Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: What’s New & Review
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Ubuntu 22.04 (codenamed Jammy Jellyfish) is the latest long-term-support release coming from Canonical. It promises to bring a host of improvements since 21.10 while providing a stable and up-to-date experience for all users, including those coming from 20.04 LTS. In this video, we'll take a look at exactly what's new and determine if this does in fact make for a good LTS release.
To stay up-to-date with the latest content and news, subscribe and mark the notification bell, and follow me on Twitter!
Twitter: @PlanetLinux98
End Screen Music:
Inspiring Ambience by Scott Holmes Music
Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) - creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction & Overview
0:55 What’s New / LTS
6:47 Ubuntu Software & Snaps
10:49 Other Improvements Since 20.04 LTS
13:41 Updater Apps
15:16 Release Date & Support Timeline / Conclusion - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
About snaps, there was a bug in the software manager and it only displayed snaps. That has been corrected, now Thunderbird is only presented as deb :)
Snap updates only send the differences between the binary files n and n+1. My last manual Firefox snap update to 99.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM did take 2 seconds. That is why, on newer releases, they do it automatically 4 times/day or when you run the software updater. This process makes sure, that you have a very secure system with the latest security fixes. The complainers are uneducated, the usual Canonical haters or both!
Thanks for the helpful clarification about how and why Snaps do what they do. I think the argument against Snaps and their automatic updating is that some Linux users want to control all their updates; either installing specific ones or installing all at a specific time. A lot of those people just want the ability to turn off the automatic updating if desired.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel There is absolutely no rational reason to turn off automatic updating! It is just bad for security. In the small chance that the update creates a problem, you can roll-back the update locally without needing Internet access. Afterwards that problematic release will be blocked! People just use any argument to beat Canonical and they don't care how uneducated and irrational they sound.
Man, your voice is so soothing! Even though I was not particularly interested in Ubuntu, I couldn't realise that I watched this till the end!
Thank you! I’m glad you found it enjoyable, even if not for Ubuntu.
The good part about Ubuntu 22.04 is that every other Ubuntu based distro is getting improvements.
For the average consumer, I'd say Fedora is a better experience.
Agreed. I really should do a video about Fedora and how it offers such a great experience.
Don't agree in Ubuntu you start the most used apps with one click and you don't have to push the Super key before almost each action. For the file system it supports the superior OpenZFS, that also is compatible with most Home Servers and FreeBSD, unlike the somewhat immature btrfs.
Does 22.04 gnome still support gnome-session-fallback? I still can not tolerate gnome 3 crappy navigation system which I find a disater for any power user, so changing to gnome 2 fallback look is the first thing that I do at each install.
You can install gnome-session-flashback (note “flashback”, not “fallback” as I also remember it being called”. Then switch to it with the gear icon on the login screen. It seems to work well.
Finally for the first time the connections to vpn ikev2 with certificate work
Specifically in 22.04?
@Planet Linux Yes
i've been having this issue with my ubuntu 22.04 that it just keep searching for the bluetooth devices and does really shows the availble devices. i am a newbie to ubuntu so i don't know what to do...PLEASE HELP!!!!
I’ve not personally experienced this, though it sounds like this following thread might be of a similar issue wit a potential solution. Let me know if it helps or not.
askubuntu.com/questions/1091888/bluetooth-not-finding-any-devices-ubuntu-18-04
Applications Menu font look bad can you resize it to make it look more detail?
I believe the application grid font was cut off and the icons were small because I was running at a low resolution (1360x768) in a virtual machine, and may have had larger text enabled. In most cases the icons in the grid would be larger and the font label would show more of each name.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Well, I have same resolution like you too (1366x768) I think better stick off with Ubuntu 20.04 because I love its Grid Menu
It appears that it is due to the panel / dock being on the left side of the screen. If you go into Settings > Appearance, under Dock you can set the position to the bottom of the screen and this made the app grid look better for me. Not sure that having the dock on the bottom is ideal, but you could choose to auto hide it. At least it solves the app grid issue.
Or as you mentioned, there’s nothing wrong with sticking to 20.04 LTS for a while longer; it’s supported until April 2025.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Alright thanks for your tips. I hope there's a tweak tool to enable resize the fonts.
The GNOME Tweak tool is available that does allow to adjust specific font sizes, but I’m not sure if that would fix the font padding issues.
There’s a GNOME Shell Extension called Just Perfection that allows a lot of customization of the Activities Overview and top bar, so that may have something useful: extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/
oooo weeee butter my grandma and call me George a new video. At 6:55 its said that its pronounced Guh-nome like the GNU/Linux. It could be just me but I never noticed the difference in the software center. It got the job done so I probably never paid it much attention. Oh my, It seems people do not like Thunderbird that is not as highly reviewed as I would of thought. I have used it once but still prefer going to the website or my phone for my email. Although Canonical is pushing snaps it could be argued Fedora or any distro with flatpaks installed also push it by default mostly since the repo is there when I used it. Eww Orca screen reader, I beef with that screen reader turning my audio its a tube television by that I mean static audio. I had to kill it every time it did that and out of my sound list. Ah, I see Ubuntu is in a VM I wonder what is being used. Could it be Boxes? Could it be VMware or maybe its Virtualbox? Then again it could be QEMU. I am mostly like the only one but from my experience when I used snap Discord it had no issue accessing other parts of my system like screen recorder or file sharing if I am understanding that criticism correctly. I always liked the Gnome twerk tool (12:26) I feel at this rate if GNOME keeps adding features there might be less extensions and more removal lol but nonetheless its cool to see GNOME add more for the user. Ha! joke son you I always have my laptop plugged in (13:23). I know I am wrong for this but I think the reason Ubuntu has two updaters is because it has two repositories and I guess one is for any software and the other certain software or things installed in the CLI. So, In short If you install apps through the Snap store it only updates Snaps while the other one is all apps Snaps and Flatpaks that is how I interpret it at least. I guess if you only want certain things updated there yee go matey. Hm, when did outro music get added? I have never noticed that. Thanks for the video and waiting for your possible feedback on my comment.
Thanks for the comment. To be fair, the visual improvements to the software centre are fairly minor, but it has certainly seen improvement. Thunderbird does sometimes have hte reputation of being bloated or unnecessarily complicated, though some people appreciate the configurability it offers. I suspect some of the negative reviews are to do with it either not installing / running correctly, or the fact that it's the Snap version (those tend to get a lot of hate for things like not respecting some system themes).
Sure, other distros that ship with Flatpak support are "pushing" that, but I think the main difference in the eyes of the larger community is that Flatpaks are more open, where anyone can either submit their app to Flathub or create their own Flatpak remote (repository) and host their app there. Some distros (such as Fedora) have even made their own remotes and included most of their repository software in it. Compare that to Snaps, which only have one source, that being Snapcraft, which is owned, run and supervised by Canonical. They decide whether or not to approve any given app for it and there is no other third-party snap system for users to distribute their packages through.
I'm sorry to hear about your audio issues, though that could be just as much an issue with Speech Dispatcher (which Orca uses) rather than Orca itself. While I know its had issues in the past, I've not experienced them in 21.10, so 22.04 may work well.
Very observant; how did you notice it was in a VM? I typically use Boxes, though I do occasionally use VMWare as well. I haven't really liked Virtualbox recently and prefer Boxes whenever I can use it. Boxes actually uses QEMU as the backend, so technically I am using that as well.
I've not used the snap version of Discord, so I can't speculate on how well it works. But what I meant by it may have trouble accessing specific aspects of the system is things like the system theme or integrating with other apps (like NextCloud or Dropbox adding an icon or option in the file manager). There are security reasons for that, but it is a loss of functionality for some apps. (Flatpak is working on ways to add some of that functionality and integration back without sacrificing the sandboxed security of the apps, but it's still a work-in-progress).
I understand why the GNOME devs are taking a cautions approach to adding settings natively into GNOME. They don't want to overwhelm users with so many settings that they have no idea where to start (like some people feel about KDE). So they'd rather have a smaller curated collection of useful settings and features and leave any more questionable ones or extensive customization up to users to do (either by installing the Tweak tool or via extensions). That said, they have done a great job in recent years of bringing some of the most useful and requested settings natively into the desktop itself.
I do understand the reasoning for Ubuntu having its own updater. However, I do believe that the updater application does pull from all sources (the tab in the software centre only pulls from certain ones) so it seems like they should just remove the rather pointless tab in the software centre and have everything continue to go through their updater app instead of having confusing or conflicting information showing it two different places.
Thanks again for your comment and insight! I hope I was able to adequately address your points.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Everybody ignores, that if everybody can create their own flatpak repository, hackers can also create their own repositories. So in that respect flatpaks offer the same lack of security than the Windows exe files. Up to now all repositories have been managed by the distro, so I do not understand the argument against Snapcraft, since many distros (Linux Mint; Zorin etc etc) are already using the Ubuntu repositories for their updates.
Everybody can create their own snap and upload it to Snapcraft, but as users we know it will be safe to install it. Again many of the snap complaints come from the uneducated, the Canonical haters or both.
I like Boxes too and for the starter it is ideal, but I use Virtualbox since 2009 and I have about ~70 VM, like all Windows release from 1.04 (1987) to 11 (2021) and all Ubuntu LTS releases. Changing hypervisor is too much of a hassle and I doubt, whether it will support e.g. Windows 3.1 :) Besides Virtualbox has the following advantages:
- It has richer functionality than Boxes, more like the virt manager, but it is more reliable than the virt manager.
- In the past KVM has been faster with respect to disk IO, but I can easily compensate it by running my VMs from OpenZFS with its LZ4 compressed cache and storage. Note that you can store double the amount of stuff and it is half the number of disk IOs. The L1ARC (memory cache) hit rate is ~98%, so almost all disk IO is performed from memory! The first time e.g Xubuntu 22.04 boots in ~8.5 seconds from the nvme-SSD and the reboots are faster.
- For 3D display Virtualbox used the excellent VMware driver and that beats virt-manager.
- The (Windows) drivers for Virtualbox are maintained by Oracle and you don't need to find those 8 years old repositories. I can run some Linux games (e.g. Extreme Tux Racer and SuperTuxKart) in Virtualbox with that 3D driver.
- Virtualbox has maintained compatibility, e.g my Windows XP VM has been installed and activated in March 2010 and I still use it every week :) It has survived 3 desktops and 4 CPUs.
Again for new user I would advice Boxes, but for more professional users Virtualbox is the best. VMware is also good, but the free version has its limitations. For me virt manager is more work in progress.
@@bertnijhof5413 That’s certainly a fair point. However, Flatpak does also have a similar central repo with FlatHub. Sure, the personal remotes are a potential security risk, but as far as a distro having support for Snaps or Flatpaks, all they have to do is integrate with Snapcraft or FlatHub respectively and users have access to most software, likely with no need to add private Flatpak remotes. If there is that random piece of software that’s only through a private remote, then the security isn’t any worse (though also not much better) than PPAs.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel Fine, you see the advantages of a centralized repository now also!
Tell them to fix brightness problems in hp laptops
Oh I’ve really come to despise HP laptops! It may be an Ubuntu / Linux issue, but across all Linux distributions and even other operating systems, there always seem to be hardware component and driver (on Windows) issues with HP laptops.
I don't know how much Ubuntu developers work on Gnome projects, but if they don't that means that they did nothing. Everything is stolen from Gnome and there isn't any inovation.
It does really feel that Ubuntu has stagnated over the years. There may be some collaboration (Ubuntu got accent colours and GNOME is expected to get hem in GNOME 43 or 44) but besides new GNOME features, there generally isn’t a lot new on Ubuntu / Canonical’s side.
Honestly, I’m really liking Fedora these days. It’s easy to enable third-party / proprietary software sources if desired, and it provides a great experience with the latest GNOME and a considerable amount of polish.
Technically the color picker is their own implementation, given it's not part of Gnome 42.
@@raresmacovei8382 But that is implemented as a hack. They're just switching icons and themes.
Very true, though some of the apps in GNOME 42 use linadeaita (such as Settings), which doesn’t allow the same theme switching as standard GTK apps, so Ubuntu has figured out a way to do that for those apps as well; so that be a similar way GNOME plans to implement native accent colours for all apps (both libadwaita and “legacy” theming).
The average user only recognizes the bling bling, but Ubuntu developers did spend a lot of time and money in getting all the errors out and improving the responsiveness of Gnome. Gnome was really slow and not very robust in 2017/18.