I wonder if they had this Bionic Beaver in mind, I hope not :)
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
#42Extensive discussion about this release commencing 20 hours ago and still on page 2:
Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
#43Great release, with great features, and still a really (really) bad UI. The new theme has so many inconsistencies and bad decisions made. And I find it really cringy for an LTS release to distribute this new theme as the default one. I hoped hard the communitheme would be the official theme of this release, but no. Examples: - The active directory effect in Nautilus's sidebar makes me thing there were two sidebars wi…
Personally I have no idea why they rolled these theme styles for nautilus while they have been worked on Communitheme [1], which does not have tab-like menu [2]. However I'd like to note even in adwaita (and many other styles) there is design inconsistency between nautilus and gnome-tweak-tool. Sadly, Ubuntu dev team and community have not released any stable version Communitheme yet, so they were too late to bring new, consistent theme to 18.04.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would avoid running LTS unless you really need the stability. Otherwise, having the latest applications (and utilities like git) is going to be difficult.
The only reason why i would NOT run the LTS, is if i need some very new and fancy kernel version. However, even then they normally get backported into LTS, but sometimes that wait can leave you without something critical (like wifi or hibernation / sleep support) for months. There is always the option of recompiling the kernel from LTS to support the driver you want, but at that point, i would just go with the latest…
There's generally a kernel package from the latest release built for the LTS distro: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&arch=any&sea...
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?
* Traditional Windows Apps => bazaar, everyone does whatever they want * Snap Apps => centralized, the snap-system updates the apps on a regular schedule Traditionally on Linux there was only the system-package-manager to update the system and applications. Snaps are confined (unless declared --classic) and allow to have a stable base-system and up-to-date applications. PS: Can't say much about how snaps compare to m…
On macOS it is a combination of centralized (if you install through the App Store) and free for all. Almost all applications that auto update use the same framework though (Spark) so the update look&feel is usually the same.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
#46Weird, I am still getting "No new release found." when running `do-release-upgrade`... EDIT: Found the answer in another comment: > I also learned that there's an official plan for 18.04.1, to be released July 26th. This is the release that will prompt 16.04 LTS for an upgrade. In other words, the official upgrade path for an LTS is to wait for the first patch release, and not upgrade immediately. So I'm considering…
That's been the pattern for a few LTS releases.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?
No. And there are multiple reasons for this. One example: when Firefox decides to integrade a keylogger it is very unlikely you will find that release on your Ubuntu installation. But in my experience Firefox is updated very soon after official releases.
Ubuntu has long since flagged Firefox as a 'volatile' package, resulting in up-to-date Firefox packages when using the standard package manager.
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#48I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…
You can always use something like the Nix package manager[1] to install Firefox, Git, and Emacs, and leave the rest to Ubuntu. Save for Firefox, which I install from a tarball and use auto-update, I have been doing that with Debian stable on my laptop, and it works well. [1] https://nixos.org/nix/
So they will run on X11 that's from Debian stable? Will for example Emacs read your .Xresources from your home directory?
I've been eyeing this setup with Guix but I have some concerns. If I install a newer version of GCC through Nix/Guix, can I run update-alternatives on it?
Re: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
#49I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kern…
Yeah, life really is nicer if you only have to muck about with the software you actually care about. I've been using LTS for several releases now, and have remained in blessed ignorance of X.org settings for most of that time :)
Good to hear, I look forward to it!
As a seasoned LTS user, would you recommend waiting for 18.04.1?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)
Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?
Xkcd "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ is obligatory here.
There are five ways to have update software on Ubuntu Linux these days:
* Ubuntu Store (snap).
* Via Flathub (flatpak).
* Official deb repository pool (apt-get).
* Community maintained PPAs (apt-get).
* Other, tools like appimage, nix, linuxbrew etc. etc.
If you are not fan of terminal tools, sometimes "Software Updates" popup will appear to ask you if you would like to install new updates.
By default there isn't any self-update enabled (please correct me if I am wrong), though it is recommended to configure automatic updates of unattended-upgrades [1]. In my experience 17.10 were asking about installing updates when you were shutting down or restarting OS.
[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.ht...