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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by lovedswain »

xbar wrote: post #136
lovedswain wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I'm running it of course.

I don't run Ubuntu. If I did, your question has convinced me I would be happiest on an LTS version. 5 years of not changing much is more in line with my level of interest in puttering around my OS settings than every 9 months. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

The 19.10 bump was to get some fresh base libraries to build something as I recall. I think it might have for Remmina. Otherwise totally agree with you, LTS is always preferable

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by stjohnswarts »

suby wrote: post #11

It'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…

Still broken with Nvidia cards. Works fine with Nouveau drivers. If you want wayland with good performance from your cards it's best to look for AMD graphic cards/gpus . That said I use it just fine on a laptop with nvidia video that is ancient (2014 build date) and Ubuntu 21.04 works great on it. I updated from LTS to give the new pipewire and wayland stuff a shot and it's fine. Makes a good little multimedia server with VLC, unified remote on my phone, and some custom lists

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ldiracdelta »

jbunc wrote: post #118

How many of you upgrade day of release? Wait a little bit to see how others feel about it? or only stick to LTS?

I'm all about the penguin method of upgrading. Wait to see if there are seals in the ocean that eat the early penguins.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by leephillips »

For my most recent install I used Debian with nonfree firmware. It worked quite well, and I don’t have to deal with “snaps” or worry about what new shenanigans Canonical is up to. I recommend it.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ASalazarMX »

lovedswain wrote: post #122
lorenzhs wrote: post #114

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Are you aware that you've been running a version that hasn't been getting updates since July of last year? If not, then having your OS actually get updates again might be a surprise. You'll have to update to 20.04 first, though, and then 20.10 before you can update that to 21.04. There's no direct update path (another known surprise, one might say). If you don't want to update every six months, just stick to the long…

The bootloader was broken for this laptop model in 19.10 and I've been deferring going through the same pain upgrading to 20.04. Totally aware of the support situation and upgrade sequence, but an unsupported machine sure beats a bricked machine

You should definitely go to the pain of upgrading to 21.04, since xx.04 releases get updates for 5 years instead of 6 months.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by stjohnswarts »

CraftThatBlock wrote: post #127
slacka wrote: post #119

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> Wayland support is getting really good these days Depends on your needs and hardware. I have an Nvidia desktop and Intel Laptop both running Arch + GNOME 40. Intel is definitely less buggy, but I still find myself switching back to X11. For example, when I needed screen sharing for work video conferencing, it only works under X11(PipeWire support was buggy at the time). Wayland/GNOME also still have issues with mou…

Have you tried PipeWire recently? Seems like there's a lot of recent development, and that screensharing now works under Wayland with newer versions. I'm still on Xorg myself, but planning on switching to Wayland later this year once XWayland support is merged (also using NVIDIA card) Edit: I've switched to PipeWire for Xorg with pipewire-pulse with zero issues so far.

If he's on Arch I'm sure he has a pretty recent pipewire install.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by 2pointsomone »

lucis wrote: post #135
2pointsomone wrote: post #129

I have been following the Ubuntu homepage for about 15 years, and it's so interesting how they went from prominently promoting every CTA around downloading the desktop version, to now, where I had to spend 5 minutes trying to find a link on their site to the ubuntu.com/desktop site.

For me it was ubuntu.com -> Hover on Download -> Click on the green button below Ubuntu Desktop.

Exactly! The only way we ever knew how to use ubuntu.com.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by lovedswain »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #146
lovedswain wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bootloader was broken for this laptop model in 19.10 and I've been deferring going through the same pain upgrading to 20.04. Totally aware of the support situation and upgrade sequence, but an unsupported machine sure beats a bricked machine

You should definitely go to the pain of upgrading to 21.04, since xx.04 releases get updates for 5 years instead of 6 months.

Even if my machine won't boot afterwards?

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by stjohnswarts »

2pointsomone wrote: post #129

I have been following the Ubuntu homepage for about 15 years, and it's so interesting how they went from prominently promoting every CTA around downloading the desktop version, to now, where I had to spend 5 minutes trying to find a link on their site to the ubuntu.com/desktop site.

quickest way to navigate their site is with duckduckgo or google.
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