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Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

by cardz on 10/14/21, 2:11 PM with 85 comments

  • by u10242 on 10/14/21, 3:44 PM

    And Firefox is a snap package now; the .deb will go away next release.

    Canonical finally managed to make me switch back to Debian.

  • by torstenvl on 10/14/21, 2:41 PM

  • by BiteCode_dev on 10/14/21, 5:00 PM

    I've been fighting to keep Unity as long as I could, but it's now breaking too often so I accepted my gnome shell fate. It requires 10 plugins, one app, and manually crafted .desktop files to be usable, but ok, it's free software, I'll adapt.

    I understand the rational to also push for wayland first now, but it breaks my workflow for things like autokey. We do need to move from X11, but once again, something I will have to work with.

    And now Firefox is a snap, which is slow, has permissions problems all around (guaranteed the sandbox will break some addons), takes a lot of space, etc. Again, I get it, it's a perfect candidate to push the tech, and they need to solve user facing apps distribution problem with linux.

    I like Ubuntu a lot. I donate to it. I don't want to migrate to Manjaro or something else. Ubuntu is the sweet spot for things working out of the box.

    But with 21.010, I really feel like at least moving to Elementary or PopOS right now. Tried them, the first one can't install (EFI partition is too small), the second breaks on my machine.

    I don't like KDE, so I guess, next is Xubuntu? Something else?

  • by fastaguy88 on 10/14/21, 4:36 PM

    It makes me a bit nervous to go to the main page and be told that there are three types of images, and then only see two listed.

  • by websap on 10/14/21, 7:55 PM

    Canonical has been doing some great work with Ubuntu. Though now I wonder if the desktop Linux is dead. With WSL rapidly improving with each release, how many devs really want to deal with the configuration of a Linux system?

  • by Avalaxy on 10/14/21, 3:05 PM

    Excited for the new changes that kernel 5.12 and 5.13 bring. Especially NVidia+Wayland and the hotplugging of AMD GPUs. Let's hope NVidia will follow soon with this functionality (but I doubt it).

  • by zmk5 on 10/14/21, 7:54 PM

    Updated a bit ago and it is a fantastic release so far. Yaru is very mature by now and the speed improvements for animations in Gnome 40 are very evident.

  • by Flimm on 10/16/21, 10:29 AM

    For those using ZFS, don't install or upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10. It contains a known issue that causes filesystem corruption if using ZFS.

    See the release notes and search for "ZFS": https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...

  • by jikbd on 10/14/21, 3:08 PM

    Thank God it’s the end of that hippo wallpaper that looked like a pair of hairy bollocks.