Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial

On 2025-04-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-28 08:45, RonB wrote:

I saw that Ubuntu 25.04 was out and, even after all the badmouthing of
Ubuntu and Wayland, I decided to give it a try. I was actually surprised to
see that it's faster on my old Dell Optiplex 9020 micro (with its 5th
generation, low power, i5 CPU) than was Ubuntu 24.10 on this machine — even
with the Snaps.
 
I was also happy to see that when you open new Windows now, it defaults to
opening them in the middle. (Something I always had to set before — it
always took me a while to find the command.) I'm also happy to report that,
even though it's using Wayland, it now (or still?) supports Cntrol+Shift+U
command for Unicode — in the Terminal, in the JOE editor and in LibreOffice.
And I watched a couple TV shows (Bones) from Rokuchannel.com, without any
streaming issues or artifacts. This USB Live "install" defaulted to the
6.14.x kernel. I don't what kernel it would have used had I updated it.
 
I'm actually impressed. Even after all these years of not using Windows, I'm
always a little suprised when a new Linux version is faster and cleaner than
the previous version. The opposite experience of what I always had with
Windows.
 
(I also posted this on the Linux Mint newsgroup by accident. Meant to post
it only here.)

>
I like it myself. Right now, the only issue is that it reinstalls Snap
if you upgrade and there is some notable sound distortion when you play
games through the Heroic Games Launcher. I lowered the volume of my
sound devices through alsamixer and it seems to help (suggesting that
the sound was being amplified despite the settings not explicitly
indicating that), but it's not yet perfect. Apparently, it might also be
due to some synchronization issue with pipewire. Either way, it's not
enough of a problem to move me away yet.
>
Lunduke has a new report that someone on the blogs.gnome.org website
expressed that Gnome is Antifa though and that is what is at the core of
Ubuntu. I know they're definitely woke, but being Antifa is something I
just can't support.

I'm not a fan of Lunduke (as you know). His site is built on click bait. So
he's not my "go to" authority on Linux.

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