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Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by fstephany »

Zhyl wrote: post #47
doublesCs wrote: post #32

For a long time I've been using Lubuntu on my laptop. However, a couple of years ago they changed focus and From wikipedia: Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now aims to be "a functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer" I stopped updating my OS since (I'm on 14). Does anyone care to sugg…

If you're just looking for a DE/WM that's light on resources, I can definitely recommend tiling window managers like i3 [1]. I'm not sure what other changes would be in your sightlines given that you were happy with Ubuntu, but I usually go to the Arch wiki in those times to see what fat I can trim off of my setup. [1] https://i3wm.org/

Regolith [1] is the perfect i3+Ubuntu combo for me.

It comes with sensible default for a good i3 experience but you keep the Ubuntu "universality".

[1]: https://regolith-linux.org/

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by pantalaimon »

pedrocr wrote: post #57
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...

Just set font scaling to 1.3x or whatever it is you need and everything works great. I've been doing that for many years for 1440p in a laptop. Ubuntu actually regressed there since switching back to GNOME from Unity. In Unity font scaling was neatly exposed in the same slider as integer scaling and all apps used that setting. Now I have to set one thing for GNOME and another for Firefox to get the same effect. "Prop…

Unity still exists, it got renamed to Lomiri - you should still be able to install that. So maybe that feature still works.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by innocenat »

sho_hn wrote: post #49
zeppelin101 wrote: post #11

"Fractional scaling does not work with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (bug 1870736, bug 1873403)." That's kind of a big deal for any desktop users with a high resolution display.

While I would agree it's certainly not insignificant, fractional means, say, 1.5.x. A nice high-resolution display will be 2x, which will generally result in a nicer experience (largely due to how software deals with it or not). Now many people do indeed have displays where a fractional multiplier works better, but as a buying rec - try to avoid them.

You usually want 1.5x for 13.3" laptop with 1080p which is not uncommon at all and is kinda hard to avoid.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by jakear »

capableweb wrote: post #64
jakear wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, simply double clicking on the file never actually worked for installing debs. The UI would pop up, give me a nice pleasant "Install" button, but clicking it would either no-op, crash the UI, show a progress bar that stalled out, or act like everything worked perfectly but not actually install it. Command line install works flawlessly every time.

Judging by your other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061 ) you were using Software Center for the installing. Gdebi was working fine back before Software Center.

I was using whatever popped up in a default Ubuntu VM when I double clicked a .deb file. If they've chosen to make that not the best software for installing .deb's... lets just say I can see why people say Linux distributions tend to be user-unfreindly.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by zyga »

curt15 wrote: post #40
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.…

>The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. The graphical "gnome software" software installer was replaced in the default install by a snap-only fork named "Snap Store" with no support for Flatpak (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/+bug/1871944 ). Were there some technical reasons for this move or was it a business decision to kneecap the other package format?

IIRC GNOME removed support for snaps from gnome-software so this was the only way forward.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by readwind »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #48
coinerone wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing that holds back my Employer to switch to Linux for 6500+ Desktops is Microsoft Office and full MS Exchange compatibility. The Collegues who need Adobe Products just have to work with Apple Machines anyway.

Just switch to LibreOffice. The dependency on .docx/.xlsx is an overblown propaganda. I personally had a business in 2007..2011 that replaced windows for Linux. All that time I heard that same old song again: "But but MS Office is so essential!". Turned out, not so much, on over 5000 PCs in several dozen companies. Update: business eventually failed, for one simple reason - Ubuntu Linux is too freaking stable. The id…

It's great that you got so good results of it, say yes to free software. May it continue and may it improve. Perfect man.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by renewiltord »

jpsnz wrote: post #66
renewiltord wrote: post #30

It isn't released yet, right? My package manager isn't bumping up.

From the link, I had to run sudo do-release-upgrade -d to get mine to upgrade.

Thank you. Wow, they removed Python 2.7 huh? Had to clear out some packages to let that go through.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by amelius »

globular-toast wrote: post #62

I wonder if we'll ever get /usr/bin/python back. Or is it going to be like browser user-agent strings where we call it "python3" forever and forget why we can't just call it python?

I guess it will break too many things, some of which may be out of control of Ubuntu.

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by zyga »

Jean-Philipe wrote: post #31
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.…

> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. I don't get why they're doing that. Snaps have mostly created problems for me, like they don't scale when other apps do, or the styling is off, or they don't show up properly in the software manager. The snap daemon on one of my laptops always blocks the shutdown by 30 seconds. Generally a rather confusing experience.

It's still work in progress but snaps genuinely make packaging easier. There are rough edges, especially on the desktop, but those are all being worked on, in collaboration with flatpak actually.

It will take a while but in the future it will not be any worse at runtime and it will be much, much easier to package and run apps across releases and OSes

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

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Post by oefrha »

sho_hn wrote: post #49
zeppelin101 wrote: post #11

"Fractional scaling does not work with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (bug 1870736, bug 1873403)." That's kind of a big deal for any desktop users with a high resolution display.

While I would agree it's certainly not insignificant, fractional means, say, 1.5.x. A nice high-resolution display will be 2x, which will generally result in a nicer experience (largely due to how software deals with it or not). Now many people do indeed have displays where a fractional multiplier works better, but as a buying rec - try to avoid them.

The nice 2x high-resolution display is generally significantly more expensive (just compare 4k and 5k displays at 27’’), so the advice isn’t wrong, it’s just not very practical.
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