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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

#689597 — Ubuntu 25.04 Trial

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.)

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

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#689602

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.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689625

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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#689615

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:45:41 -0000 (UTC), 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 may upgrade. I'm a 24.10 and don't have any complaints so I've been 
putting it off.

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#689626

On 2025-04-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:45:41 -0000 (UTC), 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 may upgrade. I'm a 24.10 and don't have any complaints so I've been 
> putting it off.

I didn't even know it was out yet, until I saw something about it on 
YouTube. 

Which reminds me, one thing I absolutely hate about Ubuntu is that 
they force cookies on you when you go to their site. I always move to 
Private Browsing when at Ubuntu.com. That way the cookies I accept will be 
forgotten the second I close Private Browsing. (But I always forget about 
that until after I've gone to the Ubuntu site with the regular browser, so 
it's an irritant.)

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

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#689658

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:11:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I didn't even know it was out yet, until I saw something about it on
> YouTube.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1k1h2w4/
canonical_releases_ubuntu_2504_plucky_puffin/

If you scroll through there were some bugs in the upgrade so it was 
disabled a few days ago. 

The r/linux subreddit is a little lame but r/Fedora, r/KDE, r/Ubuntu, r/
linuxmint and so forth generally have decent information. 

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