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Ubuntu 20.10 Released

44 points by reddotX 6y ago

dudus 6y ago
I used to look forward to Ubuntu releases with so much anticipation back in breezy-hardy days. I would spend my days in the forums reading notes from early tester, participate in polls for what the animal would be chosen or marvel at the updated visuals, even the new desktop background and icons were a guilty pleasure of mine. Once launched I'd spend a few weeks providing feedback, filling bugs and learning all new Ubuntu updates. You could say I was an early Ubuntu fanboy. These days it's just so bland, that thrill and anticipation were what kept me around for so long. After that was gone I left for OSX and never saw a reason to come back. The year of linux on the desktop was a promise that never really realized. Server side I don't mind Ubuntu, but I don't see the point of going with that instead of so many other choices.
- blacksmith_tb 6y ago
  I want my OS updates to be exciting, but not too exciting - I have been running the 20.10 beta for a week or so on a spare laptop, not a lot of surprises, but the Gnome upgrade is an improvement. In the Breezy/Hardy days I wouldn't have dared to upgrade for weeks or months after a new version was released (basically how I treat macOS these days...), but I have had good luck with Ubuntu upgrades in the last few years, so I feel like they have made progress.
  - tmccrary55 6y ago
    20.10 fixes bluetooth for intel hw, which is awesome. It was broken for the entire 20.04 release.
    - lathiat 6y ago
      I suspect that's a bit of an over-assertion as it's mostly working fine for me on two different Intel machines. Would be great to link to a bug or some more info and it's something that could very likely be backported if it's fixed in 20.10.
      - tmccrary55 6y ago
        Here you go: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1871794 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18... Works for me now, must have been a kernel/firmware thing going on.
orloffm 6y ago
Still no way to disable Snap auto-updates?

44 points by reddotX 6y ago

I used to look forward to Ubuntu releases with so much anticipation back in breezy-hardy days. I would spend my days in the forums reading notes from early tester, participate in polls for what the animal would be chosen or marvel at the updated visuals, even the new desktop background and icons were a guilty pleasure of mine. Once launched I'd spend a few weeks providing feedback, filling bugs and learning all new Ubuntu updates. You could say I was an early Ubuntu fanboy. These days it's just so bland, that thrill and anticipation were what kept me around for so long. After that was gone I left for OSX and never saw a reason to come back. The year of linux on the desktop was a promise that never really realized. Server side I don't mind Ubuntu, but I don't see the point of going with that instead of so many other choices.

blacksmith_tb 6y ago
I want my OS updates to be exciting, but not too exciting - I have been running the 20.10 beta for a week or so on a spare laptop, not a lot of surprises, but the Gnome upgrade is an improvement. In the Breezy/Hardy days I wouldn't have dared to upgrade for weeks or months after a new version was released (basically how I treat macOS these days...), but I have had good luck with Ubuntu upgrades in the last few years, so I feel like they have made progress.
- tmccrary55 6y ago
  20.10 fixes bluetooth for intel hw, which is awesome. It was broken for the entire 20.04 release.
  - lathiat 6y ago
    I suspect that's a bit of an over-assertion as it's mostly working fine for me on two different Intel machines. Would be great to link to a bug or some more info and it's something that could very likely be backported if it's fixed in 20.10.
    - tmccrary55 6y ago
      Here you go: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1871794 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18... Works for me now, must have been a kernel/firmware thing going on.

orloffm 6y ago

Still no way to disable Snap auto-updates?