Ubuntu 18.04 Rant
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- I intended this to be my Ubuntu 18.04 review. Instead, it is a rant about all that went wrong.
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18.04 as other LTS releases are bestially still betas. The "real release" is 18.04.1, about 3 months from now. At this time all 16.04 users are notified about upgrade to 18.04.1. Not before that.
I used Ubuntu regularly ever since 5.10 and I have always had issues with the April releases. Ever since 6.06, the LTS's have almost always been buggier for me than the October releases. I have learned to wait until the July .1 release for LTS's and then they usually get it right. Come July, 18.04.1 should be good.
Pretty good observed :)
It's so bad, they are already pushed 3 updates
I downloaded and installed it 2 days ago and have the same exact experience as described in the video. I can relate with the rant so much!
I had the same issue. The problem in my case was that the Nvidia driver was not installed. To fix it when you are in the purple screen press: CTRL + ALT _ F2 and a terminal prompt should appear, login in that terminal and run: "ubuntu-drivers devices" to list the drivers and the recommended drivers to install. Next use "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall", and "sudo reboot". Hope it helps
I also have the "orange screen of death" sometimes...
I've tried Ubuntu server, xubuntu, and kububtu. All work perfect out of the box. Both on hardware and virtual.
I think an LTS release should initially be released as a non-LTS, so they can take 6-12 months to work the bugs out. That's how it's done with Node.js.
That's how it is done. Need to wait for 18.04.1 for final-final version.
They usually try new things on X.10 and then do some minor changes for the X.04 when it's an even year.
What troubleshooting process did you use? I just didn't hear you describe an approach that would be much help. Did you review and compare any logs for example? You had good instances and bad and could have made more helpful comparisons than I heard described. Did you find anyone else that had done any of that? I'm not an ubuntu user but this did seem more rant than helpful.
We are in a new era where Arch is more stable than Ubuntu.
Yep. Cant wait for Fedora 28 though. Seems promising.
mwont Just wait a further 2 days and Fedora 29 will be out.
Antergos user checking in. +1 love for Arch-based distros. Dependencies are handled better. System boots/reboots faster. Everything's more stable.
I've always been able to, personally, find something to complain about with every distro... usually within a few hours. I'm a few months into Antergos and I have zero complaints.
That is bull, Arch is a rolling distro.. if you're not updating it on regular basis you can count on it that it would crash. Fedora or Debian are smarter choices.
I can’t wait until Linux Mint 19 comes out!
AJ, sorry you had issues with Ubuntu 18.04 but MAN! that desk setup looks great!
Linux Quest thanks!
10 years Ubuntu user and big fan... But same experience as you ((
Yeah, I had this issue with 16.04, I think, and one cause is that in beta's you still find software that it's being testing untill the last moment; when they release the final image, they don't package the testing versions, they put something like last stable versions of that software and here is where the pain comes, that beta's work and stable versions don't. It needs probably o couple of months to stabilize or more.
I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, but I'm sticking with 17.10 (gnome session) because of nvidia-prime which I kind of fixed myself. In general I prefer anything but Ubuntu. I've often found that it needs more work for my needs than other distro's, and new unexpected bugs are terrible even on LTS's. My guess is that mixing old and new libraries is a terrible choice on long term.
The wife saw the desk while I was watching. Guess I'm building one now :)
My hope is to work on the video of my desk build next week.
Have you collected the data about the issue and filed a bug? That way the developers can analyse it try to fix it?
Yes I filed a bug report, although I didn't get to it until today. I wasn't sure of all of the information needed since I had so many problems, but I did include the systemd boot chart. Bug #1768149 if you want to check it out.
Great video I liked and subscribed to you. I haven't had any problems with my new install of regular Ubuntu but I can see how that would really suck. Look forward to your next video.
Sucks that you had all these problems, just want to say that my experience has been flawless so far.
I actually wanted to try Manjaro this time around, but it gave me some weird problems, so tried Kubuntu, same issue, so I went back to regular Ubuntu, and it has been a joy so far :-)
The best way to use Ubuntu LTS releases is to stick with the previous LTS until the .1 release arrives (Ubuntu 18.04.1). To be honest, there really isn't much that can't be done with Ubuntu 16.04. Even the kernel has been updated on 16.04 to keep up with newer hardware. Having said that, I have personally found 18.04 to be the least glitchy release I've seen in a while. My guess is you happen to have a hardware config that hasn't been adequetly tested yet. Report the bugs and they will get fixed.
That's weird, first I've heard. Mine is not flawless but stable.
Do you think it has anything to do with Ubuntu dropping unity and going with Gnome? That's the only major change with the new release over the other spins. It's the only thing I could think of not really diving into the issue myself.
My dual boot Dell Precision is running Ubuntu 18.04 quite well. My wife's kitchen PC was updated from 16.04 to 18.04 with no odd issues. One is Intel the other AMD, both work nicely. Replaced Win-10 in my HP Split X2 because Win-10 was acting improperly, Ubuntu runs perfectly. Tried a live USB of Ubuntu 18.04 in a rescued older laptop and installed it for a test of the platform, all worked right.
Hopefully the next Linux Mint release won't be as buggy!
I wonder if the installation issues that you have been experiencing with regular Ubuntu has anything to do with the memory leak in GNOME, that they haven't gotten around to fixing yet. Thanks for the heads-up! I guess I will try the MATE version instead.
However, if it that GNOME memory leak were the source of your problems, you would have also experienced them with your beta installation, which you said you didn't.
Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and Kubuntu 18.04 do not even install on my Dell XPS 15. I am greatly disappointed! Sticking with Mint.
Same here. Not sure where the issue is.
you do realise that "hacked iso" was solved ages ago right?
I installed(dual booted with Windows 10) Ubuntu 18.04 on my Dell Inspiron 15 3543. It works like a charm.
I gotta get a laptop for college, found decent hardware for incredible money, but it comes with an unspecied Linux distro. I mainly do web browsing, and light gaming from time to time , but i will have to use apps like Word or Excel ocasionally. Do you recommend i keep the Linux or just pirate Windows?
I don't like Windows and will go to great lengths to avoid using it. For a majority of people, a linux distribution has all of the tools they need. You mentioned excel and word; if you simply need a word processor and spreadsheet program, use LibreOffice which is an open source (and free) office suite. If you have to have word/excel, you can install Microsoft Office using a tool called PlayonLinux (here is a video I made explaining how ua-cam.com/video/f0DiH054-1I/v-deo.html ).
Thank you
Sounds like you had gnome-only problems. The big trouble with new gnome is that extension workspace-to-dock crashes on startup. Delete it from down under ~/.local and retry. I had to log into Unity to do that, however. This is on upgrade, obviously.
There are newer (fixed?) versions of that extension. I had a fine but older version --- death!
If I may ask which is the best Ubuntu version?
It also might be worth trying Debian. Ubuntu takes a snapshot of Debian's Unstable branch every 6 months at the start of their dev cycle to clean up. I have used Debian's Testing branch on my desktops and laptops for years and had minimal problems, usually worked out in less than a week with regular updates. For servers, I use Debian stable for the reliability.
I know that Debian isn't known for their speedy development, but they are much better than before, and using Testing makes life SO much nicer for the Desktop experience. For example, I have had the same "install" of Debian on my desktop for the last 4 years, covering 3 major releases (Wheezy - 7, Jessie - 8, and Stretch - 9) with continuous upgrades very much in the vein of an Arch Linux. The only recent complaint I have is that Debian Testing isn't receiving the newer versions of Firefox until the new ESR version drops, so the built-in version doesn't have the newer Quantum features, although you can selectively install it from Unstable if you wish to do so early.
Gday , awesome feedback
I tired in VBOX and it couldn't even install correctly
The issues that prevent me migrating fro Win7 to Linux on my main gaming rig is:-
No separate individual driver for Presonus Audiobox USB
I tired for 2 months without a proper working correctly featured AMD R9 380 driver
Every single distro refuse to work correctly in SAMBA on my desktop PC and I gave 11 different distro's a go
Did not have any of your problems, but did find that Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-MATE had issues with disconnecting my WIRED Internet connection coming back from SUSPEND. I saw there is a bug report for it on Xubuntu, but never have had a problem with a wired connection in any Ubuntu product before, and I have had no system changes. I hope they get this fixed along with the issues you are having.
AFAIK 16.04 won't inform users to upgrade until 18.04.1. This isn't a new issue. Then again I have had zero issues with Ubuntu 18.04 (except Gnome).
I didn't try the final Ubuntu 18.04 on hardware so I didn't have any of the issues with it that you had but I did do the beta with no problems. Do you think that they just put out a bad ISO? I ended up using Ubuntu Mate on my main machine and that is running beautifully.
I only use Linux and I am looking for a Linux version that is good with video recording and editing. Is Linux AV a good choice or can you recommend something? I something with good production value. Thanks
Ubuntu 18.04 is a crash & burn on my sacrificial netbook. Something is messed up between display drivers & Gnome meaning that it never boots cleanly. I get to a certain point just after the "Gnome starting" log message, then I get a cursor overlaid over the boot messages, and it goes no further.
The only way to get the thing even vaguely usable is to come up in repair mode, select "enable network", and then when that locks, hit Ctrl&c, at which point it completes booting and gets me to the desktop, albeit with the graphics messed up (low resolution and wrong aspect ratio), plus it runs like a sloth on valium.
I have reinstalled video drivers, tried to pull in a different desktop, all to no avail.
It's an old Dell Inspiron 10 with Intel on-board video .
Now, I expect my wifi to be screwed up, that comes wit the Linux territory.
I suspect that nobody who's developing it is using older hardware. I use Ubuntu to keep my older machines usable. I suspect that a lot of the Linux community does too.
That's because Ubuntu desktop is a spin of their core product Ubuntu server, server is where the Dollar is, desktop is a PR project.
I wonder if still having issues after a few weeks of updates. It has been great for me, even fixed a video issue I had with 16.04 and on Windows. Might also try installing gnome-session and then switching the login session - I do that first thing and may contribute to why it runs so well for me.
Note: Version Ubuntu 18.04 only --- UEFI hardware on "POST" will not accept GRUB. You have to temporarily allow UEFI on advanced Bios settings (Sabertooth Motherboard) Start up Ubuntu on the trying Ubunto mode. And click on the hard drive icon. Click on the hard drive THAT YOU ARE INSTALLING Icon. Choose to format it with the Ext4. Then go to "permanently" install the OS. This will get you past the UEFI rejection of GRUB. You can kill UEFI next cold boot by going back into the Bios screen - 'My computer is Del or F2 - and disable UEFI from there. Save and exit.
The real LTS started at 18.04.1. But Ubuntu flavour is just better than the default one.
Sorry to hear you had so many issues with it, I've read that other ppl had it too, but for me personally it works really well, I had issues with 16.04, but this release, everything just works, so it might be hardware compatibility? I don't know, but you have the point there, these issues should not be present on LTS release.. especially when Ubuntu is being promoted as easy to use and stable distro.
I, too, had problems with upgrading to 18.04 on more than one box (a Dell Inspiron from 2009, and an HP 2000 Notebook). There were glitches in the upgrade process, and, upon rebooting after upgrade, both boxes crashed. Soooooo, I downloaded the .iso file, and burned it onto one of my USB drives. The bad news is that I could not use the flash drive to upgrade--on either box. I had to do a clean wipe and install . The good news is that the clean wipe and install went flawlessly. By the by, in other good news, the live .iso also works flawlessly.
I also have an Acer Aspire One to upgrade. I suspect that I'll have problems since I did previous upgrades using the 32-bit versions of Ubuntu. I think I'll end up upgrading to Lubuntu 18.04, most likely with a clean install.
10:26 - Its released when it works , rather then rushing and not work , which is something most if not ALL , AAA games are having issues with
Anyone who has been around Ubuntu long time knows that the initial release is always buggy. Wait until July when the 1st major updates occur. Happens every time.
I noticed GalliumOS didn't auto migrate to 18.04 , they are going to wait a few weeks/months which is good
GalliumOS works awesome (Xunbuntu for chromebooks) on my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35
I've been using Ubuntu 18.04 on one of my fastest PC's and no problems whatsoever. Trouble is too many reviews are carried out by folks running test from a Memory stick. :) :)
I had crashing whenever trying to use Wayland, while Fedora was perfectly stable. The thing stopping me from switching to Linux is the lack of good per monitor display scaling like Windows 10 has. Wayland is getting there, but still needs some work to get it right. If there was a way to do a virtual resolution in Wayland to have it treat the 1080p monitor as 4k it'd be great, but I don't see any way to do that. I also hate Gnome now. The file manager is terrible due to not being able to type in a path. Overall things just seem way too simplified and lacking of features.
I just upgraded my son's PC from regular Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04. While 17.04 to 17.10 already was a shaky experience with glitches here and there, the upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 is a disaster. Nvidia proprietary drivers aren't working - it loads the Nouveau driver. Then I did a manual installation of proprietary driver 396.18 only to get a blinking screen after reboot. There's a script just after grub that waits for like 2 minutes until it "gives up" making the boot process a 3 minutes long torture. I am not going to waste my time fixing this. I will purge the proprietary nvidia driver and re-enable Nouveau. Then I'll do a data backup and I will install Kubuntu or any other desktop Linux.
I think Canonical pulled the plug on Desktop Linux - they just don't seem to care anymore (see Shuttleworth interview). Because had they tested it, they would have known they can't release that version. Really strange communication behavior by Canonical and lack of leadership. If they decided to do server and IOT only in future, why didn't they tell us bluntly?
Why bother and release a faulty LTS desktop release? Leave it to the guys that do Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Mate, Elementary and so on would be perfectly ok.
I'm just speculating, but it sounds like your problem is Wayland. Wayland is a bit of a crap show right now, so I'd strongly recommend sticking with X. If you are on Xorg, though, that's really weird.
The issues are while running x. Wayland won't even try to boot.
Luke Dupont 18.04 final does not use Wayland.
Oh, wow. That's really bad.
I also can't switch between users.
Get the curcer only screen if I log out.
Downloaded from Ubuntu site.
Clean installation.
Desktop works on 1st startup.
Had similar problems Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on two machines. The Ubiquity installer crashed on both. The Beta 2 release with all of the upgrades seems to work fine. ???
Ubuntu Studio 18.04 is probably a better option. I am using it and it is working well and has most of the AV packages pre-installed.
Sounds like an unsupported driver or perhaps a related bug - what hardware are you running and have you checked in forums?
I didn't have any issues on my System 76 Lemur 2012. I wonder if it's a proprietary driver problem. Because I'm using the open source drivers and didn't have any issues.
I'm not using any proprietary drivers.
you are absolutely right..just like thought
What's your favorite distro overall?
Up until recently, I've been using Solus with Gnome Shell. However, when I replaced my graphics card, it din't work too well with kdenlive on Solus. So for right now, I'm using Elementary.
Kind of typical with Ubuntu, remember when 16.04 came out and there was the Wifi network manager problems?
Well, it's know what Ubuntu is just ridiculous since they moved from Gnome 2. What I don't know and can't wrap my head around is why people keep torturing themselves by using it.
All I can say is thank god that Ubuntu waits till the first point release to upgrade itself. Hopefully they'll have this fixed in 18.04.1.
8:52 - What Linux needs is Corporate and Public Beta testing with actual people that do beta testing that isnt a demo and give proper detailed feedback, but Ive never heard of this type of program that exists
Nowadays the Chromebooks that support Android might be the best bet because you can run various Linux distros under kvm, the Google chrome book has a big enough drive to run multiple distros via kvm now without needing to go into developer mode.
I understand your disappointment and the need to rant about this. The 18.04 worked perfectly fine for me out of the box, however I don't really expect anything from Ubuntu anymore as the company is focused on their cloud & iot OS, so things like these will happen ...
Ubuntu is a for-profit company they care about making money there not making money from their home users I pretty much guarantee that their corporate users were not experiencing the same problems
Orange screen of Death? Must be something with your hardware... Mine installed like a dream.
I upgraded and got locked out of my PC; it just hung on boot up. Fresh install and it worked. First time ever that has happened. This will release will probably stay with this box now until it is replaced.
Hey, I had the same issues, here are my findings:
1] For purple/orange screen of death,
It's a GDM issue. The current workaround to login is to wait anywhere from 5 to 15min for login to fail, then click cancel and click again on your user and enter the pass again and click enter.
The issue is known and has been filed here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/227
2] For simple screen recorder
When in GDM choose to login into gnome with X server instead of Wayland since afaik SSR doesn't have Wayland support.
You are right, it has been a stupid blunder. I sidestepped it by logging in for some days to Wayland.
I can understand you're frustration with 18.04 but just remember that you can always go back to 17.04, and sure that might defeat the whole point of going to 18.04. I think it's just important to remember that this is the first LTS version in a while going back to GNOME, so granted some things are bound to be buggy off the bat with the first GNOME version
17.04 isn't supported anymore. You could use 17.10 and only upgrade once 18.02.1 is released, for instance.
I upgraded my 16.04 to 18.04 and have regretted that decision. My CPU usage has been running at 100% ever since. I was forced to do a clean install and still the same thing. No updates are available. Looks like I have to live with the problem and hopefully the next kernel updates will fix the problem.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
273 root 20 0 266976 220752 924 R 97.0 5.8 175:21.52 systemd-udevd
Thanks for the video, is possible you can do a comparison of ubuntu 18.04 and deepin 15.5?
Yep.
By far the best ubuntu release is 18.04. Everything works great except the sound through HDMI.
Running on an ESXI 6.7 host, 1 out every 3 reboots nautilus decides not to play nice on 18.04 LTS
You can use a dedicated disk with virtual machines, at least with Oracle VM VirtualBox.
Just upgraded to 18.04 and for the second time after an upgrade, it won't start other than in safe mode. I'll probably have to spend a day unfucking this mess again. Who has time for this bullshit?
Same experience here. 18.04 LTS is slow, didn't support my gpu correctly, issues with audio, stuttering performance.
Just finished the 16.04 LTS install.
Happy to be back. Also prefer the startup screen and Unity over Gnome. I know this could be changed, but I rather have an out of the box solution.
I quit using main stream ubuntu since Unity. I missed stable vanilla Ubuntu. I used to be debian but the magic is gone since gnome2 died fir me.
You can still use Unity on 18.04LTS. It's just a sudo apt install unity away.
11:08 - Ubuntu Mate is becoming the new mainstream Ubuntu "proper"
yersterday upgraded from 17 to ubuntu 18.04 bionic, so far no problem
I've had the same booting issues you described. Not tried any recording... I should have just stuck with 16.04. Live and learn...
Making my video on Ubuntu 18.04 and wow! got the same as you A.J, I installed the snap communitheme and tried logging in with that, not sure if that was the cause or not, will try a new install. I will have to try on my main machine which is running 18.04 beta 2 flawlessly, I'll be shocked if it happens on that lol
PCTLC Hi A.J, thought I'd let you know this is my UA-cam channel, which I'm using more than my own name now.
I just subscribed.
And added it to the list of UA-camrs in my video descriptions.
Thanks A.J very much apreciated!!
One would have to pry SparkyLinux from my cold dead hands. I love Sparky Openbox Edition, but plan to switch to LXQt Edition, once the LXQt folks release 0.13 version in 2021.
Openbox is no matter which distro you're using a fine WM. LXQt? I don´t know if it is lighter than XFCE.
There are a lot of bugs. I did the same thing as well. The problem is with the Wayland. Just disable the wayland for gdm3 and it was fixed for me. I read a lot on this thing and everyone including Arch, fedora that are on GNOME shell 3.28.1 is facing the same issue. Remember, This version is kinda bleeding edge and too unstable for the LTS release.
Xorg is stable on this build. Hopefullly they'll fix this in future builds
just D/L'd it and set it up... takes some tweaking....I like the interface... the only thing I don't like is the time difference... My Bios is set right, yet Ubuntu shows UK timezone....
I also upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 without any issues.
Have you considered using Reaper DAW on Linux instead of Audacity - www.reaper.fm/
AJ your problem your having is the same with me sadly was ready to go and got everything I wanted to install and rebooted after my first updates and then I go to log in the only difference between yours and mine is it locks up on a purple screen with just a cursor but if I click at the top right I get the pull-down menu for brightness and shutdown but that's it. I was ready to go I love Gnome and that's the desktop I use. I hope an update takes place because I don't like Pop OS nor do i want to switch to Arch quite yet.
Love the t-shirt
Installed on Thinkpad x220 with 4GB. Sucks. Constant 'Ubuntu has experienced internal error'. Printing never worked even with 32 bit drivers. This was released prior to real testing. Went back to Mint 18.03. Ill wait for Mint code..its always better.
I had kind of same issues here which make me go back to my trusted old mint
I had a problem with it installing on my disks and the UEFI but easy to fix, maybe my mistake dont know. But what happened next was terrible. I had a 4 monitor setup working on 17.10 and even reducing to 3 monitors didn't work. Had to change my NVidia 950GTX to a AMD HD7850. And there i get tons of problems with monitor detection on the default Gnome Desktop. Have to use the monitor settings on all power ups. This can't be the solution. Now a month later we already have 3 updates to 18.10. Canonical really don't give a shit anymore about the Desktop - thanks Mark, i understand now.
Ubunt 18.04 running good for me on a clean install
Lts stability is pure myth. Rr distros are as stable if not more than Ubuntu lts - long term shit.
Personally, I had no problems with 18.04 on my System76 Meerkat machine.
It's horrible. 'minimal' wouldnt install for me. The full install is slow to boot. The software center is like a Moscow bread shop in 1982. The only emacs i can find (on the gui or in the cli) is emacs-tealeg (whatever the heck that means). It's the snap. I install that. The created application shortcut won't work. Wrong path. There is no option to change the path, no properties option on a right click. No worries, I'll add it to my favourites bar. No, there is no 'add to favourites' option. Create a desktop icon? you guessed it... This involves creating a .desktop file and that didn't work anyway. I run it from the cli, that works but it ties up the terminal (i can use the shell in emacs, i know). It is a basic requirement of a desktop that you can create shortcuts of your applications or add them to your favourites. Maybe it's a snapd thing, maybe its an issue with emacs-tealeg. I don't know. I'm no expert, but I'm no newbie either... 18.04 for me has been a bad experience so far
Hehe I'm using a Gentoo based Distro and it's stable as ever :3
I think I'm going with Ubuntu Budgie this cycle. I despise Gnome and I know Unity is still in the repos, but I don't want to use unmaintained software.
16.04 was the same. A nightmare on release day but all the RC's were good. I don't get it.
I have a problem with my laptop and 18.04. I sometime get a black screen after waking up from sleep
For me i got to the login screen and it took 2 or 3 tries to get it to take my password and then i just had a purple screen and wouldn't boot the rest of the way, so i went to ubuntu mate and it was flawless.
Peter Brown occasionally my password types with characters showing. Only issue I've seen so far.
its wayland display manager it hates some display adapters choose the alternate display manager and it works fine
No, this was on Xorg
18.04 is the worst upgrade I have ever done.. 17.10 was bad.. but this one basically has killed my system.
Simple tools like gedit can only run properly with sudo else it screen refresh fails (basically there is no refresh). Same happens with other tools like meld etc.
Performance sucks. Everything feels slow.
Try taking backup !! Poor thing couldn't copy couple hundred gigs in a day.. basically had to kill it ..
Forget abt using network folders. Better copy to a pendrive n rush around to move data.
This is one hell of a mess.
Yes I had the orange screen of death and what I found was that was on my dual monitor systems. What it did, God help us, was switch my primary monitor to the secondary and even if I change the config. in devices, at post it changes back and when I try logging in after "The Fix" It still refuses to use my primary monitor even if the secondary is turned off then good luck logging in!
I still can only log-in using my secondary monitor, that is also use by my grand-kids for games and movies!
It's a royal PAIN!
Would be nice to add that to his bug report: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1768149
Dude, there's something wrong with your coffee.
Or maybe really bad day?
When I installed Ubuntu 18.04 I also got it stuck on that orange screen, It booted up the second time, but there is some issue with Powerline module that I installed a few versions back for my terminal sessions. I haven't taken the time yet to research it out and see what I need to do, I am thinking just uninstall Powerline and relinstall it should work. We'll see. Oh! and I am having some issues with fonts in Discord Server not rendering properly. Lot's of artifacts in it. I know there was a work around about downgrading one of the libraries to a previous version and it fixes the problem. Those seem to be the only things I have had issue with lately. SimpleScreenRecorder is working for me with H.264 using the UA-cam profile.
this is shocking that Ubuntu would do this.
Just Debian Buster/testing will be more stable than the latest Ubuntu releases...
im reverting to 16 ,18 has so many problems