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#Ubuntu #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Sponsor: TuxCare
01:54 Visual Changes
04:51 Ubuntuspecific changes
09:49 GNOME 47 Changes
14:36 Under the hood
17:28 Parting Thoughts
19:16 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
20:14 Support the channel

Visual Changes:
It's Ubuntu 20th birthday
Ubuntu anniversary: you get a "20th anniversary" text at boot and on the login screen,
You get the Ubuntu 4.10 startup sound, you can disable it in the settings
You get a new "warty" brown accent colour, which I absolutely love because I'm nostalgic of that era of Ubuntu, but other people might find it ugly to the extreme
You get revamped Ubuntu LTS wallpapers, and 4.10 wallpaper as well, so you can relive these wonderful moments
I wish they had added the themes from various LTS as well, the 6.06 theme, 8.04 one, and maybe the 10.04 one

Ubuntu specific changes
Dock: progress bars when a snap is updating in the background, better than having the icon disappear then reappear
Context menu is improved a bit, with a little header label and an other option: App Details, to open the app's listing in the App Center. Only works for snap apps
App Center has a new Art and design category, the "featured" snaps section is moved up, in progress downloads are now visible in the "manage" label of the sidebar
You can also uninstall snaps from that "manage" part of the app, and if you're trying to update an app that's open, you'll see a banner telling you to close that ap to perform the update
Touchscreen support is improved, but couldn't test that myself
Security Center: this is a new thing that lets you manage permissions for snap applications. Right now, you can enable an experimental permission that will trigger the new Ubuntu prompting client
This is your "allow app to do X or Y" kind of thing, where you can set permissions once, always, for any type of file, and the like, and you can then tweak these permissions in the securiyty center
Think of it as the flatseal / flatpak permissions, but for snaps
In the future, this thing will also get firewall controls, Ubuntu pro subscription settings, and more

GNOME 47:
Accent colors plugged into a settings portal, so should work with more apps
This means the colors that are offered are a bit different than previously
Dialogs are revamped with split buttons, looks like macOS
Hardware encoded screen recordings
Nautilus new sidebar, network emplacements, internal drives in the sidebar now: no more other locations
Nautilus: used as file picker
Settings: Activate windws on hover in accessibility, input source previews with keyboard layouts, online accounts are better with MS 365 suporting email calendar and contacts, webdav auto discovers services, and IMPA SMTP also does autocomplete now

Under the hood
Wayland for everyone, even Nvidia, but X11 is still preinstalled
Better fingerprint support with a newer version of fprintd and libfprint, but can't test that
System profiling tools preinstalled, like sysprof, useful for developers to see why their app is underperoforming, or to optimize things
APT command line tool also was updated to version 3.0, and the terminal UI is much more legible, with colors, padding, line breaks and spacing, so t's way more readable
Kernel 6.11 with more hardware support and faster ext4 filesystem, Mesa 24.2.3 and Nvidia 550 or 560