Ubuntu 20.10 rides atop the Linux 5.8 kernel, includes the GNOME 3.38 release, has new wallpapers, Active Directory integration (for enterprise users) in the installer, and carries a clutch of updated software, tools, and libraries.
Plus this is the first version of Ubuntu to offer desktop support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB + 8GB models).
Not a massive release, but welcome new versions of the core parts of the distribution nonetheless.
Nice! I wonder if their VLC and Chrome could be hardware accelerated though, as the new version of Raspbian could be.
I’m going to test this out on my Pi4-4GB this weekend. I’m not a huge fan of Ubuntu these days with the aggressive push towards Snaps over .deb packages, but I’m beyond ready for a true desktop OS experience on the Pi.
Running it since the beta, and loving it. I think it is almost feature parity with Unity. Those paper cuts that were implemented on Unity have migrated over to GNOME Shell now. Though there is the pesky thing about having the ability to only turn of desktop icon via extension manager. I hope that gets integrated into the settings. Then for it would pretty much there when compared to Unity.
Interesting to see how cross-platform we’ve become:
OpenZFS developers from *BSD, OpenSolaris-forks and Linux combining their efforts
Windows has WSL2
FreeBSD support cross-building on Linux
Ubuntu supporting AD from the installer
Microsoft making Edge available on Linux
Good makes it a better computing world. Now only if macOS would come to the playground and starting playing everyone else.