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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by Spivak »

xorcist wrote: post #153
Spivak wrote: post #139

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> I know you can, in a very basic sense, such that one can log in. Log in, get group and netgroup membership, apply GPO based access control, access ssh keys, apply sudo rules. > after both setting up the OS, and then configuring the domain join realmd join ad.example.com Just the same as joining the domain on a Windows machine. Add-Computer -Domain ad.example.com > Rather than hand-crafting one Ubuntu server that co…

> preseed files to automate the install, domain join, Genuine question, wouldn't that require a kerberos ticket to work? Or at least some high privilege password that you might not want to keep around your preseed files? Bootstrapping trust is a tricky problem. Most that I've seen tend to go with some custom solution.

Yes, but you can really tighten that privilege in practice. Yes having the ability to create computers in AD is potentially dangerous but in our deployments all the "AD Join Account" can do is create, delete, and reset computer passwords in one specific OU that new computers are moved out of once provisioned.

We don't broadcast the join password and rotate it every so often but we also don't really care if it gets out.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by CraftThatBlock »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #147
CraftThatBlock wrote: post #127

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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.

I'm also on Arch, but I mean the newer 0.3.x releases, as development has been pretty quick. I believe things have changed in past few months

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by bombcar »

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?

Across all my OS I usually wait a month or so for major upgrades (exception: Gentoo which is rolling) - unless there's a new feature I really need.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by paulirwin »

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…

My biggest problem trying Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 was not actually with graphics, that worked well for me with my Radeon card. My issue was with my Logitech T650 trackpad, since Wayland also handles pointer events and scrolling and such. I can't remember exactly what was bugging me about it, but it was annoying enough that I switched back. (Xorg still isn't great with this trackpad, but it's usable.) And my apologies to the community, but I also didn't have the energy to figure out the details enough to file a bug report, as switching back to Xorg solved my problem. I will try to revisit this and see if it's still an issue in 21.04.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by dyingkneepad »

intergalplan wrote: post #78
simion314 wrote: post #50

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>The worst thing is that it would RANDOMLY cause Gnome to restart while closing all my applications. Question: Is this a GNOME architecture issue? I hope KDE could avoid this issues, atm on Xorg I can restart the window manager and the desktop shell without losing any data.

I don't have a firm answer, but considering how much Wayland pushes off on the compositor (seemingly everything, nothing is ever Wayland's fault or responsibility) I'd expect that the compositor (every desktop environment or WM also needs to be a compositor, now) crashing is identical to all of Xorg crashing, not just the DE or WM under Xorg crashing.

You are right. The compositor crashing is equivalent to X crashing: everything goes boom. In the X world, if gnome-session dies another one gets automatically started and you may not even realize what happened.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by hkmaxpro »

kentiko wrote: post #125
jagger27 wrote: post #34

Somewhat related: I’ve been using GNOME 40 on my Arch-based desktop and it’s really slick. It’s making the switch from macOS a little less painful. Looks like it didn’t make into this release. Completely unrelated: I just discovered Rofi (extensible Spotlight-ish launcher for Linux) and it’s lovely, especially when bound to Super+Space.

Is it possible to use GNOME 40 on this release of Ubuntu?

They plan to provide a PPA for Gnome 40 on Ubuntu 21.04 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-gnome-40/21508

In the mean time, there is an unofficial PPA https://launchpad.net/~shemgp/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-40

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by hwbehrens »

curt15 wrote: post #156
nickthemagicman wrote: post #59

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Amen! Ubuntu is amazing! And keeps getting better every release! Big props to the Ubuntu team! My gratitude is endless for not having to use either Windows or Mac and still enjoy the desktop computer experience!

Why was the above comment downvoted?

My guess is that it was downvoted because it violates two of the comment guidelines:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

The parent comment is neither thoughtful nor substantive, merely agreeing with the grandparent -- a verbose equivalent of a "This!" comment. A better comment might include the commenter's reasoning, their experiences with other platforms and their pros and cons, or how they have used Ubuntu personally or professionally, for example.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

The parent's implicit dismissal of Windows or Mac desktop platforms as un-enjoyable could be interpreted as flamebait, since choice of operating system can be a common point of contention.

Hopefully this explanation helps. Since the comment was low-quality but not flagrantly bad, I assume it will pick up one or two downvotes but not a flag, and will sink naturally down the discussion as higher-quality posts supersede it.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by jandrese »

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.

I had to actually click on the "Download" button to make the download pane appear, but it seemed pretty straightforward to me.

There is a large link to "Ubuntu Desktop" at the top left. I'm not sure why this was so hard for the GP. Maybe it could be slightly easier if you didn't have to click on the big Download link in the first place, but it seems to require very low effort as far as I can tell. Maybe he's running on a textmode browser with no Javascript support?

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