Ubuntu 24.10: the SNAP ecosystem improves, with a touch of nostalgia

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@FedoraSilverblue]

Hi

[@krtirtho]

*Ubuntu releases new version Nick 0.00001ms later: I was there when it was written

[@b0t123]

Project stalker lmao

[@nero7569]

"I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago..."

[@jpedrothejo]

i was there when the creator thought about the idea

[@Dugachug]

As soon as I saw Ubuntu 9.10 I got the feels. That was my first distro, followed by the original Damn Small Linux.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Funny thing is, the theme introduced in 10.04 was actually supposed to be introduced in 9.10, but was delayed to 10.04, which was also an LTS, because the theme wasn't ready. 10.04 was my first experience with Ubuntu, and despite some of the naysayers calling the theme a "macOS ripoff", I kind of liked it! Even 11.04 was decent, albeit a bit annoying because of Unity, but not unbearable as far as I could remember. Too bad I had to leave Linux while I was in high school because nothing really worked on it; OpenOffice got forked into LibreOffice, and PC game support was literally a joke.

[@its_ruu]

Ubuntu 9.10 was my first distro too! I remember thinking it was bold to have brown and orange as the main colors, but in a good way. Feels nostalgic :)

[@thebirdhasbeencharged]

Wobbly windows was crazy 😂

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@thebirdhasbeencharged KDE Plasma & Wayfire still offer wobbly windows! It's not just Compiz on X11!

[@CreepToeJoe]

0:05 I was there Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago.

[@dermond]

I love startup sounds😊

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

Same. Can't wait to turn it off though.

[@dand337]

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein this one seems to be win 98ish, way too long

[@deadskull888]

Yes.. I love the new start up sound. Have the feel of Ubuntu 9.10

[@h208x8]

I like it but it's long I wish it could be cut in half.

[@dillonblair6491]

​@@rumplstiltztinkerstein just press the off button

[@WinstoneSmith]

A very nice touch of the new APT is that will colour in red when about to DELETE packages. This will save your life every now and then.

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@WinstoneSmith It should also emphasize when certain packages are attempting to be deleted, lest we have another "Yes, do as I say" issue.

[@cybernit3]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.10 but I notice the APT version is 2.9.8 not 3.0? Is this normal? Then I tried to upgrade APT, but it says no 3.0 version exists, I guess I have the new version.

[@nathanrussell2158]

I remember using Ubuntu around 2006. It has come a long way. I use it daily on 2 of my machines and love it.

[@Cyco_Nix]

Yep remember when it first dropped. It changed the Linux perception for a lot of people. Coming from back when Linux first dropped and going through many of the early distros, including the OGs like Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE, it was something different for those that were still scare to try Linux.

[@thefanboy3285]

The start up sound is nice but ultimately it's that bird symbol that's awesome. I mean just look at it ! It's geometrically wonderful!

[@yaroslav7328]

Ubuntu was the first distro that pulled me into the Linux rabbit hole. Despite using Fedora for years, I still have great respect for Ubuntu. They're doing a great job!

[@WinstoneSmith]

Shoutout for the NVIDIA Wayland support at long last. I'm eager to enjoy it

[@DavideDavini]

That almost makes me want to abandon LTS. Almost, everything I care about works though. 😂

[@albertkinng]

While I recognize the criticism directed at Ubuntu, it truly stands out as the ideal Linux distribution for the average user. I've successfully introduced it to my family, including my mom, and they effortlessly adapted to it, just as they did with Mac and Windows. It functions seamlessly!

[@xviii5780]

Weak mom can't use Arch smh

[@nailil5722]

exactly. Installed it on the old family laptop with an SSD and my parents instantly picked it up after decades on windows.

[@RexTorres]

Damn. I wish I could be as Ubuntu-savvy as your mom and your family. I'm a software developer, so I can say that I'm pretty tech-savvy, and I know my way around Linux, but I cannot say I can "effortlessly adapt" to Ubuntu with GNOME. 😂 I also introduced my younger sister to it some time ago. She's also quite tech-savvy. She ended up reformatting her laptop and went back to Windows.

[@jyggalag_]

Ubuntu with MATE or Budgie is great, try it if you hate GNOME like me​@RexTorres

[@2greenify]

​@@RexTorresnot tech savvy then

[@isrbillmeyer]

Kubuntu now for many years my daily driver. Tried many other distro's and spins and just keep on going back to Kubuntu. Looking forward to getting a stable Plasma 6.x / KDE.

[@AG-sy4wt]

i fell in love with zorin. i dont do much other than freecad

[@justethical280]

Yes, Kubuntu is also my favourite. Stabil and a lot of customization.

[@Cadey]

The 8.04 wallpaper still goes so hard. I've used it on my macbook and gotten people turning heads at it.

[@konishiwoi]

That boot sound is not bad, it's soothing and techy, but with modern machines and their speed, it lasts waaaay too long xD

[@tranmanhuc6235]

Windows used to have incredibly long startup/shutdown sounds too

[@lots_of_codeswallop]

As someone who manually uses Canberra play in startup applications to make a startup sound, this change is very welcome!

[@noobbyboimaster]

I recently went back to running regular Ubuntu after distrohopping(and usually kept either Pop OS or Fedora if I wanted something stable) and I have used practically everything maybe except Gentoo or LFS, and to be honest the experience with regular Ubuntu has become pretty cool even with using some apps installed via Snap. Although I do use apps mainly from Flatpak or native sources, snap to be honest isn't as bad as it once was. Not to mention Ubuntu 24.04 compared to any other distro out there is working far better on my laptop surprisingly. Anyways, thanks for the video Nick! Sure 24.10 isn't that big of an upgrade but to celebrate 20th anniversary of by far one of the most popular Linux distros I will be upgrading to it and see how it works out!

[@honkhonkler7732]

The first Linux distro I ever tried was Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. It's come a long way since then.

[@krtirtho]

Looks like Ubuntu is also pushing for a Flutter based custom Desktop Environment (echosystem tbh) and they're slowly building apps for it in Flutter

[@AndoresuPeresu]

Me being a complete ignorant on this, what would be the advantage of using flutter there?

[@aheendwhz1]

@@AndoresuPeresu I think the biggest advantage is that they'll find issues with Flutter on Linux and fix them, so developers of Flutter apps will have an easier time bringing their apps to Linux. One thing that already came out of their efforts is their Yaru style for Flutter, which makes Flutter apps feel at home on Ubuntu visually. Also, they already wrote a lot of documentation on how to deploy a Flutter app on Linux.

[@that_leaflet]

For their own apps, yes. But they have no plans to replace Gnome apps (unless they have good reason to, like with Gnome Software).

[@AndoresuPeresu]

@@aheendwhz1 Thanks! Great to get such a speedy response with such context. My brother uses flutter, I'll share with him.

[@lx2222x]

​@@AndoresuPeresu Advantage to Flutter apps is that it is cross platform and it has a very good animation system. Overall the technology is pretty good

[@rupentiumal]

In my family, we have been using only Linux for 18 years. It all started on an old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro. Ubuntu 11.04 was the first distro I used for a while, followed by Ubuntu Mate 18.04. Now I am on Debian, but I recognize, aside from all the criticisms that can be made of Ubuntu and Canonical, that this distro made me discover Linux, and I will be forever grateful to it for this.

[@ThatStranger]

hey between ubuntu 24.10 and fedora 41 which is better like for performance,battery and stability i am using fedora for now battery backup is great but heard alot about ubuntu aswell so confised which should i keep my laptop is x1 carbon gen 9

[@scpatl4now]

Dapper Drake was my first release I used way back in the day. Amazing how far they have come.

[@RagnarinVa]

It is pleasant to see Ubuntu focus on the desktop - it is back to my main driver. I am using 24.10 now and its stable and I restored from my 24-04 back-up. Still cannot fall in love with the Warty Warthog color scheme - will stick to current colors. Nick - thanks again for another informative video.

[@vidal9747]

I love flatpaks. Snaps could be a good alternative. If they were really free. The safety argument for a centralized store doesn't hold any weight when people could download scam crypto wallets on the biggining of the year.

[@veyselerden72]

Yeah but most (almost all) flatpak users use flathub which is a centralized repo for most of the flatpaks.

[@donkey7921]

snaps already are starting to feel a lot more polished to me tbh. And I hate that on flatpak apps choose what they have access to instead of the user without having to open another app to change permissions afterwards. Also others can still make their own backends for it, so it doesn't really matter.

[@stephenanthony5923]

Check out Flatseal for handling Flatpak permissions (which is also a flatpak)

[@krycekaiolfi]

I have to say that those ubuntu apps are looking pretty professional.

I ordered 6 dvd by mail from Canonical. My first distro was mandrake, but this "order" a dvd thing with a release was too good to pass.that boot sound though... never ending. Sosuemi for mac continues to be the best one.

[@Jerrec]

I honestly began to like snaps. I never was a Flatpak fan, because 99% the Apps are GTK based. And as QT user that sucks. Then I worked more with Ubuntu core and that way I cam into the ecosystem. If they would finally resolve the performance issues, I would be very happy.

[@deusexaethera]

It doesn't matter if the apps are gtk based or not. You can easily have gtk and qt installed and running at the same time. All that matters is the packaging format is better.

[@Jerrec]

@@deusexaethera You can but they are ugly and therefore should be avoided.

[@llynellyn]

That slideshow at the beginning brought back so many good memories, Ubuntu was great pre-unity

[@VeryWarmBear1]

Thank you for your content very informative and interesting as usual. Also the new camera is incredibly Sharp. Good work.

[@lots_of_codeswallop]

The new dialogues are so much better, as a previous Windows user, the gnome dialogues were so confusing as to which option I had selected (I always use arrow keys and enter to navigate dialogues)!

[@Romactu]

3:55 to 4:07 Heeey! There's my Warty remastered Wallpaper. 😃

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

Love that they've done this (Gnome flashback style) because it helps those of us who use both modern and old distro versions _(and I installed gnome flashback recently to show a list of multiple desktops to chat about to friends at a small gaming multiplayer party recently)._ However, there could be one tweak _(on some distros, not necessarily ubuntu)_ that would help a lot because booting a linux distro in a public wifi place like a pub or coffee shop doesn't need to have the embarrassingly loud boot sound for the first boot _(especially live CD or ISO-to-Pendrive-USB-Boot equivalent)_ which you have no control over in the intial-boot since it is not an install _(other than busting out the command-line which most don't know how to or don't have time)._ A simple no-ear-grape option _(even just "quiet-vs-loud-vs-medium volume level setting)_ would be more incognito and less likely to draw looks. It's really long and really loud (still). It doesn't "advertise" it. We shouldn't need to order a raisin-danish with the coffee just to have something to muffle the speaker with, upon boot-up, as a means to pre-emptively ungrape your ears. For the price of a danish, ordering a live-DVD/CD with the custom sound level would be a fair funders deployment solution. The hash tagging of InitialBootSoundShaming is a community revenue stream meme I'd be down with. On a live-CD/DVD for that first boot, having the volume on-off when you are already booted is a catch22 clause. A LiveCD in a public wifi _(especially with settings loaded for security on floppy disk or by webcam QR-code scanning on some business-card size printout in your wallet, assuming it is version40 177x177 QRCode format with about 3KB of data on it)_ is useful for when you don't want your daily-driver operating system _(be it linux of the same or differing distro or MSWindows or Mac or whatever)_ is handy. FreeNAS would save settings to a floppy having booted from CD-DVD as read only. The last thing one needs is other pub-or-coffeeshop patrons making that impatient specific sighing sound from the back of the throat _(like when using hot breath to polish an apple)_ and simultaneously pinching their nose bridge in disgust at the loudness thinking it is a ringtone _(and then the bar-staff plonk to charity-swear-jar for a 'fine-donation' whilst pointing to a no-phones-indoors-sign on the wall)._ With a danish-priced live-cd-dvd as a funded option, they (live distro coders) could even ship custom (use-once) scratch-n-sniff _(scratch-off-silver-coating)_ encrypted QR_code settings business-cards which are use-once, and you have to bust them out in a forgetful 'emergency of shame' _(aka 'shamemergency', pronounced "shame-mergency", to those in the know),_ costing some pennies each time, to avoid the initial-boot-sound-shaming social consequences by beeping them at the camera upon first-boot of that live-cd-dvd. Printed upon it, a picture of the ground opening up and swallowing a person would serve as a reminder for how it feels when initial-boot-sound-shamed as though it was a phone-sound when it wasn't, thereby accused, like the A-Team, of a transgression you never did commit. Spotting a fellow linux nerd, you could give one of your own _(but guest mode)_ antishame QR business cards _(as a shamemergency initial-boot-sound-shaming countermanding card)_ to avoid them being shamed by those patrons who do not know it is a linux laptop and not a phone, and the card would have some business credentials on it to make it worth it in a mutually beneficial interaction ethos. It'd be all smooth like in American psycho but more modern than a monochrome palm pilot. Olfactory memory mechanisms of Pavlovian response brain-reward-centre mechanisms associate the aroma of the card with the rescuer who handed it that fateful day and said, _"Here, use mine"" (guest mode only)._ The guest-mode would only do cosmetics like the startup sound and it'd be in the primary camera scanning QRCode beep, not the secondary for that would be for security and setups tied to the TPM and/or Multi FactorAuthentication uniquely tied _(upon orders of it on a site in advance)_ to its own secondary QRcode card which is camera-scanning during a second beep and thereby not possible for usage as a security nefarious hack, and unable to be used as guest mode. This could be done in the Regal-RubberChicken distro in future. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.

[@kodemasterx]

Personally I do not get why the hate towards Ubuntu…I use Ubuntu and do not touch anything snap related, is not like the Canonical is blocking you from using flatpaks or the classic Debian packages… Why do I use Ubuntu? It is more stable than most distros, and snaps do not bother me, again, I do use them but there are there as an option. No Ubuntu? no Mint, no PopOS etc etc, people should be a bit more grateful.

[@riseabove3082]

Just because snaps are ok with you does not make them ok for the rest of us. Do some research.

[@kodemasterx]

@@riseabove3082 did you even read my comment at all? Or are you being purposely ignorant? 🤦Some people...

[@Tobi-ci3ns]

The official Ubuntu package for the widely used Firefox browser forces you to install it as a snap. This is a huge pain if you don't want to use snap, or use features like 1password integration which don't work with snap. It's also a huge pain if you're installing Firefox for use on the server as part of an Ubuntu-based docker container, as snap won't work properly from within docker. I would have no problem with snap as an option on Ubuntu if I wasn't forced to use it.

[@Romactu]

Hello @TheLinuxEXP, If you're wishing for newer releases of Ubuntu like 25.04 to have Warty Remastered Wallpaper but not just that but I'll make Edgy Remastered Wallpaper and I have to contact one of an employees for having Ubuntu 25.04 or later to continue to have Warty Remastered Wallpaper but not just Warty Wallpaper, color theme and Startup sound, but also an Edgy Remastered Wallpaper. One says that's a brilliant idea, because it proves you or other people which there's a lot of people are wishing for that too, so that way Ubuntu improves populations. Yes, I'm including an Edgy startup sound too not just Warty startup sound, So you get Startup sound option in the settings like. Warty, Edgy, or Cosmic (Which it's current), so you can change it to which one or disable a startup sound if you don't want to hear it anymore until you change your mind. 😁

[@gljames24]

Honestly have been wanting to see app permissions for Flatpak for a while now, so I hope that these Snap permissions will push Flatpak to develop them instead of relying on developers to set the correct permissions or having to use Flatseal.

[@Sika1956]

A useful overview, thanks. Nothing here to make me feel I should upgrade from 22.04.3 LTS, though.

[@cameronbosch1213]

You should at least move to 24.04, as that's a better LTS that is not a mismatch of GNOME Shell and app versions.

[@Sika1956]

@@cameronbosch1213 Thanks for the advice. I have done so, with no issues.

[@RagnarinVa]

Re watched the second half of the video to review some points and I noticed Nick really likes Warhammer.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahaha yep

[@foss_sound]

Started with Linux with Ubuntu 12. Got pretty nice. If Ubuntu wouldn't force to its Snaps, I'd give it another shot. Maybe. Debian sid is pretgy fine dor me. And I got the great Gnome 47 experience as well. Simply the best Gnome so far for ,e.

[@thebusinessfirm9862]

Thanks for this video, mate. I love Ubuntu. 👍🏽

[@the-answer-is-42]

I like the idea behind the security center app and those permissions. The implementation needs work, though. It's good that they are working on this kind of thing, I have encountered situations where I wanted more control over what folders a snap can access.

[@mirage809]

That little update progress bar on the dock is a clever little idea. It's very iPhone-like in how it behaves, but also very clean and clear. Kinda hoping to see Flatpak implement a similar system. The permissions system also reminds me of a phone operating system, but it's a good system for the security minded of us. Anyway, these updates have me wanting a Snap-only version of Ubuntu. A immutable, Fedora Silverblue styled version of the OS. But with all snaps instead of flatpaks.

[@veyselerden72]

this all snap stuff are overhated for vain. I use it daily both for gui apps and for terminal apps. Not all apps are packaged the best way but most of them are and you won't feel them being installed as snaps or deb packages. I like Canonical's route more than Red Hat's, so it's an upgrade time for me :)

[@daapedrotti]

16:18 - They learned from Nala. But Nala is still better.

[@KeithBoehler]

Its popular to trash Ubuntu, but I always feel rather at home in it.

[@I0NE007]

I've been using Ubuntu and I haven't had any issues with Snaps.... because I added Flatpak support and purposefully install/switch my installs to the flatpak versions. I'm looking forward to the Wayland development and the improved linux-nvidia support.

[@b0t123]

At this point the only thing i dislike about snaps is the centralization, everything else is pretty nice

[@FengLengshun]

Honestly, I love the UX for Snaps apps on Ubuntu - at least where they're heading in terms of management GUI's design directions. I wish Flatpak is like that, already, on other distros. It's just really annoying to see diverging implementations and you can't mix and match the ideal aspects of both.

[@lx2222x]

Flatpak is not a GUI system. You can also make a Flatpak App with Flutter. But still using Flutter is a good choice

[@razzeeee]

​@@lx2222xit's not the flutter implementation is very linux unfriendly and bad to package

[@FengLengshun]

@@lx2222x Wtf are you talking about. I'm talking about the system integration with the progress bar in the panel icon, the general flow in Ubuntu Store and how it integrates between pages and systems, as well as their design for how it will ask for permissions once it's ready. I don't care what Flatpak apps, or Flatpak GUI installer, or whatever you are thinking about use. I just want good UX in the system.

[@ikeahloe]

​@@lx2222x I think you read something wrong

[@rjltrevisan]

I'm running Ubuntu 24.10 now and it seems pretty fine so far...

[@bokocchop]

Ubuntu now has the best looking installer and software center imo. Now we just need a system backup and reset/refresh feature

[@Batwam0]

Timeshift?

[@danilaros]

@@Batwam0No. The future is Ubuntu Core.🙂

[@Nope-gu3ph]

Ubuntu's Snap ecosystem is actually maturing well. If only Snaps themselves were as good as the competition, like Flatpaks. In my experience Snaps still slow down faster while using and take just a little longer to open. Either way, still a decent update. I really like Ubuntu tbh, I know people don't these days but it's still very good and till I get a new laptop that doesn't have an old Nvidia GPU and can run Fedora or Arch + Hyprland, Ubuntu will serve and it'll serve well.

[@simplytuts]

i used 12.04 and loved how it looks, i still do

[@johnharris3311]

Ubuntu was my first Linux distribution. It's fair to say that it really saved my computing bacon, drastically extending the useful lives of both the laptop and desktop PCs that I had at the time. Of course, tht was only after I switched from Canonical's extremely demanding Unity desktop to the much more reasonable LXDE. I haven't used Unity on a desktop PC in years, but I've been running the current version of Xubuntu on a little laptop for many months now. It's fine. It's much better than Debian, which is the last distribution I had on this machine. As a matter of principle, I prefer deb packages to snaps, but I honestly can't tell the difference in practice. I will continue to use it until something goes horribly wrong, at which point I will see if Mint has finally fixed the graphical glitches thet have prevented me from using it on this computer for the last several years.

[@teeteetuu94]

We've really come a long way. My first glimpse of Linux was with Ubuntu 10.10 in early 2011. Today's mainstream Linux distros are quite a far cry compared to back then. Many more flavours and mostly painless setup for daily use.

[@Alexander-ix2jp]

Ha, Ubuntu has a new bootsound now? I always liked the older boot sounds and always felt like something was missing ever since things went silent. Nice to see it make a comeback!

[@nervaproject]

I was mostly just interested to hear if VR works on Linux with the new update. Steam has been directing Ubuntu users to a fix to make DRM leasing work in order to make their VR games work. It would be nice to have out of the box VR support on Ubuntu

[@jamescobban857]

I ran other versions of UNIX including SunOS and Solaris in the 1980s and 90s. I ran some versions of Linux before Warty, but Warty was the first version I used regularly, although retaining a dual boot of the Windows version that my computer had pre-installed. Once I had Hardy installed in 2008 I erased the Windows partition.

[@CarlosSahajdacny]

My first UBUNTU was the 6.04 live CD that came with a magazine...

[@DiegoTorres-mx1wc]

Ubuntu was the first distro that I used, and 5 years later, is my laptop 💻 distro again u.u

[@Lxx00Jxx00]

After some drama with the new windows version I’ve decided to go full Ubuntu. I’m on 24 10 too. I am liking a lot, but the installation of software is Inded an issue. .deb and flatpaks should be natively supported… apart from that, everything is super fine. I love how steam works and all my games basically are accessible.

[@danbuter]

I miss brown ubuntu. Started with Feisty Fawn.

[@Romactu]

Hello @TheLinuxEXP If you're talking about desktop that look nice back in the day, yes there is the way mostly. First of all, resize the dock to the smallest as possible and move it to the bottom. Second of all, set a color to brown like it says warty brown. Third of all, install tweaks and find the theme were you change an icons from Yaru to Humanity. That's all you got to do.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I started using flatpak in Ubuntu because Steam Proton doesn't work in the snap install. Flatpak works perfectly well though. I just install almost everything with Flatpak instead.

[@the-answer-is-42]

For me it works, just Factorio that doesn't for some weird reason (something something can't access "~/.factorio" folder something).

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

@@the-answer-is-42 I get major bugs using proton in snap steam. Flatpak steam is so good that even games like Warhammer Vermintide 2 runs kind of good. It wouldn't even launch on the snap install.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

@@the-answer-is-42 factorio works in flatpak install

[@the-answer-is-42]

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein I double checked and now Factorio works with the snap, so for now it's fine. I'm too lazy to switch.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

@@the-answer-is-42 That's great. If there is need to install custom proton repos like glorious eggroll, if it doesn't work in the snap install, it will work in flatpak.

[@experimental0000]

Startup sounds need to make a comeback. If there's not one, I try to add one

[@bejoalan]

My fist Ubuntu was Feisty Fawn. I even requested the CD installer. I was sooo excited when I received that CD.

[@chrisxsterling]

Over the years, Ubuntu has amassed so many beautiful well thought out background images. Why the heck don't don't they include like the top 20 past favorite backgrounds, that are let's say, hand picked from the current dev teams?

[@JakubITDH]

10:50 Kate is build with mind of kde env. So app must be written with gnome window system

[@dezmondwhitney1208]

Happy Birthday to the Ubuntu community from an openSUSE user.

[@lots_of_codeswallop]

The one thing i hated about nautilus was the sidebar, and surprisingly, this fixed everything I didn't like!

[@dybefapi8694]

Oh man that boot sound 🤤

[@ikeahloe]

Ubuntu's color palette for highlight colors is so much better than gnome's palette on default like in fedora. Waited like 15 years to be able to easily change my highlight color to blue-violet or a cooler purple but with gnome 47 now I still just have to use a fucking hacky solution for something basic.

[@josephnorris4095]

Ubuntu 24.10 feels and seems faster than 24.04.1 and everything before that.

[@cybernit3]

Ya I fell it is and might take less power while running. In Ubuntu 24.04 I ran the raylib basic example but the window opens on the secondary monitor not the primary. I tried Ubuntu 24.10 today and it does open on the primary screeen; so good they fixed that glitch with Mutter/Gnome.

[@MohanRam]

Long time Ubuntu user here, started using it since 5.04 after testing 4.10 as at that time I was Fedora Core (the free libre version without binary blobs) user.

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

Nick for ubuntu spins, watch out for mid november with lxqt 2.1 and xfce 4.20 promissing wayland and even sway support in lxqt. Couldnt test the experimental releases myself, i use lxqt+i3 btw lol. Also, bsd just anounced initial suport for snapdragon x

[@dullah1434]

I wonder if Ubuntu is going to have the transparent dock and menu bar Mac OS has

[@WalterLópezGaldámez]

This new version of Ubuntu 24.10 is very good, the only detail is that the old versions of Nvidia GPUs that use driver 470 no longer have support to use this distro. I don't know if it's something that will be changed, but if you have an old GPU you can't use this version. The drivers are not detected on old GPUs. For the rest, it's a great version. I hope they fix this detail.

[@thetechdog]

At least 24.04 will continue to be supported, and if you enable Ubuntu Pro (free for personal use) you get security updates until 2034, which should hopefully be enough time for those users to upgrade.

[@ArtemShoobovych]

Started with Ubuntu 6 myself, pretty much stopped since my PCs reduced to only work-issued MacBook

[@ray84851]

I'm waiting for Kubuntu 24.10 much more

[@daniels-mo9ol]

8:36 I would assume they want to implement system wide policies too later on, the home folder might be representing your individual settings in your home folder where your isolated apps are located.

[@gwerealjarapulu]

i personally prefer Ubuntu Cinnamon as a daily drive because i more familiar with Windows, also dualboot with Win11, gosh i love the bootup sound of ubuntu cinnamon 24.04

[@grabedigger]

I don't know, I gave Linux a shot, I started with Ubuntu, went to other distros like Mint and ended up with Kali. Last week I've restored my Thinkpad E15 Gen2 back to Windows 11, yeah yeah my personal information and such, but I can't be productive in Linux...I want to, but I can't. It's like I'm trying to use a computer from an Alien race...I know how it works, but can't get into it...

[@nezunskyfire292]

Some very nice changes, but I'm curious about the new apt, does it come with multi-download threads, or is using nala still the best way to download multiple files at the same time?

[@notCAMD]

Is the language bug in the installer fixed?

[@qwe14205]

WARHAMMER 40K ❤️

[@bladasound]

I'm not a big fan of snaps but i like ubuntu for some reasons

[@alicealysia]

Getting xwayland without needing to compile it is the main reason I switched. But lately I've been building a tonne of apps as I test out new window managers and the like. My poor, poor lib folder is straining under the weight of so many development libraries.

[@WillWise808]

Hi, Is it better to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.10 instead of upgrading from 24.04? Thank you for your time..

[@thetechdog]

No need to fresh install, just upgrade. As always, do a backup of your files. But I did an upgrade without doing any backups and everything went well, though you might want to be more cautious than I was. Always try upgrading first and only reinstall if something goes wrong.

[@WillWise808]

@@thetechdog Thank's for the reply.. I decided to do fresh clean install.. It is amazing . Performance is faster than 24.04. I guess the linux kernel 6.11 makes a big difference.. Also I switched from windows 10 to Linux one month ago with no regrets. Have a great day.. cya

[@thetechdog]

@@WillWise808 Nice, enjoy your new operating system!

[@Mik3l24]

From what I remember, Ubuntu 14.04 was my first Linux distro... Really? It's been 10 years? It's been quite influential on me, to the point that I've even been replicating the "Unity layout" on other distros and DEs And... I've returned to it after all this time... Just to use a particular app that's not in rpm, only a deb package.

[@WilburJaywright]

Kinda loose question, but do you have a suggestion on what GUI toolkit to learn if any? I use Python, and the default faithful has been Tkinter for a long time and I know it pretty well now, Thankfully. Tkinter is not very pretty, though, and I'd like to be able to build "better" looking apps. Since touch devices seem to be starting up, GTK+ seems like a good choice, but I was also considering WXwidgets. Any solid thoughts?

[@atsizbalik]

i just want fractional scaling to be better, they should do something like KDE where X11 apps don't have scaling

[@pingus_silly]

they did this in gnome 47

[@blackstar-genX]

Man moving to Linux when win 11 gets to end of life is looking more and more great.

[@cameronbosch1213]

I agree, as long as you mean Windows _10._ Windows 11 was so bad I jumped to Linux full-time upon 11's release.

[@rami-succar7356]

​@@cameronbosch1213 same

[@thevocatiousunspeakables709]

Hey, could you update your steam guide to include installing via debian package instead of snaps? I did this and it massively improved performance on ubuntu

[@gilbertarmengaud3324]

Hi Nick, Congratulations on your work around Linux. I have been using Ubuntu for a long time, because developing web applications is easier to install and manage than in other distributions. I also use Mint, with its philosophy of not using the Snap ecosystem. I also removed the Snap ecosystem on my 24.04 LTS and only use Deb packages and Flatpak applications. I am looking forward to 24.10, so that I can use KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (currently using Plasma 5.27 on X11). Do you think it is not a problem in the future to remove the Snap ecosystem in this 24.10 release as in future releases? Will I have a complete and untruncated experience of some utilities related to the distribution? Thank you in advance for the time you will take to answer this question, and again congratulations for the work around Linux that you give with all of your videos. Gilbert ARMENGAUD Béziers, Occitanie, France

[@stefanhansen5882]

Interesting. I used Ubuntu in 2007/08. Which Linux would you recommend for beginners today? I went to the dark side, but want to return.

[@RichardCruz-rd6mt]

I don’t mind having snaps, I don’t use them. I just love ubuntu’s look and feel.

[@zvezdan__]

I feel that all Linux distributions are stuck in 2004. No killer features or major improvements for the past 20 years. A new menu item here, a new button there, a new accent color… Apps are still using different GUI themes, and we are still switching back and forth from X11 and Wayland. it’s just sad.

[@SecureSnowball]

I really dislike the permission UI but that's okay because right now it is an experimental feature. I believe it would be fixed when it becomes stable and comes enabled by default.

[@GeekMasher]

Nick: "I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day I could tell my friends 'I run Linux, by the way'."

[@jhjacobs81]

OMG i remember all the buzz when Ubuntu came around. 20 years already.. pffff 🎉

[@Romactu]

Hello @TheLinuxEXP What do you think about my Warty Remastered Wallpaper included in Ubuntu 24.10?

[@Trop58]

This boot sound is from Warthy Warthog! _this was fun fact_ 2:31

[@MrMysticphantom]

Can you use a third party app to take screenshots now Or is the Gnome implementation of Wayland still the problem here