The new release is now on the ubuntu website: https://ubuntu.com/download
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
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Re: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
#22I am a Manjaro user currently but have used other distros in the past, including Ubuntu. Given that, I would obviously recommend Manjaro. There are a million reasons but, for development, I find the rolling release model far superior. On Ubuntu, especially an LTS release, you are going to find over time that the software versions on your machine are too old. This will lead to installing from source or Flatpak or what…
I just use homebrew on Linux. Things are relatively up to date, there's better support for installing multiple versions of something compared to apt/pacman/what have you, and development tools are separated from system packages.
Homebrew is the lowest common denominator of package managers. If you search Algolia for homebrew you'll find many, many stories of hard times. It seems to be the most popular package manager on macOS but it is dog slow. It is easily the slowest package manager I've ever used.
This is a place where Nix really shines. Known inputs produce known outputs. When you remove a package nothing is left behind. The package selection is immense. I use it on WSL and Arch (with a flake) and it works exactly the same everywhere with no gotchas.
Re: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just use homebrew on Linux. Things are relatively up to date, there's better support for installing multiple versions of something compared to apt/pacman/what have you, and development tools are separated from system packages.
Homebrew is the lowest common denominator of package managers. If you search Algolia for homebrew you'll find many, many stories of hard times. It seems to be the most popular package manager on macOS but it is dog slow. It is easily the slowest package manager I've ever used. This is a place where Nix really shines. Known inputs produce known outputs. When you remove a package nothing is left behind. The package sel…
Aye, homebrew is pretty slow, but I don't actually interact with it much outside of initial bootstrapping.
Surely you can search for any package manager and find lots of people having issues with it.
I should really check out nix-shell.
Re: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
#24So I’ll transition next month to Linux because I need stronger work station and my 2019 MacBook Pro is not enough. I’m preparing myself, I live mostly in cmd anyway but I’m on the fence if I should choose Manjaro or Ubuntu. I’m okay with spending some amount of time to learn and configure my environment properly. Can anyone tell me what l, as a programmer working with containers and mostly JS tooling, should consider…
Try Ubuntu, Manjaro and Arch are not serious distros no matter what people tell you here, I tell that as ex-Arch user.
Also try different flavors Kubuntu and Xubuntu are nice as well.
Re: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I consider rpm/dnf/yum in the same suite of packaging. Just in my experience using it and noticing how the packaging is done and applied to the system, I have more trust in rpm/dnf to do things properly compared to deb/apt. Many times I've had apt repos stop working or deb installs doing weird things and leaving the system in some weird state. I've had none of these issues with rpm/dnf.
>Just in my experience using it and noticing how the packaging is done and applied to the system, I have more trust in rpm/dnf to do things properly compared to deb/apt. Like I've kind of looked into packaging an app into a .deb before and it's rather convoluted. I never did understand why nobody has worked toward fixing these. >Many times I've had apt repos stop working or deb installs doing weird things and leaving…
dnf seems to be the default in Fedora nowadays, so that's what I used since I selected Fedora for my laptop OS (whereas I previously used kubuntu). I recall using yum some years ago on centos systems, but I'm not really up to speed on what the differences are.