Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04, Which is better?

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I used 14.04 for a few months, until my HDD died, and i noticed that after a updates, some sort of error always occures, being some freezes, compatibility issues, shortcuts not working, system freezing after opening LibreOffice ..etc.

I could live with those problems, but i want to know if maybe 12.04 is better.

What are the differences between them?

Is 12.04 more stable since its older, does it have better compatibility, less frequent freezes, or any other thing?

12.04 will be supported until Spring 2017, 14.04 until 2019. — Byte Commander, Oct 18 '15 at 18:06
14.04 has newer packages for some libraries and applications: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu . — hiro protagonist, Oct 18 '15 at 18:08
If your machine works better with 12.04 then go for it. Try latest release first 15.04. — Aizuddin Zali, Oct 18 '15 at 18:11
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16366/whats-the-difference-between-a-long-term-support-release-and-a-normal-release — Hannu, Oct 18 '15 at 18:15
That about answers my question about support. Now i just need an answer about the errors and freezes — Nikola Atanasov, Oct 18 '15 at 18:18
Errors and freezes will depend on the hardware your trying to run Ubuntu on. — William, Oct 18 '15 at 18:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '15 at 21:26

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I use Ubuntu 12.04 with all my two PC. I haven't errors. With Ubuntu 14.04 I had nvidia driver issues on my Desktop pc, so I downgraded at 12.04. It is supported until 2017,too.

answered Oct 18 '15 at 21:26

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