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Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by troupo »

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.

Gaming-oriented distros like CachyOS and Bazzite might be what you want. I'm on Cachy and can recommend it. Because they try to "just work" without jumping through hoops.

Even though I very much intenseley dislike the completely unintuitive idiosyncratic package management that Arch has. Which is further not helped by the fact that Cachy's default GUI for it isn't even integrated properly.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by hdgvhicv »

linmob wrote: post #44
kleiba2 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...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.)

I’ve used a thinkpad for 26 years, 18 with Ubuntu. I’ve always had middle click enabled.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

alprado50 wrote: post #42
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.

Windows 11 set a low bar to clear... Most popular hardware will work on linux, but like always its better to check before your buy.

Distro like Ubuntu are a fair compromise to get amd/nvidia GPU drivers, wifi, and brother laser printer/scanner networking installed. =3

edit: seriously, why down vote the guys karma if its a honest question. Try to be kind people.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by LtWorf »

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 paste does not seem to work

They did it on purpose for some reason. If I were you I'd give Plasma a try.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by LtWorf »

Sol- wrote: post #49
WD-42 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

In Icaza's case I think he just always wanted to work for Microsoft. I don't know about the less famous developers though.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by LtWorf »

notabotiswear wrote: post #33
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.

You can de-snap Ubuntu itself. Dunno about the this release, but till 24.4 it was simply a matter of removing some packages then holding/masking the primary snapd one, followed by manually adding the official PPAs for Mozilla’s stuff (or just use the Flatpak). Of course, there’s still the philosophical and long term issues with staying on a distro that’s promoting and continuosuly expanding the thing you dislike…

This is what I do, because on my work computer IT imposed Ubuntu.

I initially tried to just use snaps but firefox was crashing quite often so I had to go with adding the mozilla's repository and of course configure the fake "firefox" package that actually installs the snap to be low priority for apt.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by LtWorf »

throwaway2056 wrote: post #36
satvikpendem wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is them adding it back, sometimes even on apt upgrade, or silently installing it as a dependency for certain apps without mentioning it unless you look closely. That gets tiring after a while and I gave up on Ubuntu as even after having removed snap multiple times it always returned.

Never happened in the last several years.

run "apt install firefox" and you'll end up with having snaps again.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by notLayz99 »

throwa356262 wrote: post #39

I am thinking of testing one of those AMD Ryzen AI laptops for development and local LLM. These come with win11 copilot+. How well does 26.04 with the 7.0 kernel support these? Can it, say, use their GPU and NPU for compute out of the box?

Kindly keep us updated with your findings. Please also let me know where you publish it. Thanks

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by notabotiswear »

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.

To you it is, plenty of people -including myself- don’t find it so. And considering the ratio of MacOS+Windows desktop users to those of ‘nix (an increasing number of which are new converts), middle clickers are a minority here.

But hey! At least they are only flipping defaults, not removing the feature outright, like they did type-ahead search. [Insert angry rant here]

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by nine_k »

throwa356262 wrote: post #40
hnuser123456 wrote: post #11

Fine print on coreutils rewrite: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...

That was a lot of CVEs Goes to show that not all security bugs are memory related bugs

Indeed, many bugs are API usage bugs, something that no language can verify. (The API is implemented in C anyway.)
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