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  • Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial

    From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to RonB on Mon Apr 28 08:57:21 2025
    On 2025-04-28 08:45, RonB wrote:
    I saw that Ubuntu 25.04 was out and, even after all the badmouthing of
    Ubuntu and Wayland, I decided to give it a try. I was actually surprised to see that it's faster on my old Dell Optiplex 9020 micro (with its 5th generation, low power, i5 CPU) than was Ubuntu 24.10 on this machine — even with the Snaps.

    I was also happy to see that when you open new Windows now, it defaults to opening them in the middle. (Something I always had to set before — it always took me a while to find the command.) I'm also happy to report that, even though it's using Wayland, it now (or still?) supports Cntrol+Shift+U command for Unicode — in the Terminal, in the JOE editor and in LibreOffice.
    And I watched a couple TV shows (Bones) from Rokuchannel.com, without any streaming issues or artifacts. This USB Live "install" defaulted to the 6.14.x kernel. I don't what kernel it would have used had I updated it.

    I'm actually impressed. Even after all these years of not using Windows, I'm always a little suprised when a new Linux version is faster and cleaner than the previous version. The opposite experience of what I always had with Windows.

    (I also posted this on the Linux Mint newsgroup by accident. Meant to post
    it only here.)

    I like it myself. Right now, the only issue is that it reinstalls Snap
    if you upgrade and there is some notable sound distortion when you play
    games through the Heroic Games Launcher. I lowered the volume of my
    sound devices through alsamixer and it seems to help (suggesting that
    the sound was being amplified despite the settings not explicitly
    indicating that), but it's not yet perfect. Apparently, it might also be
    due to some synchronization issue with pipewire. Either way, it's not
    enough of a problem to move me away yet.

    Lunduke has a new report that someone on the blogs.gnome.org website
    expressed that Gnome is Antifa though and that is what is at the core of Ubuntu. I know they're definitely woke, but being Antifa is something I
    just can't support.

    --
    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    LibreOffice supporter
    John 14:6

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to RonB on Mon Apr 28 18:50:12 2025
    On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:45:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    I saw that Ubuntu 25.04 was out and, even after all the badmouthing of
    Ubuntu and Wayland, I decided to give it a try. I was actually surprised
    to see that it's faster on my old Dell Optiplex 9020 micro (with its 5th generation, low power, i5 CPU) than was Ubuntu 24.10 on this machine —
    even with the Snaps.

    I may upgrade. I'm a 24.10 and don't have any complaints so I've been
    putting it off.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to RonB on Tue Apr 29 04:06:30 2025
    On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:11:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    I didn't even know it was out yet, until I saw something about it on
    YouTube.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1k1h2w4/ canonical_releases_ubuntu_2504_plucky_puffin/

    If you scroll through there were some bugs in the upgrade so it was
    disabled a few days ago.

    The r/linux subreddit is a little lame but r/Fedora, r/KDE, r/Ubuntu, r/ linuxmint and so forth generally have decent information.

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