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This article is written by a GNOME dev. There have been other developer having issue with them or with the process they use.
Look at how the desktop icons stuff went down, yes there was a discussion but really no user knew and participate in the discussion, and result was a LOT of people pissed off.
And the answer was to do an extension, extension that in gnome are very hard to maintain as they refuse a stable API (other big source of friction).
Other quick search popping in:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/arc-menus-lead-dev-just-quit
Truth is... Complicated, as always.
Gnome deva could not be at fault in this case, but sure there is friction from their side too
Oddly enough, it's got more in common with OS X than Windows.
There's a lot though:
Linux is free, both as in beer and as in speech
Unix-like, which nerds love because the Unix command line is brilliant. (Mac is also Unix-like)
It's incredibly stable. It has its own version of the BSOD, called a kernel panic, but I've never seen it in multiple years across two systems.
It usually includes a package manager of some description; think decentralized app store and you're on the right track.
There is no one "Linux," but rather a bunch of distributions of it that bundle other software around the kernel. Even within the same distribution there are different versions for different desktop environments (compare for example: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and what I'm typing this comment on, Ubuntu MATE)
This basically means that if you don't like something about your OS and you're willing to get a little dirty you can probably fix it or replace it with a different piece of software that better suits your needs.
One final point, and this is probably something only I care about, but the predominant Linux-based f.lux equivalent, Redshift, is amazingly good. "Can do everything f.lux did and also do slow transitions without lag" good.
Instead of developing new features, they are trying to remove older ones that people still use. Recently they suddenly decided to remove the ability to launch binary apps from Nautilus.
Calling Pop_OS just an ubuntu ISO is pretty misinformed
It has it's own installer (completely different from ubuntu's ubiquity installer)
It has a completely different software store
They package various apps in their repos that ubuntu does not package
They offer an nvidia ISO that has the nvidia drivers installed out of the box
It has better gpu switching functionality out of the box (you can switch between intel/nvidia right from the gnome status menu)
It uses systemd-boot instead of grub and does not use plymouth (so boot times are significantly faster)
It offers different gnome customizations compared to ubuntu (custom theme/icons, no dock, and a different set of extensions such as a power manager extension and do not disturb extension). They've also changed many of the default gnome keyboard shortcuts to be more intuitive.
It includes a hidpi daemon that improves the experience in multi-monitor scenarios
It has a completely different set of default apps
It has a recovery partition (and they are working on a completely new offline upgrade process for upgrading between major versions that would utilize the recovery partition, as an alternative to ubuntu's do-release-upgrade script)
Also, calling the laptops 'rebrands' is equally misinformed: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/system76-launch-pop-os-19-04-based-on-ubuntu-19-04#comment-4437099154
- Wallpaper: Link
- Desktop Theme: Materia Blur
- Colors: Materia Dark
- Icons: Papirus
- Widget Style: Kvantum Materia Blur
- Window Decoration: Breeze Blur
- Blur: Max
- Noise: 0
- Dock and Panel: Latte Dock and Latte pannel on top
- Terminal prompt: powerline
While I applaud the idea, I can't say I'm very happy with how it looks here.
The "Next" button is too hard to find. Please remember the "Don't make me think" principle. People will not notice this button immediately and so be confused.
The first screen is not very nice looking. The idea of familiarizing new users with the desktop is great! But I just feel like it could and should be done much better, with different screens showing different parts, with animations, instead of jamming everything into one screenshot, maybe? I don't exactly know, I'm not a designer. At the very least make the image bigger and move it a bit down so there will be less whitespace bellow.
Asking new users to consider whether or not they want to set up something for some technical reason after the installation seems like a big no-no for me. Either move it to the installation or turn it on by default or don't ask and let those who need it find it would be my suggestion.
In general it's just not that aesthetically appealing. I know I've seen some much nicer looking welcome screens before, but I can't find them on DDG right now. Ubuntu Gnome I think had a quite nice one.
I'm sorry for this. I'm just saying it because I know how important the first impression is, especially for the kind of non-technical users that don't hang out on r/ubuntu, and I really want Ubuntu to succeed in this market!
Edit: They listened to me already? :P Check the first screenshot in this OMG Ubuntu blogpost.
Have you tried WSL to run Linux inside Windows? Then run that through the newish Windows Terminal and it's almost as good as using a proper OS.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/how-to-install-wsl2-on-windows-10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701#activetab=pivot:overviewtab
While this intersection of two worlds is going on, there's another one happening with Flutter SDK applications coming to Ubuntu. It's a smaller scale obviously. What would be doubly interesting though is if the same PWA approach could be extended to Ubuntu as well - but I don't know what that would take.
Snap is not portable, meaning that snap programs are target for vanilla ubuntu and it’s a huge hassle to get it to work on other distros. Also, snap programs don’t have to be open source and aren’t scanned for malware as well as pacman or other pkg managers and so can contain malware such as crypto miners
Reboot the machine and call the grub menu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/key-to-show-grub-menu-ubuntu
Choose advanced options; then you'll see all the available kernels in blocks of two (normal and recovery); choose the second new kernel to see if the machine can boot and operate in normal manner. If so issue:
>sudo apt clean
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>sudo apt update
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>sudo apt-distupgrade
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>reboot
I think I heard about this being a not big worry a day before hearing it's a worry.
Well, I mean, worry for someone. I've never owned anything Apple, and that's never going to change (unless I win something, and then only until I sell it or gift it).
Wut? "GNU/Linux" itself doesn't have anything to do with emojis.
In fact, Ubuntu (still the most popular distro) barely had emoji support (only B&W glyphs) until just last week with the release of 18.04 LTS which included the open source Noto Color Emoji, a Google product.
Edit: That means that once it's updated, Ubuntu will probably get the water gun too since the repos were just updated a few days ago.
It is installed by default in Kubuntu. I think GSConnect is still a little too new to be a default but if I recall correctly, I saw that there were plans to integrate it into Ubuntu. It was originally proposed for 18.10.
They did a similar one for Artful Aardvark but the best pictures by far were the ones for 8.04 Hardy Heron and 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. You missed the other ones because they were dull.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/a-look-back-at-every-ubuntu-default-wallpaper
I assume OP is referring to this: https://www.techradar.com/news/ubuntu-plans-to-collect-data-on-desktop-pcs-unless-you-tell-it-not-to
And maybe this from the past: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feature-disabled-16-04
And this from farther in the past: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/24/ubuntu_amazon_suggestions/
Cinnamon and MATE aren't as different as they once were!
It's true that MATE started as a fork of GNOME 2, and still defaults to looking and behaving a lot like it. But you might be surprised to find out that MATE has been based on GTK3 for over 4 years: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/mate-1-18-desktop-released-now-gtk3
yes I think you are correct
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazon-web-app https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-20-04-lts-drops-amazon-web-app/
"Thesedays it’s literally just a shortcut that opens a locale-specific version of the Amazon website a new browser tab (with Canonical’s affiliate code appended automatically so they can earn small % of sales made, giving users a passive way to support Ubuntu)."
so not that big of a deal tbf.
but I think it was more of the action of doing so and if Cononical would do this what else would be next.
When you're installing the current version(s) of Ubuntu there is an option to do a minimal install which will keep it from even installing most of that stuff to begin with. Here's an article talking about it.
Linux is everywhere. Windows may dominate the desktop, but it pales into insignificance if you count all running instances of the OS.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/25-awesome-unexpected-things-powered-linux
> Forget the new series, with the T2 chip it is impossible to install Linux
That's not true, secure boot can be disabled. But yeah, buying a Macbook just to run linux on it isn't the best use of money considering for the same price you can get a laptop that runs linux much better.
Look at this about Snap and Flatpak (why Linux veterans not want use it) https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/announcement-kde-plasma-5-14-0/2138/6?
and also from what I've heard issues with security is similar as with Flatpak. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/new-website-claims-flatpak-is-a-security-nightmare
EDIT: sure, downvote me... do u guys even read this first link or just downvote for no reason...?
Personally I prefer to wait a month after a Ubuntu release for them to work out any issues - they do tend to have them every few releases (some times quite bad ones, like how 17.10 actually bricked a lot of hardware by cruppting the BIOS). But it really depends on how critical the system you are installing it to is.
I'm not on my phone right now so I don't have access to the articles and comments I mentionned but I remembered this one : https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/canonical-dev-dont-use-linux-mint-online-banking-unsecure
Yep. That's one of the reason why I never use the Ubuntu-Desktop (I'm one of the few people who actually loves Gnome 3).
So the point is that at least it's easier to disable the spying.
Edit: Also, as far as I know they actually disabled the spying lens-thingy. By now it's just a preinstalled bookmark.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feature-disabled-16-04
Nope! Cascade is when all the open windows line up at an angle, with each one slightly offset from the one behind it. Not to be confused with "tile", which does just what it sounds like with all open windows.
A fork with a new name, Glimpse, was created specifically to address this issue, but has halted. The problem largely being that if you start a project with a stated goal that can be percieved as "political correctness", then it immediately becomes a target for alt-right trolling, which makes the environment too toxic to attract developers. I'd guess that there is still an opportunity for a fork that has the stated goal of a UI overhaul, and just doesn't mention the name change even though that would happen anyway.
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>Misfeautres:
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>Automatic privacy settings (breaks a few sites when enabled - and does not notify the user of blocked elements),"You thinking what we’re thinking?
just deactivate them
>That’s “Mamihlapinatapai” — sort of. Pocket’s latest collection explores handy words with no English equivalent." - Seriously, what the fuck is this doing in a browser??
deactivate it
>Firefox account/pocket,Send to other device,same search and address bar - privacy leak.
can be turned off
>General shortcomings:
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>Twitch/youtube uses unreasonable amount of cpu.
they usually use the VP9 Video codec; just switch to h264 and enjoy much less cpu load (also if you're on linux enable gpu acceleration https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/08/firefox-80-release-linux-gpu-acceleration
>edit: More general shortcomings: not using windows central certificate storeage,
just switch the cert store; you can configure that! why is this a problem?
> no GPO for management.
you mean Group Policy Management?
I think You are worrying about things that are often over blown, or over hyped, over dramatic or just... Over..
But this is reddit and the internet and people love to rant and rave. So remember that when reading stuff on reddit.
The Amazon web app Was removed not too long ago.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazon-web-app
The other 'big' privacy thing often mentioned are the MOTD having some sort of advertisement in it. (Easily disabled) and I seem to recall there being some opt in call home feature to help the Ubuntu devs get an indication of installs. Again it can be disabled.
These are nothing I am too worried about, especially compared to the shady stuff I see Soo common on other operating systems and mobile devices.
I use pop and Ubuntu, and both do a decent job. And I feel secure in using either one.
I do use pop on dual gpu laptops, and Ubuntu in my desktops.
Something to remember about pop_os is that if you ever need to mess with the boot loader. Pop uses systemd-boot by default. This sort of gets overlooked at times.
good luck.
As another mentioned the 'big' thing people are going on about lately have been the use of SNAP packages..
I won't even touch that topic.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
if you just want to get steam running without 32bit support, you could install it as a flatpak container...
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/steam-now-available-flatpak
Been using this flatpak on Funtoo for a few months now after Funtoo 1.3 dropped multilib support. You might have to modify the installation commands for your particular distro. Don't forget to 'flatpak update' once you've installed steam into the container.
Steam is a little slow starting, due to the container, but once running there's no difference.
Probably Elementary OS for the same look, but because Elementary is a new and small distro, I would recommend Ubuntu, which is more stable and easier for new users, with more documentation and material to solve your problems. If you like the Mac dock, you can install Plank Dock on Ubuntu, which has the same basic functions of your dock.
Some useful links:
https://nicolas.perriault.net/code/2016/from-osx-to-ubuntu/ https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/01/how-to-add-a-dock-to-ubuntu-desktop-plank
I was told that Linux and Mac terminal share many similarities, so I think you will find no priblem in using it, thought you can use Ubuntu GUI for all your needs also.
This is incorrect. Upgrades from 16.04 will be specifically required to opt-in, and - while I don't agree with this process - new installs will need to opt-out via an option during the install.
For the question of what data is collected:
- Version & Flavor being installed
- Whether there is network connectivity
- Hardware stats
- Device vendor (make of the machine)
- Country
- Length of install time
- Is there auto-login
- disk/partition layout
- If 3rd party codecs are chosen
- If the user decides to download updates during install
Sources:
This should set you on the right path if you never used any linux distro before and are using ubuntu 16.04 for the first time.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-16-04-lts
Theming is not officially supported by GNOME, without official support there are no guarantees of functionality across different versions. Stable is defined as: "Firm; firmly fixed, settled, or established; that cannot be easily moved, shaken, or overthrown;", if the team did not establish a theme modding standard then there's no behavior guarantee at any time, a simple update may be enough to break things.
There's also the gap between what the GNOME team envisions, what "themers" envision and what app developers envision, which makes it impossible for every app to look as intended on every theme. Here's a good read on the subject.
Modern Apple machines with the T2 security hardware module are going to have a hard time running Linux. SecureBoot, I believe doesn't currently support Linux, and if you disable it, the OS can't interface w/ the internal storage. You might be out of luck. I'm on a poor mobile connection and am having difficulty finding a link to support what I've claimed.
EDIT i'm not entirely right https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-linux
The article is incorrect. Booting Linux is allowed, but there's no support for Apple's proprietary storage yet. (It's not standard Intel ACHI, SATA, or NVMe like basically everything else)
Yes. It's very difficult, and, in many cases, impossible to configure/customize without a lot of tinkering.
Also, the GNOME devs have a nasty habit of removing important features for no sane reason, but their own bizarre design philosophy, leading toward something frighteningly reminiscent of iOS.
NOTE: They backed down from removing the ability to run programs from the file manager after receiving massive backlash from the community, but it just goes to show these people aren't in their right minds.
It depends. There are tools on Linux that can tell you exactly what it taking what power at a particular time.
Linux is power efficient but you do have to optimize it for your machine as by default it will work the same generically on any machine.
Well if you create a package to save us typing, than we are certainly interested to see how keys compare to what we use now.
Maybe screenkey can be handy: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/screenkey-show-key-presses-screen-ubuntu
Or maybe command log mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CommandLogMode
Or both?
Wayland on Plasma isn't quiet there yet, and they don't claim that either, that's why they announced the roadmap for this year getting a "production ready" Wayland https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/kde-plans-for-2021-wayland-fingerprint
This version has the webrender backend based on rust, it replaces WebKit. Has anyone tried it out and measured the performance benefits?
The webrender feature which can be activated by following
Open about:config in a new tab (and okay any warnings)
Search for gfx.webrender.all
Set the value to True to enable WebRender (or false to disable it)
I think everyone is confused about what is happening and its caused by Canonical being terrible with sharing information. In either case just go use Manjaro or one of the other 100 distros, Pop_OS! already stated they will not drop 32bit either way and they are my go to gaming linux setup as it includes everything to game out of the box and runs / looks great.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/is-ubuntu-not-dropping-32-bit-app-support-after-all
Ah, yeah it's a shame it's not available on Linux atm but they are planning on bringing it to the platform
Anything with the right theme
Edit: I'd pribably start with ubuntu mate and select the cupertino layout from mate tweaks, that should give you the correct layout, with the theme as well you should have a good setup.
Nevermind, i found the answer from this article.
>If you already run PowerTop or TLP then you’re already benefitting from the bulk of these savings. This effort, as de Goede says, is simply about implementing the best settings by default.
This model is not about ads on the web, its about ads in your neutral browser-space. If you want to know how successful this model would be, see what happened to sponsored Amazon Ads in Ubuntu. See what happened to sponsored Amazon Ads on Prime Devices. Ironically, the EFF suggested exactly what I suggest here, opt-in. We already tested this model, it failed miserably.
>Because you're running Wayland.
>GNOME on X.Org doesn't do that.
false, it does that from time to time, specially when restarting the shell through "alt+f2 r" , which is required if you don't want it's memory usage to grow up indefinitely.
>tl;dr: "the current effort took off after this blog post by an Endless developer."
Which happened days after several popular linux sites reported the issue existed in Ubuntu. Whereas bug reports about memory leaks were just "a graphics driver issue" during the previous years.
> An extra 100-300MB of RAM being used by GNOME means nothing to regular users (who are the target) with 4-8GB of RAM
This is completely misleading, GNOME doesn't use 100-300 of ram, that's ONLY the gnome-shell process. Then you have tracker, evolution-data-server, and gnome settings various daemons. Gnome desktop on almost all distributions uses around 1 Gb on boot, where other DEs like Mate or even KDE use nearly half of that.
Not to mention if you keep using it on NVIDIA you get 5Gb of memory usage in almost an hour. Completely unusable.
>who only do some light web browsing and a bunch of other light stuff.
Ah got it, they're exclusively targeting retired people. Good luck with that.
To use emojione-fonts in Chromium, you just need to add the following content to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig> <match> <test name="family"> <string>sans-serif</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="weak"> <string>EmojiOne</string> </edit> </match>
<match> <test name="family"> <string>serif</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="weak"> <string>EmojiOne</string> </edit> </match>
<match> <test name="family"> <string>Apple Color Emoji</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong"> <string>EmojiOne</string> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
And then run fc-cache -f -v to update the font cache.
Adapted from this tutorial, just changed the font name and the bindings from strong to weak, because the fonts were looking weird.
Edit: Added root element (<fontconfig>) to prevent error.
Security fixes are back-ported to older releases, not newer versions or newer features as a general rule.
There are two kernel stack choices; GA is stable and remains the same the life of the product, HWE allowed 20.04 LTS to use the kernel stack from 20.10 (20.04.2), 21.04 (20.04.3), and in the future will get 21.10's (20.04.4) before settling on the GA stack from 22.04 (20.04.5); but this benefits only video kernel modules (ie. drivers).
If you want the latest software; Ubuntu provides the non-LTS releases to cater for that. They also provide snap packages :)
There are always exceptions - if back-porting security fixes, including testing the changes, is more work than updating the software itself - then newer versions of software will come out. An example is thunderbird (see OMGs article but those are exceptions to the rule.
It's Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - ie. software that existed prior to release; or 2020-April (and it'll be the latest LTS software programs for some; eg. Qt 5.12.8 LTS was used; so Qt5 programs that required later and used a non-LTS version of Qt5 were ignored; using Qt5 only as example).
> If you take the Spotify snap and the Spotify flatpak, you will see how show snap is. I got used to ask Spotify to open and go do something else, it would take a minute almost, with flatpak it takes 1 second. Discord and Evolution also feel slightly faster on flatpak.
Is this on the latest iteration of the Spotify snap?
> Ubuntu says it worked with Spotify devs to imbue this iteration of the client some “magic” (spoiler: LZO compression). For me, the new Spotify Snap app opens within a second or so. This is a massive reduction to the 15-20 second pause I’d get on a cold boot, prior. Subsequent launches of the app are near instant.
Canonical have been working on fixing the slow speeds for a while: https://snapcraft.io/blog/why-lzo-was-chosen-as-the-new-compression-method
Chrome apparently has it built in https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/07/enable-google-chrome-picture-in-picture. I haven't tried it though
The global menu in Ubuntu is probably going away, so it would be weird for Chrome OS to add it at this time: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/gnome-app-menu-migration
I thought the VSCode menu appeared when you press the Alt key, but I may be mistaken
I like the current ones better they just look much more natural (darker muted colors, depth) and you can easily tell apps apart (distinct shapes). I like the design of gnome in general for the same reasons.
Sad to see them going along with the OSX-ification/Androidification of everything, especially that fruity color palette (Mac) and uniform round/square shapes (Android). The folder icons are even weirder, was beige too easy on the eyes or something? Hope they don't go too far in that direction.
Make sure you unmount it with imdisk before deleting it.
If you really want to avoid the SD card maker, you can do it relatively easily in Linux from WSL, but it's an OS so it takes a while to install.
So, I’m running the Deepin desktop environment on Ubuntu 18.04. Should I be fine then? Or does this affect me also? Ref: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/how-to-install-deepin-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-18-04
Uh...I thought you were asking if it could so I just posted the first thing I googled.
*Sigh* I was able to google for about 10 more seconds and got this:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/disney-plus-linux-support-fixed
It's from two years ago so even D+ may work out of the box now.
It's widevine. You system gets some kind of security level . Linux is just not trustworthy for many reasons. So the number is pretty low. Thats in the end why you do not get HD for any streaming service on linux.
Disney Plus started out to block Linux because of this bad trust.
Honestly it's true. We do not have anything that blocks you from recording the thing you watch. There is some kind of possibility within wayland to have this, but since wayland is still far away from being the standard thats not reachable.
If we want better support, we need to support some form of DRM+client-side-blocking mechanism.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/make-linux-mint-look-like-windows-7
Download the themes and icon packs from there. Works with cinnamon. There's also another theme for kde but I don't use it so...
This preference, most probably, would be removed in future.
I had the following entries, and they are already removed:
browser.proton.tabs.enabledbrowser.proton.appmenu.enabledbrowser.proton.infobars.enabledbrowser.proton.toolbar.enabledbrowser.proton.urlbar.enabled
I am not sure if all these were a part of earlier config, or I added all them from an article, to enable proton design.
Also, you can try this: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Edit: Type corrected :P
> Look at the Amazon ads dumbass
Which were removed due to the backlash. Calling others dumbasses when you don't know shit yourself makes you the one true dumbass here.
I think while that is part of it, it's mainly because Ubuntu is deciding to 32 bit app support. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/ubuntu-is-dropping-all-32-bit-support-going-forward
GSConnect on the desktop, paired with KDE Connect on my phone = easy peasy file sending. You can even browse your phone directly in Nautilus (via remote mount).
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I wrote a post about it a while back https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/connect-android-ubuntu-gsconnect
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Obviously only useful if you're running GNOME Shell, though.
There is a push away from tray icons.
So perhaps you want to try find an alternative.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/will-you-miss-gnome-legacy-tray
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Given that the large majority of apps that still make use of status icons work perfectly fine without them, we decided that it is time to drop this unloved bit of UI altogether.
> LibreOffice's interface is atrocious, though.
They're working on it. A ribbon style UI is already available but it's not enabled by default.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-enable-libreoffice-ribbon-notebook-bar
> Ultimately, that's the problem. I don't have anything against open-source software as a concept, and there certainly are apps that are on par with, if not surpass proprietary equivalents (Firefox is a good example), but to me it feels like an ideology you either commit to 100% or not at all.
This is another discussion entirely.
Having open source drivers is good for both open source and closed source developers because both want to use the most of what the hardware has to offer.
Asking Nvidia to help build open source drivers isn't the same as asking Adobe to open source Photoshop. Both Photoshop and Gimp exist and both have a lot to gain if they are provided with an open platform on which to operate.
You were totally right - Firefox Ubuntu *does* support HW acceleration since V80.
I had to go into about:config and enable va-api but it's definitely working.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/08/firefox-80-release-linux-gpu-acceleration
Haven't gotten VLC hw accel to work yet.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/this-is-the-data-ubuntu-collects-about-your-system
It's a bit old, I'll grant you. But it's still accurate, afaik. Does Ubuntu 'collect infortmation about your system'? Yeah. Sure. But its *really* boring.
By default the box to opt-in is selected (“Yes, send system info toCanonical”) but you can easily opt-out (“No, don’t send system info”)should you wish to carry on computing in private. "
This is something you choose to do - both during installation, *AND* during the first boot/login. If you're really telling people not to use Ubuntu because 'OMGZ! They 'harvest data'? For reals? C'mon.
what do you mean "forked"? They aren't forked for each distribution, what changes is the way it is packaged.
But i agree with you, stuff could be a lot more simpler, and there is traction to make Flatpak the main technology that will make packaging more simpler;
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You said: "It also makes a very big problem for migration because people who relay on a certain type of open source software can't be bothered about not being able to use their favorite apps just because they look broken and unusable on what ever OS they switched to." I wish you could bring an example, because I mostly use GTK based apps, and I am in favor of "Please don't theme our apps". Because it causes a lot of breakage. And that is what is happened when I tried to use Brave Browser (and other programs) on Elementary, and it didn't obey the dark mode etc.
There is major work being done on that front: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/10/gnome-42-dark-style-preference
By what I have read, the next batch of gnome related technology will allow a universal dark mode, that is even being implemented on the KDE side, and is inspired by Elementary's take. And also will bring accent color.
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The only programs I use that are not Flatpak are: Nautilus, Gnome Software, System Monitor, Terminal, Settings and gaming programs like Steam and Lutris.
I'm currently using Fedora 35 Beta, and I really don't see a lot of breakage, and most application seem to work fine.
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Your concerns are valid, and they are not simply being cast on the side road by the developers, the problem is: developing these things takes a lot of time, and coordination with multiple party (companys, and hobbyist developers) , that have different goals is something take takes a lot more time.
If you have a copy of a Windows 10 ISO somewhere, I suggest checking out this guide. It does say Ubuntu but this should work for Pop!_OS. Best of luck getting Windows back. Sorry your experience with Linux has been soured.
Si tu attends un jour ou deux tu n'auras pas besoin de passer par la 20.10.
En fait il faut passer par la 20.10 tant que son support n'est pas terminé, et il termine aujourd'hui même !
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/ubuntu-20-10-end-of-life
The error is saying because your system was not booted using systemd, it can't proceed. My guess is that app isn't meant to run in wsl.
Are you running wsl version 1 or 2? IIRC wslv2 has more abstraction, so it may be able to run the app.
What other choice's that you have in your Mint. In my Appearance settings I have 40 theme choices. And it looks like one is the default one of color. If you don't have it, then I guess you download it.
I guess it's Greybird.
https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird
I believe the dark one is call Greybird-dark
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/xubuntu-dark-theme-20-04
"user flair preview" button in the right sidebar (I set it)
Those are native emoji symbols. "Chart increasing" and "chart decreasing".
If you have Windows, you can bring up a secret symbols menu by pressing:
Win Key + >
On Mac it's:
Control + Command + Spacebar
On Ubuntu, you have to find an app, like here: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/use-emoji-linux-ubuntu-apps
I view KDE as the best and most user friendly customizable UI. Plasma and KDE really are amazing and I think they're the future of Linux UI.
Gnome is great but some developers say it's not supposed to be themeable (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/on-gtk-themes-broken). XFCE themes are good but really they're just GTK3 themes with a window manager theme.
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I read that thread and the discussions reminded me of flamewars of yore.
The conclusion <strong><em>here</em></strong> was, and I paraphrase, "looks interesting and watch this space but hold on to your wallet for now."
I have had a Pinephone for a while now... here is my take on it.
My experience is it's a great enthusiast/hobbyist toy or developer piece... It is not ready for mainstream or large deployments, or even for the enthusiast to use as a daily driver for most users.
The Pinephone is actually on the low end of the few Linux phones out there, although is quite comparable to the Librem 5 (at 5 times the Pinephone's price)... The technology is typical of a lower mid-range Android phone in 2014. With a modern mobile-centric Linux distro like Mobian or Ubuntu Touch, it is very slow, battery life is pathetic in use, the camera is terrible, the voice quality is very poor (most carriers do not allow Linux phones to use VoLTE/HDvoice or WiFi calling) and the app support is about the same as the Linux desktop, meaning you won't find a Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, MeWe, or whatever other app you would find on Android/Apple for it unless there is an open source app for that service, like Cawbird for Twitter, everything else you are using in the browser, which is actually not a horrid experience once the app loads (which can take several seconds for any app to load).
This makes it sound like I dislike my Pinephone... But that is completely wrong, I love this thing... It's a fantastic toy that takes me back to the mid to late 90's of Linux and experimenting with things... It is something you can tinker with, break, fix, flash this, flash that, and just have fun with. But there is no way I could use this as a daily driver.
Bei mir (macOS) war das nicht native Interface auch immer ein riesiges Problem, weshalb ich mich nicht mit FF anfreunden konnte.
Habe es jetzt mit Firefox Nightly aber endlich geschafft, da sich viel beim Interface getan hat:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/02/try-firefox-proton-redesign-ubuntu
You could avoid this by using any Linux system.
Although Ubuntu rolled out an Amazon shopping search & recommendations service, it received backlash from the community. That's in one of the most corporate distributions. Others are devoid of built-in telemetry whatsoever.
While Tails is still the most secure option (especially for someone new to Tor who mistakenly configures it and in doing so marks themselves as unique) because it has the same defaults every time, you get most of the way there using Tor by the book atop GNU/Linux. Moreover, everything you do is private by default, not just when you're doing something you "want to hide" on Tail.
It would usually appear when 20.04.1 was released but there is a serious blocking bug in grub which can leave your system unbootable. Should be sorted soon, don't force the upgrade before then unless you know you won't be affected.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/08/ubuntu-20-04-upgrade-notification-delay
There was that guy who made a itunes webapp a while ago, Lollypop is worth a try but its diff.
The sooner you cut the umbilical cord the happier you'll be though with your freedoms
Edit: Or idk maybe this
The wobbly windows and genie effects were done by compiz or forks of it anyway, which I think you can still install today. I set up the wobbly windows and genie effects a few months back.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/how-to-enable-wobbly-windows-effect-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts
I'd recommend switching over to proprietary as they've worked just fine for me in regards to gaming and watching videos. With Firefox I highly recommend enabling hardware acceleration as it allows the browser to take advantage of your Nvidia GPU and as a result it fixed my screen tearing and could fix your slowdown. This guide should explain how to enable it. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/small-tweak-makes-firefox-linux-run-much-faster Cheers!
>One has to come first. I don't know of any specific plans to transition Firefox into a snap, but it does suffer from the same [apt/deb] packaging problems that Chromium does.
Firefox is actually available as a Snap... Officially. From Mozilla.
It's just not installed by default, at this stage.
The L series is the cheaoer one. P is the professional workstation, very expensive one. X is the portable one and X1 the flagship one.
Lenovo will sell some P and X1 models with fedora preinstalled and many models are certified for ubuntu and redhat:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/fedora-on-lenovo-laptops
Edit: Also any reason why other enterprise models are not in your consideration like elitebooks or the xps 13?
Likely cause. That ppa does not support focal. You can Check the url it gives and see what releases it supports.
http://ppa.launchpad.net/amanusk/python-s-tui/ubuntu/dists/
Shows no 'focal'.
You can remove the ppa via the command line, or gui tools.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/how-to-remove-ppa-ubuntu
Basically, if you search for "LibreOffice" or anything else that has a long application name, you'll see the application names have been shortened to be like "LibreOffice C...", "LibreOffice W...", etc. The lower your resolution, the worse this problem is. I remember on my laptop, I was trying to load up the software updater in Ubuntu and I was left with a choice between "Software..." and "Software..." with similar icons so I just had to guess at which one was correct. I've seen "Mozilla Fir..." and "Mozilla Fir..." for "Mozilla Firefox" and "Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)" before too. It's been a pet peeve of mine for years and despite efforts from others to fix this, the Gnome team has never accepted any contribution because things are constantly in a state of being rebuilt to support whatever mockup their art/design teams comes up with and user requests such as full application names don't often seem considered by them.
This probably isn't a big deal for a lot of users, but I take a couple issues with it. For one, scenarios like I mentioned before where I just have to take a guess on which icon is the correct one are really aggravating when they come up. My desktop environment shouldn't make me guess at things like that. And secondly, I think it's awful for new users who might not be familiar with the usual applications found on a Linux desktop like the LibreOffice suite and won't know what "LibreOffice D..." is or whatever.
Nearly a year ago, it was expected the latest attempt to fix this would be merged in Gnome 3.34, but that never happened. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/full-gnome-shell-application-launcher-titles
And here's the relevant merge request that has since been abandoned like the ones that came before it - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/109
The primary purpose of the Intel ME is DRM, otherwise there would be no reason to attempt to prevent end users from disabling it. DRM is a major security hole and is a a threat to both civil liberties and national security. The Intel ME is used as part of the Windows DRM for playing movies and I believe it is possible to add the DRM ~~software~~ back door to GNU / Linux since Disney now support GNU / Linux for their DRM infected content. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/disney-plus-linux-support-fixed
The first line of defense here is to install GNU / Linux, the second line of defense is to not add any software to your GNU / Linux system that supports DRM infected content according to the content provider's rules. So a flat no to Netflix for example. The only way to safely consume DRM infected content is to crack, break or circumvent the DRM. The trouble is that in some parts of the world particularly the United States cracking, breaking or circumventing DRM is illegal. There are however many jurisdictions where circumventing DRM in order protect the security of a computer network or the privacy of the user is legal. In Canada for example there are exceptions to the DRM circumvention prohibition for the security of the computer network or the privacy of the user. Nevertheless one must carefully read and understand the legislation and obtain legal advice as appropriate before attempting any DRM circumvention. Now for the third level of defense: Neuter the Intel ME. For this we have to thank the NSA in the US. Three letter agencies can in certain situations do of a lot of good and this is a perfect example. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-now-you-too-can-disable-intel-me-backdoor-thanks-to-the-nsa.html
Based on the article I read it seems like they may be dropping multiarch support too and moving things that rely on it (like Steam) to Snap only.
> All the stuff reported in the news is good, but I am wondering, as others are wondering, when Mint 19.2 is coming out.
Per OMG! Ubuntu!:
> Although the planned release date of Linux Mint 19.2 is as-yet unknown — though you expect it sometime in late summer
First Look: Linux Mint 19.2 Named ‘Tina’, Will Feature Faster Window Manager
Depends if there is a package for it. A fast google shows that there are third party repositories for Ubuntu, at least: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/how-to-install-deepin-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-18-04
You can have multiple DEs/WMs, most greeters have a button where you can choose which one you want to use at startup.
(K)Ubuntu, like most non-rolling distributions, do not update versions except for serious bugs or security issues. In fact, a fix for a such an issue is usually backported to avoid regressions from other commits.
You either have to find a third-party PPA that offers newer Latte versions, or use a (rolling) distribution which gets updated versions regularily.
I found https://launchpad.net/~rikmills/+archive/ubuntu/latte-dock, see also https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/unofficial-latte-dock-ppa-appears-wild for instructions.
I use h264ify on my 4th & 5th gen Intel machines that lack vp9 decoding and it works well. However, if you're using h264ify to transfer the load from cpu to gpu, on Linux you need to combine it with the Chromium builds that have hardware acceleration enabled. Google has stated that they have no intention of enabling hardware acceleration on Chrome for linux, and it's not enabled on default Chromium builds either.
Saikrishna Arcot has hardware accelerated builds of Chromium for the dev branch and beta branch HERE.
It doesn't look like the java method works anymore from what I've read, but these may help you. Neither has been updated in a while, so they may both be a bust.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/airplay-video-playback-comes-to-totem
https://github.com/robobenklein/openairplay
But it seems VLC will soon be able to airplay. Not an option for you now, but maybe in the future:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/vlc-player-apple-airplay/
It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Are you using unity or gnome? You’re going to want the right “tweak” tool for that version. In your /home directory, you’ll need a folder called /.icons and /.themes the periods are important. When your in your file browser, you can press control+H to show folders that have the period in front of their names. Icon packs go in the .icons folder and themes go in the .themes folder. omgubuntu has a pretty decent theming section with most having step by step guides for installing. here’s an older page for the arc theme. The icon theme I mentioned is a little easier, open up your trusty terminal, control+alt+T for a keyboard friendly shortcut, then paste “sudo apt install numix-icon-theme-circle” but without the quotes, enter your password, I think you’ll have to press enter to confirm installation and your set. Once you have those installed, open either unity tweak tool if your using unity, or gnome tweak tool if your using gnome and you can select it there. If you’re using gnome, there’s an extra step that may be needed to enable shell themes, if you use google chrome, you’ll need to go to the store and add the gnome extension tool, which will sync to your desktop and you can search that area for the theme extension, slide the switch, and boom, more theming compatibility. Let me know if you have any questions, I’ll try and help out as best possible.
Ubuntu/Gnome has a built in screen recorder
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/gnome-shell-screen-recorder-ubuntu
Other options:
Green Recorder
Simple Screen Recorder
Kazam
Apparently, that's a feature of GNOME Shell, so it won't work in i3. Alternatives to look into: f.lux, Redshift.
If a later kernel is the only thing you’re missing, ukuu might solve the problem: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/ukuu-easy-way-to-install-mainline-kernel-ubuntu
I’ve only used it on Kubuntu, where it was very easy, but I’m assuming given Mint’s Ubuntu base it ought to work there too.
I just looked at the ppa and it has not been updated since 2010. You might look for some other options. Here is one https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/desk-changer-wallpaper-slideshow-extension-gnome
It looks like FlatPack is geared toward running on Linux. That might explain why is doesn't offer a terminal emulation app. They probably assume that you're running on Linux and you already have a terminal app.
There was a bug last year that could cause a laptop to get 'bricked' but, i do not know if that bug affected desktop systems.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/12/ubuntu-corrupting-lenovo-laptop-bios
Is one of the many posts on the topic.
But there is bricking the thing, then there is just goofing up the bios settings, and then theres just breaking the bootloader/uefi partition.
Personally i would get a second hard drive, if you can (Many laptops support dual drives these days) unplug (or disable in bios) the windows drive, do the install using the defaults, and see what happens. Be sure to disable secure boot if needed.
Then once you have linux working, plug the windows drive back in, boot to linux, run 'sudo update-grub' and use grub to select the os at boot time.
If you only have 1 drive.. make backups, make a windows restore USB, make a windows FULL reinstall USB. And research your specific make/model laptop beforhand.
No. Stylus on linux is a shitshow.
Right now they are tackling the high end. The low end is being left to die on the vine.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/dell-canvas-linux-support-coming
As far as touchscreen with any kind of support, that's in development.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-11/
The rest is hit or miss. After Ubuntu abandoned the touchscreen market, it just kinda stagnated at the distro level. Sorry, but that's where we are now. I hope it gets better, but since everyone is drooling over cloud capabilities rather than end user interfaces, it doesn't look terribly likely.
I do not know where you got that description but it is wrong. Arch has a separate testing repo and does not use the main repos for testing packages.
It is true that packages may not live very long in the testing repo but this tends to scale with how critical the package is and how popular it is. I have never seen Arch brake something that is critical and their testing process seems to be more than adequate.
In contrast, Ubuntu seem to have major breakages for every new release up to a month after they first release it - they have even had some very serious regressions so clearly they also lack in their QA side of things while still having more resource than Arch does.
AUR is user content - it is not official and is thus random in its quality - this is why it does not provide prepackaged binaries and only gives you sources packages. There are also no core packages in AUR so if any break then they do not typically take down your system - more core packages (like extra kernels) are typically tested to a higher degree but again - packages in AUR can vary and it is up to you to decided on the quality of them.