Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat

As someone who works across the stack, I've come to really appreciate seeing "LTS" and I think for me it comes from Ubuntu directly growing up as a kid in technology, understanding it means that people are committed to supporting something for the long term.

Obviously I know there are business cases for this sort of stuff and whatnot generally, but as a kid first learning what LTS meant, I've always appreciated Ubuntu for this.

Ah good times. I started out with one of the early ones, maybe 4.04 or something like that. Ubuntu was my first Linux, and then Mint. Unfortunately, for work purposes, I had to switch to MacOS (not a bad OS), but I still miss Linux from time to time, especially reading about that story on the frontpage about people losing access to their Apple IDs. I think I'll give it another shot soon...

I’d like to pick the brains here on HN.

I’m looking to do something like autoinstall for my office but is there an easier way have my employees do their own thumb drive (remote users) and get the config they need from me? I’m looking for an MDM Intune like enrollment that’s easier and configured it a certain way. I’m not in a position to use and manage Puppet.

After 18.04 LTS the distro has been headed in questionable directions.

However, it is the only distro that came very close to unifying the desktop, mobile, server and embedded application spaces. In a way it greatly impacted how people approached designs, as the classic heterogeneous build circus approaches often became a trivial role assignment.

It takes a bit of work to get the current builds "usable", but the FOSS curse now tightly couples release cycles to specific application compatibility versions. Or put another way... everything is perpetually Beta eventually, or becomes a statically linked abomination. This is the very real consequence of the second system effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

At least they haven't jammed an AI search indexing snitch into their interface... yet...

Cheers =)

It's very good.

I probably shouldn't say that but I have been daily driving Ubuntu for about 10 years. There are certainly 'rough' edges but anyone technical should be comfortable getting it done.

Increasingly I think Windows is an self-driving automatic car where Ubuntu is a manual car that you have to drive. Sure, you'll have to bang around under the hood occasionally but if your job is working on cars, it shouldn't be a problem.

The common refrain of Bluetooth not working is completely gone in my opinion. I haven't had to mess with BT since I put a BT dongle in and installed Blueman. My current issue is that if I boot into the most recent kernel, my Wifi doesn't work. No problem, just boot into the last kernel. I am going to guess the wifi thing is probably my fault because I _abuse_ my installation with all kinds of weird things. Again, it's a manual car that lets you bang around under the hood.

I have seen others work on Windows and it is astonishing to me how often their development environments break. I have to get on calls with them and try to step them through how to fix their environment because a) windows sucks b) it's an 'automatic car' that doesn't want you banging around under the hood, it actively tries to stop you c) it doesn't use a sh shell language so you have to specifically cater to it