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Ubuntu 18.04 Review of New Features

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is around the corner. As promised, I am here with the review of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with a voice over. Please ignore my accent 😉
Not much has changed since we last saw the beta preview. There is the new welcome screen that gives the option to opt out of data collection.
There are some non-visal changes as well:
– GNOME Shell now supports Thunderbolt 3
– Updated software and libraries
– Python 3.6
– For fresh installs, swap file will be used by default instead of the swap partition
– You can no longer encrypt just the home option using ecryptfs-utils at the time of installation. It is recommended to use full-disk encryption instead.
More resources on Ubuntu 18.04:
List of all new features: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-18-04-release-features/
Frequently asked questions on Ubuntu 18.04: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-18-04-faq/
Upgrade procedure: https://itsfoss.com/upgrade-ubuntu-version/
Things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04: https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-18-04/

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20 thoughts on “Ubuntu 18.04 Review of New Features”

  • [Previous] and [Next] buttons on the top title bar? LOL: Is it an iOS app? A kind of advanced OS with trendy GUI for newbies … GUI is totally destroyed. GNOME lost the perspective. …

  • support touchscreeen?. i have a dell inspiron 13 7000 2 in 1

  • who's also here because of low performance with and got sick of windows 10's shit?

  • "GNOME Shell now supports Thunderbolt 3" – do we know if this new feature supports graphics for e-GPU's?

  • Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing. Just getting my feet wet with Linux, so this helped a lot. Keep up the good work.

  • Nice review.

    What is that screen where you say "under the hood?" I like the way it presents all the info.

  • They should've kept Unity. I use Fedora so there's no reason for me to install Ubuntu and use it. But the virtual machines in the computers of our university lab have Ubuntu 16.04 lts and I like Unity a lot. Nothing on that OS other than Unity desktop impresses me and now Unity is gone too.
    I'm on Fedora 28 KDE spin and using the KDE because, even though it's a bit heavy on hard disk than Gnome, it has way better memory management. Gnome however seem to have addressed this on 3.30 so I most probably will be switching to Gnome on Fedora 29.
    I'll also give a try to 18.04 on a vm just to see how far it has come, the last Ubuntu OS I used was 17.10 and it was, mmmm, not quite good as I expected it to be. I mean, I keep using Windows 10 most of my time even after dual booting 17.10. Fedora 27 was the OS that managed to get me to do most of my computing on Linux and now the only reason I boot to windows is to play games.
    Up to this point , I've used, Ubuntu 14.04lts, Ubuntu 16.04lts, Ubuntu 17.10, Linux mint(Don't remember which version, the one based on 17.10 or 17.04?… Zorin OS, Fedora 27(one that made me use Linux for almost everything except gaming and C# programming), Fedora 28(Currently my primary OS).

  • I stopped using Ubuntu because I hated Unity

  • how did u install google keep and chrome?….i can only find chromium.

  • Ubuntu 18.04 is freezing constantly. It's not even possible to use it. I did a fresh install from Ubuntu website, on a new SSD disk and the system is very unstable. For the first time I'm preferring Windows 10 instead of Ubuntu. At least when Windows freezes, it recovers perfectly. Ubuntu stays frozen forever.

  • Great video,
    What command in terminal did you use at the end of the video to show the system info?

  • What is your computer's configuration? Ubuntu 18 seems snappier for you than me

  • Are there any major issues, bugs, or known shortcomings?
    I see several problems in the release notes, that could ruin ones linux experience and computer usage, such as being unable to exit live sessions (1718850)

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