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Canonical Aiming For A New Desktop Installer With Ubuntu 21.10
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Canonical Aiming For A New Desktop Installer With Ubuntu 21.10
Canonical has been working on developing a new desktop installer built around Google's Flutter toolkit and they aim to introduce it later this year in Ubuntu 21.10...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Installer-Plan
** BREAKING NEWS **
Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical
Martim Wimpress, Ubuntu desktop lead, has announced he is leaving Canonical.
Martin Wimpress
Sharing the news on Twitter, Martin says he is leaving the company ‘soon’ to take up a new role with the folks at Slim.ai.
Martin joined Canonical’s Ubuntu’s desktop team back in 2017, and became its desktop lead in 2019, taking over the role from Will Cooke.
But (as most of you will know) Martin has a much longer history with the wider open source community thanks, in part, to his role in the creation of Ubuntu MATE, his work on the MATE desktop environment, and his starring role as co-host on the official Ubuntu Podcast.
Ubuntu MATE fans sweating at this news can breathe: Martin says he plans to continue leading the Ubuntu MATE flavour going forward (hurrah) and will remain active in the wider Ubuntu and Snapcraft communities (phew).
Sad news? Yeah.
Marin has been a first-rate captain of the Ubuntu mothership, as reaction to the most recent Ubuntu LTS release proves. His successor (assuming there is one!) will need big feet to fill out his shoes (assuming he leaves them behind).
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*watching this trainwreck unfold...
I wonder how they can afford such stunts one after another...
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Casually some weeks (or months) ago Pope of Canonical talked about to refresh the installer... What a mysterious coincidence... Anyway I really dislike material design, it also stinks Gugl... It makes sense on Android but it would be a nightmare if we start to have all our environment that resemble Android, no please... But it looks like that catching up devs is the new trend. The ridiculous part is that people will use the new Ubuntu installer on WSL2...
Anyway Ubuntu has a great brand new CLI installer... Everytime I install a new Debian I don't use the graphic installer the CLI is better and faster.Last edited by Danielsan; 02 February 2021, 02:06 PM.
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From a consumer's point of view, I have never had a good experience with apps built with Flutter.
Apps were always heavy, both on storage and system resources, with both performance and latency taking a hit, even in more powerful devices (where these apps could at least respond after less than a minute and a half), not to mention the damage to battery life on mobile devices.
And this is regardless of operating system and CPU arch, this was consistent across Windows, Linux and Android (still have yet to figure out how to build a Hackintosh, after I get the budget for a new motherboard, AsRock's 9-series boards are notoriously unstable, with mine literally in the process of dying), and on arm7, arm8, x86, and x64 (both amd64 and x86-64).
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Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
Thank you!
As a Kubuntu user, I always start in "Try mode" instead of "Install mode" to be able to start other programs before or during installation and I open the KDE Partition manager to identify the SSD drive where I want to install by looking at their name (Samsung, ADATA, etc) and their location (/dev/sdX) and the partitions locations.
I like Gparted too and I install it sometimes if I have internet or boot into its live cd before and do all the changes.
Hopefully someone will take these good design ideas from either KDE Partition manager or Gparted and put it in the installers themselves.
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Originally posted by f0rmat View Post
I agree with you 100%. The state of the GUI partitioning in many of these installers is barely adequate at best and horrible at worst. Many GUI installers cannot even recognize what the partitions are except for their device name (I have used some that could not always identify the file system (looking at you swap)). If you do not know the partitions, you can really bork your system. And if you have multiple partitions (more than about 5 or 6), some installers take forever to identify them. That is one area where Gnome has it right - GParted simply works. I always keep a bootable USB stick with the latest version of GParted on it as when I am about to rework any partitions or I need to make sure I have every partition correctly identified. Yes I can identify partitions from the CLI, but the ease of GParted (as well as the clumsiness of my big fat fingers) make GParted my first choice.
As a Kubuntu user, I always start in "Try mode" instead of "Install mode" to be able to start other programs before or during installation and I open the KDE Partition manager to identify the SSD drive where I want to install by looking at their name (Samsung, ADATA, etc) and their location (/dev/sdX) and the partitions locations.
I like Gparted too and I install it sometimes if I have internet or boot into its live cd before and do all the changes.
Hopefully someone will take these good design ideas from either KDE Partition manager or Gparted and put it in the installers themselves.
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