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Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by jl6 »

WD-42 wrote: post #20
teekert wrote: post #19

It's nice as always, but I have some issues. * Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work * When something requires a password (ie just tried a bitlocker volume) the whole screen is blocked, so no password manager for you (unless you copy it before, or cancel - unplug drive-copy password - replug drive - paste.) * The default tiling does not jive with me, sometimes I don't even know what it wants (it always tr…

Select middle click not working is a stupid decision from GNOME to disable in 50. You can turn it back on with the tweak tool.

Did they publish some rationale somewhere? It’s a useful feature.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by alprado50 »

compounding_it wrote: post #8

Ubuntu LTS is still the choice for many production environments and education and learning. As someone with Ubuntu from 2010 CDs, I find it refreshing that modern Ubuntu distros work OOB on most computers these days with excellent driver support.

Is this even true? I mean, Windows is the main focus for all hardware vendors, and everybody who has owned a PC knows that malfunctions are unavoidable. If that is the case for Windows, then Linux cant be better.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by jklmnopqrstuvw »

Ubuntu 26 + KDE Plasma 6.6 perfectly handles high-DPI scaling for me. I was originally planning to buy a Mac, but luckily I saw the news about Ubuntu 26 being released a few days ago.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by linmob »

kleiba2 wrote: post #32
NekkoDroid wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not sure if windows does middle click paste. It doesn't. X was the only place I know of where that was a thing.

...and it's a great thing. Turning it off is another one of those GNOME decisions that are only made because the same feature does not exist in MacOS.

As a trackpoint user, I am glad it's off by default.

Because of scrolling on Thinkpad keyboards (using the middle click), I had to turn that feature of every time, especially while working on longer documents I would otherwise accidentally paste stuff at random places.

(It's not just macOS.)

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

#45

Post by Joel_Mckay »

razingeden wrote: post #6
superkuh wrote: post #4

The comments there note there is no official Ubuntu MATE release for the first time since Ubuntu 15 (and before 14.04 gnome2 was an option). That's a shame but probably most people who chose MATE (or gnome2) no longer chose Ubuntu due to the conflicting ideologies inherent in the two. MATE users generally don't like change for change's sake.

its in the daily builds. I haven't tried it yet. not sure if this confirms the impression you have there... I wasn't like this until a couple of headless VPS'es (on Arm8) got through the upgrade from 18.x -> 20.x -> 22.x and then crashed out over -> 24.x for a still unknown reason. now I'm just afraid .. or I should say reluctant ..to repeat that whole fiasco. https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/daily-live/current…

There were some issues with how the menu icon manager handled the new security policy defaults. This means the editor will break, and the displayed menu may be missing any item that didn't follow the naming convention syntax. Its a lot of packages to bring into compliance, for that one silly feature the devs had to put in before it was ready...

Maybe they fixed it since the rc release, but there were some rough edges in Feb... the kernel USB support cooked the thumb drive partition structure.

In 22.04 to 24.04 the kernel Nvidia GPU driver EOL abandonment began... In 26.04 people will discover most EOL hardware support prior to RTX series will be difficult to bring up.

Probably wise to wait a few weeks for the bug reports to clear out a bit. =3

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by troupo »

kleiba2 wrote: post #32
NekkoDroid wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not sure if windows does middle click paste. It doesn't. X was the only place I know of where that was a thing.

...and it's a great thing. Turning it off is another one of those GNOME decisions that are only made because the same feature does not exist in MacOS.

> only made because the same feature does not exist in MacOS.

Or in anything that's not X?

Speaking personally for me only, I don't think it's a great thing. The clipboards on Linux is... not really a great thing. I for one never know which of the buffers contain what. And this is compounded by the fact that selection may or may not overwrite what's in one of the buffers, and middle click may or may not paste whatever was in that buffer. Additionally compounded by how inconsistent the behavior is across apps.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by flakeoil »

satvikpendem wrote: post #7

What should I use if I like Ubuntu but not snap, just Debian? Or are there alternatives around? Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support so just curious what's new in Linux land.

I have a year ago switched from Ubuntu to Fedora and I like it. Clean and stable. Uses Flatpak. I'm using Fedora Workstation which is the default, but Fedora KDE Plasma seems to be nice as well if you want to have more configuration options available directly in the GUI. And the layout is more Windows like with start button menu etc for people coming from the Windows side.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by NekkoDroid »

kleiba2 wrote: post #32
NekkoDroid wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not sure if windows does middle click paste. It doesn't. X was the only place I know of where that was a thing.

...and it's a great thing. Turning it off is another one of those GNOME decisions that are only made because the same feature does not exist in MacOS.

I was never a fan of it. I always turned it off. And now it also freed up middle click for auto scrolling which is actually great, especially when the scrollwheel is somewhat broken.

As someone that habitually highlights what they are reading it was generally beyond useless for me. It was actively making me mad when I accidenatally pasted some non-sense because I just highlighted a paragraph before and accidentally inserted it into something.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by Sol- »

WD-42 wrote: post #20
teekert wrote: post #19

It's nice as always, but I have some issues. * Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work * When something requires a password (ie just tried a bitlocker volume) the whole screen is blocked, so no password manager for you (unless you copy it before, or cancel - unplug drive-copy password - replug drive - paste.) * The default tiling does not jive with me, sometimes I don't even know what it wants (it always tr…

Select middle click not working is a stupid decision from GNOME to disable in 50. You can turn it back on with the tweak tool.

Jesus, do the people who work on GNOME even like Linux?
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