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opethdisciple · 23 Oct 2017 at 23:43

Just a heads up if you haven't tried it yet that the new 17.10 Ubuntu release is really nice!

So much better than the 17.04. It has a very snappy feel to the desktop. Gnome is a nice improvement over Unity.

opethdisciple · 6 May 2018 at 14:21

I updated the title of thread.

opethdisciple · 23 Jun 2018 at 13:07

I find Ubuntu 18.04 to be quite buggy.

opethdisciple · 4 Jul 2018 at 20:10

I'm actually switching to Fedora as we speak.

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Preferring Fedora to be honest. Cleaner more professional look to it.

Ubuntu 18.04 felt a bit buggy and flaky to me.

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Actually finding Fedora flaky as well. Lots of Gnome crashes and crash to login screen during install of VMsin vbox.

Fresh install as well. So I've opted for Centos 7 instead.

opethdisciple · 15 Dec 2018 at 17:19

Quite liking the new 18.10 version. Nice upgrade form 18.04 and previous Ubuntu versions.

Seems stable, fast and things just work.

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Is there any reason why some software is a little behind the latest versions?

For example LibreOffice comes with the OS but is a few minor versions behind and also VirtualBox is in the repositories but is also a few minor versions behind.

I could update them to the last versions manually but was wondering if there was a reason for this?

What I notice as a difference is the version are _ubuntu for example. Which indicates to me these are ubuntu specific versions. Probably tested.

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One thing which is great but unexpected is in Ubuntu videos on websites and YouTube just work! Not sure if it's flash or not but in Fedora you just get an error message that the video couldn't play back due to an error.

This is in Firefox on both operating systems. I doubt Firefox on Ubuntu is being shipped with Flash pre-installed.

opethdisciple · 28 Oct 2023 at 17:36

Are upgrades from 23.04 to 23.10 enabled yet?

opethdisciple · 28 Oct 2023 at 19:49

alex24 said:
Can someone breakdown snaps vs flatpak vs just using apt?

In general software installed via snaps and flatpak can be more up-to-date.

Snaps are native to Ubuntu. Flatpak you have to install.

Due to security concerns some developers have shunned snaps and only release as flatpak like Keepassxc for example.

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2023 at 15:57

Having updated to the latest release Mantic Minotaur the new Firmware Updater utility keeps popping up letting me know there is a "UEFI Dbx - UEFI revocation database" update.

No other information is really available for it so I don't quite know what it is offering me.

I have applied the latest bios update for my mobo so I am a bit perplexed what it could be offering me and I am wary to run the upgrade in case it breaks something.

Do we really need Ubuntu (or any os for that matter) to manage our firmware?

If I apply some open source firmware, how does that work when it comes to updating it again from official sources...???

opethdisciple · 14 Feb 2024 at 19:06

Ice Tea said:
Thunderbird is being moved over to snap and they plan on releasing an all snap desktop in a few months built around Ubuntu Core.

I dont like how some apps are shunning snaps in favour of flatpak.

The community needs to just decide on one and make it the best it can be.

Looks like Flatpak is gonna be the winner though due to security.

opethdisciple · 19 Oct 2024 at 11:49

I use virtual box and Ubuntu on my windows work laptop.

Annoyingly 24.04 doesn't run properly on the latest version of VB. You get graphical corruption when you enable the 3d graphics settings.

There is an open bug for it, they said they made improvements with VB 7.1.4 but I tried Ubuntu 24.04 again yesterday and it still exhibited the same problems.

Garbled graphics.

There is a workaround to enable using the older graphics backend but I like things to just work out of the box as intended.

opethdisciple · 24 Mar 2025 at 23:01

opethdisciple said:
I use virtual box and Ubuntu on my windows work laptop.

Annoyingly 24.04 doesn't run properly on the latest version of VB. You get graphical corruption when you enable the 3d graphics settings.

There is an open bug for it, they said they made improvements with VB 7.1.4 but I tried Ubuntu 24.04 again yesterday and it still exhibited the same problems.

Garbled graphics.

There is a workaround to enable using the older graphics backend but I like things to just work out of the box as intended.

Haven’t tried this since but I don't think it's fixed yet.

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Just tried this now in Virtual Box 7.1.6 and just installing the os I am getting graphical corruption so it must definitely isn't fixed.

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