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Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial

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On 2025-04-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-28 08:45, RonB wrote:
>> I saw that Ubuntu 25.04 was out and, even after all the badmouthing of
>> Ubuntu and Wayland, I decided to give it a try. I was actually surprised to
>> see that it's faster on my old Dell Optiplex 9020 micro (with its 5th
>> generation, low power, i5 CPU) than was Ubuntu 24.10 on this machine — even
>> with the Snaps.
>> 
>> I was also happy to see that when you open new Windows now, it defaults to
>> opening them in the middle. (Something I always had to set before — it
>> always took me a while to find the command.) I'm also happy to report that,
>> even though it's using Wayland, it now (or still?) supports Cntrol+Shift+U
>> command for Unicode — in the Terminal, in the JOE editor and in LibreOffice.
>> And I watched a couple TV shows (Bones) from Rokuchannel.com, without any
>> streaming issues or artifacts. This USB Live "install" defaulted to the
>> 6.14.x kernel. I don't what kernel it would have used had I updated it.
>> 
>> I'm actually impressed. Even after all these years of not using Windows, I'm
>> always a little suprised when a new Linux version is faster and cleaner than
>> the previous version. The opposite experience of what I always had with
>> Windows.
>> 
>> (I also posted this on the Linux Mint newsgroup by accident. Meant to post
>> it only here.)
>
> I like it myself. Right now, the only issue is that it reinstalls Snap 
> if you upgrade and there is some notable sound distortion when you play 
> games through the Heroic Games Launcher. I lowered the volume of my 
> sound devices through alsamixer and it seems to help (suggesting that 
> the sound was being amplified despite the settings not explicitly 
> indicating that), but it's not yet perfect. Apparently, it might also be 
> due to some synchronization issue with pipewire. Either way, it's not 
> enough of a problem to move me away yet.
>
> Lunduke has a new report that someone on the blogs.gnome.org website 
> expressed that Gnome is Antifa though and that is what is at the core of 
> Ubuntu. I know they're definitely woke, but being Antifa is something I 
> just can't support.

I'm not a fan of Lunduke (as you know). His site is built on click bait. So 
he's not my "go to" authority on Linux.

-- 
Jesus sat with sinners: He didn't sin
with them. Know the difference.

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Ubuntu 25.04 Trial RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:45 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 08:57 -0400
    Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 20:05 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 18:50 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 20:11 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu 25.04 Trial rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 04:06 +0000

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