A look at Ubuntu 24.10 on the metal

[@GManWrites]

I've been using Mint for so long on my media streaming laptop that i have lost count but it's gotta be 8+ years. I just got some nice powered by Linux Mint stickers on ebay for my 2 Thinkpads, they are chrome and black and look cool on the laptops. Gotta love no snaps on Mint. 😁

[@stationsixtyseven67]

I agree matey, but look at us: first, we kicked back against pulseaudio and most likely we're using it now (or even pipewire), then it was systemd and we're mostly using it now, then it was sandboxed programs - or was it? was it just snaps? ...the thing is, as much as we fight it change just happens anyway ;) I still love my Debian and MX the bestest though.

[@GManWrites]

@@stationsixtyseven67 I have no problems using Flatpaks.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

​@@GManWritesAnd I'll happily use appimages. Theyre more like portable apps were back on windows to my mind.

[@toothytube]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS works perfectly on the old "August of 2016" AMD FX-8300/RX470 desktop PC that I finally got around to replacing with my new Ryzen7 5700X3D/RX6700 build. In fact, it's performed so well that I permanently deleted Windows 10 from the initial SSD and might use that disc for tinkering around with something else.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

I agree. 24.04 is a surprise to me, a fantastic release all in all. Thanks for watching :)

[@Sloeye_official]

A while back I tried out 24.04 on the gaming pc. Very happy with it. Everything was buttery. ATS ran better than windows. Only reason I didn't keep it is for some reason OBS would kill my fps. Tried all three versions. Made no difference. Spent a couple days fiddling with it and eventually jad to throw in the towel.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

Was it the snap OBS or the .deb matey?

[@Sloeye_official]

Tried Snap, Flatpak, and deb. When i would play ATS without OBS is ran fantastic and beautiful. When I would go to record it tanked the fps. I fiddled with a ton of settings in each. My gamer is Ryzen 5 2600 X, 16gb ddr 4, and GTX 1650. It should be able to handle recording at 720p.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

Wayland session or X11 matey? I know I have problems under Wayland, but I don't game on these laptops.

[@Sloeye_official]

@@stationsixtyseven67 If I remember correctly... When you install the proprietary Nvidia driver the session defaults to X11. Yeah and that's the conclusion I came to. It's probably something between the driver and OBS. Not recording, it ran fantastic. 24.04 will find its home on one of the many other PC's I have without Nvidia.

[@slim_2280]

I do miss Gnome 2 days, as for me it was more exciting.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

Never fancied a bit of MATE? I was all over it in the 16.04 days but with GTK 3 it all seemed to go downhill.

[@The_Amnesiac_Philosopher]

The startup sound might be in /usr/share/sounds/...unless they're sneaky (like I used to be) and put it somewhere else. Hahahaha! 10 hours of battery life?!?!? 😲

[@stationsixtyseven67]

Crazy huh? :)