A First Look At Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole"

[@OraOraOra]

I know... some ppl hate on Ubuntu. But it's basically a free enterprise distro with the option for pro. Every software vendor, that supports Linux has always a .deb for Ubuntu. And damn, Ubuntu looks beautiful out of the box.

[@KeithBoehler]

Canonical has had its missteps but Ubuntu is still very solid.

[@turtlexhdc]

tbh, I don't like how Ubuntu looks :)

[@nolol6165]

its not ubuntu that people hate its enterprise linux in general

[@OraOraOra]

@@nolol6165 I mean I can see why ppl say that, but I think Linux Enterprise is also really important. You don't purchase an Enterprise Distro, I mean it's open source so you purchase the great service, that comes with it (RHEL, SUSE, Canonical etc) Some companies need the enterprise support for their servers or workstations. And if a Linux Company is successful, that sometimes results in a better overall state of Linux. Like all the new tech that RedHat pushed or Valve with Linux Gaming.

[@caretchara]

This

[@lauriekimani]

Though I don't use Ubuntu, I really like the distribution.

[@eda2000-r8h]

Yeh, that why a lot of distrobution use it as base

[@Fren-t9b]

That's a looong startup sound lmao it takes me back to the 2000s

[@deadskull888]

Honestly I love the start up sound. ❤ I hope I can get an update for Ubuntu 24.04

[@thebusinessfirm9862]

Nice video, mate. I love Ubuntu.

[@marsdrums6298]

Yeah, that startup sound was from 4.04 to 6.04. Pretty neat sounding!

[@neamupanselutelor7309]

I'm running it right now on 2 out of my 3 machines, and it's pretty good.

[@mariodennis6236]

Ubuntu is the only Linux Distro that's a worthy replacement for Windows or MacOS for non-techie users.

[@penguin2137]

for enterprise environments - yeah, i agree for home usage, however, Mint is waaaaaaay better

[@santoshk1983]

@@penguin2137 Don't really see how Mint is waaay better than Ubuntu even for home use. I can agree it may be slightly better. It is literally latest LTS Ubuntu base on which Mint has some of their own apps, desktop and have disabled snaps. That's about it. Those Mint apps and even the Cinnamon desktop can run on Ubuntu too (and other Linux distros). Really the only significant disadvantage of Ubuntu (if you swing that way) is you can't totally disable all snaps, correct me if am wrong. Otherwise the kernel, libraries, apps, hardware support etc should be IDENTICAL between Linux Mint and Ubuntu LTS.

[@penguin2137]

@@santoshk1983 a normie doesn't dig in such details. for them, at the end of the day, the OS must be functional and stay out of the way. Mint does exactly it, the core doesn't change for a reason, decisions behind the development are not controversial at all, and... Mint has more software, hence they have their repos. it's even better equipped out-of-the-box. and if you wanted universal packages, flatpaks are more of a standard nowadays. it's not that you cannot install it on Ubuntu, it's just a bit harder.

[@marsdrums6298]

Now I know why I like that startup sound... It reminds me of Xanadu by Rush.

[@photoniccannon2117]

a thousand years have come and gone, but time has passed me by.

[@andreacalabro297]

Nice review, thank you! Ubuntu is in my opinion the reference distro, 24.10 seems very good!

[@c.n.crowther438]

damn i feel old now. ubuntu was my first linux distro. i switched because windows xp annoyed me one too many times. haven't looked back. it's funny that windows has gotten progressively worse while linux has gotten progressively better. it's almost like if we work together we can actually make good things happen for our species.

[@Tropics09-o6d]

We can. I hate the stereotypes that people give linux. Its changed so much and people still think u need a computer science degree to install it

[@arinpunk]

My first Ubuntu copy was shipped all the way from London to India in the form of a CD 16 years ago

[@photoniccannon2117]

Linux is growing rapidly. It's amazing to see how far it's come since the early days.

[@brandonlowery2236]

Thank you so much for professional perspective & content!

[@southbranch]

Ubuntu is solid as always :3 I may throw the latest ver on a travel laptop for a bit

[@Fred-oliveiriks]

that "oral outcry" made my spill my cappuccino, come on man.. that ain't fair xD

[@tailsorange2872]

I would take them Ubuntu "Oral Outcry" if it does get released 😂😂😂

[@paquitojhs]

That startup sound gave me chills. Threw me back to different timesz

[@cybernit3]

There is also the Kubuntu 24.10 distro too and it has a nice wallpaper like Oriole Phoenix with clouds behind it, I like that one so I put it on my plain Ubuntu 24.10. Ubuntu 24.10 has Linux Kernel 6.11, Gnome 47, Mesa 24.2.3 (Ubuntu 24.04 has 23.2.0). I like it so far, but a few Gnome Extensions aren't compatible but I guess they will be updated eventually and not ones I use too much. Thanks for reviewing DT.

[@mattn_kk]

Great video DistroTube, Ubuntu has been my Linux distro for a while now. The new Oracular version looks fantastic!

[@unlimitedcosmicspeed]

Thank you, good review. I like Ubuntu :)

[@ShaunakHub]

Funnily enough, even if it is the most popular Linux distro in the world, I have never used Ubuntu in my life willingly. One of the organzations I have worked for did use Ubuntu, but that about it.While Fedora is not considered to be 'for the noobs' I have always used Fedora (even before it 'became' Fedora) and feel at home. But then for folks who are old like me who had to manually type in the heads and tracks in the BIOS while installing HDD or set jumpers to tell the motherboard what CPU I am installing - configuring Redhat (Fedora) was never a big deal... except when the 815 chipset came out, which a pain in the butt initially (to get X11 configured)

[@hiranyey]

i would not have disabled the startup sound if it was shorter

[@oxyblade]

Thanks for video :) You are have very cool English pronunciation of words. I'm learning English on your video :)

[@1shARyn3]

For many tasks, Dark Theme make borders and other aspects hard to see/read. Everyone needs to improve dark theme readability to be universally useful IMHO

[@ZeerakImran]

I agree. I turn dark mode off for this reason.

[@1shARyn3]

Everyone that previews new installs default to the "Erase Disk and Install" protocol. Might be nice for some to show the "Manual Installation" protocol sometimes. BTW --- this is where one of the major bugs in 24.04 existed. Installation worked fine under "Erase and Install" but crashed [every time] under "Manual" installation

[@penguin2137]

in general, manual partitioning is not useful on a VM, where most previewers test out the systems, however, since Ubuntu switched to a new installer, it'd be nice to see manual partitioning in action there. i won't probably ever install Ubuntu on any of my hardware, so just for the curiosity's sake

[@AgentBurgers]

I've been using kubuntu and it's not bad at all

[@ollicron7397]

Ubuntu is literally the most accessible distro out there if you want something that will work just fine with everything. The only problem is customizing Ubuntu. You can't do it right because Canonical made it hard to apply themes and change the system font. It's wither Yaru or you uninstall your os. Libadwaita is such a problem.

[@santoshk1983]

That's GNOME. Any distro defaulting with GNOME becomes hard to customise. Ubuntu's fault here is they chose GNOME as the default but then all major Linux distros (RHEL/Fedora, Ubuntu/Debian, SuSE/openSUSE) insist on GNOME as default desktop for some reason, though there's nothing GNOME does that KDE can't do and plenty KDE can do that GNOME can't (or makes it hard)...

[@photoniccannon2117]

That's a Gnome thing. Ubuntu has tried to do a ton of work here, but the Gnome foundation has their own way of doing things and it has gotten in the way more than once.

[@user-gi6jd7su4i]

Gnome is the best. And it's not really hard to apply custom themes and fonts. Just install gnome-tweaks. This is cheap whining from people. Gnome and Ubuntu get hate for nothing.

[@the1trancedemon]

awesome im installing it now.

[@SuryaAnggraito]

I just trying this Ubuntu 24.10 in raspberry pi, but I use Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for my daily driver.

[@brandonlowery2236]

OH i can support you more than words Ill subscribe to patreon

[@DarthVader11912]

Hey DT, could you do a video series about configuring neovim like you did with Emacs?

[@sylvershadow1247]

I love the autoinstall feature. I'm using it right now with Ubuntu Server 22.04 to configure thin clients (only cuz I need a software that won't work on 24.04).

[@darthkielbasa]

What keyboard mic are you using, sir? 0:12

[@Jerrec]

Ubuntu is nice but it the gnome app menu icons are ugly and too small on a 4k monitor I have a different pov on the install. If you use server, I am with you. Dont use something else then LTS. But on desktops not so much. In a company? Yes use LTS. At home? No, because you usually have a beter experience bleeding edge. Also you can always update to the next release with do-release-upgrade. No need to reinstall. I do this on my systems regulary now since 2020 - no issues.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Gimp was 540mb's in size. :P. and the main desktop still looks so simple !

[@photoniccannon2117]

that's snap for you. It's nice that it allows you to update apps to pretty much any version without waiting for the next distro release though.

[@milohoffman274]

KDE is just getting worlds better than GNOME these days. Kbutuntu is the way to go.

[@bunnysuitlewds126]

imo always has been

[@anieziisandezzlas]

Plasma is clunky, ugly, and non functional

[@davebassi7340]

Says you

[@oraz.]

It's weird because they probably care about accessibility but a lot people are sensitive to that much bright light. Looks good when it starts though.

[@detectiverohan]

Just a side question. What keyboard do you use regularly?

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

Ubuntu 24.10 in my computer is so fast and smooth. I have a AMD cpu and GPU.

[@ShmuggumsMcGee]

the installer conforms to the dark theme, you just have to enable it in the gnome quick menu

[@Noobish588]

Got ubuntu running on near 400 physical servers and near 2500 LXC "servers"

[@peterschmidt9942]

Is my mind playing tricks or was there some versions of Ubuntu being distributed before 4.10? I can distinctly remember using Ubuntu after receiving a CD (or floppy disc) in the mail around late 90's/early 2000's. I know it's more than 20yrs because I moved to the farm more than 20yrs ago and it was a few years before that. I remember drums playing as the startup sound LOL. I searched for the disc but it's long gone

[@Rxke]

Canonical had a Shipit service for free 4.10 on CD... you got a free sticker too! I remember it blew my mind to actually receive a disk through the mail with a bootable CD....

[@peterschmidt9942]

@@Rxke I seem to remember it being way before. Unless they were on 4.10 years before this? I would have thought it would be a V3 something or other?

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

peace be upon you sir from me

[@mcborov_]

Just switched to Arch, because my employer installed a spyware on my Windows machine.

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

I update to Ubuntu 24.10 from the 24.04 version

[@johnc3403]

Remember that 24.04 is a long Term Support release. ...and do you really want that startup sound and new style software center? Not me. I'm sticking with 24.04

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

@@johnc3403 Thanks for the advice. I was seeking to try the gnome 47. Greetings from Brazil my friend.

[@anieziisandezzlas]

​@@johnc3403 24.10 has more recent software.

[@heyseolman]

"ORACLE?"

[@tailsorange2872]

Yes, I'm sure I will be sure to have some Ubuntu "Oral Outcry" if it does get released 😂😂😂

[@anieziisandezzlas]

Ubuntu already comes with top and vi, you don't necessarily need htop and vim.

[@johnc3403]

I'm pretty sure Vi opens to Vim by default. No extra download needed.

[@thetechdog]

@@johnc3403 Seems like it's been that way for a while now. I wonder why vim is still available as a package when that's the case. Probably for compatibility purposes or something. Or maybe to have that shortcut in the programs menu.

[@nyk9805]

I install vim-nox and btop alternatives -- default ones work out of the box, I have nothing against them, it's all down to personal choices. Thanks for the video, lovely, 20 year anniversary is here soooo quick!!

[@ryebread095]

If you use the menu in GNOME to switch to dark mode, the installer switches to dark mode as well

[@harrytsang1501]

Ubuntu 12.04 was the best version and Ubuntu peaked there

[@buzzdx]

tried installung kubuntu 24.10 it on my beelink u59 and it just crashes all the time, sometimes can't even get to desktop, when it works i can do a few clicks and black screen and reboot. does any else have these problems and maybe a solution for it?

[@LilaHikes]

So the same people who thought the Unity GUI was a good idea also thought a blinding white installation screen in 2024 was a good idea too?

[@Romactu]

20:47 to 21:24 My Warty remastered wallpaper is in the video.

[@zeebpc]

I still just dont understand the top bar. What is the point? Its ugly, so much wasted space. What are they thinking!?

[@emacsking4310]

As Ebussy would say: What's the use case?

[@Rafael-Morais]

Switch to MX Linux XFCE and you'll have the best of both worlds: taskbar on the left and no top panel :)

[@eda2000-r8h]

To check time, and with transparancy it look fancy, simply explain we just like it, also system tray so we know those app is running in the background :v

[@santoshk1983]

That's GNOME. They insist on the top bar and you can't remove, move or customise it.

[@anieziisandezzlas]

In vanilla GNOME, it makes perfect sense, but Ubuntu modifies GNOME to make it more traditional

[@esra_erimez]

Watching on KDE Neon until Kubuntu LTS gets KDE 6

[@davebassi7340]

Me too! Unfortunately it's buggy as hell! Are you having sound drops (in and out ) when watching video?

[@alfajrdream]

Ubuntu is very nice distribution, but i do not think i will use it ever.

[@originzz]

Fedora ftw

[@vinay_dias]

Wait till you need a VPS

[@Alan2ring]

Just use Debian with Gnome

[@alfajrdream]

@@Alan2ring I use it with i3wm

[@copperchatter6890]

The all seeing eye of the Illuminati has arrived.

[@snowflakemelter7171]

I noticed that too 😂

[@Ateshtesh]

is GNU/Linux less efficient by using the new packages ? I think it should use a lot of storage because they should comes with all its dependencies.

[@photoniccannon2117]

Are you talking about the snaps? Yes, those do require a lot more disk space. Flatpaks require disk space for the libraries too, but flatpacks use 2GB runtimes and share them between apps, whereas snaps package most of the dependencies with the app itself. Flatpaks aren't perfect here either though, as many apps require different runtimes, so they both end up requiring a lot of disk space. The purpose of these is to allow applications to be installed to any version without depending on the repos. It was a big problem before these packaging formats came out, as you often had to wait until the next distro release to update a lot of applications to new major versions since the versions were dictated by the repos. Snaps and Flatpaks have solved that problem.

[@farisikhmal4868]

i don't know ubuntu used to have sound

[@johnc3403]

Even Crunchbang had sounds back in the day. It was expected of OS's back then.

[@adnanabbasi9482]

What a shame it is not compatible with most of the platforms, celebrating 20 years with such compatibility issues is not in the right direction. And that's why users refrain from adopting Ubuntu or other Linux distros.

[@K-CHOMA]

In 2024 they should introduce thumbnails in file manager 😂

[@nemowei5553]

C'mon Ubuntu, system monitor and htop using the same icon???

[@ak10-x2y]

Does anyone know how to get a good scrolling experience with a trackpad on Ubuntu? Everything is either too fast, or doesn’t have smooth scrolling. Terrible compared to a MacBook.

[@dmPalets]

On my Thinkpad p50 this version 24.10 boots on 15-20 seconds longer than Ubuntu LTS, it's too slow for configuration in NVMe and 64Gb RAM

[@Michael_Knight823]

Something goes wrong when I try to install it on bare metal -- it doesn't even get to the first installation screen!

[@zxpat]

Im having problems too. The installer crashes if I not choose the minimal installation and if I manage to start the installation after a while I get graphics issues on the window. Other people had this issue too on the subreddit.

[@TheSevenCircle]

Am I the only one that finds starting sounds (in any OS) quite anoying?

[@eda2000-r8h]

I do, always turn if off :v

[@impersonator4439]

The purple theming in Ubuntu looks dated. We need a new Ubuntu color.

[@ProCodeGaming]

7:00 If it was Microsoft, always no.

[@johnc3403]

Well, after the Amazon stunt, you'd think twice with Canonical too. I trust them again, but only just.

[@photoniccannon2117]

@@johnc3403 I honestly don't mind it as much with Canonical because they aren't being backhanded about it like Microsoft is. With Windows, you have no idea what they're really tracking, and they're known to just change your settings randomly or to obfuscate how to actually disable all of this stuff. It's kinda concerning how far Microsoft has taken that.

[@mattheww797]

I wish the new installer msde it easier for btrfs to work with timeshift.

[@ernestbeckley]

No, not Vim. Anything but Vim. :)

[@exotic42069]

bro's vm got more ram than my actual pc

[@ДаниилВласенко-м7и]

OTPW for linux (PAM module) review, pls!

[@patpopov]

DT doesn't know what an oracle is. 😆

[@Amaqse]

It makes sense for browser to be snap so it can update itself ? Except firefox, chrome and all chromium varieties, opera and even bloody edge . . .. they ALL UPDATE ON THEIR OWN. They check for update on startup and install next time u run it. So. . .

[@johnc3403]

DT is a Brave Browser user and Brave doesn't auto-update on startup. ..or at least mine doesn't. When I do a weekly sudo apt upgrade, Brave gets updated then. You can probably enable auto-update on startup, I haven't looked tbh, but it doesn't auto-update by default.

[@thetechdog]

@@johnc3403 Yep, on Linux most browsers make use of the package manager to update. Exception would be Firefox if downloaded from the tar archive, then it updates like on Windows. But otherwise, that's not the case.

[@santoshk1983]

Firefox also auto-updates. It will download and install in the background and finish installing the update the next time the browser is restarted.

[@holyhelga]

yea that installer is blinding

[@kritischparken]

i disagree, htop and vim shouldnt be on every single distribution, they are only used by it-people, and ubuntu is not primarily aimed at those anymore, or so at least it tries.

[@RakibHasan-hs1me]

I am still using 22 lts, and never upgrading

[@johnc3403]

I wish I was too. I upgraded to 24.04 LTS and it's a bit meh. System menus are oversized, logon fields are enormous. The GUI side of things feels somehow disjointed. Stick with 22 lts. That was great.

[@thetechdog]

Make sure to enable Ubuntu Pro so you get updates until 2032.

[@anieziisandezzlas]

3:42 No! I thought you were a free software advocate.

[@johnc3403]

RMS probably leaves them ticked 'off'

[@anieziisandezzlas]

​​@@johnc3403 RMS uses Trisquel, which is a distro based on Ubuntu but with a blob-less Linux and no proprietary repositories. It's actually very nice for a beginner in GNU/Linux. Sadly, my PC doesn't work without 4 proprietary firmware packages on Debian

[@BillyNoMates1974]

btop is way better than htop. I only moved over to htop after reading the htop is no longer going to be developed

[@alexandrujudet]

aaaand of course it's the same as always, because they don't cater to normal users.

[@AshesWake-sf7uw]

gYi-Ump

[@wajahatali2542]

First 🙃

[@f.p.1931]

happiness in kindergarten 😁

[@switchedtowindows]

I don't have anything much to say about Ubuntu, but I'm an Arch user and I never waste an opportunity to promote that fact.

[@ineedniche]

boring no big updates

[@MrYossarianuk]

kubuntu has (plasma 6.1.x)

[@thekorben]

For Nvidia users this update is huge actually as it is the first Ubuntu release that supports explicit sync and performance on Wayland is much better. Finally runs pretty much perfectly for me. 😊

[@davebassi7340]

​@thekorben Might have to try it. You were referring to coupon 24.10 correct?

[@thekorben]

@@davebassi7340 Yep, been using it since release and still quite happy. ☺️

[@LilaHikes]

So the same people who thought the Unity GUI was a good idea also thought a blinding white installation screen in 2024 was also a good idea too?