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Ubuntu's new folder icons are here, and you're going to have opinions…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is refreshing its folder icons with a squatter shape and more colourful design – if past icon changes are anything to go by, not everyone
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WTF!
Hope it doesn't get as bad as the Pop!_OS box of crayons look.
I don’t know…I quite like them…!
I think Liquid Glass has just broken me
Soiling yourself in white pants in the middle of a packed room is better than Liquid Glass. I say that as an Apple fan too.
Liquid ass?
I think it's just set the bar so low that I've got to a point where if there's a 'refresh' I'm just grateful if it doesn't look like that
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Did you mean 26.04? Just checking as I believe support for 25.04 ended in JanuaryInstalled 25.04 on my almost 10 year old XPS 13 laptop last year ahead of the Win10 end date. Been a breath of fresh air on the machine
Thinking of use cases for other machines at home to get more involved with Linux.
I'll have to check for updates, installed it sometime approx a year back now I think.Did you mean 26.04? Just checking as I believe support for 25.04 ended in January
But I have been itching for a new laptop and considering spending the extra for a Framework machine to run Linux on.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What's New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
If you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon' from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, you're going to inherit two years worth of improvements. As an
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No more X11/Xorg unless you use a different desktop as Gnome has dropped support for it.
Rust based coreutils and sudo is a choice for sure. They don't have feature parity and certainly haven't yet stood the test of time. I'm not pro or anti rust, I just dislike the cult-like-evangelism over it, but be interesting to see how these go long-term.
Might give this a go, despite disagreeing with Canonical on many things, I do still have a soft spot for Ubuntu, as it was my introduction to Linux all those years ago when I got the 6.06 CD in a Computer Magazine. I do think it remains one of the behemoths that chugs along in the background, despite the vocoal hatred and anti-Ubuntu voices on places like Reddit.
Be interesting to see how snap/snapd has improved too.
Might give this a go, despite disagreeing with Canonical on many things, I do still have a soft spot for Ubuntu, as it was my introduction to Linux all those years ago when I got the 6.06 CD in a Computer Magazine. I do think it remains one of the behemoths that chugs along in the background, despite the vocoal hatred and anti-Ubuntu voices on places like Reddit.
Be interesting to see how snap/snapd has improved too.
They are now looking to use snap for development packs.
Objectively speaking Snap has improved quite substantially since it first launched (in my opinion) however you are somewhat dependent on the ‘packager’ as to how noticeable these improvements will be…
Ubuntu is Getting AI Features in 2026 – Here's What's Planned
AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager,
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Somebody called it ubi-slop!
If it can't be easily stripped out i can see a lot of people ditching Ubuntu, myself included.
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I’m not sure how I feel about this…Ubuntu is Getting AI Features in 2026 – Here's What's Planned
AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager,
Somebody called it ubi-slop!
If it can't be easily stripped out i can see a lot of people ditching Ubuntu, myself included.
On the one hand I don’t want to be a complete curmudgeon around AI despite how cynical I am of it as I believe there could be genuine use cases for it and it could possibly be a useful tool like any other…
On the other, this doesn’t seem to ever end well as feature and scope creep inevitably ebbs in…
Testing the new LTS and I see snap is still a mess.
Snap says all is up to date, despite having a laughable Firefox 125. Manually refresh snap for Firefox and oh look it's there, still needs a lot of work, but the startup speed of snaps has certainly improved.
Code:
daniel@minibuntu:~$ snap refresh
All snaps up to date.
WARNING: There is 1 new warning. See 'snap warnings'.
daniel@minibuntu:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
1password 8.11.14 239 latest/stable 1password✓ -
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core18 20260204 2999 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core20 20260211 2769 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core22 20260225 2411 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core24 20260317 1587 latest/stable canonical✓ base
desktop-security-center 0+git.25daa58 151 1/stable/… canonical✓ -
firefox 125.0.2-1 4173 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -
firmware-updater 0+git.5645b80 226 1/stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 198 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.c1d3d69-sdk0+git.015db9a 247 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-46-2404 0+git.f1cd5fa-sdk0+git.ca9c59c 153 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
mesa-2404 25.0.7-snap211 1165 latest/stable canonical✓ -
prompting-client 0+git.2e14a72 204 1/stable/… canonical✓ -
snap-store 0+git.1419621 1124 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.75.2 26865 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
snapd-desktop-integration 0.9 361 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
thunderbird 140.10.0esr-1 1073 latest/stable canonical✓ -
WARNING: There is 1 new warning. See 'snap warnings'.
daniel@minibuntu:~$ snap refresh firefox
error: cannot refresh "firefox": snap "firefox" has running apps (firefox), pids: 11230,11387,11749
daniel@minibuntu:~$ sudo pkill -c 11230
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
0
daniel@minibuntu:~$ sudo pkill -c 11387
0
daniel@minibuntu:~$ sudo pkill -c 11749
0
daniel@minibuntu:~$ snap refresh firefox
firefox 150.0-1 from Mozilla✓ refreshed
WARNING: There is 1 new warning. See 'snap warnings'.Snap says all is up to date, despite having a laughable Firefox 125. Manually refresh snap for Firefox and oh look it's there, still needs a lot of work, but the startup speed of snaps has certainly improved.
Was that a system that you hadn't updated for a while which you then upgraded to 26.04 LTS? Firefox 125 is almost 2 years old isn't it?
(Just to clarify...no Ubuntu or Snap apologistisms(?!) here...just trying to understand how it got to that point)
(Just to clarify...no Ubuntu or Snap apologistisms(?!) here...just trying to understand how it got to that point
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Was that a system that you hadn't updated for a while which you then upgraded to 26.04 LTS? Firefox 125 is almost 2 years old isn't it?
(Just to clarify...no Ubuntu or Snap apologistisms(?!) here...just trying to understand how it got to that point
I'd done a do-release-upgrade -d to go from 24.04 to 26.04 as I could not be bothered re-flashing my old Drive haha. So a vanilla 24.04 install with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y ran which does not update snaps, snap refresh should do that, but it didn't seem to find any.
I've not used Ubuntu for a while, but giving it a proper go on my mini PC as I'm quite interested to see if I notice any issues without Xorg, with Rust Coreutils and with sudo-rs etc, but I find a lot of my issues with Ubuntu these days are more philosophical rather than necessarily performance. I prefer leaner, lightweight and older unix tooling and GNOME is very in your face and flashy, and all the new stuff hasn't yet really been battle tested.
I do normally use the standard binary for Firefox, but thought I'd give snap another shot.
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To start with Ubuntu AI is going to be opt in and it will be delivered as snaps so it's just a matter of blocking or removing them.
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