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Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by tuna74 »

reddalo wrote: post #136
PaoloBarbolini wrote: post #66

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Why do we still put up with GNOME? I've spent the last 10 years off and on from Linux. Had I used something other than GNOME, I believe my experience would have been better. I've been on KDE for the last 3-4 years and things work so well I could never imagine going back to GNOME.

I agree. GNOME used to be perfect, now it looks and feels like it's been designed by someone who's never used a computer. I wish Ubuntu would just give up with GNOME and switch to something more sensible.

You can use something else. Kubuntu might be nice for you.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by tuna74 »

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

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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?

Maybe they all use some BSD distro?

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by tuna74 »

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?

Not very good: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-With-ROCm

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by mrkeen »

Just tried installing the server variant on a dell precision.

The installer let me connect to my WiFi, but then spun indefinitely trying to get an ipv4 address.

If I skip connecting to WiFi, and just let the installer do its thing, I get no network on the fresh install either (all the tutorials say to use nmcli, which I don't have).

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by dijit »

tuna74 wrote: post #220
dijit wrote: post #83

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Preferences don't form in a vacuum though. There's a perception that GNOME is the "good environment" which means its decisions get treated as more important than other DEs' when things change: and that's somewhat self-reinforcing. Distro: "The most used DE needs first class support, we should probably bend to it" → Distro: "We should probably make this DE the default since it's so widely used and supported" → User: "…

A desktop/workstation/whatever should have a graphical user interface. If you want another GUI you can choose another distro (like Kubuntu etc).

where exactly did I say anything contrary to what you said.

Are you implying that GNOME is the only thing that should be considered graphical? That everything else has to be an alternative? That GNOME, by virtue of existing has infinite reprieve to change the definition of user interfaces at their leisure; even if it means breaking muscle memory hundreds of thousands of times over decades.

I don’t follow the point of what you said.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by cpburns2009 »

prmoustache wrote: post #97
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.

> Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support It is an urban myth

It used to be true. I've never had problems using the proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu. You used to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get them installed on Debian. Now Ubuntu lags behind on kernel versions leaving new hardware less usable.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by wao0uuno »

lproven wrote: post #152
wao0uuno wrote: post #99

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>I think power users are not the main target of Ubuntu. Then who is? Normies buy iPads and casuals stay on Windows. Is this why Linux can't gain any market share?

This isn't true any more, and hasn't been for some years, you know. It was true but times change. Microsoft chose to kill off Windows 10, which it once promised would be the last desktop Windows ever. Its replacement is bigger, slower, stuffed with adverts and upselling attempts, and has an artificial demand for TPM 2. That's driven thousands of people to check out Linux, and if you don't know anything about Linux, t…

>That's driven thousands of people to check out Linux, and if you don't know anything about Linux, then Ubuntu is the number one best-known distro.

Not really. Most normies seem to choose meme gaming distros based off Fedora like CachyOS or Bazzite. Many are waiting for official SteamOS release which is based on Arch.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by rationalist »

mrkeen wrote: post #224

Just tried installing the server variant on a dell precision. The installer let me connect to my WiFi, but then spun indefinitely trying to get an ipv4 address. If I skip connecting to WiFi, and just let the installer do its thing, I get no network on the fresh install either (all the tutorials say to use nmcli, which I don't have).

I might have experienced the same. It spun and spun after connecting to the WiFi on an Intel NUC 13.

Re: Ubuntu 26.04

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

sph wrote: post #85
throwa356262 wrote: post #40

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

Not aimed at you but... no sh*t. The "Rewrite it in Rust" community never heard of the second-system effect. I'd rather use something written in a crappier language that has been battle-tested for decades, personally.

> I'd rather use something written in a crappier language that has been battle-tested for decades, personally.

I don't think this is a universal rule. Something can be old but still suck (see: openssl). On the flip side, though, I'd like to see literally any evidence that coreutils has a security problem before we go jumping off onto the shiny new replacement.

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