The Homelab Episode 126: Ubuntu 24.04 Review
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Introduction
0:51 – Linux Course Update
3:50 – Ubuntu 24.04 Server Features
6:53 – Linux Kernel changes
9:43 – GNOME Enhancements
11:05 – Ubuntu updated Installation
13:18 – ZFS on Linux
17:48 – Ubuntu Software Center
22:53 – Security Features in Ubuntu
25:14 – Highlights of Ubuntu 22.04
31:24 – Upcoming PoP!_OS Discussion
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Very good stuff! I follow your channels. I keep learning. Been using Unix since the Dec VAX/11-780 🙂
Sucks that for new Ubuntu LTS release you need to wait until 24.04.1 for it to take off properly, even tough I didn't have much problems using it so far. But all that talk about Linux community deciding what should stay and should go reminds me of my problems with modding community and I guess comminities in general. If you're not a part of the majority, then your preferences will always underperform. And with snaps I feel exactly that. I like snaps, but there is not enough support from devs. I tried a bunch of popular distros and always have problems properly running theme. Same goes for flatpaks and appimages sometimes not working properly. But at least they have software I want to use, unlike snaps. But Ubuntu works for me 99% of the time even if it have troubles. And snaps works 99% of the time. This segmentation is very hurting my experience with Linux in general. And since I'm not very advanced user this is one of the reasons I can't fully migrate from Windows as well.
Why do I believe that every Linux reviewer is using a Mac or a Windows machine for video edits?
Does 24.04 still have gnome-flashback?
Being a long term Ubuntu user, I have had enough of the bugs that don't get fixed – network manager openconnect for global protect was broken in 22.04, never got fixed, bugs just don't get priority. Reason I've moved back to debian.Making everything snaps, super annoying.
I can't really answer why, but I'm having a really bad time with 24.04. I've managed to completely nuke 4 installations of it thus far doing nothing more than just trying to use it. The last time I moved a window from one monitor to another and that was it. Rebooted and it wouldn't boot any part of the distro anymore. Been using linux on this computer for years so not sure whats up all of the sudden.
Moved to Ubuntu, I installed 24.04 desktop fresh and i was quite impressed. The installer could have more features for disk partitioning, but everything else was smooth. I have not had any issues.
I upgraded my servers to 24.04, then proceeded to revert them back some hours later. 24.04 breaks a number of things, like e.g. compute broke on Intel GPUs and LXD/Incus cannot run Docker-containers inside LXD-containers via either Podman or Docker, because AppArmor prevents pivot_root from working. I'll take another look when 24.04.1 comes around.
Ubuntu looks pretty good, but it has snaps and that's a deal breaker for me.
Ubuntu desktop hasn't exited me in many releases… The last 4 or 5 times I gave one of the ubuntu distros a try I had so many problems, rannging from not working network, bluetooth, all sorts of weird behaviour.. I can honestly say I'm forever done with Ubuntu desktop.. Btw.. Ubuntu server is great… wish it carried over to desktop.
Hı Jay hi Tom
1. ZFS is still experimental, because the first design of ZFS was overly complex and it has been abandoned. The current redesign from 23.10 is easier to handle for a normal grunt like me.
2. The problem with 24.04 LTS is, that they maybe should have renamed the release to 24.05 LTS, like they did in the past with 6.06 LTS. I struggled through the xz backdoor issues on the development branch and it was a complete chaos till 1 or 2 weeks before the release date (hundreds to even thousand packages hold back during updates). Note that Ubuntu uses xz for snaps too, so they had a much larger problem than other distros. The first 1 – 2 weeks of April I was convinced that the release would be delayed. However the last 2 weeks they achieved miracles and they even provided the professional Canonical bashers with just enough issues to keep them happy too.
3. I noticed the change of the scheduler. When updating my ~30 VMs, I run the Windows XP VM to listen to the wma copies of my LP and CDs 🙂 In the past I had to increase the priority of the XP-VM to avoid the music to stutter. Now the music just played fine without any stuttering on the default priority, even during a huge Windows 10 Pro upgrade 🙂 🙂