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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

wyldfire wrote: post #42
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

Holy crud, I can just straight up join this to my domain? This is world-changing. There is a GPO template. I think I'm in love.

I'm not real familiar with this stuff but I could've sworn that linux has been able to join Active Directory domains via samba for a long time.

I know you can, in a very basic sense, such that one can log in, after both setting up the OS, and then configuring the domain join after installing additional components. But there's two key things here:

> Ubuntu machines can join an Active Directory (AD) domain at installation for central configuration.

This means it's now a ready-to-go functionality of the OS, and can be done simply without going to read a blog article on how to do it, post-setup.

> Ubuntu 21.04 adds the ability to configure system settings from an AD domain controller. Using a Group Policy Client, system administrators can specify security policies on all connected clients

And this means one can deploy Ubuntu machines on an Active Directory network at scale. Rather than hand-crafting one Ubuntu server that connects to your AD, ability to set policies with GPOs is the baseline to be able to say, deploy Ubuntu desktops to an entire department. Group Policy is the "pets vs cattle" difference in a Windows-based network.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by vetinari »

cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

Firefox in Linux distributions is updated by the distributions, not by an app-specific updater. It may take few days after official release - distributions can start building after Mozilla announces release, they cannot prebuild it few days in advance - but it will be updated.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by andag »

devwastaken wrote: post #57

I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version. Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zf…

1. You won't get a kernel update that doesn't contain zfs support, as the distro contains this. 2. Even if you install a manual kernel from outside of ubuntu you wont' brick it.. you'd just have to boot the old kernel.

btrfs and zfs are.. not comparable.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by scaladev »

devwastaken wrote: post #57

I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version. Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zf…

What? They ship prebuilt zfs modules along with the kernel.

  # dpkg -L "linux-modules-$(uname -r)" | grep zfs.ko
  /lib/modules/5.4.0-70-generic/kernel/zfs/zfs.ko

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by regularfry »

cyberlab wrote: post #16

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…

I know it's not for everyone, but building your own Firefox binaries isn't hard.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by 1337shadow »

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.

Same here, switched from dmenu to rofi a couple weeks ago, it's neat!

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by bfrog »

Have they fixed the numerous snappy issues in this release? Namely snappy being slow, and desktop snaps being buggy?

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by CraftThatBlock »

williamscales wrote: post #36
CraftThatBlock wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XWayland support on NVIDIA should be coming later this year: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G... Additionally, NVIDIA seems to be putting a lot of effort into overall Wayland support (yay!): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4... Hopefully, by next year, Wayland on NVIDIA should be "fully" supported. It's slow progress, but it is moving forward.

So it sounds like folks with Nvidia cards should hold off on this version of Ubuntu?

No, you can always switch back to Xorg on the login screen (at the bottom right).

Wayland support is getting really good these days, I'd recommend giving it a try before going back to Xorg if needed.

This release is no different than any previous one for NVIDIA users

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by devwastaken »

andag wrote: post #63
devwastaken wrote: post #57

I still can't reconcile zfs in the installer. There's no warnings or information upfront about how you will make your filesystem into a nice brick if you upgrade your linux kernel and forget that your filesystem has to be manually upgraded with that kernel version. Distros should not include filesystems that aren't in the kernel in their official installer. Fedora made the right decisions with btrfs. If users want zf…

1. You won't get a kernel update that doesn't contain zfs support, as the distro contains this. 2. Even if you install a manual kernel from outside of ubuntu you wont' brick it.. you'd just have to boot the old kernel. btrfs and zfs are.. not comparable.

It does and did, tested on 20.10. Similar stories: https://reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/hasfax/how_do_you_update_l...

It's supposedly meant to "just work" but out of the box it did not. Which is a very common story with ubuntu sadly.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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Post by znpy »

scaladev wrote: post #45
gspr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends a lot on the compositor. I've been running on Sway for about half a year. It's 99% perfect — the only thing I'm missing is smooth high-DPI scaling for XWayland windows . Note, smooth high-DPI scaling is good for Wayland programs – I'm just talking about that one piece of software that I use that still needs X (Emacs). Before christmas I played around with Plasma on Wayland. It mostly works, but there were som…

>still needs X (Emacs) With luck, this problem will soon be solved from the opposite direction: https://lwn.net/Articles/843896/

    > Looking forward
    > Now that there is a pure GTK3 port of Emacs, GTK4 has naturally been released.
Oh FFS...
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