Summarising Ubuntu 23.10 in just one word is tricky, but ‘refinement’ feels an apt choice.
GNOME 45 brings a bevvy of buffs to the core desktop experience; improved window tiling; a sharper-looking web-browser; a pair of brand-new Flutter-based apps; and a colossal change to the amount of software preinstalled in new Ubuntu installations.
Foundationally, Ubuntu 23.04 runs on Linux kernel 6.5, ships Mesa 23.2 graphics drivers (with in-distro access to proprietary NVIDIA drivers for those who need them), and updates the tooling, toolchains, and programming packages devs need.
The distribution you won’t be using directly.
I’m not sure where Ubuntu is heading, if it’s now refined then I would say it needed it. I think the safe bet here, at least for the short term, is to observe from a distance because I would have called it bloated before.
It leaves me with a feeling of being lost!
They had to re-roll some ISOs due to hate speech in translations.
They broke external USB soundcards in 22.04… wonder if they fixed that.
If only Fedora wasn’t so bad at handling nvidia drivers, that’s where Ubuntu has it nailed.
The ONLY thing i like from gnome is the web application available in Haiku. The rest of the software is garbage “FOR ME PERSONALLY” So do not attack me for that. Gnome has gotten better now that you can dump most poetteringware and pipewire is so much better than pulseaudio that it is kind of rediculous. Now we just haf to purge his final evil “systemD” and replace it with runit. Another thing that most distros should do as well is replace EXT2/3/4 with XFS to increase speed and stop making linux distros look bad by default. (phoronix has been tracking performance of EXT against others for almost ten years now)
NaGERST,
I like runit; they kept it simple without stepping on tons of other projects, binary logs, hard coded daemons, etc. While I know plenty of people like systemd, IMHO it does violate one of the core tenants of unix, which is tackling problems with simple flexible tools rather than being dependent on heavily coupled software. Systemd won, but as a result linux became far more monolithic and lost sight of the “keep it simple, stupid” philosophy. It is what it is though.
Found it funny that it was pulled just an hour after release when they realized that the ukranian translations was a bunch of russian and soviet propaganda.
Media claims it was hate speech, and some went so far as it being right wing. Nah the hate speech is communist in nature with a little nationalist flavour and very inflamatory, and you can read it for yourself in the distro if you got it before the recall. (if you speak ukranian)
Latest images doe snot have the same crap in it.