Hi Chris, great video! I thought I'd mention Ventoy, a great tool that makes generating install media obsolete - you just use Ventoy to alter a normal USB stick, then copy any number of isos on it. When starting from it, you can select which iso to use. No time-consuming media creation, this has saved me HOURS :-) I have one fast 64 GB stick with lots of images on it, Linux, Windows install media, tools like Acronis TrueImage... I think you could save a lot of time :-)
Thanks for this. I'm aware of Ventoy. But in a video showing how to install a single OS, using it would introduce another level of complexity, and slow the video down.
@T S - I see what Chris is saying, in his videos he wants to show new users as simply as possible how to give a new OS a trial run, and Balena Etcher is ideal for that. However I'm sure that Ventoy users (I'm one, it's a lovely tool) will know how to pop a new ISO straight onto their Ventoy stick and boot into it from the menu.
The first time I got around properly installing Ventoy and using it, - revelation. If you want to quickly review what works and what doesn't Ventoy is a good option.
I’ve been using Ubuntu 20.04 on my raspberry pi 4 (booting from an external USB 3.0 SSD) for some time - but I am afraid to do updates because last time during the update Ubuntu reverted the pi 4 firmware to the old firmware version that can’t boot from an external SSD. Bricked my pi - which I eventually managed to fix by re-flashing the firmware to the later version again using an SD card and then my SSD boot worked again. Hopefully doing a full upgrade to 22.04 will not only improve my Linux experience (it looks really good) but also fix this update issue bug.
@@abulka oh wow. Thanks for letting us know. Such a pain when stuff like that happens :( I've had similar issues when installing software and it stuffs something up and won't boot properly. Hour upon hours of trouble shooting just to end up formatting and starting again. Ive been running Pop from as SSD has been really good so far but interested it trying Ubuntu
Yes, LTS works better, no radical breaking of things every day, though some things just stay broken..... Just waiting for Mint to give the upgrade so I can do this.
Had been using Zorin for a while, and I loved how NVidia graphics cards are catered for straight out of the box, and that Steam games are finally being given some love on Linux. Been using the Jammy Jellyfish for a few days now, and I am loving it.
I have Zorin because of Chris's review while back and for NVidia as I am an (old) gamer being and above average normy, and want to ditch windows. I still use windows because of the games and just watching YT vids and video editing and photog (DaVinci and I'm still learning GIMP from the work Adobe suite I have to use). While Zorin (and Linux in general) can support these, I'm still fence sitting only because of my type of games I play; space sims. One is on Steam, the other is on GOG. I know of WINE but still confuses me. While I want to, can I make the full switch to Linux (Zorin or this)? Space (or games in general) sims, vid & photo editing and YT vids is all I use my puter for. (... and we all know how evil Mac and Win are, plus they just annoy me in forcing me do to stuff that I don't want to)
@@soldier72 Go to 'Settings' in Steam and set up Proton. This will make most Steam games play under Linux. I have to use the dreaded Windows 10 for a few games. Despite Linux being able to run games well, (and a few cases, better) the servers need you to run Windows. I suspect that the future is brighter now thanks to things like Steam OS running natively on Linux, and Windows 11 is definitely a shot in the foot thanks to alienating people with such a narrow hardware entry point.
Chris - love your dry sense of humor! 🤣 On top of that, you are so good at conveying information you could probably teach a jellyfish calculus if you really tried! Been using Ubuntu 20.04 as a Valheim server for around 8 months, and it has been great, but now I want to play around with this version! Thanks Chris! 🇺🇲🤜🏻🤛🏻🇬🇧
I installed Jammy over Focal directly via dist-upgrade. Everything runs perfectly well. Jammy runs notable faster than Focal on my good old 6500. Snaps are indeed a controversy matter but not that bad at all. Would I recommend the Jammy Jellyfish to users? Definitely YES.
This time around, Ubuntu looks REALLY good. I usually used Kubuntu, because I don't like GNOME that much, but with Dash To Panel working fine, I think I'll go for this one instead.
Hi Chris. Fabulously informative video as usual. You don't get the cat out, you don't bang on about the weather - you focus on what matters - quality and digestible information to your audience with an emphasis on genuinely informing - not patronising, sardonic or other nonsense gestures. Thank you very much. Mark.
I can't believe it's been 10 years since I started using Linux. My first hardware Linux install was 12.04 LTS It's amazing to see how far Ubuntu, and Linux in general, has come in the last decade. I don't really use Ubuntu anymore, but I still watch it's development, just for old time's sake. I like that desktop customization options are finally getting better on Ubuntu, that was the thing I disliked about it the most when I used it, it felt akin to Mac where there were so few choices for making it look how I wanted. It feels really slick now, with that accent color fade, and the fade between light and dark mode. I hope one day all distros make picking colors that easy, I get a little annoyed by being stuck with GTK color schemes not letting you pick individual colors on XFCE at times.
If and in case that many choices are warranted, please have a look at the still most customizable KDE Neon and yes, Mint Cinnamon - you can make your desktop an absolute treat to the eyes. Though I get your point about the ease and accessibility available now to the masses. (Old SUSE chameleon!)
I will likely wait until POP OS 22.04 LTS releases. Some of these settings had to accessed with Gnome Tweaks. I'm glad to see that change. Thank you for all your hard work. You make, bar none, the most professional videos on TH-cam! As an added bonus you have terrific whit too.
Hey Man, I Did Not Know About The Law You Mentioned At 10:45! As Always, I'm Glad You Took A Closer Look! Sunday Mornings With Professor C.B.! Life Is Good! 8-)
@@chrisjlocke LOL, I can see that you caught the fact that I’m the type that doesn’t wait around to the last minute to make a decision. Good observation. Considering that I’m “older than dirt”, I may be “pushing up daisies” by that time. Wishing you a great day!
Enjoy your videos as always, Chris. You were quick coming with this video, just in time 🙂 I had only just installed on my i7 16gb 9yr old laptop. First clean install since original windows 8.1. Brings new life to old hardware, which has always been one of.my plus points for Linux.
Installed on a 2nd SSD with Mint/Win10 on #1, then PopOs! on #2. Before I started the installation I updated the grub bootloader in Mint with the command "sudo update-grub" and had no problems (17:29) with any of the 4 OS's being able to be accessed easily. Thank you for all you do for all of us! 👍
I have a mini PC (AMD PRO A6 9500E with 8GB Mem & an SSD) connected to my TV what was really struggling running Windows 10. After watching your video I decided to wipe it and install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I'm so glad I did; it's far better, so much more responsive and the fan is no longer permanently whirring at high speed. Thanks for continuing to produce such a great channel
Thanks Chris/EC. You really help me brief those who are not Linux familiar get a calm and straightforward insight into the alternative world. And along with a chuckle! A bonus chucked from your description containing "Jammy Yellyfish"
I was going to install Linux Mint (first time Linux user from Windows), but after this tutorial, I'm going to install Ubuntu. You made it very easy for a novice user to navigate around Ubuntu. Thanks, Chris, for an outstanding video!
Looks great. These linux distros are looking so polished now. I'll still be going with kubuntu and the KDE desktop though - the screen magnifier on Gnome is not great, in my experience.
Dear EC, I've been tinkering with Linux for the longest time but never fully made the switch. I want to inform you that also partially thanks to you, I've decided that 2024 is the year and I couldn't be happier on how my experience has been going. I've dabbled a bit with MXLinux, Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Mint. Every distro has it's highs and down and it's so fun to be able to change so easily. I feel like the OS is finally a tool I can "play" with rather than beeing scared of when the next update would break stuff like with Windows. I've done some pretty big errors (including deleting the desktop environment when trying to upgrade to pipewire in Ubuntu, I have no idea how) but at least I know how to recover from those errors and I also learn a lot by doing errors.
To get a screen shot I want the "PrtScr" button to copy the desktop *NOW* not after more mouse clicks. I use it all the time (along with ALT PrtScr) and I don't want it delayed while I have to select a partial amount, etc. 14:15 Things can change rapidly and you will miss it like this when ANY "Paint" program can do the cropping any ways. It has worked the same and fine for MANY generations of OSes. At least give the option to turn this new "feature" off.
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 yesterday and it's awesome! It has resolved all the problems 20.04 and 18.04 had for me. I don't know why people say snaps are slow to launch, but for me it launches fast. Funny enough, on Linux I can connect to 5ghz wifi connections :D but on Windows I can't.
@@zoomosis 15 seconds is a long time for loading Firefox, even for HDD. There may be some issues with the SNAP implementation of the Firefox package. As long as Firefox is still loaded in RAM, subsequent launches should be much quicker.
@@tbone9900 I think you are right. Another launch of Firefox took 15 seconds after a reboot. I appreciate that there is caching involved but I'm not keen on a web browser staying resident in memory after I've killed it, especially on my laptop, and also especially since I don't run Firefox all that much. I ended up installing the PPA.
Thanks for yet another great video, Chris. I have now installed 22.04 as a VM in VirtualBox on my Linux Mint PC. I have already taken a quick look and thanks to your video, I'll be doing some further exploration. I'm sure I'll upgrade my Ubuntu 20.04 PC in the near future.
Christopher, this was a great video! The first Linux I used was for my PC Operating Systems 1 College Course, Final Oral Exam, it was Open Caldera Linux, in around 1999. I brought the old clunker, and monitor to class, started it up with StartX in the Command Line to bring up the GUI, (having previously partitioned the Hard Drive using FIPS, for the Swap File). I learned how to use the Bourne Again Shell for Script Editing in PC Operating Systems 2 Class. Wow! Linux has come along ways!!! I use Lubuntu and Zorin in my older Laptops. The huge change for me happened when Ubuntu/Lubuntu introduced Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS. Sure, I still use Windows 11, and as an experiment I use OS X Snow Leopard on my two cheap Mac Mini, yet I see Linux now easily competing with Windows 11 and Mac OS X Monterey is what Apple is up to. All of these MS/Apple/Linux are fantastic!
As soon as the notification popped up, I anticipated an exciting review. I was right. Good review with short and essential points. Ubuntu uses GNOME and it doesn't run smoothly on older computers, it's the only problem. Overall, it's a good starting point and the stability also counts. Many businesses trust Ubuntu for stability and this is the reason we find so many commercial applications are first ported to Ubuntu. For someone who cannot change computers every couple of years, other Ubuntu distributions with light desktop environments can be of help. To those who prefer raw performance, other Ubuntu derivatives with lightweight DEs are something they'll find handy.
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on an 11 year old MBP after replacing the DVD drive with a SSD. It runs quite well and I am finding that I enjoy using it very much. I tried installing Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 along side since I can make it look and act more "Macish" but encountered a problem with grub. Thanks for the comment regarding switching from Wayland back to Xorg - definitely helps!
did you have any issues with the trackpad? I installed 20.04 a while back on a mid 2012 MBP and I somehow "fixed" the trackpad issues (basically it was as if the pointer speed was set to 'snail') and I have not yet upgraded it to 22.04 since I'm worried about those issues returning. I upgraded my ram and SSD and it's a capable little Linux machine, that much is for sure. I still want to look into upgrading my ram to 16GB.
@@danyaklich7024 I never noticed a trackpad issue, fortunately. I upgraded to 16GB of RAM but for my use I think that was overkill. I'm just very pleased that it runs so well and LINUX is also the OS on this 8 year old Dell which did have a problem with Ubuntu 21.04. Each time there was an update the system presented me with a mouse pointer over a black display. I would then have to perform an advanced reboot. Never happened again after installing 21.10. Probably a GPU driver issue. Cheers!
I started my Linux journey with Ubuntu Unity desktop then Gnome and other Ubuntu based distros like Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and currently Xubuntu. I was planning to try Kubuntu, but this new Gnome version looks really good. I especially like that you can easily change the accent color, that's one of the things I like about Windows 11 which is my daily OS. Great video, thanks.
A great review, Chris, as always. I picked up up a couple of very useful things from you that I'd missed after installing 22.04. Thank you very much indeed.
I'm late, but as a long time viewer who stopped watching around 2021 (literally forgot about your channel, my old account was Aaron Renny), it's nice how your videos are still consistent and I like how you are in the POV of the average user, because many ubuntu videos are 99% critisism about snap. Anyways, great video!
Great content as always. It is good to see Canonical continuing to improve Ubuntu. I'm more of a Debian (yes I know where Ubuntu came from) distro myself. I prefer the added level of control (maybe it's perceived control) that Debian provides. Currently on Bullseye with some Gnome extensions enabled. Will definitely give new Ubuntu with Wayland a try.
Thanks for the video! I'll be staying with Linux Mint for my main machine and Linux Mint Debian Edition on the laptop. I just can't get used to Gnome no matter how many little tweaks they make to it.
Delightful video. 👍 Apart from Ubuntu, I like how MX Linux gives a launch toggle option around systemd, without deprecating it wholesale but giving users the freedom to decide. I last used Ubuntu 16 ("Xenial" or something like that), and I do not have plans to return to Canonical/Ubuntu. Yours truly.
I upgraded my Notebook already, but the desktop is still waiting for 22.04.1. I must say, the process went almost without issues, except for the USB-wireless dongle. So I did the install connected to Ethernet and later installed the necessary driver. The only thing I hate in this release is the snap stuff. With the help of the community is was fixed quite quickly and now I enjoy a snap-free 22.04. The big plus is that Dolphin integrates Google Drive in a seamless way! Hurray! Thanks for your great videos!
Even though I dont use Ubuntu (Debian btw) I like to honor/hommage Ubuntu for its contribution to Linux by theming my LXQT DE to the Unity-ish look and feel 💪🙏 EDIT: I am absolutely amazed by Ubuntu's "normal user experience" and I gladly use 22.04 LTS now!
Thanks for this video. I've installed it on a second laptop which all I ever seem to do was update with endless Windows 10 updates. I made a blunder when installing Ubuntu (my fault) so I lost windows, but that's no great loss. Anyhow I like it and look forward to updates going forward.
An interesting review of Ubuntu 22.04 Chris it certainly looks like an interesting distro. It'll be worth dual booting alongside my current distro (mint 20.3), take it for a spin and see how the old desktop copes with it. :)
Thanks Chris. I really appreciate your channel and will be changing my Mint setup over to Ubuntu as I intend to be using that in future. Your videos really give a person like me encouragement to keep updating my system.
Ubuntu is my personal favourite Linux distro, behind Linux Mint and Open Suse, I use Ubuntu as the main OS on my old Dell laptop. I have tried Jammy Jellyfish in a virtual machine and I really love the new and improved customisation options for the theme of the OS. I am honestly a strong follower of the Linux community and It's great to see Linux gaining in popularity. Great video by the way! Keep up the great work! :)
I have never been overly fond of Ubuntu itself, OSes built on it have been very good, indeed. Linux Mint is one and I run it on a secondary but important PC. I will, of course, try this version of Ubuntu as I do with many, many Linux distros. It's all good fun and full of surprises. Small as they are, what you have shown here is very intriguing. As always, excellent reporting on all things cutting edge. You may go ahead and accept the compliment and have a bigger head because of it.
Thanks nice , video am also on ubuntu now i used debian sinds 1998, its time for some new stuff, ok ok ok yes i know u can install sid, but wana do something new !!! Chris have a nice weekend, Sir.
I wasn't going to upgrade to 22.04. I had loaded Debian 11 on another drive so I could avoid the issue. But I changed my mind and upgraded it on my tower and laptop. It runs smooth and kept my settings where I had left them prior to the upgrade. While I'm not impressed with Ubuntu's naming system Jammy Jellyfish 🤔 and it's kindergarten style artwork It will stay put on my machines for foreseeable future. Nice presentation Chris!! Thanks 😊 cheers!
Great Video as usual and very informative. I use a HP T620 or T630 to drive my TV, running either Linux Lite or Sparky Linux. This combination works really well.
The timing of this release is quite funny to me. I recently starting running Ubuntu on my laptop but I had to use 21.10 because 20.04 didn't have the wifi driver for my specific laptop. I ended up running into some graphics driver issues as well that prevented me from using monitors with my laptop, and while those aren't guaranteed to be fixed I am tempted to try this version out anyways.
I fixed a driver issue that stopped me from using external monitors by switching to the open source Nvidia drivers. I'm sure they're worse for some applications, but I game on windows so it wasn't relevant to me.
@@matjaz7134 Happy to say that the multi monitor issue I had before is not present in 22.04. Also, on 21.10 my laptop wouldn't wake up after going into sleep mode. It appears that issue is fixed.
Yes, at 12:40 there is lots of room but they can't show ANY more of the program names!! Why??? There are 5 "Libre..." programs from *their default* install... this shows a lack of beta testing *AND* has been an issue before this release.
@@ExplainingComputers - Yes, that is what I meant but we can't see each program name and they assume all users (new and old) can tell by the icon. Beta testing should have (or did and was ignored) reported the chopped labels as there is lots of space for the full names. Stuff like this is easy to fix and should have been done long before release. These are the included programs and not some "weird" user downloaded program with an unusually long program name.
@@zoomosis - Indeed. It seems as though they want to add more features before fixing the "little" issues. You see it all the time where the programmers want to be part of the team adding "features" and not the team fixing bugs and "little" issues like this. Perhaps it is more fun for the programmers but it is a complete turn off for users that see the same issues in "new" release after new release.
At last a true alternative to windows. I installed this distro as per your video on my low spec media pc, it works like a dream. Everything is so intuative to use, unlike Windows which is an overblown frustrating mess. A great video as usual, many thanks!
Good to see some overall refinements on this release instead of the usual rush to change the whole interface like some operating systems. I do wish they'd have abandoned the snap idea though given its well publicised faults and failings.
Thank you so much for the overview on Ubuntu 22.04. I use 20.04 as my daily driver and it’s running flawless. I also use it as a digital audio workstation, so at this point I have no reason to change because there are not enough feature upgrades for me to do so compared to my downtime reinstalling specialty applications. I am glad that they fixed the screen capture. Maybe I’ll do the next version upgrade. Thank you again for the video
I’m going to install Ubuntu 22.04 in Virtual Box on my MacBook. Ubuntu has always been one of my favorite Distros. My first introduction to Linux in 2005 was Ubuntu.
Thanks for your Linux videos. I use Linux on my Pie and have it on desktop in VM. I play with the different flavors of Linux. I still think Linux is the future for folks like me.
Thank you for this very effective (and convincing) demonstration! It seems obvious to me that more and more PC users can migrate to different Linux distributions without having an anxiety attack! Great news for the Open Source world...
Just installed Jammy on my old school Thinkpad R61i from 2007 and the computer works well (with SSD storage) with xfce4 with vs code and vlc. It is a lot faster than windows for sure. This was a laptop that came with Windows XP.
thanks for the new update video. It would have been helpful if you had added a few words as to why "snap" may be considered controversial. Might have also generated a few extra comments.
Christopher this is slightly off topic but I think very relevant. The need for a strategy to define a 'your' digital legacy is really important. Recently our son died and he was a digital native, so no paperwork at all, no idea who who to invite to the funeral, who he banked with etc. The only way of finding out anything was to take out hard discs from his many computers, plug them into a Linux distro and search for unencrypted information, and redirect his mail to intercept letters demanding money. I know that Apple and others have started to think about this and I have seen a few articles but can I encourage everyone to not just make backups but nominate people who can get access if the need arises. Worthy of a video I think. Alan
This is a very valid concern, but I'm incredibly sorry for your loss that prompted it. Kids going before their parents is the worst. My sincere condolences. 😥
@@Noodles.FreeUkraine Thanks. The whole situation is particularly difficult because he was an uber nerd in the computing world. However I bet the death of any modern net native would mean that those left behind would have considerable issues to solve. I anticipate months of unexpected contacts. How to plan for this is my concern now.
Excellent video, as always. I’m not a Linux user, although I have dabbled with it in the past and may do so more in the future. This distro looks good, although the issue with Grub would concern me as I’d probably have to dual boot. When I did this in the past I experienced no such issues.
9:26, i think it's very useful, if you want to split screen you can drag one window to the left and another to the right, and it only triggers when you want it too
problem with ubuntu is... every time they make a new LTS release it is unfunished, every single time breaks something and have to either wait months for fixes to be included in the next update or have to hunt for obscure solutions with custom kernels... time and time again ubuntu leaves me dissapointed... it seems i will allways end up back in debian...
Nice overview. It was good to hear again about the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8, because that was the event that finally pushed me to seriously try Linux and stay there. I hated Windows 8 so much, with UI changes that made no sense for desktop with no consideration for users, and they got plenty of feedback in that regard prior to launch. Changes for the sake of change are a tough sell. As for this, new versions of Ubuntu are always good to see, but I've never been drawn to their default desktops. I've always been more likely to use Ubuntu derivatives. I've used affiliated forks Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubunu MATE, along with Zorin and Mint(Cinnamon) in the past. Mint was always my main pick of those. I've since decided to distro hop a bit for various reasons. I've been running Devuan for a while and was just getting ready to start playing around with MX Linux with KDE Plasma on another machine. I started out with KDE and I've seen and heard that it has come a long way in the last few years and it feels like it's worth a look. That's where I'm at. I also was not quite into Snaps when I tried it. I didn't like some of the implementation and management. I know others have bigger problems with it, but I try not to get too deep into those issues. But still, I found Snaps to be lacking a little for my purposes, though they did work.
the power setting fiture is one thing I hope mint gets. its driving me nuts that I can't limit my cpu on linux and the ways which I can were very complicated for me to understand
Thank you sir for another fine videoooo! I was thinking about upgrading the Linux OS my dual boot laptop but will look into the GRUB issue. Thank you for the warning about that. I am also not the biggest fan of the GNOME desktop but Ubuntu seems to have made it a bit nicer to use. I hear that Fedora 36 also has some nice GNOME improvements so I will check that distro as well. Thanks again for making my Sunday morning enjoyable!
Fantastic, this is what Sundays are all about, sitting down watching the new video from our favourite youtube channel.
Thanks. :) And gold medal awarded for the first comment today!
What the German Shepherd doin here
Thought I'd mention the new kernel supports NTFS natively. This will provide much better support for those interacting with Windows machines.
Yes, I've heard that. Not tested it, but a good development.
It's a shame Windows machines don't natively (Kernel level) support any Linux Filesystems.
This’ll really help me and my media library. Terabytes stored on NTFS drives.
NTFS support has been present for years, even natively, on various distributions.
@@waltercomunello121 It's much improved in kernel 5.15 due to Paragon contributing to the driver. Full write and journalling support.
Bravo !! I was expecting a review of Ubuntu 22.04, but not so quick.
Great !
Have an amazing week Chris !!
Thanks, it has been a busy three days.
Hi Chris, great video! I thought I'd mention Ventoy, a great tool that makes generating install media obsolete - you just use Ventoy to alter a normal USB stick, then copy any number of isos on it. When starting from it, you can select which iso to use. No time-consuming media creation, this has saved me HOURS :-) I have one fast 64 GB stick with lots of images on it, Linux, Windows install media, tools like Acronis TrueImage... I think you could save a lot of time :-)
Thanks for this. I'm aware of Ventoy. But in a video showing how to install a single OS, using it would introduce another level of complexity, and slow the video down.
@T S - I see what Chris is saying, in his videos he wants to show new users as simply as possible how to give a new OS a trial run, and Balena Etcher is ideal for that. However I'm sure that Ventoy users (I'm one, it's a lovely tool) will know how to pop a new ISO straight onto their Ventoy stick and boot into it from the menu.
The first time I got around properly installing Ventoy and using it, - revelation. If you want to quickly review what works and what doesn't Ventoy is a good option.
I came here to say this, the last two times i used balena it corrupted my flash drives. Ventoy has been great!
@@ExplainingComputers I knew you'd know, and I knew why you did it.
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 since it was in on development on Raspberry Pi 400 and I am absolutely loving it
awesome Pavan. was thinking about giving it a go. been using pop os on my pi 4 since it come out. would like to see which run faster on the pi
I’ve been using Ubuntu 20.04 on my raspberry pi 4 (booting from an external USB 3.0 SSD) for some time - but I am afraid to do updates because last time during the update Ubuntu reverted the pi 4 firmware to the old firmware version that can’t boot from an external SSD. Bricked my pi - which I eventually managed to fix by re-flashing the firmware to the later version again using an SD card and then my SSD boot worked again. Hopefully doing a full upgrade to 22.04 will not only improve my Linux experience (it looks really good) but also fix this update issue bug.
@@abulka oh wow. Thanks for letting us know. Such a pain when stuff like that happens :( I've had similar issues when installing software and it stuffs something up and won't boot properly. Hour upon hours of trouble shooting just to end up formatting and starting again. Ive been running Pop from as SSD has been really good so far but interested it trying Ubuntu
My first Ubuntu Distro was Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS "Dapper Drake" August 10, 2006.
Since then I have only used LTS versions.
Yes, LTS works better, no radical breaking of things every day, though some things just stay broken..... Just waiting for Mint to give the upgrade so I can do this.
Lol me to… with Compiz desktop effects.
Times and technologies may change, but I don't think I will ever get tired of hearing your wonderful intro and outro theme.
:)
Had been using Zorin for a while, and I loved how NVidia graphics cards are catered for straight out of the box, and that Steam games are finally being given some love on Linux. Been using the Jammy Jellyfish for a few days now, and I am loving it.
I have Zorin because of Chris's review while back and for NVidia as I am an (old) gamer being and above average normy, and want to ditch windows. I still use windows because of the games and just watching YT vids and video editing and photog (DaVinci and I'm still learning GIMP from the work Adobe suite I have to use). While Zorin (and Linux in general) can support these, I'm still fence sitting only because of my type of games I play; space sims. One is on Steam, the other is on GOG. I know of WINE but still confuses me. While I want to, can I make the full switch to Linux (Zorin or this)? Space (or games in general) sims, vid & photo editing and YT vids is all I use my puter for. (... and we all know how evil Mac and Win are, plus they just annoy me in forcing me do to stuff that I don't want to)
@@soldier72 Go to 'Settings' in Steam and set up Proton. This will make most Steam games play under Linux. I have to use the dreaded Windows 10 for a few games. Despite Linux being able to run games well, (and a few cases, better) the servers need you to run Windows. I suspect that the future is brighter now thanks to things like Steam OS running natively on Linux, and Windows 11 is definitely a shot in the foot thanks to alienating people with such a narrow hardware entry point.
@@soldier72 Lunix has a video about running windows games on zorin
Chris - love your dry sense of humor! 🤣 On top of that, you are so good at conveying information you could probably teach a jellyfish calculus if you really tried! Been using Ubuntu 20.04 as a Valheim server for around 8 months, and it has been great, but now I want to play around with this version! Thanks Chris! 🇺🇲🤜🏻🤛🏻🇬🇧
I installed Jammy over Focal directly via dist-upgrade. Everything runs perfectly well. Jammy runs notable faster than Focal on my good old 6500. Snaps are indeed a controversy matter but not that bad at all. Would I recommend the Jammy Jellyfish to users? Definitely YES.
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I really like your channel :)
Every video is so relaxing and explained very well at the same time!
Thank you very much!
After your "so" I always find myself dubbing in perfect sync "let's go take, a closer look".
Keep up the good work, Chris! we love you!
"If you didn't subscriiiiiiibe, please subscriiiiiibe."
This time around, Ubuntu looks REALLY good. I usually used Kubuntu, because I don't like GNOME that much, but with Dash To Panel working fine, I think I'll go for this one instead.
Hi Chris. Fabulously informative video as usual. You don't get the cat out, you don't bang on about the weather - you focus on what matters - quality and digestible information to your audience with an emphasis on genuinely informing - not patronising, sardonic or other nonsense gestures. Thank you very much. Mark.
Thank you :) You are a gem on TH-cam.
Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)
I can't believe it's been 10 years since I started using Linux. My first hardware Linux install was 12.04 LTS
It's amazing to see how far Ubuntu, and Linux in general, has come in the last decade. I don't really use Ubuntu anymore, but I still watch it's development, just for old time's sake.
I like that desktop customization options are finally getting better on Ubuntu, that was the thing I disliked about it the most when I used it, it felt akin to Mac where there were so few choices for making it look how I wanted. It feels really slick now, with that accent color fade, and the fade between light and dark mode. I hope one day all distros make picking colors that easy, I get a little annoyed by being stuck with GTK color schemes not letting you pick individual colors on XFCE at times.
If and in case that many choices are warranted, please have a look at the still most customizable KDE Neon and yes, Mint Cinnamon - you can make your desktop an absolute treat to the eyes. Though I get your point about the ease and accessibility available now to the masses. (Old SUSE chameleon!)
Thanks as always Chris! I already have it set up on VirtualBox and am playing with it as we speak!
Well done, what a great tutorial and video. A am very tempted to play with this version. Thank you for this Sunday treat
I will likely wait until POP OS 22.04 LTS releases. Some of these settings had to accessed with Gnome Tweaks. I'm glad to see that change. Thank you for all your hard work. You make, bar none, the most professional videos on TH-cam! As an added bonus you have terrific whit too.
Hey Man, I Did Not Know About The Law You Mentioned At 10:45! As Always, I'm Glad You Took A Closer Look! Sunday Mornings With Professor C.B.! Life Is Good! 8-)
I have to admit, that when Windows 10 stops being supported, I’m seriously considering Ubuntu to replace it. Looking forward to your next video!
Greetings Perry. :)
That's at least until Oct 2025 - so three and a bit more years. You'll be able to try v24.04 of Ubuntu before that date!
Thats what I am going to do also.
Linux Mint has the best "Windows" experience.
@@chrisjlocke LOL, I can see that you caught the fact that I’m the type that doesn’t wait around to the last minute to make a decision. Good observation. Considering that I’m “older than dirt”, I may be “pushing up daisies” by that time. Wishing you a great day!
Enjoy your videos as always, Chris. You were quick coming with this video, just in time 🙂
I had only just installed on my i7 16gb 9yr old laptop. First clean install since original windows 8.1.
Brings new life to old hardware, which has always been one of.my plus points for Linux.
Thanks for the heads up on Wayland, & Grub. I personally purge snapd as soon as I install Ubuntu in any form. Thanks for the fast overview!
You speak so clean and clear. It reminds me those british audios used to learn english for non english speakers.
Thanks for maintaining a regularly useful and informative channel.
Installed on a 2nd SSD with Mint/Win10 on #1, then PopOs! on #2. Before I started the installation I updated the grub bootloader in Mint with the command "sudo update-grub" and had no problems (17:29) with any of the 4 OS's being able to be accessed easily. Thank you for all you do for all of us! 👍
I have a mini PC (AMD PRO A6 9500E with 8GB Mem & an SSD) connected to my TV what was really struggling running Windows 10. After watching your video I decided to wipe it and install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I'm so glad I did; it's far better, so much more responsive and the fan is no longer permanently whirring at high speed. Thanks for continuing to produce such a great channel
Thanks for this feedback -- I know myself that Ubuntu works great on a PC connected to a TV. Glad it improved things for you. :)
Thanks Chris/EC. You really help me brief those who are not Linux familiar get a calm and straightforward insight into the alternative world. And along with a chuckle! A bonus chucked from your description containing "Jammy Yellyfish"
I was going to install Linux Mint (first time Linux user from Windows), but after this tutorial, I'm going to install Ubuntu. You made it very easy for a novice user to navigate around Ubuntu. Thanks, Chris, for an outstanding video!
Looks great. These linux distros are looking so polished now. I'll still be going with kubuntu and the KDE desktop though - the screen magnifier on Gnome is not great, in my experience.
Dear EC, I've been tinkering with Linux for the longest time but never fully made the switch.
I want to inform you that also partially thanks to you, I've decided that 2024 is the year and I couldn't be happier on how my experience has been going.
I've dabbled a bit with MXLinux, Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Mint. Every distro has it's highs and down and it's so fun to be able to change so easily. I feel like the OS is finally a tool I can "play" with rather than beeing scared of when the next update would break stuff like with Windows. I've done some pretty big errors (including deleting the desktop environment when trying to upgrade to pipewire in Ubuntu, I have no idea how) but at least I know how to recover from those errors and I also learn a lot by doing errors.
To get a screen shot I want the "PrtScr" button to copy the desktop *NOW* not after more mouse clicks. I use it all the time (along with ALT PrtScr) and I don't want it delayed while I have to select a partial amount, etc. 14:15 Things can change rapidly and you will miss it like this when ANY "Paint" program can do the cropping any ways. It has worked the same and fine for MANY generations of OSes. At least give the option to turn this new "feature" off.
With this I can only agree!
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 yesterday and it's awesome! It has resolved all the problems 20.04 and 18.04 had for me. I don't know why people say snaps are slow to launch, but for me it launches fast. Funny enough, on Linux I can connect to 5ghz wifi connections :D but on Windows I can't.
Out of curiosity, are you using NVMe, SSD or HDD? On the 5GHz wifi, could be the drivers in Windows need to be updated.
The Firefox snap took around 15 seconds to launch on my Core i5-4440 on an SSD. Subsequent launches only take a second though.
@@zoomosis 15 seconds is a long time for loading Firefox, even for HDD. There may be some issues with the SNAP implementation of the Firefox package. As long as Firefox is still loaded in RAM, subsequent launches should be much quicker.
@@tbone9900 I think you are right. Another launch of Firefox took 15 seconds after a reboot.
I appreciate that there is caching involved but I'm not keen on a web browser staying resident in memory after I've killed it, especially on my laptop, and also especially since I don't run Firefox all that much. I ended up installing the PPA.
@@tbone9900 Nvme. I tried updating drivers to get 5ghz and still didn't worked.
Thanks for yet another great video, Chris. I have now installed 22.04 as a VM in VirtualBox on my Linux Mint PC. I have already taken a quick look and thanks to your video, I'll be doing some further exploration. I'm sure I'll upgrade my Ubuntu 20.04 PC in the near future.
Christopher, this was a great video! The first Linux I used was for my PC Operating Systems 1 College Course, Final Oral Exam, it was Open Caldera Linux, in around 1999. I brought the old clunker, and monitor to class, started it up with StartX in the Command Line to bring up the GUI, (having previously partitioned the Hard Drive using FIPS, for the Swap File). I learned how to use the Bourne Again Shell for Script Editing in PC Operating Systems 2 Class. Wow! Linux has come along ways!!! I use Lubuntu and Zorin in my older Laptops. The huge change for me happened when Ubuntu/Lubuntu introduced Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS. Sure, I still use Windows 11, and as an experiment I use OS X Snow Leopard on my two cheap Mac Mini, yet I see Linux now easily competing with Windows 11 and Mac OS X Monterey is what Apple is up to. All of these MS/Apple/Linux are fantastic!
Great post, thanks for sharing. :)
As soon as the notification popped up, I anticipated an exciting review. I was right. Good review with short and essential points. Ubuntu uses GNOME and it doesn't run smoothly on older computers, it's the only problem. Overall, it's a good starting point and the stability also counts. Many businesses trust Ubuntu for stability and this is the reason we find so many commercial applications are first ported to Ubuntu. For someone who cannot change computers every couple of years, other Ubuntu distributions with light desktop environments can be of help. To those who prefer raw performance, other Ubuntu derivatives with lightweight DEs are something they'll find handy.
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on an 11 year old MBP after replacing the DVD drive with a SSD. It runs quite well and I am finding that I enjoy using it very much. I tried installing Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 along side since I can make it look and act more "Macish" but encountered a problem with grub. Thanks for the comment regarding switching from Wayland back to Xorg - definitely helps!
did you have any issues with the trackpad? I installed 20.04 a while back on a mid 2012 MBP and I somehow "fixed" the trackpad issues (basically it was as if the pointer speed was set to 'snail') and I have not yet upgraded it to 22.04 since I'm worried about those issues returning.
I upgraded my ram and SSD and it's a capable little Linux machine, that much is for sure. I still want to look into upgrading my ram to 16GB.
@@danyaklich7024 I never noticed a trackpad issue, fortunately. I upgraded to 16GB of RAM but for my use I think that was overkill. I'm just very pleased that it runs so well and LINUX is also the OS on this 8 year old Dell which did have a problem with Ubuntu 21.04. Each time there was an update the system presented me with a mouse pointer over a black display. I would then have to perform an advanced reboot. Never happened again after installing 21.10. Probably a GPU driver issue.
Cheers!
I started my Linux journey with Ubuntu Unity desktop then Gnome and other Ubuntu based distros like Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and currently Xubuntu. I was planning to try Kubuntu, but this new Gnome version looks really good. I especially like that you can easily change the accent color, that's one of the things I like about Windows 11 which is my daily OS. Great video, thanks.
A great review, Chris, as always. I picked up up a couple of very useful things from you that I'd missed after installing 22.04. Thank you very much indeed.
I'm currently testing it and I've been enjoying it a lot so far 👍!
I'm late, but as a long time viewer who stopped watching around 2021 (literally forgot about your channel, my old account was Aaron Renny), it's nice how your videos are still consistent and I like how you are in the POV of the average user, because many ubuntu videos are 99% critisism about snap.
Anyways, great video!
Looking good 👍🏻 been using Ubuntu as my main OS on my server and important VMs for 12 years. Currently on 20.04 so I'll be definitely upgrading.
Great content as always. It is good to see Canonical continuing to improve Ubuntu. I'm more of a Debian (yes I know where Ubuntu came from) distro myself. I prefer the added level of control (maybe it's perceived control) that Debian provides. Currently on Bullseye with some Gnome extensions enabled. Will definitely give new Ubuntu with Wayland a try.
Thanks for the video!
I'll be staying with Linux Mint for my main machine and Linux Mint Debian Edition on the laptop. I just can't get used to Gnome no matter how many little tweaks they make to it.
I have exactly the same setup and reasons 😀
Likewise a Mint fan because I'm not enthusiastic about Gnome. Dunno why but I just can't get along with Gnome as well as I do with MATE or Cinnamon.
Likewise
Delightful video. 👍 Apart from Ubuntu, I like how MX Linux gives a launch toggle option around systemd, without deprecating it wholesale but giving users the freedom to decide. I last used Ubuntu 16 ("Xenial" or something like that), and I do not have plans to return to Canonical/Ubuntu. Yours truly.
I upgraded my Notebook already, but the desktop is still waiting for 22.04.1. I must say, the process went almost without issues, except for the USB-wireless dongle. So I did the install connected to Ethernet and later installed the necessary driver. The only thing I hate in this release is the snap stuff. With the help of the community is was fixed quite quickly and now I enjoy a snap-free 22.04. The big plus is that Dolphin integrates Google Drive in a seamless way! Hurray!
Thanks for your great videos!
Even though I dont use Ubuntu (Debian btw) I like to honor/hommage Ubuntu for its contribution to Linux by theming my LXQT DE to the Unity-ish look and feel 💪🙏
EDIT: I am absolutely amazed by Ubuntu's "normal user experience" and I gladly use 22.04 LTS now!
Thanks.Just installed mine on my Dell laptop.I do like ubuntu and have used it for several years.
Thanks for this video. I've installed it on a second laptop which all I ever seem to do was update with endless Windows 10 updates. I made a blunder when installing Ubuntu (my fault) so I lost windows, but that's no great loss. Anyhow I like it and look forward to updates going forward.
An interesting review of Ubuntu 22.04 Chris it certainly looks like an interesting distro. It'll be worth dual booting alongside my current distro (mint 20.3), take it for a spin and see how the old desktop copes with it. :)
Bravo been using it a few days in hyper v and it works great. Nice distro
Thanks Chris. I really appreciate your channel and will be changing my Mint setup over to Ubuntu as I intend to be using that in future. Your videos really give a person like me encouragement to keep updating my system.
Best of luck with your transition. :)
I just downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop hp yesterday.with dual boot windows 11.
I actually have it running on my mac mini from 2012 and it does run pretty well as a replacement for the mac os software that was already outdated.
I am on Ubuntu 21.10 for my main laptop, can't wait to try this new version ! :D
Thank you. As always it is a pleasure and joy to watch your videos.
Another great review, thank you. Good to see what is coming down the pipe even for a full time Linux Mint Mate user.
And remember that Mint is based on Ubuntu, so we'll get a new version of Mint fairly soon now. :)
@@ExplainingComputers Yes, should be out in July. Wondering if Wayland will be the default. Might be time to move to LMDE.
Ubuntu is my personal favourite Linux distro, behind Linux Mint and Open Suse, I use Ubuntu as the main OS on my old Dell laptop. I have tried Jammy Jellyfish in a virtual machine and I really love the new and improved customisation options for the theme of the OS. I am honestly a strong follower of the Linux community and It's great to see Linux gaining in popularity. Great video by the way! Keep up the great work! :)
I have never been overly fond of Ubuntu itself, OSes built on it have been very good, indeed. Linux Mint is one and I run it on a secondary but important PC. I will, of course, try this version of Ubuntu as I do with many, many Linux distros. It's all good fun and full of surprises. Small as they are, what you have shown here is very intriguing. As always, excellent reporting on all things cutting edge. You may go ahead and accept the compliment and have a bigger head because of it.
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Thanks nice , video am also on ubuntu now i used debian sinds 1998, its time for some new stuff, ok ok ok yes i know u can install sid, but wana do something new !!!
Chris have a nice weekend, Sir.
Thanks for your support, most appreciated.
I wasn't going to upgrade to 22.04. I had loaded Debian 11 on another drive so I could avoid the issue. But I changed my mind and upgraded it on my tower and laptop. It runs smooth and kept my settings where I had left them prior to the upgrade. While I'm not impressed with Ubuntu's naming system Jammy Jellyfish 🤔 and it's kindergarten style artwork It will stay put on my machines for foreseeable future. Nice presentation Chris!! Thanks 😊 cheers!
Thanks for the review. I may be installing it on a test machine that is currently running Kubuntu 21.10.
Great Video as usual and very informative. I use a HP T620 or T630 to drive my TV, running either Linux Lite or Sparky Linux. This combination works really well.
The timing of this release is quite funny to me. I recently starting running Ubuntu on my laptop but I had to use 21.10 because 20.04 didn't have the wifi driver for my specific laptop. I ended up running into some graphics driver issues as well that prevented me from using monitors with my laptop, and while those aren't guaranteed to be fixed I am tempted to try this version out anyways.
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I fixed a driver issue that stopped me from using external monitors by switching to the open source Nvidia drivers. I'm sure they're worse for some applications, but I game on windows so it wasn't relevant to me.
@@matjaz7134 Thank you for the recommendation.
@@matjaz7134 Happy to say that the multi monitor issue I had before is not present in 22.04. Also, on 21.10 my laptop wouldn't wake up after going into sleep mode. It appears that issue is fixed.
@@paladingeorge6098 That's great to hear! I'll see if I can go back to Nvidia drivers when I update (I'm waiting for the .1 release)
Yes, at 12:40 there is lots of room but they can't show ANY more of the program names!! Why???
There are 5 "Libre..." programs from *their default* install... this shows a lack of beta testing *AND* has been an issue before this release.
The five Libre Office programs are all different (Writer, Calc, etc) -- not that the user would know it from how they are displayed.
@@ExplainingComputers - Yes, that is what I meant but we can't see each program name and they assume all users (new and old) can tell by the icon. Beta testing should have (or did and was ignored) reported the chopped labels as there is lots of space for the full names. Stuff like this is easy to fix and should have been done long before release. These are the included programs and not some "weird" user downloaded program with an unusually long program name.
It's a pretty glaring oversight, especially for an LTS. I wonder if they will issue a fix for it.
@@zoomosis - Indeed. It seems as though they want to add more features before fixing the "little" issues. You see it all the time where the programmers want to be part of the team adding "features" and not the team fixing bugs and "little" issues like this. Perhaps it is more fun for the programmers but it is a complete turn off for users that see the same issues in "new" release after new release.
At last a true alternative to windows. I installed this distro as per your video on my low spec media pc, it works like a dream. Everything is so intuative to use, unlike Windows which is an overblown frustrating mess. A great video as usual, many thanks!
Great to hear. :)
Great video Chris. I love this version of Ubuntu. Thanks for making great content mate. Regards from South Australia. Steve.
Thanks Steve.
Good to see some overall refinements on this release instead of the usual rush to change the whole interface like some operating systems. I do wish they'd have abandoned the snap idea though given its well publicised faults and failings.
Anydesk is not compatible with Wayland. It's the only problem i had in opensuse time ago.
Thank for the video Chris!!
Thank you so much for the overview on Ubuntu 22.04. I use 20.04 as my daily driver and it’s running flawless. I also use it as a digital audio workstation, so at this point I have no reason to change because there are not enough feature upgrades for me to do so compared to my downtime reinstalling specialty applications. I am glad that they fixed the screen capture. Maybe I’ll do the next version upgrade. Thank you again for the video
The nice thing is that you know you have three years of support left with 20.04, so can upgrade when it suits you.
plain ubuntu with ... or ubuntu studio ?
@@jyvben1520 I did not want all of studio, so I used standard Ubuntu then just installed the audio studio distro pack.
A masterful presentation, as always.
I’m going to install Ubuntu 22.04 in Virtual Box on my MacBook. Ubuntu has always been one of my favorite Distros. My first introduction to Linux in 2005 was Ubuntu.
Thanks for your Linux videos. I use Linux on my Pie and have it on desktop in VM. I play with the different flavors of Linux. I still think Linux is the future for folks like me.
I'm currently dual-booting Linux Mint 20.3 and Windows 10, but I might try this new version of Ubuntu. Thanks for the in depth review!
May be i didn't understand it properly but he said it will not support dual boot with new grub version.
@@dumdumdumdum8804 it will, you just have to tweak grub configuration
As a Windows User, Ubuntu never disappoints me. User friendly, Minimalist and clean
Great presentation, as always! Thank U
Thanks!
Thanks James, much appreciated. :)
Thank you for this very effective (and convincing) demonstration! It seems obvious to me that more and more PC users can migrate to different Linux distributions without having an anxiety attack! Great news for the Open Source world...
Please convince Apple to open source iTunes.
I am a Ubuntu user since 2008. I have always upgraded to each new version. I am going to be updating my computer today to 22.04 from 21.10
Good luck!
I’m definitely upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04. I like the features it provides and it’s such a stable OS.
Just installed Jammy on my old school Thinkpad R61i from 2007 and the computer works well (with SSD storage) with xfce4 with vs code and vlc. It is a lot faster than windows for sure.
This was a laptop that came with Windows XP.
Great overview of 22.04, espeially the "Under the Hood" section.
Great video. Very comprehensive and useful info in short time.
thanks for the new update video. It would have been helpful if you had added a few words as to why "snap" may be considered controversial. Might have also generated a few extra comments.
This in itself could be a very long video . . .
Always a Thumbs Up, Thank You for you do every Sunday for us viewers, have a good weekend. As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for another great video Chris. As usual, great detail and you get down to many useful features/settings most users care about.
Finally a review without fanboyism. Great review man!
Thanks.
Already updated and am quite happy Thankyou and I do enjoy your work.
Thank you for the video.... Using ubuntu since a week and all is fine.... works perfectly.
Definitely going to upgrade soon from 21.10. Exciting!
Christopher this is slightly off topic but I think very relevant. The need for a strategy to define a 'your' digital legacy is really important. Recently our son died and he was a digital native, so no paperwork at all, no idea who who to invite to the funeral, who he banked with etc. The only way of finding out anything was to take out hard discs from his many computers, plug them into a Linux distro and search for unencrypted information, and redirect his mail to intercept letters demanding money. I know that Apple and others have started to think about this and I have seen a few articles but can I encourage everyone to not just make backups but nominate people who can get access if the need arises. Worthy of a video I think. Alan
This is a very valid concern, but I'm incredibly sorry for your loss that prompted it. Kids going before their parents is the worst. My sincere condolences. 😥
@@Noodles.FreeUkraine Thanks. The whole situation is particularly difficult because he was an uber nerd in the computing world. However I bet the death of any modern net native would mean that those left behind would have considerable issues to solve. I anticipate months of unexpected contacts. How to plan for this is my concern now.
Excellent video, as always. I’m not a Linux user, although I have dabbled with it in the past and may do so more in the future. This distro looks good, although the issue with Grub would concern me as I’d probably have to dual boot. When I did this in the past I experienced no such issues.
9:26, i think it's very useful, if you want to split screen you can drag one window to the left and another to the right, and it only triggers when you want it too
Since I like all your videos anyway, I just use the like button to keep track of what I've watched.
problem with ubuntu is... every time they make a new LTS release it is unfunished, every single time breaks something and have to either wait months for fixes to be included in the next update or have to hunt for obscure solutions with custom kernels... time and time again ubuntu leaves me dissapointed... it seems i will allways end up back in debian...
Nice overview. It was good to hear again about the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8, because that was the event that finally pushed me to seriously try Linux and stay there. I hated Windows 8 so much, with UI changes that made no sense for desktop with no consideration for users, and they got plenty of feedback in that regard prior to launch. Changes for the sake of change are a tough sell. As for this, new versions of Ubuntu are always good to see, but I've never been drawn to their default desktops. I've always been more likely to use Ubuntu derivatives. I've used affiliated forks Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubunu MATE, along with Zorin and Mint(Cinnamon) in the past. Mint was always my main pick of those. I've since decided to distro hop a bit for various reasons. I've been running Devuan for a while and was just getting ready to start playing around with MX Linux with KDE Plasma on another machine. I started out with KDE and I've seen and heard that it has come a long way in the last few years and it feels like it's worth a look. That's where I'm at. I also was not quite into Snaps when I tried it. I didn't like some of the implementation and management. I know others have bigger problems with it, but I try not to get too deep into those issues. But still, I found Snaps to be lacking a little for my purposes, though they did work.
the power setting fiture is one thing I hope mint gets.
its driving me nuts that I can't limit my cpu on linux and the ways which I can were very complicated for me to understand
Thank you sir for another fine videoooo! I was thinking about upgrading the Linux OS my dual boot laptop but will look into the GRUB issue. Thank you for the warning about that. I am also not the biggest fan of the GNOME desktop but Ubuntu seems to have made it a bit nicer to use. I hear that Fedora 36 also has some nice GNOME improvements so I will check that distro as well. Thanks again for making my Sunday morning enjoyable!
I already upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and with Dash To Panel looks better. Thanks for your efforts!
I love this channel, your way of explaining things is amazing... Relaxed, to the point and very informative, thank you!
Thanks for watching. :)