I tried Wayland on 20.10 a few month ago and concluded it wasn't ready for daily use. The worst thing is that it would RANDOMLY cause Gnome to restart while closing all my applications. Also the cursor was jumpy and laggy sometimes (especially when opening context menus). Is anyone aware if these issues still happen?
Ubuntu 21.04
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Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#22Holy crud, I can just straight up join this to my domain? This is world-changing. There is a GPO template. I think I'm in love.
You always could! sssd’s ad integration has been really solid for years and if you have a huge number of machines you can stand up FreeIPA establish a trust between them. The thing that’s changing with this release is the ability to support some GPOs with adsys. sssd has/had some basic gpo support as it relates to auth but not really for system config.
FWIW, GPO templates are what I consider the minimum to call something manageable, which is most of why I want things on Active Directory.
This definitely moves this into "I might introduce this to our environment" level.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#23There was an article here a few months ago about TPM backed full disk encryption in Ubuntu 21.04:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-2...
Anybody know what happened to that idea? It's been a long time desire of mine to have a secure Linux laptop without needing to enter my password twice during startup and I was hoping to get it with this release, but when I tried the beta the installer did not allow it.
Easy LDAP/AD support and TPM encryption were the two showstoppers whenever I asked IT departments at previous workplaces to provide me with a Linux laptop, as their engineers did not know how to set them up but they had compliance check-boxes they needed to fill in regardless of utility (antivirus being a third one but it turns out these days AV companies actually provide Linux builds). Now that the LDAP/AD stuff is sorted out, fingers crossed for TPM encryption.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#24https://www.debian.org/
Are you suggesting that debian.org links or should link to Ubuntu's release announcement?
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#25It's interesting to see Wayland enabled by default. I'm curious to know what state Wayland is in nowadays, especially regarding how well it works with Nvidia cards. The last time I tried it out was around 2017ish when Fedora enabled it by default. It was 100% not ready then as it wouldn't even boot into the desktop with my nvidia card. Is it actually ready now? Does it work with nvidia cards? Does GPU acceleration wo…
I've learned not to hold my breath on Ubuntu + Nvidia cards ever working out of the box. I've been using Pop_OS as a daily driver (distro over Ubuntu) and it works 95% of the time.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#26It's interesting to see Wayland enabled by default. I'm curious to know what state Wayland is in nowadays, especially regarding how well it works with Nvidia cards. The last time I tried it out was around 2017ish when Fedora enabled it by default. It was 100% not ready then as it wouldn't even boot into the desktop with my nvidia card. Is it actually ready now? Does it work with nvidia cards? Does GPU acceleration wo…
XWayland support on NVIDIA should be coming later this year: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...
Additionally, NVIDIA seems to be putting a lot of effort into overall Wayland support (yay!): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...
Hopefully, by next year, Wayland on NVIDIA should be "fully" supported. It's slow progress, but it is moving forward.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#27Can anyone comment on how/if VST GUIs work properly? VST2 doesn't make many guarantees but the VST3 spec implies that Wayland is not supported at all.
Ubuntu/Ubuntu Studio is a decent enough distro for audio production, so it would be sad if this was broken.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#28Have they sold the company to Microsoft? "Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu delivers an optimised, cost-effective database platform" Of course not, it's not free so it's not cost effective compared to the best database, which is PostgreSQL. Integration with Active Directory group policy seems also a really bad idea since it allows insecure proprietary software to control your Linux machines.
SQL Server and Active Directory are important for enterprise customers, and their true cost comes from the support contracts, not the purchase price (like all software at the enterprise level, FOSS or not).
This is a smart move by Canonical to court enterprise customers, especially with the Red Hat change of ownership chaos and churn.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#29It's interesting to see Wayland enabled by default. I'm curious to know what state Wayland is in nowadays, especially regarding how well it works with Nvidia cards. The last time I tried it out was around 2017ish when Fedora enabled it by default. It was 100% not ready then as it wouldn't even boot into the desktop with my nvidia card. Is it actually ready now? Does it work with nvidia cards? Does GPU acceleration wo…
Depends a lot on the compositor. I've been running on Sway for about half a year. It's 99% perfect — the only thing I'm missing is smooth high-DPI scaling for XWayland windows. Note, smooth high-DPI scaling is good for Wayland programs – I'm just talking about that one piece of software that I use that still needs X (Emacs).
Before christmas I played around with Plasma on Wayland. It mostly works, but there were some weird quirky behavior. I didn't look much into it, since I'm so happy with Sway.
I hear people say Gnome is fine on Wayland.
As for Nvidia: can't help you with that, sorry.
Re: Ubuntu 21.04
#30I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that right?
With any open project, you can lean in favor of only working with other free things, or focusing on usable scenarios even with non-free software. My impression has always been that Ubuntu leans to the latter, trying to provide a working solution out of the box.
This is why you can get PCs from enterprise PC vendors like Dell and HP shipped with Ubuntu.