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Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by TekMol »

Isthatablackgsd wrote: post #37
TekMol wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "What do you mean?"? I don't know which window manager. I just use Ubuntus defaults. It looks like this: https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/a728/2020-04-23-13.05....

Desktop Environments is what they meant (GNOME, Unity, other variants). If your desktop look like similarly to the image you posted, the soft black vertical bar on the far left side of the screen is the taskbar. I think you are using Unity as your DE which is default DE for Ubuntu. You can change to different DE if Unity is not your liking. There is a couple variants you can use, you can find them in the package mana…

I thought the vertical left bar is a "dock".

It does not display the titles of the open windows and does not let me arrange the entries. That are the two problems I described.

It feels like this is meant to be used on a mobile device rather than on a desktop. On a desktop it makes me way less productive compared to a normal taskbar.

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by midasuni »

aborsy wrote: post #12

Over a decade of Ubuntu use, could not be happier! I remember in 2000s, I had to edit /etc/ text files to set up internet etc. Nowadays everything works out of box. All sorts of peripherals and hardware is recognized automatically. High quality free open source software is available for most stuff I need. The freedom to choose software and customize Linux, if required, is amazing! Am I missing anything ignoring close…

I moved from Debian teating to Ubuntu on the desktop in 206 as I felt the repos were more uptodate. The last couple of Ubuntu releases have announced me significantly though, netplan and subiquity especially

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by airstrike »

TekMol wrote: post #39
outworlder wrote: post #34

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That is a launcher + taskbar. Open an app, it will show that the app is open. Open a new app, it will show there. Similar to the OSX dock.

Yes. I have been using it for a few weeks now and it sucks. Because it does not show the titles of all open windows. And I cannot organize the entries as I wish.

It's great for tablets, though

/s

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by midasuni »

astrea wrote: post #20
aborsy wrote: post #12

Over a decade of Ubuntu use, could not be happier! I remember in 2000s, I had to edit /etc/ text files to set up internet etc. Nowadays everything works out of box. All sorts of peripherals and hardware is recognized automatically. High quality free open source software is available for most stuff I need. The freedom to choose software and customize Linux, if required, is amazing! Am I missing anything ignoring close…

video games :(

I wish I had time to play, but transport fever, civ 6 and KSP all seem to work just fine every few months when I get a few hours.

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by PetahNZ »

beefjerkins wrote: post #28
aborsy wrote: post #12

Over a decade of Ubuntu use, could not be happier! I remember in 2000s, I had to edit /etc/ text files to set up internet etc. Nowadays everything works out of box. All sorts of peripherals and hardware is recognized automatically. High quality free open source software is available for most stuff I need. The freedom to choose software and customize Linux, if required, is amazing! Am I missing anything ignoring close…

Out of interest, have you tried other distributions? Perhaps Debian based like Linux Mint / Pop OS, or others like Manjaro? What keeps you using Ubuntu after all these years?

For me, because Ubuntu just works for everything I need it to. So I have not found the need to try a different distro.

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by gigglesupstairs »

mmcdermott wrote: post #30
astrea wrote: post #20

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video games :(

Open source game development remains light, but Wine works better now than at any time in the past. I installed a game that had a Linux release that blew up on ALSA libraries. The ultimate fix was to install the Windows version over Wine.

Does Steam work in Wine?

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by airstrike »

I loved Ubuntu around 2007-2009 or so. Nowdays it feels like there are plenty of alternative distros that "just work" without so many of the idiosyncratic stuff canonical keeps dumping into what used to be "debian for the masses"

> As Linux evangelist Mark Pilgrim once quipped, Ubuntu "is an ancient African word meaning 'can't install Debian'".

https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/16/debian_lenny_review/

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by Chyzwar »

epage wrote: post #22
veeblevee wrote: post #18

I love Ubuntu but maybe not snaps so much.

Had been with Ubuntu for so long but some problems with snaps finally drove me away from it. For now, I'm using Mint due to familiarity without snaps but flirted with "user friendly" Arch derivatives (had problems with both) and NixOS (got tired of specializing in a programming language just to use my OS and ran into some problems I couldn't find a solution to.)

I had no issues with snaps. If anything, I wish more userspace software is provided via snap packages.

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by my123 »

uniqueuid wrote: post #33
alcidesfonseca wrote: post #25

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I’ve learned that ubuntu upgrades only if you update to the next version as soon as it is released. I have a 14.04 server that I cannot upgrade anymore and it sucks. Also, NVidia and Cuda drivers mess the upgrade path as well. And ubuntu is the most supported distro.

Yes, Nvidia is special (in a bad way). They seem especially hell-bent on pushing new versions of CUDA on everyone way before any usable software supports it (i.e. try getting a usable tensorflow or mxnet when your machine auto-upgraded to 11.4.x one day after its release).

You can have multiple CUDA versions installed at once, it’s not exclusive.

Re: Ubuntu 21.10

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Post by Mikeb85 »

beefjerkins wrote: post #28
aborsy wrote: post #12

Over a decade of Ubuntu use, could not be happier! I remember in 2000s, I had to edit /etc/ text files to set up internet etc. Nowadays everything works out of box. All sorts of peripherals and hardware is recognized automatically. High quality free open source software is available for most stuff I need. The freedom to choose software and customize Linux, if required, is amazing! Am I missing anything ignoring close…

Out of interest, have you tried other distributions? Perhaps Debian based like Linux Mint / Pop OS, or others like Manjaro? What keeps you using Ubuntu after all these years?

I've personally tried some of those. Ubuntu simply works. I hate most of their defaults, most add bugs, Ubuntu is what most cloud providers use if you're a dev, every software provider targets Ubuntu if they target Linux, and so on.

You can install Ubuntu and it'll work. Easy. No other distro I've tried (Fedora, Suse, Manjaro, Mint, Mageia) is as easy.

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