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Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.04 'Hirsute Hippo' 46

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Canonical released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application development SDK. Separately, Canonical and Microsoft have announced performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. Canonical blog adds: "Native Active Directory integration and certified Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu are top priorities for our enterprise customers." said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. "For developers and innovators, Ubuntu 21.04 delivers Wayland and Flutter for smoother graphics and clean, beautiful, design-led cross-platform development." You can read the full list of new features and changelog here.
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Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.04 'Hirsute Hippo'

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  • The Canonical team seem to be retards. Moving to Arch, anyways...

  • Wayland (Score:5, Interesting)

    by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:36AM (#61300954) Journal
    I'm curious to see how Wayland handles Nvidia and scaling. My biggest reason for not using Linux lately is the absolutely shitty scaling between my 4k and 1080 monitor. It is so bad I choose to use Windows to do my dev/technical work. I am not happy about it, but the current support of proper scaling makes Linux unacceptable for day to day work. Gnome, and especially KDE (my preferred desktop) seem to focus on adding 'cool new features' instead of making the boring everyday things that should just work, just work. That is the biggest drawback to open source, unless people are paid they won't fix the buggy but necessary stuff and will only focus on the shiny things. Squirrel! And if anyone says that's the beauty of open source you can fix it yourself, fuck off cunt. Once something has grown past a certain level of complexity not everyone can wade into the source code and fix it. Even programmers.

    • It’s almost comical to watch the mouse cursor change to a tiny size as soon as its inside a Slack window. I at least discovered a way to make Matlab readable on a 4k laptop display.

    • We definitely didn't need Wayland to fix that, its a driver-configuration issue that you can fix with drivers and a configuration dialog. It just makes perfect sense to have a configuration system which is well documented for the ratio between the screen size presented to the desktop environments and the actual hardware, since the scaling needs are going to vary from user to user. I have run into problems with this before and the lack of any clear configuration dialog for it. Just because you have a physica

      • Well then, maybe someone should actually make it possible to do without fucking around in configuration files. I'm tired of having to make shit work, instead of it just working. If Wayland can fix that, then it is better than what exists. If Windows and Apple can get things to scale in reasonably intelligent way with appropriate resolutions (which they do), it is not a unicorn we are asking for.

      • That's not at all how this works, what you're saying would only reduce the resolution.

        What's important is for the GUI toolkit to support drawing widgets in a way that is resolution-agnostic.
        Most toolkits still kinda suck at it.

      • We definitely didn't need Wayland to fix that

        Whether we need it or not is irrelevant as to whether it fixes an issue. Wayland wasn't created to fix the GP's problem specifically.

    • One of the frustrating thimgs about Wayland is that it solves nothing you can't fix in X.org with 1/100,000 the amount of code. Its just a massive exercise in wheel reinventing. So if you wanted the basic problems fixed, you don't want them wasting effort on this Wayland which solves nothing and instead fixing problems that real users have

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by sjames ( 1099 )

        Hear Hear. I wouldn't mind Wayland so much if not for all the gaslighting around remote access.

    • "my shit doesn't stink, and if you think it does: fix it yourself." - the common refrain of OSS prima donnas everywhere.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nagora ( 177841 )

      That is the biggest drawback to open source, unless people are paid they won't fix the buggy but necessary stuff and will only focus on the shiny things. Squirrel!

      So I suppose you sent all the money you saved on licensing proprietary software to the developers of the open source software you'd like "fixed"?

      No, didn't think so.

      Also, you're wrong. Open source developers work on things that they need or want. Sometimes that's shiny stuff but a lot of the time shiny stuff is ignored and we get complaints about how basic things look.

      • It wouldn't matter. They wouldn't fix it if I sent them money. How do I know? I used to actually support open source software with donations. And you are one of the open source cunts who doesn't want to understand. It's people like you who don't do any good for open source. Your feelings wouldn't be hurt if you actually fixed things first before expanding feature sets. My OP was marked up to 5 in literally about 2 minutes. Must be something to it then, eh?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by nagora ( 177841 )

          It wouldn't matter. They wouldn't fix it if I sent them money. How do I know? I used to actually support open source software with donations.

          Did you actually link the payments to what you wanted done? Or were you relying on your psychic powers?

          And you are one of the open source cunts who doesn't want to understand. It's people like you who don't do any good for open source. Your feelings wouldn't be hurt if you actually fixed things first before expanding feature sets. My OP was marked up to 5 in literally about 2 minutes. Must be something to it then, eh?

          Yeah, it proves there are a lot of whiny parasites reading your post.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aubz ( 7986666 )
      So true about KDE. Kubuntu 20.10 kills my sound every time its rebooted. I have to kill pulseaudio to get it working. Every reboot! PC sound has been a thing for how many decades? Get the basics fixed please.
    • I recently tried wayland and I found a new way to lo out my session. Just plugging in my second monitor does that. Bam! Back to login screen. Also the ide I'm using daily refuses to get out of minimized on wayland. Back to the drawing board. I'll check again in 5 years.

  • Hell froze over (Score:5, Funny)

    by fred6666 ( 4718031 ) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:41AM (#61300972)

    when the top priorities of a Linux distro are two Microsoft technologies (Active Directory and MS SQL server)

    • Have you tried to setup SAMBA recently without Active Directory? Windows 10 insists on Active Directory. You have to go mucking about with registry settings to make it (sort of) work without it.

      Microsoft broke networking, and Linux suffers the consequences once again.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by nadass ( 3963991 )

        Microsoft broke networking, and Linux suffers the consequences once again.

        You might have a shorter-term memory than most, but I'd hardly argue that Microsoft "broke networking" rather than the IBMs and Novells of the world. Microsoft's LDAP implementation (Active Directory) does things the other networking technologies couldn't dream of (clouds and stuff).

      • Re:Hell froze over (Score:4, Insightful)

        by fred6666 ( 4718031 ) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:11PM (#61301320)

        I'm using Samba just fine. Without Active Directory. And with Windows 10 clients.
        Didn't touch the registry.

  • "design-led" (Score:4, Insightful)

    by bettersheep ( 6768408 ) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:45AM (#61300984)
    Design led ? Oh FFS. So have those genius designers now got rid of ANY clues that a UI element is a button or an editable field, and the poor farking user just has to guess, every farking time ?

    • I want to know why changing an IP address requires flipping the on/off switch to take effect. It happens on every piece of hardware in the company.

    • So have those genius designers now got rid of ANY clues that a UI element is a button or an editable field, and the poor farking user just has to guess, every farking time ?

      My work machine just updated to the latest version of Office 365. MY EYES! The goggles do nothing!

      At least they made the "Reply All" button prominent and obvious...

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Jemm ( 747958 )
      Even the Ubuntu website is a designers mess. Low contrast thin font, confusing and needlessly wordy.

  • Ubuntu AD intergration (Score:5, Informative)

    by slack_justyb ( 862874 ) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:54AM (#61301016)

    Canonical released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration

    From everything I've read it means what it says. On Ubuntu desktop install you can join an AD domain and yes there will be GPOs that you can apply to Ubuntu boxen from the AD MMC snap-in.

    Wayland graphics by default

    Eh, Wayland is pretty good. Still issues with there not being enough support for it (especially with screen recorders and things in that vein, which they included PIPEWIRE [pipewire.org] to sorta address that [which OMG I'm sure this will spawn lots of very measured discussions about]). I'm sure there will be very reasonable discussion on Slashdot about the pros and cons of Wayland v. X11.

    Flutter application development SDK

    Vomits in mouth a bit. Flutter is one of those UI toolkits that's invented because the people who invented it are also the ones who invented the reason why it needed to be invented. Just just a lot of bad going down the list and every good intention is just another bad that they keep apologizing for by making more bad. But my two cents on Flutter, take with grain of salt.

    Separately, Canonical and Microsoft have announced performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu

    Yeah, just heads up for anyone where this wasn't clear. This is an Azure image of Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS that is optimized, not 21.04.

    You can read the full list of new features and changelog here.

    That's not really the ChangeLog, it's just an article on OMGUbuntu. Some points I noticed in Ubuntu's 21.04:

    • (o) No GNOME 40 (I'm sure for some that's a blessing, but I'm going to stay away from that flame war for now)
    • (o) No GTK4. GTK4 is really neat stuff. I'm not saying everyone needs to go out today and port, but I think when you look at what has changed between GTK3 and GTK4, you'll go, "hmmmm, well that's nice". Now that nice might not justify you porting though, but I don't think anyone is going to look at GTK4 and go "well that was a piss poor direction to go in".
    • (o) Home folders no longer have read and execute for other, it's just user/group rwx permissions.

    • This is interesting. I've always had hope for Wayland but shunned it for how slow it was being developed, but over the past year Ubuntu has been literally borderline non-functional within a VBox VM even with the correct drivers installed. I switched to Wayland and the performance issues disappeared, but automatic display scaling didn't work. It was around that time when I found out the borderline impossibility if specifying custom resolutions for Wayland and all the classical tools and methods naturally don

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by arQon ( 447508 )

      > but I don't think anyone is going to look at GTK4 and go "well that was a piss poor direction to go in"

      Oh? I guess technically things like CSD are "really" part of GTK3 rather than GTK4, but overall the response is *absolutely* "Yes, that IS a piss-poor direction to go in". I have no idea where your optimism is coming from, but it's nice to see that one person outside of GNOME thinks they're moving in the direction.
      Must be kinda lonely for you though, as you're literally THE first person I've seen with

  • Running it on my laptop and it one smooth and responsive system. It is too bad this release is not an LTS as I want to run it for a good long time. Congrats on a great release.

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