Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Review - Is it WORTH Making the Upgrade? 

Nope, I'm pretty much always using vanilla Debian. At work, we use a highly customized version of Debian.

Yeah, I've been seeing more and more office / production envs using debian now-a-days

@SavvyNik Yes, our servers run Debian too. At home, Debian with XFCE is hard to beat. If they can get Wayland running on their next few releases, it'll continue to be great.

Sweet

I will give it try

I'm also using 23.10. Will i get an update of this on my system or have to do a fresh install?

​@@santubasak7860you'll be automatically notified by the system. I've personally never had any problem upgrading

@@santubasak7860 The best option is a fresh install,. takes only as long as an update

Follow up. 24.04 has been better than expected! Actually using it more than before. My desk toolbox is Pinta - sometimes GIMP, default text editor, visual code, Firefox or Chrome. I do mostly web based and graphics work.

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@@alvallac2171 i really; and I cannot stress this enough. do not Give a dam ABout English as a LanguAge. or Its Gr@mm@r.

@@alvallac2171 as you can see my message was completely illegible. thankyou for taking the time in interpret my meaning so that others can understand what I am saying.

*possible, share *data. Ubuntu's (to fix your comma splice run-on) *privacy. This (another comma splice)

The crown was an interesting touch haha

Excellent marketing move in CentOS 7 EOL time!!

I tried KDE lately, but it is soooooo slow compared to other DEs. There was nothing I could do to improve the performance, even with deactivated animations :(

*mainly, but *I (this word should always be capitalized) *laptop.

@@alvallac2171 Thanks for the correction, I'm happy to learn. Hope at least this right 😊, greetings from 🇩🇪

*23.10.

Ew

That will never happen.

Possibly. Which flavors were you thinking?

Xubuntu, please.​@@SavvyNik

@@SavvyNik the 3 main ones I'm interested in are: Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Ubuntu Cinnamon!

​@SavvyNik ubuntu studio and/or xubuntu please 🙏

Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 might be interesting.

Yeah, always better to wait for some bug fixes before switching.

*Ooh, I'm really interested *performs. It's (to fix your comma splice run-on and missing apostrophe) *better.

You can upgrade when it’s released

Woah nice catch

*That *properly. This *Gnome *issue, though, not *Ubuntu *one.

@@alvallac2171 😉

*now? Is (to fix your comma splice run-on)

*Serpent OS. I like *things!

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Id advise waiting for plasma 6, give it a few more months, maybe less. I've had a few crashes with my arch/plasma 6 install for no discernable reason no matter what I do. Others have had no issues, some of us have. Overall it's great. But not 100% stable yet. I'm considering downgrading to 5.27 for the stability till 6 is ironed out.

I feel the same way about Gnome desktops. I've been using Ubuntu as my Jellyfin server for several months, but am switching to Mint because I prefer the Cinnamon desktop, even though the only thing I actually do on there is rip DVD and BluRay movies. My main computer is running Garuda with KDE Plasma 6. I have not had any trouble with it, but I don't do much beyond using a web browser, OpenShot video editor, Handbrake, and some light gaming.

@@brokeredneck Kubuntu 24.04 won't be using Plasma 6, still will be using 5.27.

There's always Tuxedo OS if you want a "de-snapped" Kubuntu experience. It comes standard with flatpak and apt.

KDE Plasma 5.27 is pretty rock solid. I switched from Cosmic-Gnome and like it so far.

I guess it was not easy to customize and extend with new modules because it used old technologies.

Yeah it’s pretty wild

Well, improvements for you could be, amongst other things, toggling between light and dark theme from the quick settings, a clearer font type, the addition of a simple tiling windows manager, and the (re-)added option of a tree view in Nautilus, all of which were already (re-)added in 23.10. Specifically in 24.04, things like a quicker toggle between picture and list view in Nautilus is added and access to OneDrive from within Nautilus. GNOME just keeps getting better, and Canonical always a few nice extras.

@@AntoonStessels Tree view is great. Yeah it would be good to have a recap of improvements between the LTS releases, I'm on 22.04. When I was on a Mac I used to have a Finder window opened with the sidebar minimized, and I would naviagte with cursor up/down/left/right to have a simple intuitive overview of my project and I would just drag/drop files onto gVIM (or MacVIM in this case). With Ubuntu indeed I was not able to do that. It worked great but specifically because Finder remembers its window setting for each folder in a small hidden file. Theefore in my project forlder in the terminal I would type "open . " and it would open the finder window exactly like it was last time, with minimized sidebar and the last opened folders and so on. The thing where Ubuntu is still really bad UX wise is the desktop. The simplest way for users to personalize their desktop is to be able to just drop shortcuts and move them. You can also sinply drop a shortcut to a webpage from the browser. In Ubuntu or GNOME those are all things that need addons and even then don't work reliably. Shortcuts in Linux in general re just awful, there is no simply user friendly way to edit them, you have to edit text files like "launchers" it's like ten years behind Windows :/

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Replying to self - 24.04 beta has snapd in there --way deep! Can you say Goa'uld? The ISO is 5.3G. If you were still on dialup you'd have to be reincarnated to see it finish ;/

He said it’s releasing April 25th. Or did you forget to watch “the video” aspect?

As you can see in the video, he was downloading a daily build, which means he was using a prerelease nightly build. Those are bleeding edge versions with little or no testing (automated testing at most). Those are meant for developers and bleeding edge testers. That being said, the first beta release of 24.04 is expected to be released today. They're in the home stretch now, where it's all about testing and bug fixes in preparation for the final release. They're done with UI changes and new features.

Yikes

The repos were in a bad state due to the recent xz backdoor. There were a lot of broken packages and dependency chains while they rebuilt a ton of packages.

Same here.

On top of it you could aay

Better wait for 24.04.3.

@@joeschmoe3815 right now, I'm planning to switch to Zorin OS 17.

that is a smart move.

What was happening?

Is there a reason they don't use grub?

Isn't Cosmic still in Alpha?

They used to but switched I believe around 18.04 so quite a few years ago

Yeah

Remove it then and replace it with flatpak

*It's (contraction of "it is" or "it has") its = possessive pronoun All contractions have apostrophes. Possessive pronouns never do. *Ubuntu *day.

I never get errors in 22.04. Nor in any LTS version since like 2010 or so. So I think it's a very stable OS.

Both would work great for dev since they share all the same repos. Use the one with the environment that you like more

@@SavvyNik I was mislead, Lubuntu still looks the same and turns out the multiple videos I was watching had a theme on, so I went with 24.04. I already got my environment setup.

Linux is one at the kernel level. What the user interacts with above that benefits hugely from being plural. There isn't one distro to try, you choose the one that's best suited to each PC's role in the household or workplace. E.g. the baby uses trisquel sugar on a 20 year old palm top, the router runs PFsense, the laptop I take on holiday has TAILS, the nas is Puppy, the jukebox is puppy, the cctv is ubuntu, the pentesting is on kali, the music and graphics are ubuntu studio, retro gaming on xubuntu... that's about 10 distros in the house right now off the top of my head, and I'm just a user not a developer

Spot on!

That's strange. I have a few applications both as .deb and snap. Hardly notice any difference except that the snaps are the latest version.

*extensions

just use btrfs convert its so easy

fat32 is the standard for EFI partitions. And yes they use ext4, it's stable and reliable. Debian uses ext4 also, RHEL uses xfs (and has btrfs deprecated), and I believe SUSE Enterprise Linux recommends ext4 (but I couldn't find much information online). And most Debian and Ubuntu based distros like Mint and Pop use ext4.

btrfs and zfs are for storage servers, not for general desktop use.

it got better tbh.

I'm staying away from Ubuntu after testing out version 24.04. Much preferred version 22.04.

Here's a tip: how about you don't tell people what to do. Do what you want to do, and that can be the end of it.

Don't fucking promote your distro flavours.. Let people choose what they like. Linux was and will always be " In the hands of the People". They decide what they like. As far as popularity for a distro goes, Ubuntu still holds the appeal. Personally for me, I like the Debian Family with Ubuntu and Mint both my top choices for my alternate drivers. For others it maybe the Red Hat Family Or the Arch family.. We cannot continue to have like 1000s of distros and then keep hopping one after another.. The goal is to select one, two or maybe three. That's about it. I have ended my distro hopping quite early on.. Settling down with Mint and Ubuntu forever.

Ubuntu is the only distro the work for me with out any issues i dont care about package format wars i use snap .deb and flatpak i only care about a working system .

why? Ubuntu is the best distro I don't know why benchmark numbers aren't more popular, I'm pretty sure Ubuntu smokes all of them.

@Mars-wy6rz 0. ubuntu is not the same distro people used in the past. 1. ubuntu based on debian, as debian progress ubuntu advantages are gone, 2. manage by corporate companay who added propritery garbage like snap are force user to use it, 3. snap contain crypto scam, watch from 8:13 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WeQniNfhBqU.html 4. debian based distros are much lighter than ubuntu based distros, 5. because of what canonical is doing with ubuntu linux mint team have to start debian based distro which is (Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE) & it is future of linux mint. 6. after using propritery microsoft garbage windows i can say opensource & community based distros are much better, here is another corporate garbage video redhat who thinks propritery garbage is good. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fqfyM7zE6KM.html 7. software open slow because it used snaps, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pMfqCzbSmQU.html 8. i can give you tons of other reasons why not to use ubuntu or corporate propritery garbage.

Then I'm pretty sure you didn't look at it at all. Maybe you suffer from crap?

@@hansreynders6853 I have been working with computers for over 40 years and I give many distros a thorough review. This walk thru was nothing more than typical click-bait.

How so forbidden?, I'm able to install them just fine