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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by Ballas »

gerdesj wrote: post #4
thdrdt wrote: post #2

Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…

"It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal." There's another way?

Exactly!

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by LeonM »

Looking through the features

  Gnome 3.36
  - X11 fractional scaling.
I got all excited, because this means that now finally Ubuntu will be usable on my Lenovo X1E with High-DPI display.

But then further down below:

  Fractional scaling does not work with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (bug 1870736, bug 1873403).
OK, nevermind, back to Windows with WSL...

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by renewiltord »

safgasCVS wrote: post #18
thdrdt wrote: post #2

Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…

Sorry I’m not adding anything to the conversation here, but have they removed that strange ‘swipe-up to login’ gesture at the start screen?

I don't believe my 19.04 login manager does that. I do recall that being annoying because my first keystroke would actually just move that up. Now it starts up to the user list by default.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by aritmo »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #3
thdrdt wrote: post #2

Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…

I use Ubuntu at work. Chromium is now snap only, and snap crapped itself with some error messages that didn't immediately lead to a solution when thrown into Google. Firefox was my main browser anyways so not too a great loss but oh man...

They ramped up the security in Chromium and it is not identical to the old package. It is too much security that hurts ease of use.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by globular-toast »

LeonM wrote: post #22

Looking through the features Gnome 3.36 - X11 fractional scaling. I got all excited, because this means that now finally Ubuntu will be usable on my Lenovo X1E with High-DPI display. But then further down below: Fractional scaling does not work with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (bug 1870736, bug 1873403). OK, nevermind, back to Windows with WSL...

Throw your nVidia card in the bin and be free. After many years with nVidia I removed the card and I've been happily using Intel hardware for a year now.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by curt15 »

thdrdt wrote: post #2

Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…

>Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board.

Where did you hear about this?

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