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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ubuntu-mate

"Choose a release" section on Downloads page should be clarified

Open kumikumi opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Details about the problem

If you are a novice user who is looking to download the Ubuntu Mate release with "latest features", the downloads page is somewhat misleadingly advertising 19.10 as such. Meanwhile 20.04 LTS is advertised as just being stable and suitable for mission critical systems.

Users should be made aware that 20.04 has the latest features and longest support, and the old interim release (19.10) and old LTS (18.04.4) should be made less prominent.

My suggestion:

On top of the Choose a release page there should be (at any time)

  • Newest LTS
  • Newest interim release, but only if it is newer than newest LTS

Below that there should be "Other releases" section, that has all other currently supported releases listed.

Screenshots

choose-a-release Current downloads page. "I guess I'll pick the one with the latest features"

Link(s) to the affected pages

https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/amd64/

kumikumi avatar Jul 04 '20 17:07 kumikumi