It maybe just me but 2018 is looking like an annus horibilis for Linux Distributions. Why is this? There seems to be regression in so many of the offerings so far this year especially Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Debian, Mint 19, Manjaro and for special mention Open Suse 15. All of those seem to have gone backwards and the one time darlings of Distributions Ubuntu and Mint are just too buggy for words. I simply cannot see how Ubuntu 18.04 was a suitable LTS candidate. Mint 19 and Fedora 28 frankly should still be in Beta as they are not fit for consumption. Sometimes missing a release date is better than releasing a train wreck.

One flavour of Buntu that stands out from the Buntu crowd is Kubuntu, this is relatively stable compared to its cousins but that is not really saying much. On my Linux boxes I have reverted to using Mint 18.3 Cinnamom the best of the bunch in my opinion, simply put it just works.

With all the gripes about Windows 10 and MacOS 2018 should have been the year that the various Distributions pulled out the stops and released the best that they could do and really show that there are viable alternatives to the Redmond and Cupertino offerings. At least Google are shining the Linux light with ChromeOS. Now others mileage may well be completely different to mine, I have written this based on my experiences with the 2018 releases to date. There is of course another round later this year lets hope the menu is more palatable.