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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by e12e »

brnt wrote: post #72
cstrahan wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PipeWire looks like it's shaping up to be an excellent spiritual successor to (and unification of) both PulseAudio and JACK: https://pipewire.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire

Is pipewire in Ubuntu 21.04? I think Fedora 34 has it.

Looks like screen/camera sharing: yes, audio: no

https://lwn.net/Articles/849639/

Ed: or audio: yes?

> Pipewire support is now enabled which restore working screen recording and allow better audio handling for sandboxed applications

From release notes: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hirsute-hippo-release-notes/1... posted by @spivak in another comment.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by stevencorona »

devwastaken wrote: post #57

I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version. Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zf…

As much as I love ZFS, I also recently hit this issue and it was an exercise in frustration to get a running system again.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by _-david-_ »

muterad_murilax wrote: post #37
cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

> I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism. Doesn't Snap solve this?

The Flatpak version of Firefox is official and created by Mozilla. I don't think the Snap version is. If that matters to you then you may want to go with Flatpak over Snap.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by trissylegs »

regularfry wrote: post #65
cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

I know it's not for everyone, but building your own Firefox binaries isn't hard.

Or the binary tar-ball from Mozilla included the auto-update. (I'm using Nightly so that's the best option for that)

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by trissylegs »

jagger27 wrote: post #34

Somewhat related: I’ve been using GNOME 40 on my Arch-based desktop and it’s really slick. It’s making the switch from macOS a little less painful. Looks like it didn’t make into this release. Completely unrelated: I just discovered Rofi (extensible Spotlight-ish launcher for Linux) and it’s lovely, especially when bound to Super+Space.

I mean gnome 40 came out weeks ago. Not going to be in Ubuntu for a while. (Ubuntu does tend to lag on the Gnome front, which does give a chance for theme and extension devs to catch up)

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

> I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism.

This is par for the course on some distros. Fedora, for example, has its own repository for Firefox that is sometimes behind the mainline release of Firefox (although in my experience it's usually only a few days).

The advantage of the process is that the Fedora Firefox repo actually has its own QA testing, so they occasionally catch some things that might impact Fedora users specifically, that otherwise might go unnoticed if I were to switch to the Firefox flatpak.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by CrazyPyroLinux »

CraftThatBlock wrote: post #31
devit wrote: post #15

Have 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.

Maybe cost-effective compared to running SQL Server on Windows?

And a "sanity-effective" alternative to Windows - I've found that running their officially-supported container has been a much better experience.
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