Is Ubuntu 22.04 The Best Ubuntu In Years?

[@chuanqisun]

The Linux desktop user experience has come a long way. Kudos to the people and all the hard worker behind this release!

[@Songfugel]

Yes, long way in the wrong direction... but at least it is an improvement over 20.04 if nothing else

[@PandemicGameplay]

@@Songfugel you guys are just never pleased with anything are you? Does Snap suck? Yes. Is it the best distro ever? Probably not. Is it the best overall distribution for most people? Yes.

[@Songfugel]

@@PandemicGameplay Not true. I am pleased with a lot of things, however I do not like fanboying stuff and lying to myself it is great just because it is Linux based OS. 20.04 had by by far the worst GUI of ubuntu in a long time, and 22.04 is only a slight improvement from it, but they are still both far inferior in usability and looks to far older ubuntu's GUIs like HardyHeron or even 18.04 20.04 felt just so inferior to Windows 10 in desktop use in every way, it was like pulling teeth everytime you had to use it. So I ended up using CLI for 99% of the time with 20.04, since he GUI just sucked so much in usability and constantly had user rights elevation issues and missing core features you had to go to CLI to set

[@fiestalake]

@@Songfugel Can I ask which point did you disappoint with 20.04 UI compared to 18.04? Just curious.

[@Etherus69]

@@Songfugel true for most people, ever herd of an opinion you little tyrant?

[@carlosa.peraltafranco4003]

Ubuntu team just nailed it. The looks, customization, compatibility, and updated software make it a great operating system for work, fun or recommending.

[@Realitygetreal]

YOU must be JOKING 9 months after your post and its still a dumpster fire internally, with a list of bugs that make Joe Bidens stupid shit list look short and that is an ASTRONOMICAL FEAT!!

[@DMSBrian24]

24:18 This option still exists in Nautilus but relies on the contents of the ~/Templates directory and is up to distributions and users to add. Although I do find it weird that they don't at the very least provide a template for an empty text file, it's as simple as touch ~/Templates/'Text File'.txt. I'm even more surprised that Ubuntu doesn't provide a set of templates for its preinstalled software eg. LibreOffice docs, aside from the basic text file ofc.

[@AshtonSnapp]

Yeah, that’s a strange decision to not ship even a simple text file template.

[@outofahat9363]

woah thank you so much! Ive been using ubuntu 20.04 for two years and i didnt know about that

[@DMSBrian24]

@@outofahat9363 I found out not too long ago cause I thought it's absolutely insane that I have to do it from terminal every time or open an application, do save as and find the location i was working with, so I was sure there's gotta be a better way and found this out after some googling xD they really don't make it obvious lmao

[@4n0nmann5]

" it's as simple as touch ~/Templates/'Text File'.txt." Tell that to a new user who was told that Ubuntu is for newcomers. I really think we should have a distro that take good care of newcomers and is the future of linux. Maybe Pop_OS would be the one, but their decision to just make a whole new DE is weird. They won't be able to compete with gnome and their 20 full-time developers from every linux company.

[@DMSBrian24]

@@4n0nmann5 I know, I meant it's super simple for a distro to include it, there's no excuse for not doing so if it markets itself to beginners.

[@RedBearAK]

A lot of the good stuff is just GNOME 42, so it’s a similar experience in Fedora 36. But Ubuntu still adds a number of their own refinements, which are nice. My favorite is the revamped dock, which is apparently just a tweaked Dash-to-Dock extension but it’s SUPPORTED by Ubuntu, so it shouldn’t ever break. That’s important. If only they would integrate and support a few more of the most popular GNOME extensions. Overall 22.04 seems to be a lot better than many people were expecting.

[@nichtgestalt]

It is nice to see Ubuntu getting some love again. Especially on a LTS release.

[@fgordon5575]

Everyone loves to hate Ubuntu. But it's still the most polished and stable distro. Don't @ me.

[@lordoftheplugs785]

@F Gordon

[@mr.b9613]

Mint says hello

[@BCDeshiG]

More stable than Debian?

[@briananeuraysem3321]

I don’t know anything about Linux all I know I that this looks wayyy cleaner than windows 10

[@gamezine8374]

@@briananeuraysem3321 it doesn't

[@dotslashluis9353]

The Firefox team has never offered .deb packages, they've always gave just the tarball. The packaging has always been the job of the distribution.

[@rockoman100]

which takes about 12 seconds

[@DMSBrian24]

@@rockoman100 this xd

[@ddd12343]

Seriously, can't it be automated? It seems from Canonical side it's not a matter of "we don't have time to manage that package", but rather "we want you to use snaps no matter what"

[@tid418]

@@ddd12343 Especially considering that the Ubuntu "Mozilla Team" still packages Firefox into .deb packages for each supported Ubuntu version... but they put them into their PPA instead of the main distro repos. They're doing more work by continuing to do that AND doing Snaps on top of it.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@rockoman100 some distros compile their own patched version.

[@svendheim]

My only complaint are about snaps. I really wish they could steer snaps into server/IOT space, and do Flatpak for desktop apps, like almost every other distro.

[@roxas4702]

Same

[@christophernuzzi2780]

Appimage is better than either Snap or Flatpak.

[@RealMephres]

I never got flatpaks to work outside of a terminal, which is inconvenient.

[@mgord9518]

At minimum they should have first party support for Flatpaks out of the box And AppImage integration would be really nice to see too

[@keshavnrj]

They r improving snap support for desktop and they have reached a lot on that. Hold tight, snaps r superior and are going to survive.

[@paquitojhs]

Man I am so hyped with this release that I wiped my main partition with openSuse to install Ubuntu. It is so good even snaps are running well. Honestly Ubuntu is still one of the only distros that makes me excited every time a new release comes out. It was the very first Linux distro I ran back in 08 and it kind of gave me that feeling again. Awesome job !

[@codychan4992]

I'm using Archlinux, never used ubuntu seriously and never will. Envy you having such kind of excitement about distro release.

[@alexfiz]

Fedora is nice now, try it

[@diezgp]

@@codychan4992 oh, the guy that uses arch. You are so cool!

[@combustiblemicrowave3633]

@@codychan4992 you forgot to put "btw"

[@codychan4992]

@@combustiblemicrowave3633 I am personally fine with this "btw" thing, but a lot of people are annoyed when seeing it.

[@saberelbah4941]

Not being able to create a file is actually a very weird Nautilus decision. Many distros fix that (unfortunately not Ubuntu) by adding template files in the Template directory (.txt, .docx, ...etc.) which u can find in your home directory, this way when you u right click inside of Nautilus, a new file entry will now appear where u can choose a template from the ones u created before. I find this templates thing very handy for creating pre custom files and not starting from zero.

[@CjqNslXUcM]

I think it has to do with the desktop paradigm shifting the focus to applications and away from the file manager. The file manager is no longer the beginning of a file, the corresponding application is.

[@rawmaterials3909]

@@CjqNslXUcM who decides that?

[@bigmikeobama5314]

@@rawmaterials3909 canonical pretends to be the one who will decide that

[@outofahat9363]

thanks a lot! Ive been using ubuntu 20.04 for two years and i didnt know about that

[@rawmaterials3909]

obama unfortunately, gnome thinks it can decide such things. this confirms me yet again that gnome is a JOKE and, even if it's open source, it REEKS of proprietary.

[@kamikamieu]

You missed an important point of which Ubuntu 22.04 includes dynamic triple buffering patch which increases the desktop smoothness and shell framerates by using a VM. GNOME loves GPU acceleration. This patch doesn’t seem to exist on upstream GNOME 42 and still a merge request. Love the review though.

[@samsh0-q3a]

it being such a bloated hog, of course it loves GPU acceleration.

[@linkdesink]

@@samsh0-q3a Every Desktop environment loves GPU acceleration. GPU acceleration is the way that we are doing things without stress our CPU. So you have your CPU idle and your GPU takes over. Have your ever tried to run something without GPU acceleration? Lag is your best friend.

[@kamikamieu]

@@samsh0-q3a Looks like someone hasn't tried mutter dynamic triple buffer patch yet. It's just different GNOME, it's fast and responsive.

[@notuxnobux]

>GNOME loves GPU acceleration Except that gnome uses gtk 3 which has 0 gpu acceleration. Gtk 4 has gpu acceleration (although pretty poor). Qt doesn't have gpu acceleration either, but it does in Qt Quick.

[@notuxnobux]

@@samsh0-q3a Why would you _not_ use the gpu for graphics? it leads to better battery life and better performance at the same time. But gpu acceleration in gnome is pretty poor. Only the composition is gpu accelerated.

[@david406]

You're probably gonna get a lot of comments about this, but to create a New Document with Nautilus, you first need to put an empty file in the ~/Templates directory. Then you'll be able to right click to create a new file. I guess the Ubuntu team should have added some templates here themselves (empty .txt, empty .odt/.docx...)

[@oootkarsh]

If someone does minimal install of ubuntu, the .odt template will be broken.

[@DMSBrian24]

@@oootkarsh I mean they could just have a package providing those templates that's only installed by default on the regular full installation, the fact that they don't at the very least offer a text file template is really weird because if they did, at the very least the purpose of the Templates dir would be made obvious to users, right now I feel like most people don't know about this

[@andrey8688]

Now we expect a series of "nnn Things To Do After Installing of Ubuntu 22.04" videos.

[@thierrybo6304]

@@andrey8688 the fist thing should be: - remove Ubuntu

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I don't get why creating a file isn't something there by default. What was the point for the gnome team to not make it possible out of the box?

[@stefun666]

Thanks DT for the update! Take care man!

[@BahaaBarakat]

This is the first Ubuntu release I'm tempted to switch to in a very long time. I've been jumping between elementary, arch (with gnome) & fedora for years but I always wanted to go back to Ubuntu but it never FELT like Ubuntu for years. Hopefully this release is just the start and Ubuntu finally gets back on track for Desktop users.

[@godfather7339]

Have you tried KDE?

[@uiopuiop3472]

@@godfather7339 yeah, KDE is really good, been my daily driver for 5 years now

[@WatchMyVideoCovidTruthNoBiolab]

I use Ubuntu and honestly, its pretty sweet. I dont see any problem with snaps honestly.

[@mbenlioglu]

Thanks for the review. 2 things I wanna mention is lts releases do get kernel upgrades, usually as hwe stack or point releases. Second thing is if you put a file with name xyz under ~/Templates it will show up in the right click menu as "New Document > xyz" although I don't know why they don't put at least an empty text file there by default :)

[@bintangazharr]

oh wow i just know this after using gnome for 2 weeks, thanks

[@Khmeriscool]

Well at least it has taught me, a typical noob, how to intelligently modify a right-click context menu instead of just accepting whatever is served to me by default. So it's a plus)

[@indoor_vaping]

Thank you for uploading this. For a long time I’ve thought of Ubuntu as trying to be polished, but not quite there. But this is the most refined it’s looked in years.

[@gunner75171]

I've been playing dark souls 3 on 2204 beta for about a week now, it's a great experience, and the display scaling with Wayland allowed me to fix the mouse moving across screens of different resolutions. Something windows can't do.

[@OzzyTheGiant]

So you are saying that fractional scaling is fixed and/or running apps on different resolution screens will no longer force the scaling of the main screen?

[@cronchcrunch]

@@OzzyTheGiant Yeah I'm wondering that too, because this hasn't been an issue in Windows for years now.

[@mdintisar]

Your review on Ubuntu is very honest. Most people just hate Ubuntu over Snap and I don't understand why. Ubuntu is for the users who don't care about apt, pacman, snap, flatpak. They just need their machine to get their everyday works done. Ubuntu is the gateway to Linux for many new users. People who want to try new things may eventually try out new distros. But Ubuntu=Linux for most new comers.

[@tid418]

It's super easy to remove the Snap version of Firefox and replace it with a native .deb version. If you wish, you can also remove snapd (the Snap daemon). Then the snaps are gone and Ubuntu is the way it always has been before.

[@oliverberning130]

I am impressed, too. However, Wayland with Microsoft Teams (Intel Iris Chipset), needed for the job, is not properly working, i.e. screen sharing is not possible. Changing to Xorg solves the issue. However, I understand that it needs some distros who push the Wayland stuff forward to get it to final stage and standard.

[@ricardosteijn4693]

This is an issue with the Teams app, not Wayland. To use screen sharing in Teams, you can launch it in the Chrome(ium) browser instead, and make sure you enable the Wayland backend, done by launching it with this argument: --ozone-platform-hint=auto

[@oliverberning130]

@@ricardosteijn4693 That's the reason why I appreciate pushing forward Wayland to force application developers to adapt very soon. I know that "workaround" with the Edge or Chrome browser. However, my company decided for a policy that logs me out (in the browser) even in the middle of a call. It does not happen with the standalone Teams. It is neither a browser nor a Wayland issue. It is just the not-so-awesome experience. However, the advantages of working under Linux (or rather Ubuntu) outweigh the company- and Microsoft-driven prison. Actually, it is the first time that I use Linux in my job.

[@themohmand]

Wayland is not even enabled on machines running Nvidia cards, which is disappointing

[@louistournas120]

@@oliverberning130 Good. Let a few more employees use it and report the problem to Teams. I use Teams as a chat app to communicate with colleagues. I use Kubuntu. I guess they use Win 10.

[@averagemamil4523]

@@ricardosteijn4693 Thanks 🙏😀

[@parlux3823]

I think nautilus only let you create a file if you create a template for it, in Templates directory.

[@realkarthiknair]

Restart was available under the "power off" option after clicking "Power Off" : nobody needed to logout for that

[@sarrasmith2508]

I'm getting really close to switching one of my machines over from Windows, and I've decided to go with Kubuntu. Been running it, in a VM, on the machine it will be going on, and so far, it's been an absolute breeze to install, customize, and run most basic programs. For reference, the last version of Ubuntu I used, was 6.06 alternate. Plan is to get some enterprise level drives, and use ZFS to create a vault for my files, with a new machine, also running Kubuntu, set up for video editing, 3D modeling, and some other stuff, and my gaming PC will stick with Windows, until I can verify that the games I run the most will work on it without serious issue. VM's are amazing compared to what I tried out back in the past, so I'm actually pretty excited to daily drive Kubuntu.

[@TheSmellOfBooks]

@DistroTube : Thank you for putting your money where your mouth is by publishing your videos under the 'Creative Commons' license. This really means the world to me when it comes to trusting someone in alt tech communities.

[@DMSBrian24]

I think that's great but it's not really related to free software imo, you can easily be a firm believer in the free software movement but still want your video content to be proprietary and copyrighted, it's not like it controls its users or does any damage so I don't think there's any conflict between the two.

[@KR1ML0N]

Haven't used Ubuntu desktop in years. Might have to test in a vm.

[@nemowei5553]

Amazing. I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu 22.04. I love it right away.

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

22.04, when it comes out on the Pi, I am gonna do a minimal install and port my i3 configs to it. The wallpaper is actually pretty radical and not some forced humor like the past few, Focal Fossa's wallpaper was awesome. All the same, LTS is the way to go, least amount of hassle, least amount of annoying changes. I already expressed my views on snaps and know what to do about them, so that isn't even an issue for me, since I can switch to other universal packages.

[@JrIcify]

The hippo one literally had a hairy ass on it we should never forget that.

[@maggiethegamer1271]

@@JrIcify imo it's an intentional decision to have a serious wallpaper for a serious LTS release

[@babyboomertwerkteam5662]

@@JrIcify and let's not forget that creepy furry that stared into your soul...

[@fullsleevetats]

Great breakdown of 22.04. Just a small correction: Ubuntu 22.04 will be fully supported until April of 2027 (5 years), when End of Standard Support ends. For those who may not be able to migrate away, you can optionally continue with an additional 5 years of support, when 22.04 officially goes End of Life in 2032 (ESM). Every Ubuntu release since 14.04 has supported this same approach, and works very well for those who have difficulty moving their infrastructure or application footprint to a new LTS release. For the rest, you can use `do-release-upgrade` to move between LTS or Development releases.

[@averagemamil4523]

For non-UK viewers, ‘Jammy’ is Brit slang for ‘lucky’ 😀

[@sumitmamoria]

I like how you pulled out that Ubuntu T-shirt which might have been sitting inside the cabinet for a while, just for the occasion. Awesome!

[@Asrashas]

14:30: _"The snap package auto updates"_ Yeah killer feature ... It does that literally whenever, even when the snap is running. For firefox, I then have to restart firefox, because I can't open new tabs anymore, because the snap has swapped out files from under the running process or something. Meaning I have a truckload of tabs open because I search for documentation of libraries I use and similar. So then firefox has to re-open all the tabs. Such a bad experience, all the time. That has put me off of snaps for good. Well done.

[@jozsefk9]

It's very hard to move away from Arch based distros. The main reason for me is the availability of packages in Arch repos. That makes my life so much easier.

[@cronchcrunch]

I tried it before and it just wasn't worth the hassle, since I've never needed an application that wasn't available as a Flatpak, Snap, or RPM/DEB.

[@erickleefeld4883]

On creating a new document from the right-click menu: Was the Templates folder empty for the stock install? The folder is right there, but maybe you need to fill it up with stuff first.

[@100Parey]

The Hardy Heron wallpaper

[@keylowmike85]

I have Ubuntu 22.04 on my daily driver ThinkPad right at the moment, and it is beautiful. But I watched DT's "Noob to Power User in Ubuntu" and installed Dracula themes 😍😍. Amazing work, DT.

[@knox312]

I actually put my dock to the right side because buttons for launching and closing programs are next to one another and also the settings power status thing is in the top right corner so everything is together in top right corner, no need to drag mouse (or pad which is more annoying) across the screen. I'm weird I know.

[@maciejka1]

22.04 is amazing, canonical did a extremely good job!

[@mranonymous8815]

If there was a ready-to-use tiling window manager like in Pop OS, I would simply take the standard Ubuntu 22.04. So I have to take Kubuntu (+ bismuth).

[@ghostmourn_alt]

I like the look of this drop a lot. Love that orange boot screen stuff

[@michaelsudsysutherland5353]

Ok, I might have to try Ubuntu again. I got frustrated with it over the last few years, but after watching this review, I might have to give it a shot. You are not wrong about the Hardy Heron wallpaper! That was my first serious Linux distro, and I can't say Ubuntu got better after that (though, it got easier to use a Wacom tablet as Ubuntu aged, and was awesome to get Steam on Linux through Ubuntu....).

[@fishofthepeople]

Your Ubuntu reviews are so good I don't even bother testing it for myself.

[@dermond]

I'm installing Kubuntu 22.04 I've been using GNOME for so long, It seems a good release. Btw I have no issues with snaps before, Firefox runs as usual and I even install Blender as a snap.

[@mrkitty777]

Snap Firefox eventually gets exceptional slow🥱

[@Didier88600]

@@mrkitty777 Slow at the first launch.. after its simply normal.

[@mrkitty777]

Installed Lubuntu 22.04 with snap. Firefox is exceptional slow starting. Horrible. Snap is a big tragedy.

[@dermond]

@@mrkitty777 not on my machine, sorry for your loss

[@mrsharps]

Glad I’m not the only one that likes panel mode. I agree the empty space looks pointless. Another great video DT!

[@BCDeshiG]

My guess is people would be using dock mode with the auto-hide so there's no empty space.

[@CharlesCollins]

@@BCDeshiG Exactly lol. Why have dock not on auto-hide taking up precious space. Using dock mode and auto-hide gives you maximum screen space.

[@BobStallmanArchUser]

it literally looks like the absolute same thing with minor mods. personally im staying on my version . very good video tho !

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

And by intention. Linux Mint for many years as looked the same, Xubuntu is 12 years of looking the same. If things work, why change them?

[@BobStallmanArchUser]

@@tenfourproductionsllc i kind of agree with you and kind of disagree, you see if things actualy worked ! Thank God for the command line ... even at that im getting some issues I did not have before.

[@Rems19]

"It might be the best looking Ubuntu that I've seen" Nothing looks like Ubuntu as much as a new Ubuntu release, these years I feel like the wallpaper is the only thing that changes

[@sbrazenor2]

I run both the LTS and non-LTS versions on different systems. They've all been relatively stable for me either way.

[@baldpolnareff7224]

I like that you mentioned 14.04 LTS at the end, it's what I started my Linux journey with

[@fullsleevetats]

Offically, 14.04 reaches final EOL in April 2024, if you're using ESM. End of Standard Support sunset in April of 2019.

[@BCDeshiG]

Same here lol

[@jesse7631]

Actually, Ubuntu does not have the new GNOME Text Editor (which is version 42). They kept Gedit, which was still in GNOME 41.

[@babyboomertwerkteam5662]

Indeed. Ubuntu haven't shipped *any* GTK4/libadwaita app in 22.04LTS, which I appreciate since GTK4/libadwaita's text rendering is awful.

[@Ponyboy_Curtis]

Haha you are such a Ubuntu fan and I love it! Cheers mate :)

[@linuxbytes6212]

I like the theme so much, I don't even need to make changes including wallpaper.

[@semihkaplan]

I only have one complaint. People forgot but there was a great feature in Unity desktop. Window buttons were in left. That was great because when you maximize the app the app used to join the top bar. And buttons were hidden. When you hover your mouse on the top bar app name disappears and buttons appear again. That was the best OS choice ever. It was much better that macOS and stuff. Because the buttons are on the left you have infinite space to click. Also the Ubuntu button was more useful than this GNOME apps section with this weird tablet looking UI.

[@semihkaplan]

In short, Unity was better and you killed it.

[@guzman_gt]

Nautilus is terrible; the nail in the coffin was the minute they got rid of the feature which highlighted the corresponding files in a directory when you started typing and instead it started a search

[@rawmaterials3909]

my friend, the whole GNOME is terrible...

[@benjy288]

@@rawmaterials3909 Yes, this is the way the Gnome dev's appear to think... we've got a good file manager but for our next release we should dumb it down by removing a whole lot of features because who wants features anyway? and for our desktop we'll create a completely new GUI but with very limited customization options because who needs those anyway? but we'll give people the option of creating customization extensions for it that we'll break every time we upgrade to a new version.

[@tid418]

@@benjy288 That is why we have Mate and Cinnamon.

[@vicmac3513]

Ubuntu Gnome would be the perfect DE for tablets. For desktops it is not for me. It seems like it was designed for touchscreens only. Maybe one day it'll be possible.

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

This was my first version of Ubuntu. I’m a Fedora user now, but I’ll always remember Jammy Jellyfish.

[@derekenz4185]

Thanks for a great unbiased review!

[@null11q]

Where can I get t-shirts like yours? Those Manjaro/Ubuntu t-shirts are really cool.

[@ObaidahNaseer]

You can just press screenshot button on the keyboard. But one issue I have is that it doesn't record other than the current window. Other than that it's great. Although I installed OBS as I want audio as well.

[@goldibollocks]

I installed 22.04 when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and clicked the Firefox icon in the dock right after rebooting. Now it’s 2022, all my dinosaur friends are long dead but finally, just a minute ago, Firefox finally opened up! 🥳🥳 Otherwise: great distro!

[@FRAMEDSKATEKREW69]

i just threw this on my usb and omg i havent used a linux distro this smooth it honestly felt nicer to use than windows

[@beunice]

I think that Firefox supports Flatpak. That's what I'm migrating to on my daily driver linux machines for stability's sake. Hopefully we'll see Ubuntu and more distros migrate towards Flatpak as a universal package manager rather than snap.

[@0stre]

Regarding the position of the panel on the left, I work on many full-screen applications that also use the panel on the left and in such a configuration the position of the panel on the left is annoying (missclicks and stuff ;])

[@babyboomertwerkteam5662]

pfp source 🙏

[@khalifakhalifi2397]

You are amazed by a gellyfish wallpaper, zip-unzip capabilities, and new logo design, like if they were high technology, and on the Windows 11 video you were hating everything. Linux Desktops are limiting the possibilities of the person: Say somebody wants to be a photo designer, we will never be able to achieve that with GIMP. Same applies to professional video editing. DJs, and producers, Illustrators, NFT Art designers :) Giving to a kid a Linux computer is just limiting his scope. If he ever wants to be a backend programmer, pentester, etc he could just virtualize it and give it a try.

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

Hey DT, you really need merch, like a shirt with two round dots and a sentence which says: A strong and complicated password LOL

[@riseabove3082]

DUDE! That is the most brilliant idea for merch T-shirt if I ever heard one. That would be some strong branding right there. LOVE THIS!

[@johnh6524]

I've just installed 22.04 (after using other distros for a while) and I like it so far. As for Firefox I added the Mozilla ppa and reinstalled Firefox as an apt package.

[@danielmwale9959]

Dock on the right side of the screen is for people with vertical workspaces on the left, Derek.

[@XiFLASHPOINTZiX]

by the way @DistroTube - I had the same issue in QEMU - I had to use the virtio-ramfb-gl (GPU version) that got around the login-crash issue

[@TheGodzilla2201]

I just got Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed on my new laptop. I'm happy with it so far. It's faster, smoother, and updates don't take forever.. I installed KDE desktop environment.

[@Tekzite]

I think the developers on 22.04 did an excellent job.

[@miljantrajkovic1862]

Yes, GNOME developers did excellent job 😁

[@rawmaterials3909]

@@miljantrajkovic1862 at messing up the most basic functions. they're great at that.

[@linkdesink]

@@miljantrajkovic1862 Yes they have done. But canonical devs also like Daniel van vugt. This man has enabled triple buffering patch and he has made numerous mutter performance improvements.

[@PandemicGameplay]

@@linkdesink The performance improvements are very noticeable to me especially after using many versions of Ubuntu over the years all the way back to < 16. It is noticeable the overall fluidity of the system. It is much better than many proprietary systems like Windows 10.

[@jesse7631]

The SNAP version of Firefox cannot run the GNOME Extensions addon in Firefox. That's kind of a bummer.

[@linkdesink]

You can install the package gnome-shell-extension-manager and install extensions from this utility is better.But I agree it isn't right that doesn't support it. Also Firefox snap can't see my hunspell dictionaries.

[@godtable]

Ubuntu 22.04 plus the "unsnap" scripts is the best Ubuntu ever. In order to create a new file from the right click menu, you have to add it as a template in the templates folder. Open Gedit>New file> Save as>New text.txt in the templates. After that, the option will be there.

[@zerron2156]

Advice that could’ve saved me 3 days of my life and some of my sanity for any beginners trying out Ubuntu: Once you install it check ‘sudo apt update’ and if you get any errors that don’t allow you to update because of the country mirror codes, type ‘sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list’ and hit ‘ctrl + \’ to replace ‘XX.’ Where X is your country code, hit enter and replace it with nothing (just hit enter again) then press ‘a’ to replace all and make sure it says “archive.ubuntu” before you save it. After that you should be able to update properly.

[@SergioBocanegra]

"Jammy jellyfish" LOL

[@ozmosyd]

Thanks chap. Gonna try this LTS for sure.

[@veikkaheikkila7568]

Yall have probably seen the comments stating that you should create files using Templates, I'm pretty sure text documents are supposed to be created using gedit or Text Editor. Kinda makes sense but I would add the choice in Nautilus too.

[@edbeckerich3737]

Does it have its new car smell?? Last go around it was gone!!

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

It's the biggest change in Ubuntu since they switched to Unity. They def fixed some the bugs in Ubuntu 21.10, which odd year dot 10 releases should be treated as betas. Firefox being a snap is probably the most divisive issue they have.

[@tid418]

Agreed. They are easily removed, so it is no issue for me, but it sours a lot of people on Ubuntu in general (and we are at a point in time where it is fashionable to hate on Ubuntu anyway).

[@amynagtegaal6941]

Firefox as a snap isn't really bad to my opinion, Because the guys behind ubuntu has control over wich version you can have. So that if (and i had this happen to me a few times) Mozilla brings out a new version of firefox, cannonical can make sure the ubuntu repos has the right dependency versions so that firefox can work

[@tid418]

That is their job as distro maintainers in any case.

[@sirajussalekin9239]

I love your videos man, you give credit where credit is due, unlike the majority who stay biased.

[@jethrot100]

As a reasonably new Linux user I had just settled in when I saw this review. Straight up I replaced -----36 on a gen4 X1 carbon I am selling and was immediately impressed by the speed straight out of the box, whether opening software or installing it. Adding a bit of colour to icons etc was ridiculously easy also. Thanks for the heads up. I have a new daily driver.

[@darkiceywolf2953]

Also I just switched to Linux in February of this year and ofc I used 20.04 however this is my first Linux distro that I used on launch day.

[@prodxwoah]

Where do I get that shirt!

[@DistroTube]

My teespring store. Check the show description for link.

[@Royaleah]

Why does it seem that when you do the minimal install it still installs everything and then uninstalls the 'extra' stuff.

[@ramialkaro]

I was waiting this video since the released and check your channel daily to watch your opinion about it. Thanks 🙏

[@Gold_Yoshi]

I love ubuntu! I’ve only used it for two days as it’s my first experience with linux. But I’ve made great use out of it! For example: my Modified Nintendo Switch, I don’t have a use for it yet, but it’s neat! Another use I have for it is putting it on my dads computer after I accidentally corrupted his windows bios after changing a setting in windows and powering off improperly… and then deleting the bios…. and not being able to fix it for months until I figured out what linux is by putting it on my switch….. I’m rambling, aren’t I?

[@androth1502]

everyone in the linux community seems to hate ubuntu, and suddenly ubuntu is getting love. what am i missing?

[@redgeoblaze3752]

I think most of the hate is just from Arch/Mint Fanboys. I use Arch (btw) and I could never see myself using Ubuntu anymore, but I still hope for it's success, and respect it in a way. It's the gateway drug most of us used to get into Linux. Some releases recently had some issues though, like when it would favor snaps over apt at some point. I don't know a lot about that situation, but I assume it was fixed quickly.

[@androth1502]

@@redgeoblaze3752 i'm just getting into linux in earnest now, since in my estimation, it's reached a point where it can be a viable win10 replacement. i'm on arco, but that's mosly DT's fault. i'm still trying to figure out what the whole snap/flatpack/appimage/aur/etc stuff is about. lol. personally, i've been using only pacman and direct downloads.

[@tid418]

It's still the biggest distro in the world, so clearly 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 does not hate it. Many of those who do have harsh words for it have presumably judged it on the basis of prior releases that weren't so good. This release is a good one, so it is not surprising that people would say so. There's no reason people who have concluded that Ubuntu is not for them have to deny that there is 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 good about it.

[@androth1502]

@@tid418 so in other words, it's just the ego problem i've been seeing a lot of in the linux community.

[@randomrfkov]

I will just wait for the mint upgrade.

[@KennysBedpost]

Another option if you can't login is to bring up the terminal and install lightdm, once installed it will ask if you want to use it by default for login, and after you select it reboot your machine. That fixed my login loop issues.

[@Grempington]

I don't think the complaints about firefox as a snap package were even about the speed, rather the fact that it's run in somewhat of a sandbox, while a lot of people installing ubuntu want to quickly customize gnome with extensions, and there are browser extensions that let you do that really easily. But while firefox supports those browser extensions, they just won't work in snap, and that's by design. So if you want to quickly browse and explore what gnome extensions have to offer your most user friendly bet would be to install firefox natively instead Oh and of course for the less tech savvy who might be following a little tutorial on youtube, there's no user friendly error here that says "Gnome shell integration is not supported in the snap distribution of Firefox", you have to figure out for yourself why it's not working.

[@Rensuke_Hero-gami]

In Nautilus 3.36.3 that are being used in Zorin OS 16, you can create a new document by clicking the current path you're in in the path bar at the top of Nautilus. It'll give you a drop down menu that contains create new document

[@polynomial9600]

Been using Ubuntu releases continuously since version 6; decades of experience with Unix before that. Xubuntu 22.04 for me has been the most stable version of Ubuntu that I have ever used. I think it will be tough to beat and hopefully future releases can at least maintain the momentum.

[@paraboxmodular]

Awesome review, never been a fan of Unbuntu, but this release seems pretty cool and i think i'm going with them for my Linux Desktop from now on ! :-) Thanks

[@benjy288]

Can't create a new file? yep, that's the Gnome, where they focus more on aesthetics instead of functionality, what's even more bizarre is that nautilus used to have that option back in Gnome 2, but for some strange reason the Gnome guys decided to remove it, in fact they should really call nautilus a file browser instead of a file manager because browsing files is all its really good for, if you want a good gtk file manager then choose caja or nemo, even the lightweight pcmanfm has better functionality than nautilus, its the main reason why I can't use Gnome, it just lacks customization options, I'm currently using LXQT, not only is it faster and lighter than Gnome but its also more customizable too, you want to use another window manager like Kwin instead of openbox? LXQT gives you that option right in their session settings control panel, you can't do that in Gnome, your stuck with their default window manager which lacks smart window placement.

[@Sjoerd1993]

It's a bit weird it works like this, but they didn't remove this functionality at all. You just need to put an empty text file in the templates folder and then it works as expected.

[@benjy288]

@@Sjoerd1993 It is pretty weird, it should be a standard feature of every file manager, its not just that though, there's a whole lot of features that were removed from nautilus, just use nemo or caja to see what nautilus used to be like, its like the Gnome guys have deliberately tried to dumb it down.

[@choibtc6121]

great news. I have been using ubuntu for 5 years so far. Over all I am happy with its stability. For someone who use MS based OS since 1994, it took some time to get use to it but now 100% Ubuntu over Windows

For people wondering, the ONLY way in GNOME to have right click new document menu is to create in ~/Templates documents that you want in said menu. This is from Nautilus in GNOME 3 onwards. So you have to create a .txt, a .odt, a .doc etc in your ~/Templates because the GNOME team is obtuse like that

Also, this happened to me, if removing a Windows 11 partition during installation, you may find yourself with an error saying that the kernel couldn't be informed of the formatting and the installer will quit. This is not an Ubuntu error, it is Windows doing, but at this point Windows will have been deleted anyway, reset, start the process again until the disk is fully free and the installer will eventually go through installation even in UEFI mode

[@Patrk38]

I upgraded my machine from 20.04 to 22.04... It broke everything. EVERYTHIG. I've been struggling with gnome and Canonical incompetency for years now, so I decided to move to KDE - everything works now, and issues I've been struggling with on gnome in the past are gone.

[@philippeheyvaert3742]

In my opinion LibreOffice isn't fully installed. I almost always have to add LibreOffice Base in most distro's. Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't has it installed out of the box ... pitty.

[@FHB71]

I have it running on a VM on PC, on a Pi, and also on M1 Macbook Pro (Qemu). The Pi may be a bit challenged, but it is not actually made for these things. On PC and Mac I switched over to KDE-Plasma, somehow I like that more, but it really works very well.

[@claudio.corona]

I remember installing Ubuntu 22.04 to test it and after only 1 hour I was downloading Linux Mint. That snap store is awful

[@penobit3718]

Restart was always there , after you clicked on power off the system shows a window that has three options (power off, restart, cancel) It’s weird that you never clicked on power off :/

[@HeresMo]

I haven’t used Ubuntu since 2009/10. I gotta try it. Was forced to move back to windows while at uni. And then I got a Mac. But now I think I’ll put it on my editing pc.

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

@20:26 the `apt list --installed` command outputs more to stdout than just the installed packages. When I ran it, there was also a "Listing..." message at the top, so you overcount by at least 1.