I didn't install any graphics drivers yet.

The reason for installing this way is that I needed to partition my system in a way that's not supported by the default installer. Basically I wanted to install an encrypted system with a separate home partition and use Btrfs for root, a combination that's not possible with the standard installed. This configuration is possible to do with the more advanced server installation partitioner.

Hope this helps.
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A.B.

Just wanted to see if your Neon on Server was still working well. I have decided to condense all the computers and would like to run Neon as a Server with lxc containers - Just wanted to see if you thought that it was still running stable enough for such a scenario.
Thanks!

oboltyo wrote:Just wanted to see if your Neon on Server was still working well. I have decided to condense all the computers and would like to run Neon as a Server with lxc containers - Just wanted to see if you thought that it was still running stable enough for such a scenario.
Thanks!

Some gremlins developed after a few months but I'm not sure if it was because of this non standard method of installation or just me fiddling with the system. I choose to reinstall rather than try to fix it since it's faster for me to rebuild a system from my backup server.

I switched to OpenSUSE Leap and I'm loving it. Much more stable than Ubuntu & KDE support is the best I've seen. The graphical user interface (Yast) lets you do even the most sophisticated tasks easily and it's rock solid. It also has great support for virtualization including LXC, so you might want to give it a try. If you want the latest KDE release then try out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, it's their rolling release and it's still stable and well tested.

Hope this helps.