...... i cant get an answer from Linode's higher-ups... could you ask them "will they cancel accounts that support Donald Trump or Free Speech?" ... I mean, will they close my account if I give my opinions about politics or science or the china-virus? it would be nice to know before spending a few thousand dollars on servers over there and i loved Linode before all the cancel-culture crap started. Now i just don't know if I should use them or if there is any hosting company who would 'allow me' to host my opinions or even the opinions of my visitors.
Honestly, right now, I like Ubuntu's look and feel better than Pop OS's. Something about this release just brings me back to 12.04 my first Linux OS. Two things I wish were here, universal menus, and native flatpak support in the software center. Other than that, I really love this release of Ubuntu.
Same. Pop's custom skin was great because it was better than the stock Gnome experience. But since Gnome 41, stock Gnome is better than the current Pop shell. I will likely be switching over if Pop doesn't make some new integrations.
Ubuntu team just nailed it. The looks, customization, compatibility, and updated software make it a great operating system for work, fun or recommending.
This time yes. I personally would still only recommend Fedora though. For developers the software there are the most upto date and much better configured.
Finally! Classic dock at the bottom. That might actually make me consider going back to Ubuntu. Not a fan of snaps, but they're not a complete deal-breaker for me.
Ubuntu also did some genius moves behind the scenes. Shipping an LTS kernel as default makes sense (and Kubuntu's KDE version is also an LTS) Gnome has a performance patch coming, called triple dynamic buffering, that's almost ready to be shipped mainstream. But Ubuntu devs (they made the patch) added it early (to include it on 22.04) and now Ubuntu's Gnome performs way better than any other Gnome (made Gnome work on my laptop) And the avoiding of Libadwaita/GTK4 makes sense for an LTS, as those new technologies are still too new, and it avoids theming nightmares/increases compatibility (dark mode works better on Ubuntu than on other Gnomes)
Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I tried back in College during my IT courses, and after a few years of distro-hopping I've found myself back on Ubuntu once again with 22.04. It's really good! As a more casual Linux user (since I still use Windows as my daily driver) it kinda just ticks all the boxes I need from an OS. Super pleased with this release so far.
You should be able to seamlessly use desktop icons - or not use them at all - without having to adjust any settings. It should just be there for people who want it, or out of the way for people who don’t.
Kinda dislike icons myself personally, but one thing I don't understand is why it isn't easily possible to add application names below the icons in the menu. I'm thinking that's one of the reasons some prefer desktop icons.
If the new installer would have been ready by now, I doubt that it would be a good idea to ship a *new installer* for an LTS version that is designed for stability.
If you want Unity, there is an Ubuntu flavor called Ubuntu Unity. It comes with a more "modern" theme but if you want the good old Ambiance theme you can just switch to it from the appearance settings. Unity is a great DE and Ubuntu Unity is a great distro.
Upgraded yesterday and so far so good. It looks very nice and I don't even feel the need to change icons. Even snaps are "snappier" now, although I admit I don't particularly like snaps/flatpaks. Still testing pipewire/sound related things but it looks like a keeper to me!
I'll probably wait for 22.04.1 to upgrade my notebook, but the nice features they introduce it kinda lure me to try it now (the screenshot record button is incredible, Nick!). But my desktop PC is still Fedora, no doubts. Never going to change my entire programming up-to-date setup for old fart Ubuntu. And if I want to try MATE or LxQt, I can install it on Fedora right now.
@@Batwam0 I cannot do this. I talk it is my notebook, but it's my mother's laptop. In fact, I did the upgrade, but there is an error message after booting I need to fix it, wish me luck!
I use Ubuntu LTS with some little tweak. I always remove snapd and install flatpak. I use Kate for coding, qBittorent to download some stuff. I use ct5ct to tweak KDE apps. Synaptic and commad line is enaught for me to manage apps and I don't use software center. I totaly agree with you that flatpak is the real feature for Linux apps.
Not gonna lie, it exceeded my expectations, I haven't seen a polished release of Ubuntu in a while, however still having snaps and first-party apps that haven't implemented libadwaita are enough reasons to stick with Fedora. Great release, but still not perfect, I feel like.
This is an LTS release. And GNOME 42 doesn't change all of its apps to libawaita. If Ubuntu implemented libawaita, many people would have to live with a mix-bag experience for two years. Fedora just doesn't have that problem.
Absolute amazing. Switched from Fedora to Ubuntu! I love it. Fedora problem, many extensions not available for the new versions every 6 month. I am tired of waiting. And I had also a lot of bugs on 36 beta.
@@obvious_giraffe8386 yeah fedora is my new ubuntu as well, but this ubuntu is like old fedora ^^ Fedora got really good for anyone that is happy with the gnome ecosystem, but I feel like ubuntu is in the process of trying to move away from that. Probably since it doesn't make them money. Maybe ubuntu gets better when they finished that transition like pop!_is? We'll see
@@harshvardhan5792 What are you talking about? I'm using Nvidia drivers and had no issues at all. In fact, I always use Nvidia's horsepower to make my video player playback even better. On the contrary, my Nvidia drivers had issues with Ubuntu. Believe me, bro combination of the latest software with stability is a gem that only fedora can provide!
This is so funny for me. I decided to ignore you when you said Ubuntu wasn't that good ol' Ubuntu and downloaded the 22.04 Beta since then. I like it enough to use it back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Options are good!
After 7 years of Arch I moved to Kubuntu last year. I use the kde backports, guix packaging and btrfs to satisfy my desire for bleeding edge stuff while having a stable base distro with sane defaults and no hardware and driver issues. Can't recommand it enough. In my experience snaps are a little more polished than flatpaks and startup times are not as big an issue any more. But it doesn't really matter to me, I can always switch to the guix package if I encounter a problem.
Still the the only DE that lets you have multi-row taskbar (panels)without a huge amount of pain. If there is another option with that feature then please let me know.
Wayland would be nice but its unlikely to happen anytime soon. Apart from that it doesn't really need anything honestly, it's supposed to be lightweight and simple after all.
Think I just found a Linux channel worth following. Well made videos! Well prepared & scripted and edited videos that gives you lots of info without unnecessary waits for things to startup or, even worse, trying to get your head around a new product while recording. All in all, good job and keep'em coming!
22.04 is how I first got into linux. its easy to use, easy to understand and I dont mind the snaps. I've also not had any issues unless I was messing with it in unintended ways in ordner for me to learn about linux. It's great!
Great to see so many improvements! My only problem with Ubuntu is that the 'Ubuntu Software' applications STILL lags a bit and fails to install/remove software half of the time. Linux Mint's software manager just plain always works and I wish Ubuntu could be like that.
The GNOME team has done _amazing_ work optimizing their desktop. I was really pleasantly surprised when I tried the latest version of 42 on my Thinkpad T420 -- it was literally perfect, no stutters or anything. This was on Arch though, so there may still be more overhead on Ubuntu.
I love this release which I was testing in VM. Looking forward to updating my machines tonight. Oh by the way, you can select the location of desktop icons under settings. Not sure why they are defaulted to bottom right, but I don't mind.
Nice review! I like this version. It's really fast on my computer and I had some surprise: my Xbox elite controller works out of the box (vibration support too).
Bro, how did I miss this video??? I really like how you broke the norm of "distro reviews". Other Linux channels (with all due respect to them BTW), boot distro ISO in a VM, show the installer and go through the steps, and complain if the "telemetry" is checked by default (lord have mercy on us), boot into distro, sift through applications to see whats installed, open terminal and type in some commands and show off some vim skills (don't forget to enlarge the terminal a 100 times), and done. LOL Thanks, Nick.
I might let this release go since I've gotten 21.10 working smoothly for me by disabling Wayland, and I do make use of Studio Control and don't want to deal with the Pipewire transition just yet. Basically in a good place with it, will probably reconsider with the next release.
I am a Fully MATE person... this one I tired and its the wort ever. Because 1. Ubuntu us mainly all SNAPS....every app is a snap... this means Bulkier bloar and slowdown in the very near future. and the MATE edition you cant change the Fonts on the menu and it has a new compositor that still has screen tearing. I say go for Linux Mint Cinnaomone and install the MATE desktop and Boom!
I used to daily drive Ubuntu for years but switched to Windows 6 years ago. And my mind is blown on how much better it looks and how it changed in just a few years! This is how real innovation looks like, @Microsoft.
I'm in the same boat. Both windows and linux distros have gotten so much better. For me, my hardware is 10 years old and I've pretty much reached the limits of my time with windows because of lagging.
Gotta love the new default desktop background. It's the best one they've made since the Groovy Gorilla one. Certainly much better than that horrible hairy hippo from a few versions back.
@@jagjotsingh5200 I'm a casual Linux desktop user, though I've been a Linux user on and off for 25 years. Can you briefly explain why people don't just stick with .debs? Or if people want to use weird distro/library combinations, compile stuff from source, like they used to? All this snap stuff (and other similar tech) looks like a nightmare to me. Are snaps installed globally or per user? Just one question out of dozens I could come up with.
@@lawrencemanning Truth to be told I really want the Linux community to unite and make one package manager a standard. But I think that won't be possible without a good amount of funding as all this requires a constant amount of maintenance. So what I think is to make maintenance cheaper, different distros come with different solutions. Sometimes quality and time of delivery are also important so that's why some unique distros exist like arch, fedora, void linux, etc. The main idea behind snaps is really good(provide all dependencies in a single package) but there already exist solutions for this like Flatpak, and AppImages, So why create a whole new format? Personally, I don't like any as all just mount and run(not sure about AppImages). Here I prefer the windows like solution, install an exe then forget it, no mounts and fast. But it's Microsoft they have money. So, I guess we should be happy with what we are getting as it's free. Uniting Linux community is next to impossible, many have ego issues. If FreeBSD had greater support for hardware and packages then I would love to switch to it. Sorry for long reply.
@@lawrencemanning Sandboxing and file deduplication are the main selling points of flatpaks. On native packages you need to trust the developer not being malicious or not making mistakes when developing the application. On Flatpaks you still do, but you can be a little bit less worried, at least until a flatpak opens a hole in the sandbox.
I thought so too and did a some digging considering to switch to Pop OS!. In the progress I found that I have a long list of snap applications, many of them actively in use. After this I happily use both Ubuntu and snaps. It saves me a lot of time getting the apps I want.
its crazy how far linux desktop come i remember when I start using linux i had ubuntu installed on my pc. It was good back than but seeing it now its so polished and beautiful
I’ve been using my slimbook pro for school and it’s amazing I definitely recommend anybody looking for a cheap yet high quality Linux laptop gets a slimbook
Hows the snapd removal process this time around? Flatpaks are always far better in my experience, specially GPU intensive onces like OBS, Blender and Gimp. 9:16 wow, can you give a rundown of what it takes to install flatpaks and UI store... I use Plasma Discover but Gnome software should be lighter, at this point I may just bite the bullet and move my workstation to Manjaro. Does Fedora have anything like ChromeOS Crostini/Borealis or Windows WSL? A sandboxed but full featured low overhead highly integrated secure Linux hypervisor? for running less trusted code without the risk of compromising your main Browser/FS?
Ubuntu was my choice, for 12 years, prior to 22.04. But 22.04 created a few problems for unknown reasons. Switched to Pop!_OS 22.04 and all problems solved right out of the box. Unexpected, given pop is a fork of ubuntu. The only drawback to pop right now is the lack of mirrors. Pop is domiciled in the usa, and outside mirrors are very very slow. The more I use pop, the more I like it.
@16:07 Stability has little to do with features. Don't you think? @17:15 There is no reason for me to upgrade as soon as possible, except for software that isn't supported by 20.04 LTS. There is 3 to 6 years support left for the last iteration.
Hi, I'm one of the train conductor bastards from SNCF on strike every holidays. Thx for the mention. I'm sure that the train in your country should be a much better experience 😉
@@MohammadIbrahim-sq1xn If it’s not Ubuntu Studio, then you CAN upgrade no problem. But if you are using Ubuntu Studio before 20.10, I don’t know how you would upgrade, probably have to reinstall.
@@MohammadIbrahim-sq1xn Actually, I just found out there are workarounds without having to clean install, but you're essentially on your own for that one.
Wayland completely breaks video acceleration in browsers, which to be fair , is mostly the fault of Firefox devs and Chromium devs, albeit being for different reasons. Firefox has a security sandboxing feature that just breaks accelration, while chromium actually does support it on Wayland but the performance you get averages 15 fps.
I believe you're talking about the firefox sandbox, it can be disabled by launching it with this command, env MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 firefox Now I can watch 4k youtube videos smoothly on firefox on intel 615 graphics, hardware acceleration used to work on chromium 91, but not anymore.
It's been working on Fedora build of Firefox for a while though. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't add it, it's also available in the Flatpak version too (smooth 4K60 on an i5 with not much CPU).
Exposing major security breaches is not a worthwhile workaround, and i don't think it works on any firefox build since FF98 as far as i know, whether be it Wayland or X11.
Updated a few days ago and it's been good so far. Used fusuma for touchpad gestures and here they came out of the box, now I can use my workspaces seamlessly. It's interesting. Pretty neat to be honest, I don't regret it.
For those who hate snaps, that's not really a reason not to use Ubuntu. Snaps and snapd can be removed in less than 5 minutes and you can install all the flatpaks you need. It's not like Ubuntu is locking you into only using those snaps forever.
@@riseabove3082 That's so weird. I've got two computers that have been running without snap or snapd for a while with Ubuntu. But like anything Linux, things happen differently on everyone's systems because there are so many variables at play.
Hey, just here to drop a thx for the last video. I been playing around with arch on an old laptop, and was really unhappy with libre-office. It had too many things I simply didn't use, and the ui is quite different from ms office which im used to. It also reminds me of the old Microsoft style ui, and not in a good way. So when i saw you demonstrate onlyoffice, i quickly gave it a shot. Tbh within 5 min i had removed libre-office. It looks and feels so much more modern, and the switch from Microsoft is super easy due to the very similar ui. So Merci! Only thing i was a bit confused about, is that it was not an official pacman package, but i had to get it from the AUR. But that might just be a down-the-road thing.
Does MATE still do that thing where the pointer jumps down to the lower right corner of the screen and click what's there? I sometimes use my UM-equipped laptop for video editing (just for my own use, so far). I set it to render and walk away to let it work, I come back and there's like 20 instances of Trash open.
It's the only main distro that doesn't work on my laptop after closing the lid or going into suspension mode. Manjaro, Fedora, Pop, everything works, this Ubuntu 22.04 goes into suspension and there it stays, it's impossible to wake it up again. 🤷
And apt-key is know marked as deprecated and doesn't want to use the keys that are stored in the files of apt-key. This is changed because the new way doesn't check like the old one if any random public key stored in the old file directory can proof the signature of packages but it checks the signature of packages with the correct public key of the package's source that has to be declared in the .list-file now. Also, it will be removed in Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.10.
I liked the previous screenshot dedicated tool. Only because by clever combinations of ctrl, shift, alt and print keys, you could immediately get in mode to take a screenshot of an area, a window or the whole screen AND even decide if you just wanted it stored in the clipboard (which was the quickest and easiest way I had to share screenshots on social media and discord) or save it in the pictures directory. I miss that I didn't need to open an application or bring up an overlay. The ability to record the screen is cool though.
There is performance issue in ubuntu 22.04 after upgrade from 21.10. GUI became sluggish when you watch youtube in chrome and try to resize other window. Looks like it's not "tuned" enough. Also there is a serious bug which leads to system freeze when you use new screenshot tool when in chrome browser you open any dropdown(native) menu(dropdown needs to be opened when you press Print Screen) - you need to do hard restart or if you can switch to other session by ctrl+alt+F5 and reboot from there
Good video. However the snap load times are significantly improved, since the week of the 17th of July. On my Ryzen 3 2200G Firefox load times are now between 5 and 1 seconds, dependent on the filling of the memory cache. For the next release more improvements are foreseen, like dividing the snap decompression over all CPUs instead of using 1 CPU.
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@@FollowAlex Yes
Nick, make a video about why you hate Windows 11?
Why do you like that tshirt so much ?
...... i cant get an answer from Linode's higher-ups... could you ask them "will they cancel accounts that support Donald Trump or Free Speech?" ... I mean, will they close my account if I give my opinions about politics or science or the china-virus? it would be nice to know before spending a few thousand dollars on servers over there and i loved Linode before all the cancel-culture crap started. Now i just don't know if I should use them or if there is any hosting company who would 'allow me' to host my opinions or even the opinions of my visitors.
Honestly, right now, I like Ubuntu's look and feel better than Pop OS's. Something about this release just brings me back to 12.04 my first Linux OS. Two things I wish were here, universal menus, and native flatpak support in the software center. Other than that, I really love this release of Ubuntu.
I like the recovery feature in Pop, and the absence of snap
Same. Pop's custom skin was great because it was better than the stock Gnome experience. But since Gnome 41, stock Gnome is better than the current Pop shell. I will likely be switching over if Pop doesn't make some new integrations.
Oh 😕 , That's HIGH PRAISE
universal menus and the Hud feature for me :D
But Pop OS has a really good ready-to-use tiling solution, Ubuntu hasn't any.
Look a dock you can put on any side of the screen. Someone should tell Microsoft. How revolutionary!
@ISCARI0T It's especially bad on 16:9 displays yeah. I like my dock/taskbar on the left personally.
that's already a thing on W10. Isn't anymore on W11?
@@4n0nmann5 nope, that’s the joke. You can decide whether you want centered or left-aligned icons but cant move the bar itself
@@GiorgioAresu lol. Tbh the implementation in W10 isn't good at all, I thought it would be better in w11.
@@4n0nmann5 don't expect things to be better in win11, it's a win10 downgrade with round corners (at least from my POV, feel free to disagree)
Ubuntu team just nailed it. The looks, customization, compatibility, and updated software make it a great operating system for work, fun or recommending.
This time yes. I personally would still only recommend Fedora though. For developers the software there are the most upto date and much better configured.
Using it right now on my backup/test PC. Decent indeed.
Finally! Classic dock at the bottom. That might actually make me consider going back to Ubuntu. Not a fan of snaps, but they're not a complete deal-breaker for me.
Ubuntu also did some genius moves behind the scenes.
Shipping an LTS kernel as default makes sense (and Kubuntu's KDE version is also an LTS)
Gnome has a performance patch coming, called triple dynamic buffering, that's almost ready to be shipped mainstream.
But Ubuntu devs (they made the patch) added it early (to include it on 22.04) and now Ubuntu's Gnome performs way better than any other Gnome (made Gnome work on my laptop)
And the avoiding of Libadwaita/GTK4 makes sense for an LTS, as those new technologies are still too new, and it avoids theming nightmares/increases compatibility (dark mode works better on Ubuntu than on other Gnomes)
Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I tried back in College during my IT courses, and after a few years of distro-hopping I've found myself back on Ubuntu once again with 22.04. It's really good! As a more casual Linux user (since I still use Windows as my daily driver) it kinda just ticks all the boxes I need from an OS. Super pleased with this release so far.
You should be able to seamlessly use desktop icons - or not use them at all - without having to adjust any settings. It should just be there for people who want it, or out of the way for people who don’t.
Yes. I hate it when he tries to shove his ideology down my throat whenever possible.
@@KhoaNguyen-sy6np he doesn’t like desktop icons, and by now it’s more of recurring joke. Nobody’s trying to tell you what to do.
@@mrsnailzzz Hey, I was just adding a point about how the best kind of solution will fit either user preference!
@@erickleefeld4883 I totally agree with you. I just disagree that Nick is "shoving his ideology down our throats"
Kinda dislike icons myself personally, but one thing I don't understand is why it isn't easily possible to add application names below the icons in the menu.
I'm thinking that's one of the reasons some prefer desktop icons.
Excellent overview as always, Nick (and glad you're liking Ubuntu again 😅)
kubuntu looking more and more polished in 22.04!
I just installed it yesterday !!!! and i'm loving it !!!!
they had perfect opportunity to relase 22.04 at 22.04.2022 :C
Well in Australia it was released in 22.04.2022?
And as we all know jellyfish are native to Australia
Remember Ubuntu 10.10? 10.10.2010? (The perfect ten)
I've watched a couple of your vids and I really like your enthusiasm,
Much appreciated for your hard work and smooth information delivery
If the new installer would have been ready by now, I doubt that it would be a good idea to ship a *new installer* for an LTS version that is designed for stability.
The best thing I love about LTS release reviews is it's showing the progression and how far we've come from two years ago. :)
The Kubuntu version is still my favorite since mainline Ubuntu kicked Unity. I look forward to the next LtS Budgie which might have E17.
Same here. Im impatient to see the update notification pop up
Kubuntu is beautiful
Me too. I've gone over to Kubuntu as well.
If you want Unity, there is an Ubuntu flavor called Ubuntu Unity. It comes with a more "modern" theme but if you want the good old Ambiance theme you can just switch to it from the appearance settings. Unity is a great DE and Ubuntu Unity is a great distro.
@@JustPlainTech Ya I know but when I switched to Kubuntu I've really startrd liking KDE, it works for me and I dont want to switch.
i just tried and it looks gorgeous, i love it!
Upgraded yesterday and so far so good. It looks very nice and I don't even feel the need to change icons. Even snaps are "snappier" now, although I admit I don't particularly like snaps/flatpaks. Still testing pipewire/sound related things but it looks like a keeper to me!
I'll probably wait for 22.04.1 to upgrade my notebook, but the nice features they introduce it kinda lure me to try it now (the screenshot record button is incredible, Nick!). But my desktop PC is still Fedora, no doubts. Never going to change my entire programming up-to-date setup for old fart Ubuntu. And if I want to try MATE or LxQt, I can install it on Fedora right now.
@@Batwam0 I cannot do this. I talk it is my notebook, but it's my mother's laptop. In fact, I did the upgrade, but there is an error message after booting I need to fix it, wish me luck!
What kind off programming that you needs to be updated?
Just curious
In "my" laptop, it was Dell Linux Assistant and another Dell app I don't remember.
I use Ubuntu LTS with some little tweak. I always remove snapd and install flatpak. I use Kate for coding, qBittorent to download some stuff. I use ct5ct to tweak KDE apps. Synaptic and commad line is enaught for me to manage apps and I don't use software center. I totaly agree with you that flatpak is the real feature for Linux apps.
That's pretty nice. I really love what Canonical did this time around, let's hope they keep improving like this
Not gonna lie, it exceeded my expectations, I haven't seen a polished release of Ubuntu in a while, however still having snaps and first-party apps that haven't implemented libadwaita are enough reasons to stick with Fedora. Great release, but still not perfect, I feel like.
This is an LTS release. And GNOME 42 doesn't change all of its apps to libawaita. If Ubuntu implemented libawaita, many people would have to live with a mix-bag experience for two years. Fedora just doesn't have that problem.
It is also worth noting that a lot of the new apps lack features compared to the older ones that Ubuntu sticks with.
Absolute amazing. Switched from Fedora to Ubuntu! I love it. Fedora problem, many extensions not available for the new versions every 6 month. I am tired of waiting. And I had also a lot of bugs on 36 beta.
Sorry to hear this, I hope you are doing well :(
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@@Vancha112 last week fedora was the new ubuntu now ubuntu is the new fedora
@@obvious_giraffe8386 yeah fedora is my new ubuntu as well, but this ubuntu is like old fedora ^^
Fedora got really good for anyone that is happy with the gnome ecosystem, but I feel like ubuntu is in the process of trying to move away from that.
Probably since it doesn't make them money. Maybe ubuntu gets better when they finished that transition like pop!_is? We'll see
Thinking of doing the same as fedora is so buggy with my nvidia graphics
@@harshvardhan5792 What are you talking about? I'm using Nvidia drivers and had no issues at all. In fact, I always use Nvidia's horsepower to make my video player playback even better. On the contrary, my Nvidia drivers had issues with Ubuntu. Believe me, bro combination of the latest software with stability is a gem that only fedora can provide!
This release of Ubuntu looks really nice!
Good to see that Canonical have push to the last version of Gnome and to the use of Wayland.
Well when Windows put new desktop icons on the top left, Mac on the top right, somebody had to put them on the bottom right eventually.
This is so funny for me. I decided to ignore you when you said Ubuntu wasn't that good ol' Ubuntu and downloaded the 22.04 Beta since then. I like it enough to use it back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Options are good!
After 7 years of Arch I moved to Kubuntu last year. I use the kde backports, guix packaging and btrfs to satisfy my desire for bleeding edge stuff while having a stable base distro with sane defaults and no hardware and driver issues. Can't recommand it enough. In my experience snaps are a little more polished than flatpaks and startup times are not as big an issue any more. But it doesn't really matter to me, I can always switch to the guix package if I encounter a problem.
I prefer native apps to Snaps or Flatpaks, but I have definitely have had less issues with Snaps than Flatpaks.
Too bad XFCE doesn't receive much attention anymore, it used to be a great desktop but I feel like it's starting to really lag behind.
Still the the only DE that lets you have multi-row taskbar (panels)without a huge amount of pain. If there is another option with that feature then please let me know.
@@jjdawg9918 KDE
It needs more devs pretty seriously at this point. They're not opposed to Wayland, it just needs to be written.
@@ArunG273 KDE is pretty lacking these days ngl. Too many bugs here and there but it works for the most part.
Wayland would be nice but its unlikely to happen anytime soon. Apart from that it doesn't really need anything honestly, it's supposed to be lightweight and simple after all.
Great Review👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent review as usual... I'm eager to see your review of Fedora's new release as well
Ubuntu 22 is absolutely gorgeous.
Think I just found a Linux channel worth following.
Well made videos! Well prepared & scripted and edited videos that gives you lots of info without unnecessary waits for things to startup or, even worse, trying to get your head around a new product while recording.
All in all, good job and keep'em coming!
plus is not "Linux is good everything sucks!1 Noob!1"
@@Yep6803 to read is probably a forgotten craft.
@@My-noname?(i dont understand your comment, sorry)
22.04 is how I first got into linux. its easy to use, easy to understand and I dont mind the snaps. I've also not had any issues unless I was messing with it in unintended ways in ordner for me to learn about linux. It's great!
Great to see so many improvements! My only problem with Ubuntu is that the 'Ubuntu Software' applications STILL lags a bit and fails to install/remove software half of the time. Linux Mint's software manager just plain always works and I wish Ubuntu could be like that.
The GNOME team has done _amazing_ work optimizing their desktop. I was really pleasantly surprised when I tried the latest version of 42 on my Thinkpad T420 -- it was literally perfect, no stutters or anything. This was on Arch though, so there may still be more overhead on Ubuntu.
I absolutely love your desktop icon test file being labeled "WHYYYYYYY"
great video mate!
Seems like a good news! I love Ubuntu.
I have been using it lately and Ubuntu 22 is my favourite Linux distro at the moment. I think Im sticking to it for years to come.
MATE desktop still depends on X11, so Ubuntu MATE apparently does not run on Wayland.
I really like how their desktop icons plugin shows where on the grid you're gonna drop your file, instead of just making you guess
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@@jawad9757 good morning
I recommend to everyone to install the new gnome-console from the official repos. So much better than the old terminal.
I’m looking forward to trying it
Reasons?
@@xrafter The window becomes red in superuser mode and blue in SSH. It's a nice feature actually. And it fits with the gnome theme.
@@aegisxiii2384
Good
@@xrafter i guess you use arch btw ?
I hit the Like button before watching even one whole second! Excited about Ubuntu being good again
I love this release which I was testing in VM. Looking forward to updating my machines tonight. Oh by the way, you can select the location of desktop icons under settings. Not sure why they are defaulted to bottom right, but I don't mind.
Wise words, Thanks for the review.
Great video Man
Nice review! I like this version. It's really fast on my computer and I had some surprise: my Xbox elite controller works out of the box (vibration support too).
The custom accent colours are nice! I was frustrated I couldn't change the accent colour when using Ubuntu a few years ago.
Bro, how did I miss this video???
I really like how you broke the norm of "distro reviews". Other Linux channels (with all due respect to them BTW), boot distro ISO in a VM, show the installer and go through the steps, and complain if the "telemetry" is checked by default (lord have mercy on us), boot into distro, sift through applications to see whats installed, open terminal and type in some commands and show off some vim skills (don't forget to enlarge the terminal a 100 times), and done. LOL
Thanks, Nick.
Well, I started this channel specifically because I thought the Linux world lacked something concise and edited, I'm glad you liked it!
The location of new desktop icons is configurable: Settings > Appearance > Position of new icons
Desktop icons make it easy to access the most used apps and files. Simple and intuitive.
Did you know your outro music is my favourite outro music I've ever heard on TH-cam? I'm actually obsessed with it.
Hahaha glad you like it!
Good overview. Thanks.
I might let this release go since I've gotten 21.10 working smoothly for me by disabling Wayland, and I do make use of Studio Control and don't want to deal with the Pipewire transition just yet. Basically in a good place with it, will probably reconsider with the next release.
Ubuntu MATE is my go to OS. Looking forward to trying out the new LTS.
I am a Fully MATE person... this one I tired and its the wort ever. Because 1. Ubuntu us mainly all SNAPS....every app is a snap... this means Bulkier bloar and slowdown in the very near future. and the MATE edition you cant change the Fonts on the menu and it has a new compositor that still has screen tearing. I say go for Linux Mint Cinnaomone and install the MATE desktop and Boom!
I'll have to give Ubuntu another go. Thanks for the content, Nick!
I used to daily drive Ubuntu for years but switched to Windows 6 years ago. And my mind is blown on how much better it looks and how it changed in just a few years! This is how real innovation looks like, @Microsoft.
I'm in the same boat. Both windows and linux distros have gotten so much better. For me, my hardware is 10 years old and I've pretty much reached the limits of my time with windows because of lagging.
Woah this looks so good!
Great review, Nick. Well done.
Thanks!
13:10 Glad to see the weather in Brest is just like I remember it! :D
great job! glad i found your videos :)
My writing PC is way more usable now, compared to 21.10. Wayland is also way more stable. Was using XOrg on 21.10.
Gotta love the new default desktop background. It's the best one they've made since the Groovy Gorilla one. Certainly much better than that horrible hairy hippo from a few versions back.
Don't talk about the hippo, nobody needs to be reminded of its existance 🤢
It's a shame ubuntu still pushes snaps. I find snaps painful to use.
Agreed
@@jagjotsingh5200 I'm a casual Linux desktop user, though I've been a Linux user on and off for 25 years. Can you briefly explain why people don't just stick with .debs? Or if people want to use weird distro/library combinations, compile stuff from source, like they used to? All this snap stuff (and other similar tech) looks like a nightmare to me. Are snaps installed globally or per user? Just one question out of dozens I could come up with.
@@lawrencemanning Truth to be told I really want the Linux community to unite and make one package manager a standard. But I think that won't be possible without a good amount of funding as all this requires a constant amount of maintenance. So what I think is to make maintenance cheaper, different distros come with different solutions. Sometimes quality and time of delivery are also important so that's why some unique distros exist like arch, fedora, void linux, etc.
The main idea behind snaps is really good(provide all dependencies in a single package) but there already exist solutions for this like Flatpak, and AppImages, So why create a whole new format? Personally, I don't like any as all just mount and run(not sure about AppImages). Here I prefer the windows like solution, install an exe then forget it, no mounts and fast. But it's Microsoft they have money. So, I guess we should be happy with what we are getting as it's free. Uniting Linux community is next to impossible, many have ego issues. If FreeBSD had greater support for hardware and packages then I would love to switch to it. Sorry for long reply.
@@lawrencemanning Sandboxing and file deduplication are the main selling points of flatpaks. On native packages you need to trust the developer not being malicious or not making mistakes when developing the application. On Flatpaks you still do, but you can be a little bit less worried, at least until a flatpak opens a hole in the sandbox.
I thought so too and did a some digging considering to switch to Pop OS!. In the progress I found that I have a long list of snap applications, many of them actively in use.
After this I happily use both Ubuntu and snaps. It saves me a lot of time getting the apps I want.
its crazy how far linux desktop come i remember when I start using linux i had ubuntu installed on my pc. It was good back than but seeing it now its so polished and beautiful
I’ve been using my slimbook pro for school and it’s amazing I definitely recommend anybody looking for a cheap yet high quality Linux laptop gets a slimbook
Hows the snapd removal process this time around? Flatpaks are always far better in my experience, specially GPU intensive onces like OBS, Blender and Gimp. 9:16 wow, can you give a rundown of what it takes to install flatpaks and UI store... I use Plasma Discover but Gnome software should be lighter, at this point I may just bite the bullet and move my workstation to Manjaro.
Does Fedora have anything like ChromeOS Crostini/Borealis or Windows WSL? A sandboxed but full featured low overhead highly integrated secure Linux hypervisor? for running less trusted code without the risk of compromising your main Browser/FS?
If that will not help with Discord making their screen sharing work with Wayland finally, nothing does... ^^'
Ubuntu was my choice, for 12 years, prior to 22.04. But 22.04 created a few problems for unknown reasons. Switched to Pop!_OS 22.04 and all problems solved right out of the box. Unexpected, given pop is a fork of ubuntu. The only drawback to pop right now is the lack of mirrors. Pop is domiciled in the usa, and outside mirrors are very very slow. The more I use pop, the more I like it.
I tried Lubuntu and it also has Firefox as snap, on a mechanical drive it takes forever to open compared to the normal package on other distros
I agree. I faced the same thing.
@16:07 Stability has little to do with features. Don't you think?
@17:15 There is no reason for me to upgrade as soon as possible, except for software that isn't supported by 20.04 LTS. There is 3 to 6 years support left for the last iteration.
This guy has too strong opinions
Nice Review
Hi, I'm one of the train conductor bastards from SNCF on strike every holidays. Thx for the mention. I'm sure that the train in your country should be a much better experience 😉
13:38 You cannot upgrade easily from Ubuntu Studio 20.04 to any further version, due to the DE change.
Ah crap
@@TheLinuxEXP I know… Reinstall it is! ☹️
@@cameronbosch1213 wait so I have 20.04 I can't upgrade to 21.10?
@@MohammadIbrahim-sq1xn If it’s not Ubuntu Studio, then you CAN upgrade no problem. But if you are using Ubuntu Studio before 20.10, I don’t know how you would upgrade, probably have to reinstall.
@@MohammadIbrahim-sq1xn Actually, I just found out there are workarounds without having to clean install, but you're essentially on your own for that one.
I use 22.04 LTS Kubuntu, and I really like it.
What is a snap? Is it app from the ubuntu store? If so i wish there is more of them
Wayland completely breaks video acceleration in browsers, which to be fair , is mostly the fault of Firefox devs and Chromium devs, albeit being for different reasons. Firefox has a security sandboxing feature that just breaks accelration, while chromium actually does support it on Wayland but the performance you get averages 15 fps.
I believe you're talking about the firefox sandbox, it can be disabled by launching it with this command, env MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 firefox
Now I can watch 4k youtube videos smoothly on firefox on intel 615 graphics, hardware acceleration used to work on chromium 91, but not anymore.
It's been working on Fedora build of Firefox for a while though. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't add it, it's also available in the Flatpak version too (smooth 4K60 on an i5 with not much CPU).
Exposing major security breaches is not a worthwhile workaround, and i don't think it works on any firefox build since FF98 as far as i know, whether be it Wayland or X11.
Just installed it on my llaptop, thinking of taking it to the main pc also ..
Updated a few days ago and it's been good so far. Used fusuma for touchpad gestures and here they came out of the box, now I can use my workspaces seamlessly. It's interesting.
Pretty neat to be honest, I don't regret it.
"We were bad, now we are good. Here to do the gnome shell shuffle"
For those who hate snaps, that's not really a reason not to use Ubuntu. Snaps and snapd can be removed in less than 5 minutes and you can install all the flatpaks you need. It's not like Ubuntu is locking you into only using those snaps forever.
last time I removed snapd from working in Ubuntu it borked itself in less than a month. And I mean it was broke. So yah, it can be dicey.
@@riseabove3082 That's so weird. I've got two computers that have been running without snap or snapd for a while with Ubuntu. But like anything Linux, things happen differently on everyone's systems because there are so many variables at play.
10:53 Why does the calender app have french moth names, but an english menu UI? Is this a feature or a future bug report?
Hey, just here to drop a thx for the last video.
I been playing around with arch on an old laptop, and was really unhappy with libre-office. It had too many things I simply didn't use, and the ui is quite different from ms office which im used to. It also reminds me of the old Microsoft style ui, and not in a good way. So when i saw you demonstrate onlyoffice, i quickly gave it a shot. Tbh within 5 min i had removed libre-office.
It looks and feels so much more modern, and the switch from Microsoft is super easy due to the very similar ui.
So Merci!
Only thing i was a bit confused about, is that it was not an official pacman package, but i had to get it from the AUR. But that might just be a down-the-road thing.
"instead of slapping on a dock and then calling it a desktop" ooof the burn... the BURRRNNN!!!
Does MATE still do that thing where the pointer jumps down to the lower right corner of the screen and click what's there? I sometimes use my UM-equipped laptop for video editing (just for my own use, so far). I set it to render and walk away to let it work, I come back and there's like 20 instances of Trash open.
Good review.
Solid video
*shouts sadly from Ubuntu 20.04 being decent gang*
Will you be implementing Ubuntu 22.04 in feren this year and is the new app store close to being ready?
@@prettysheddy Yes for first question, as with every LTS release, as for second question... not sure, depends how fast I can get Storium finished.
Sir is Linux mx is best xfce linux distro because it is raked no.1 in distrowatch Should i install mx linux in my old i3 pc or (any suggestion)
For machines using Nvidia cards, the default windowing system is still X11.. I just updated my system and found that out
Can you change app settings on a 1366x768 laptop that is only a few years old yet? Or are settings still cut off below the screen??
I have problèm too with 1366×768
Why its so bad
Window setting its bigger than my even screen calendre biger
I hate thaaat
It's the only main distro that doesn't work on my laptop after closing the lid or going into suspension mode. Manjaro, Fedora, Pop, everything works, this Ubuntu 22.04 goes into suspension and there it stays, it's impossible to wake it up again. 🤷
And apt-key is know marked as deprecated and doesn't want to use the keys that are stored in the files of apt-key. This is changed because the new way doesn't check like the old one if any random public key stored in the old file directory can proof the signature of packages but it checks the signature of packages with the correct public key of the package's source that has to be declared in the .list-file now.
Also, it will be removed in Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.10.
I liked the previous screenshot dedicated tool. Only because by clever combinations of ctrl, shift, alt and print keys, you could immediately get in mode to take a screenshot of an area, a window or the whole screen AND even decide if you just wanted it stored in the clipboard (which was the quickest and easiest way I had to share screenshots on social media and discord) or save it in the pictures directory. I miss that I didn't need to open an application or bring up an overlay. The ability to record the screen is cool though.
There is performance issue in ubuntu 22.04 after upgrade from 21.10. GUI became sluggish when you watch youtube in chrome and try to resize other window. Looks like it's not "tuned" enough. Also there is a serious bug which leads to system freeze when you use new screenshot tool when in chrome browser you open any dropdown(native) menu(dropdown needs to be opened when you press Print Screen) - you need to do hard restart or if you can switch to other session by ctrl+alt+F5 and reboot from there
Does update from 21.10 force uninstall any other version of Firefox and install Snap? It did it in two earlier releases.
@ 3:35 "As Gnomes wayland support is pretty much perfect these days." lol Tell that to the guys over at MPV!
Ubuntu is my favorite distro. Just installed V22.04 .
Good video. However the snap load times are significantly improved, since the week of the 17th of July. On my Ryzen 3 2200G Firefox load times are now between 5 and 1 seconds, dependent on the filling of the memory cache. For the next release more improvements are foreseen, like dividing the snap decompression over all CPUs instead of using 1 CPU.