And here again, of course, they are going to change the behavior of default shortcuts in a totally unnecessary way (Alt-Tab, really?) and move settings in different places so that all of stackoverflow's answers become obsolete.<p>They also mention a "better" multi-monitor support. that scares me. I have a multi-monitor setup that works. I could do with a few more options but it works. Every change of behavior has required me to whack down some quirks. I am pretty sure the behavior when booting/rebooting with our without the screen connected, with or without the power plugged, is going to change in a way they found "logical, practical and intuitive" and that will waste me a few hours of correcting.
So many complaints here. I just want to say that I love Ubuntu. It's the perfect combination of the sturdiness of Debian combined with easy access to a sprinkling of proprietary apps that I need on a regular basis. Thanks Ubuntu!
I understand how hard it is to improve an open source software to get to be on the same level of proprietary ones, but it seems that Gnome took multiple steps backwards, or rather maybe the ubuntu adaptation of it.<p>I saw multiple UX hiccups and small missing functionalities that makes me wonder when would a DE reach the full maturity to stay as it is with small improvements and doing what's intended to be done. For the time being I think KDE is a more stable and functional DE than Gnome, hope Gnome returns to its glorious days soon though.
Updating is going to be a huge pain. It always is, for one reason: Nvidia. I need CUDA for ML, and nouveau is so bad anyway that 18.10 wouldn't even boot on my machine when I tried to install it.<p>It's guaranteed that if I upgrade right now I will be troubleshooting black screens, hangs, and compiler incompatibilities for hours if not days in an attempt to install a working set of ML tools including up to date drivers and CUDA.<p>It's sad that one required proprietary component ruins the whole experience. But there's no other option for ML research. AMD just isn't investing enough.
Looks great!<p>The screenshots really made me pine for the days of using Ubuntu as my daily driver circa ~2010, right before the (IMO detrimental and pointless) switch to Unity instead of Gnome 3.<p>Giving Unity up and switching back to Gnome was such a step in the right direction. Look how big that feature list is because they can lean on Gnome's development! This represents open source at its best.
>new Ubuntu 19.04<p>Oh sweet, did they make NetworkManager not garbage?<p>>no<p>Cool, cool.<p>I do appreciate some of the other updates though. A little user-friendly support for Nvidia cards is a welcome add, and the latest Gnome is looking sexy.
Gnome is A LOT snappier after the update. Update was very simple and quick too. I especially appreciate being able to set the flag to avoid disabling every PPA.
I really hope that some day Ubuntu will have enough power&steam to attack the Clipboard Problem. It is the #1 issue that makes me dislike working with a Linux desktop.<p>Consistent system-wide clipboard behavior with consistent keyboard shortcuts. Look to Mac OS for an example of how to get this right. And I don't even need graphics/media support in the first iteration: just get me basic plaintext copy/paste.
Installed this last night a couple of hours early. Compared to 18.04, boot times and the ui seems a lot snappier because of some gnome updates. This was the reason I did the upgrade so I'm pretty happy. Haven't tested on my laptop yet though.
I dunno what Ubuntu did, but Filesystems tab in gnome task monitor is now completely useless. It's filled with virtual file systems from packages that I will never ever care about accessing in this way, and they can't be hidden.<p>Why? Whyyy why why.
I have been using Windows and Mac for years now, and Ubuntu on servers. Yesterday I made a dual boot between Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.04 and I have to say... It's been pretty awesome, almost everything was configured out of the box, I have 3 monitors and this works almost as good as W10 (Maybe the way to arrange windows could improve). For now I will use it as my main Desktop OS and I will just change to W10 for the games.<p>Very happy with it, good job Ubuntu and Linux teams! :D
Does anybody know why this happens when I try to do-release-upgrade 18.04 in WSL? I didn't have trouble going from 16.04 to 18.04...<p><pre><code> $ do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,243 kB]
Fetched 1,244 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'cosmic.tar.gz' against 'cosmic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'cosmic.tar.gz'
[sudo] password for $USER:
$</code></pre>
I never liked Unity nor Gnome. I use KDE but also like enlightenment distributions like Bodhi Linux. Would someone explain why to use Gnome? Just a habbit?