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Funny thing is, the theme introduced in 10.04 was actually supposed to be introduced in 9.10, but was delayed to 10.04, which was also an LTS, because the theme wasn't ready. 10.04 was my first experience with Ubuntu, and despite some of the naysayers calling the theme a "macOS ripoff", I kind of liked it! Even 11.04 was decent, albeit a bit annoying because of Unity, but not unbearable as far as I could remember. Too bad I had to leave Linux while I was in high school because nothing really worked on it; OpenOffice got forked into LibreOffice, and PC game support was literally a joke.
Ubuntu 9.10 was my first distro too! I remember thinking it was bold to have brown and orange as the main colors, but in a good way. Feels nostalgic :)
I love flatpaks. Snaps could be a good alternative. If they were really free. The safety argument for a centralized store doesn't hold any weight when people could download scam crypto wallets on the biggining of the year.
Yep remember when it first dropped. It changed the Linux perception for a lot of people. Coming from back when Linux first dropped and going through many of the early distros, including the OGs like Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE, it was something different for those that were still scare to try Linux.
@@AndoresuPeresu I think the biggest advantage is that they'll find issues with Flutter on Linux and fix them, so developers of Flutter apps will have an easier time bringing their apps to Linux. One thing that already came out of their efforts is their Yaru style for Flutter, which makes Flutter apps feel at home on Ubuntu visually. Also, they already wrote a lot of documentation on how to deploy a Flutter app on Linux.
@@AndoresuPeresu Advantage to Flutter apps is that it is cross platform and it has a very good animation system. Overall the technology is pretty good
While I recognize the criticism directed at Ubuntu, it truly stands out as the ideal Linux distribution for the average user. I've successfully introduced it to my family, including my mom, and they effortlessly adapted to it, just as they did with Mac and Windows. It functions seamlessly!
I feel that all Linux distributions are stuck in 2004. No killer features or major improvements for the past 20 years. A new menu item here, a new button there, a new accent color… Apps are still using different GUI themes, and we are still switching back and forth from X11 and Wayland. it’s just sad.
There’s no money in it, that's why everything is so slow. If Canonical or Red Hat were selling their own computers with their OS preinstalled by default, you’d have a much better experience. Desktop users are just third-class citizens in the Linux world.
I was mostly just interested to hear if VR works on Linux with the new update. Steam has been directing Ubuntu users to a fix to make DRM leasing work in order to make their VR games work. It would be nice to have out of the box VR support on Ubuntu
I recently went back to running regular Ubuntu after distrohopping(and usually kept either Pop OS or Fedora if I wanted something stable) and I have used practically everything maybe except Gentoo or LFS, and to be honest the experience with regular Ubuntu has become pretty cool even with using some apps installed via Snap. Although I do use apps mainly from Flatpak or native sources, snap to be honest isn't as bad as it once was. Not to mention Ubuntu 24.04 compared to any other distro out there is working far better on my laptop surprisingly. Anyways, thanks for the video Nick! Sure 24.10 isn't that big of an upgrade but to celebrate 20th anniversary of by far one of the most popular Linux distros I will be upgrading to it and see how it works out!
Kubuntu now for many years my daily driver. Tried many other distro's and spins and just keep on going back to Kubuntu. Looking forward to getting a stable Plasma 6.x / KDE.
Thank you for your content very informative and interesting as usual. Also the new camera is incredibly Sharp. Good work.
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I ordered 6 dvd by mail from Canonical. My first distro was mandrake, but this "order" a dvd thing with a release was too good to pass.that boot sound though... never ending. Sosuemi for mac continues to be the best one.
Honestly have been wanting to see app permissions for Flatpak for a while now, so I hope that these Snap permissions will push Flatpak to develop them instead of relying on developers to set the correct permissions or having to use Flatseal.
Honestly, I love the UX for Snaps apps on Ubuntu - at least where they're heading in terms of management GUI's design directions. I wish Flatpak is like that, already, on other distros. It's just really annoying to see diverging implementations and you can't mix and match the ideal aspects of both.
@@lx2222x Wtf are you talking about. I'm talking about the system integration with the progress bar in the panel icon, the general flow in Ubuntu Store and how it integrates between pages and systems, as well as their design for how it will ask for permissions once it's ready. I don't care what Flatpak apps, or Flatpak GUI installer, or whatever you are thinking about use. I just want good UX in the system.
Ha, Ubuntu has a new bootsound now? I always liked the older boot sounds and always felt like something was missing ever since things went silent. Nice to see it make a comeback!
I started using flatpak in Ubuntu because Steam Proton doesn't work in the snap install. Flatpak works perfectly well though. I just install almost everything with Flatpak instead.
I actually like the new snap file permissions dialog (though I agree it could be more user friendly). With Flatpak, this is kind of a mess: If the app supports file portals, everything works fine for files you open one time. Setting a permanent directory however (e. g. a games folder for Heroic) doesn't work if the app doesn't yet have permission to access that folder; the portal will instead return some random folder in /run that won't be valid the next time you launch the app. You have to give the flatpak access to the folder manually through Flatseal or whatever. It doesn't automatically ask you to do that. And apps that don't support portals at all can't access any files at all until you give them permission manually. This is not user friendly.
8:36 I would assume they want to implement system wide policies too later on, the home folder might be representing your individual settings in your home folder where your isolated apps are located.
Started with Linux with Ubuntu 12. Got pretty nice. If Ubuntu wouldn't force to its Snaps, I'd give it another shot. Maybe. Debian sid is pretgy fine dor me. And I got the great Gnome 47 experience as well. Simply the best Gnome so far for ,e.
Personally I do not get why the hate towards Ubuntu…I use Ubuntu and do not touch anything snap related, is not like the Canonical is blocking you from using flatpaks or the classic Debian packages… Why do I use Ubuntu? It is more stable than most distros, and snaps do not bother me, again, I do use them but there are there as an option. No Ubuntu? no Mint, no PopOS etc etc, people should be a bit more grateful.
Nick for ubuntu spins, watch out for mid november with lxqt 2.1 and xfce 4.20 promissing wayland and even sway support in lxqt. Couldnt test the experimental releases myself, i use lxqt+i3 btw lol. Also, bsd just anounced initial suport for snapdragon x
Ubuntu's color palette for highlight colors is so much better than gnome's palette on default like in fedora. Waited like 15 years to be able to easily change my highlight color to blue-violet or a cooler purple but with gnome 47 now I still just have to use a fucking hacky solution for something basic.
From what I remember, Ubuntu 14.04 was my first Linux distro... Really? It's been 10 years? It's been quite influential on me, to the point that I've even been replicating the "Unity layout" on other distros and DEs And... I've returned to it after all this time... Just to use a particular app that's not in rpm, only a deb package.
If you have Ubuntu 24.04 LTS how do you upgrade 24.10 with apt? Is it is safe to do now since it is Oct 10 and I see the ISO image on the Ubuntu website. Other sites warn not to upgrade since it is beta, so it sure be okay now, just worried it will break my install. Would be nice to have the newer kernel and mesa drivers.
Boot sound sounds so good, I'll boot my system just to listen to it. Few seconds are nothing, if it's comes with a good sound. That snap-store error message is annoying, and I thought it was the app itself, that gives the error, not snap-store. It was something desktop app, that I tried to update, and that popup appeared and I just set it to ignore.
You will get that, albeit KDE Plasma 6.1 instead of the just released 6.2. That being said, I'd try Tuxedo OS, because it gets faster kernel, Mesa, and KDE Plasma updates and comes with flatpak support by default and snaps patched out.
Hey, could you update your steam guide to include installing via debian package instead of snaps? I did this and it massively improved performance on ubuntu
I loved fedora but suddenly three SSD suddenly died on two different PCs with fedora, maybe no related to the distro but considering the importance of the component I don't want to take the shot again, Ubuntu it is, I just need a boring system tu my everyday tasks and machine learning, Ubuntu is not the best but works just as I need.
Fedora has nothing to do with your SSDs dying. Sounds like you got a bad batch, bad brand, old ones. I remember when SSDs first started getting popular a lot of them died fast and it was due to the controller chip on them that actually dies. Probably due to all the read/writes. You might want to consider a different brand or some newer SSDs.
Some very nice changes, but I'm curious about the new apt, does it come with multi-download threads, or is using nala still the best way to download multiple files at the same time?
this all snap stuff are overhated for vain. I use it daily both for gui apps and for terminal apps. Not all apps are packaged the best way but most of them are and you won't feel them being installed as snaps or deb packages. I like Canonical's route more than Red Hat's, so it's an upgrade time for me :)
How they manage that 20 years? O.o I broke 24.04 under 20 minutes after removing smthing (dont remember) after it... i go apt autoremove that stubid removed almost everything GUI realted....
It takes around 30 seconds to activate Flatpak on Kubuntu at least. Should not be much more on Ubuntu. And the whole universe of deb packages is there anyway. And a beginner would use the GUI to update his apps, so he would never come in touch with Snap. And if he is advanced enough to use the command line, he can easily install everything he needs with apt and flatpak.
Great overview Nick. What GNOME/Flatpack distribution would you recommend for a newbie if not Ubuntu? My main machine is Win11 but learning Linux on a N100 mini pc that also runs PiHole. Like Fedora but getting PiHole up and running (without disabling SELINUX) on that is beyond me currently.
Fedora really is the best GNOME/Flatpak distro, to be honest. And most distros don't come with SELinux/AppArmor enabled so of you're okay with using another distro, you should be okay with just disabling SELinux, from a security perspective, IMO.
I really dislike the permission UI but that's okay because right now it is an experimental feature. I believe it would be fixed when it becomes stable and comes enabled by default.
Hi Nick, Congratulations on your work around Linux. I have been using Ubuntu for a long time, because developing web applications is easier to install and manage than in other distributions. I also use Mint, with its philosophy of not using the Snap ecosystem. I also removed the Snap ecosystem on my 24.04 LTS and only use Deb packages and Flatpak applications. I am looking forward to 24.10, so that I can use KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (currently using Plasma 5.27 on X11). Do you think it is not a problem in the future to remove the Snap ecosystem in this 24.10 release as in future releases? Will I have a complete and untruncated experience of some utilities related to the distribution? Thank you in advance for the time you will take to answer this question, and again congratulations for the work around Linux that you give with all of your videos. Gilbert ARMENGAUD Béziers, Occitanie, France
Ubuntu used to be my silver bullet. It used to just work. Now it always breaks for me. I can’t find a distro that runs Orca Slicer and let me play Black Myth Wukong. Don’t want to go back to windows/dual boot. :(
So there is like zero QoL improvements again, and they had a full year of development, this linux thing is getting ridiculous, nothing changed year ago for better and nothing changed now
Unfortunately their installer is very buggy, depending on the hardware you use. Two examples: - It just fails on some laptops when wireless hardware is enabled. - Small TPM banks and booting after being in the UEFI firmware settings fails if you choose the TPM encryption. And they basically ignore bug reports for these. I feel like they have some target setups which they implicitly test and support for their big corpo licensers and that is it. If you have a setup which deviates a bit, they do not give a fk about it.
Would keep it if it was shorter. Like the reason why it works for Windows XP was it took forever for it to start and it ends with the desktop fully loaded. This just seems way too long and makes me not want to touch it after the sound is done.
Why does ubuntu even use gnome if they refuse to use all the nice apps gnome has. I don't understand why anyone would ever use this distro just based on how fragmented the entire thing is.
Ubuntu gnome is most beautyfull version it remindes me on unity 8, it was good move to include logo on app bar instead of dots.But gnome is not much customizable, ratio beetween fonts and UI is not good for people who are vision impaired.To increase font UI become gigantic and font is still thin.
14:36 - with Fedora also removing X11 and using Wayland by default, RedHat and Canonical should focus on improving eGPU support on Linux because currently it's atrocious, especially on Wayland. It's far off from what is available on Windows.
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*Ubuntu releases new version
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Project stalker lmao
I love startup sounds😊
Same. Can't wait to turn it off though.
@@rumplstiltztinkerstein this one seems to be win 98ish, way too long
As soon as I saw Ubuntu 9.10 I got the feels. That was my first distro, followed by the original Damn Small Linux.
Funny thing is, the theme introduced in 10.04 was actually supposed to be introduced in 9.10, but was delayed to 10.04, which was also an LTS, because the theme wasn't ready.
10.04 was my first experience with Ubuntu, and despite some of the naysayers calling the theme a "macOS ripoff", I kind of liked it! Even 11.04 was decent, albeit a bit annoying because of Unity, but not unbearable as far as I could remember. Too bad I had to leave Linux while I was in high school because nothing really worked on it; OpenOffice got forked into LibreOffice, and PC game support was literally a joke.
Ubuntu 9.10 was my first distro too! I remember thinking it was bold to have brown and orange as the main colors, but in a good way. Feels nostalgic :)
0:05 I was there Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago.
A very nice touch of the new APT is that will colour in red when about to DELETE packages. This will save your life every now and then.
I remember using Ubuntu around 2006. It has come a long way. I use it daily on 2 of my machines and love it.
I love flatpaks. Snaps could be a good alternative. If they were really free. The safety argument for a centralized store doesn't hold any weight when people could download scam crypto wallets on the biggining of the year.
Yeah but most (almost all) flatpak users use flathub which is a centralized repo for most of the flatpaks.
Yep remember when it first dropped. It changed the Linux perception for a lot of people. Coming from back when Linux first dropped and going through many of the early distros, including the OGs like Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE, it was something different for those that were still scare to try Linux.
Happy Birthday to the Ubuntu community from an openSUSE user.
The start up sound is nice but ultimately it's that bird symbol that's awesome. I mean just look at it ! It's geometrically wonderful!
Looks like Ubuntu is also pushing for a Flutter based custom Desktop Environment (echosystem tbh) and they're slowly building apps for it in Flutter
Me being a complete ignorant on this, what would be the advantage of using flutter there?
@@AndoresuPeresu I think the biggest advantage is that they'll find issues with Flutter on Linux and fix them, so developers of Flutter apps will have an easier time bringing their apps to Linux.
One thing that already came out of their efforts is their Yaru style for Flutter, which makes Flutter apps feel at home on Ubuntu visually.
Also, they already wrote a lot of documentation on how to deploy a Flutter app on Linux.
For their own apps, yes. But they have no plans to replace Gnome apps (unless they have good reason to, like with Gnome Software).
@@aheendwhz1 Thanks! Great to get such a speedy response with such context. My brother uses flutter, I'll share with him.
@@AndoresuPeresu Advantage to Flutter apps is that it is cross platform and it has a very good animation system. Overall the technology is pretty good
Shoutout for the NVIDIA Wayland support at long last. I'm eager to enjoy it
Boot sound makes is kind of cute
It was used until 6.06. I never had heard it in a LONG time. It's quite nice.
I have to say that those ubuntu apps are looking pretty professional.
The first Linux distro I ever tried was Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. It's come a long way since then.
While I recognize the criticism directed at Ubuntu, it truly stands out as the ideal Linux distribution for the average user. I've successfully introduced it to my family, including my mom, and they effortlessly adapted to it, just as they did with Mac and Windows. It functions seamlessly!
The 8.04 wallpaper still goes so hard. I've used it on my macbook and gotten people turning heads at it.
3:55 to 4:07
Heeey! There's my Warty remastered Wallpaper.
That boot sound is not bad, it's soothing and techy, but with modern machines and their speed, it lasts waaaay too long xD
A useful overview, thanks. Nothing here to make me feel I should upgrade from 22.04.3 LTS, though.
You should at least move to 24.04, as that's a better LTS that is not a mismatch of GNOME Shell and app versions.
I feel that all Linux distributions are stuck in 2004. No killer features or major improvements for the past 20 years. A new menu item here, a new button there, a new accent color… Apps are still using different GUI themes, and we are still switching back and forth from X11 and Wayland. it’s just sad.
There’s no money in it, that's why everything is so slow. If Canonical or Red Hat were selling their own computers with their OS preinstalled by default, you’d have a much better experience. Desktop users are just third-class citizens in the Linux world.
I was mostly just interested to hear if VR works on Linux with the new update. Steam has been directing Ubuntu users to a fix to make DRM leasing work in order to make their VR games work. It would be nice to have out of the box VR support on Ubuntu
I recently went back to running regular Ubuntu after distrohopping(and usually kept either Pop OS or Fedora if I wanted something stable) and I have used practically everything maybe except Gentoo or LFS, and to be honest the experience with regular Ubuntu has become pretty cool even with using some apps installed via Snap. Although I do use apps mainly from Flatpak or native sources, snap to be honest isn't as bad as it once was. Not to mention Ubuntu 24.04 compared to any other distro out there is working far better on my laptop surprisingly.
Anyways, thanks for the video Nick! Sure 24.10 isn't that big of an upgrade but to celebrate 20th anniversary of by far one of the most popular Linux distros I will be upgrading to it and see how it works out!
Kubuntu now for many years my daily driver. Tried many other distro's and spins and just keep on going back to Kubuntu. Looking forward to getting a stable Plasma 6.x / KDE.
Ubuntu now has the best looking installer and software center imo. Now we just need a system backup and reset/refresh feature
Timeshift?
@@Batwam0No. The future is Ubuntu Core.🙂
Dapper Drake was my first release I used way back in the day. Amazing how far they have come.
2:29 I found out about Linux five years ago, but that sound itself is a nice touch.
Thank you for your content very informative and interesting as usual. Also the new camera is incredibly Sharp. Good work.
I ordered 6 dvd by mail from Canonical. My first distro was mandrake, but this "order" a dvd thing with a release was too good to pass.that boot sound though... never ending. Sosuemi for mac continues to be the best one.
Why do I installers get so much attention? You only use them once.
I think the market share is low. Since you want to keep users you make the onboarding smooth and exciting to gain their interest. Just a guess.
Honestly have been wanting to see app permissions for Flatpak for a while now, so I hope that these Snap permissions will push Flatpak to develop them instead of relying on developers to set the correct permissions or having to use Flatseal.
Honestly, I love the UX for Snaps apps on Ubuntu - at least where they're heading in terms of management GUI's design directions. I wish Flatpak is like that, already, on other distros. It's just really annoying to see diverging implementations and you can't mix and match the ideal aspects of both.
Flatpak is not a GUI system. You can also make a Flatpak App with Flutter. But still using Flutter is a good choice
@@lx2222xit's not the flutter implementation is very linux unfriendly and bad to package
@@lx2222x Wtf are you talking about. I'm talking about the system integration with the progress bar in the panel icon, the general flow in Ubuntu Store and how it integrates between pages and systems, as well as their design for how it will ask for permissions once it's ready. I don't care what Flatpak apps, or Flatpak GUI installer, or whatever you are thinking about use. I just want good UX in the system.
@@lx2222x I think you read something wrong
Ha, Ubuntu has a new bootsound now? I always liked the older boot sounds and always felt like something was missing ever since things went silent. Nice to see it make a comeback!
Man moving to Linux when win 11 gets to end of life is looking more and more great.
I agree, as long as you mean Windows _10._ Windows 11 was so bad I jumped to Linux full-time upon 11's release.
@@cameronbosch1213 same
My fist Ubuntu was Feisty Fawn. I even requested the CD installer. I was sooo excited when I received that CD.
I started using flatpak in Ubuntu because Steam Proton doesn't work in the snap install. Flatpak works perfectly well though. I just install almost everything with Flatpak instead.
I actually like the new snap file permissions dialog (though I agree it could be more user friendly). With Flatpak, this is kind of a mess:
If the app supports file portals, everything works fine for files you open one time. Setting a permanent directory however (e. g. a games folder for Heroic) doesn't work if the app doesn't yet have permission to access that folder; the portal will instead return some random folder in /run that won't be valid the next time you launch the app. You have to give the flatpak access to the folder manually through Flatseal or whatever. It doesn't automatically ask you to do that.
And apps that don't support portals at all can't access any files at all until you give them permission manually.
This is not user friendly.
This boot sound is from Warthy Warthog! _this was fun fact_ 2:31
I wish that effort spent to make snap as it is would be directed to Flatpak as one truely universal packaging format.
Ubuntu 24.10 feels and seems faster than 24.04.1 and everything before that.
I think Windows XP had a perfect length startup sound, and it is so much longer than Windows 7's. This one was just too long.
8:36 I would assume they want to implement system wide policies too later on, the home folder might be representing your individual settings in your home folder where your isolated apps are located.
Started with Linux with Ubuntu 12. Got pretty nice. If Ubuntu wouldn't force to its Snaps, I'd give it another shot. Maybe. Debian sid is pretgy fine dor me. And I got the great Gnome 47 experience as well. Simply the best Gnome so far for ,e.
I'm waiting for Kubuntu 24.10 much more
honestly, using any other distro and not having to deal with snap is just so refreshing.
At this point the only thing i dislike about snaps is the centralization, everything else is pretty nice
Is the language bug in the installer fixed?
Started with Ubuntu 6 myself, pretty much stopped since my PCs reduced to only work-issued MacBook
Personally I do not get why the hate towards Ubuntu…I use Ubuntu and do not touch anything snap related, is not like the Canonical is blocking you from using flatpaks or the classic Debian packages… Why do I use Ubuntu? It is more stable than most distros, and snaps do not bother me, again, I do use them but there are there as an option.
No Ubuntu? no Mint, no PopOS etc etc, people should be a bit more grateful.
Just because snaps are ok with you does not make them ok for the rest of us. Do some research.
@@riseabove3082 did you even read my comment at all? Or are you being purposely ignorant? 🤦Some people...
I'm not a big fan of snaps but i like ubuntu for some reasons
Nick for ubuntu spins, watch out for mid november with lxqt 2.1 and xfce 4.20 promissing wayland and even sway support in lxqt. Couldnt test the experimental releases myself, i use lxqt+i3 btw lol. Also, bsd just anounced initial suport for snapdragon x
i just want fractional scaling to be better, they should do something like KDE where X11 apps don't have scaling
they did this in gnome 47
I really like the theming of ubuntu but I can't get past the snaps
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Ubuntu's color palette for highlight colors is so much better than gnome's palette on default like in fedora. Waited like 15 years to be able to easily change my highlight color to blue-violet or a cooler purple but with gnome 47 now I still just have to use a fucking hacky solution for something basic.
Nick telling us his age without telling us his age!
Hi, Is it better to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.10 instead of upgrading from 24.04? Thank you for your time..
Started from 11.04 and switched to Mint after the legendary 16.04 , I was really heartbroken over leaving unity
Solid, despite uneventful, update.
From what I remember, Ubuntu 14.04 was my first Linux distro... Really? It's been 10 years?
It's been quite influential on me, to the point that I've even been replicating the "Unity layout" on other distros and DEs
And... I've returned to it after all this time... Just to use a particular app that's not in rpm, only a deb package.
Hello @TheLinuxEXP
What do you think about my Warty Remastered Wallpaper included in Ubuntu 24.10?
Thanks Nick.
4:11 Libadwaita 😮💨😪
My first Ubuntu was 9.04
I miss brown ubuntu. Started with Feisty Fawn.
If you have Ubuntu 24.04 LTS how do you upgrade 24.10 with apt? Is it is safe to do now since it is Oct 10 and I see the ISO image on the Ubuntu website. Other sites warn not to upgrade since it is beta, so it sure be okay now, just worried it will break my install. Would be nice to have the newer kernel and mesa drivers.
Boot sound sounds so good, I'll boot my system just to listen to it. Few seconds are nothing, if it's comes with a good sound. That snap-store error message is annoying, and I thought it was the app itself, that gives the error, not snap-store. It was something desktop app, that I tried to update, and that popup appeared and I just set it to ignore.
What I only expected from 24.10 is KDE + Wayland.
You will get that, albeit KDE Plasma 6.1 instead of the just released 6.2. That being said, I'd try Tuxedo OS, because it gets faster kernel, Mesa, and KDE Plasma updates and comes with flatpak support by default and snaps patched out.
Can you use a third party app to take screenshots now
Or is the Gnome implementation of Wayland still the problem here
I don’t mind having snaps, I don’t use them. I just love ubuntu’s look and feel.
I loved 12.04 to 18.04
24.10 has been released? This is the first time I saw it.
Hey, could you update your steam guide to include installing via debian package instead of snaps? I did this and it massively improved performance on ubuntu
I loved fedora but suddenly three SSD suddenly died on two different PCs with fedora, maybe no related to the distro but considering the importance of the component I don't want to take the shot again, Ubuntu it is, I just need a boring system tu my everyday tasks and machine learning, Ubuntu is not the best but works just as I need.
Fedora has nothing to do with your SSDs dying. Sounds like you got a bad batch, bad brand, old ones. I remember when SSDs first started getting popular a lot of them died fast and it was due to the controller chip on them that actually dies. Probably due to all the read/writes. You might want to consider a different brand or some newer SSDs.
Some very nice changes, but I'm curious about the new apt, does it come with multi-download threads, or is using nala still the best way to download multiple files at the same time?
i did not used X11 for many months on gnome, Gnome 47 is running good ...
this all snap stuff are overhated for vain. I use it daily both for gui apps and for terminal apps. Not all apps are packaged the best way but most of them are and you won't feel them being installed as snaps or deb packages. I like Canonical's route more than Red Hat's, so it's an upgrade time for me :)
Might I request a video reviewing the latest versions of OpenSuSe and ZorinOS?....LOL!
How they manage that 20 years? O.o
I broke 24.04 under 20 minutes after removing smthing (dont remember) after it... i go apt autoremove that stubid removed almost everything GUI realted....
It takes around 30 seconds to activate Flatpak on Kubuntu at least. Should not be much more on Ubuntu. And the whole universe of deb packages is there anyway. And a beginner would use the GUI to update his apps, so he would never come in touch with Snap. And if he is advanced enough to use the command line, he can easily install everything he needs with apt and flatpak.
I ❤ wayland to use
Great overview Nick. What GNOME/Flatpack distribution would you recommend for a newbie if not Ubuntu? My main machine is Win11 but learning Linux on a N100 mini pc that also runs PiHole. Like Fedora but getting PiHole up and running (without disabling SELINUX) on that is beyond me currently.
Fedora really is the best GNOME/Flatpak distro, to be honest. And most distros don't come with SELinux/AppArmor enabled so of you're okay with using another distro, you should be okay with just disabling SELinux, from a security perspective, IMO.
Nice update, but I'll keep using 24.04 until 26.04.1 release.
See I am looking at the tuxedo pcs but not feeling like paying crazy amounts of money for it
All I want to know is: does the image file preview pane work when uploading pictures ? I'm stuck on 20.04 because of this one dumb thing.
I really dislike the permission UI but that's okay because right now it is an experimental feature. I believe it would be fixed when it becomes stable and comes enabled by default.
Hi Nick,
Congratulations on your work around Linux.
I have been using Ubuntu for a long time, because developing web applications is easier to install and manage than in other distributions.
I also use Mint, with its philosophy of not using the Snap ecosystem. I also removed the Snap ecosystem on my 24.04 LTS and only use Deb packages and Flatpak applications. I am looking forward to 24.10, so that I can use KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (currently using Plasma 5.27 on X11).
Do you think it is not a problem in the future to remove the Snap ecosystem in this 24.10 release as in future releases? Will I have a complete and untruncated experience of some utilities related to the distribution?
Thank you in advance for the time you will take to answer this question, and again congratulations for the work around Linux that you give with all of your videos.
Gilbert ARMENGAUD
Béziers, Occitanie, France
excited for the new release, but the update to apt is kind of redundant given that nala exists
Ubuntu used to be my silver bullet. It used to just work. Now it always breaks for me.
I can’t find a distro that runs Orca Slicer and let me play Black Myth Wukong. Don’t want to go back to windows/dual boot. :(
i think that colour is called bile
Better screen recording for better Recall....
I usually uninstall the snap store and any snap apps I dont need, and let gnome-software manage everything. Seems good though!
So there is like zero QoL improvements again, and they had a full year of development, this linux thing is getting ridiculous, nothing changed year ago for better and nothing changed now
Unfortunately their installer is very buggy, depending on the hardware you use. Two examples:
- It just fails on some laptops when wireless hardware is enabled.
- Small TPM banks and booting after being in the UEFI firmware settings fails if you choose the TPM encryption.
And they basically ignore bug reports for these. I feel like they have some target setups which they implicitly test and support for their big corpo licensers and that is it. If you have a setup which deviates a bit, they do not give a fk about it.
Thank you Nick for always giving us tech updates. Hugely appreciated!
Would keep it if it was shorter. Like the reason why it works for Windows XP was it took forever for it to start and it ends with the desktop fully loaded. This just seems way too long and makes me not want to touch it after the sound is done.
Why does ubuntu even use gnome if they refuse to use all the nice apps gnome has. I don't understand why anyone would ever use this distro just based on how fragmented the entire thing is.
Ubuntu gnome is most beautyfull version it remindes me on unity 8, it was good move to include logo on app bar instead of dots.But gnome is not much customizable, ratio beetween fonts and UI is not good for people who are vision impaired.To increase font UI become gigantic and font is still thin.
14:36 - with Fedora also removing X11 and using Wayland by default, RedHat and Canonical should focus on improving eGPU support on Linux because currently it's atrocious, especially on Wayland. It's far off from what is available on Windows.