GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough

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Phoronix: GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough

GNOME's Mutter 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.1 package was uploaded on Friday for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users. This Mutter compositor update not only brings Mutter 46.2 changes to this current Ubuntu release but also pulls in all of the 46.1 upstream changes too...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.2-Ubuntu

[Shadywack]

Ubuntu will drag their feet on packaging 558.58 drivers though.

[V1tol]

As expected from Canonical they will throw all their LTS promises into trash just for GNOME. Without stability Ubuntu is useless as a distro since you can get much better GNOME experience in Fedora and much stable Ubuntu base in Mint.

[hf_139]

If you want to be a stable distribution, you can not use GNOME.

[Eberhardt]

As expected from Canonical they will throw all their LTS promises into trash just for GNOME. Without stability Ubuntu is useless as a distro since you can get much better GNOME experience in Fedora and much stable Ubuntu base in Mint.

If you want to be a stable distribution, you can not use GNOME.

Have you read the article? There are no stability issues at all. VRR is still experimental and can't even be enabled via the settings GUI. The only potential drama is that GNOME added explicit sync support in 46.1, which seems to be totally stable though.

[You-]

If you want to be a stable distribution, you can not use GNOME.

I like how you are reality have never met. it does however lead to poor quality trolling.

How many enterprise stability distributions offer a default desktop other than gnome?

RHEL? Gnome
Ubuntu LTS? Gnome
Debian? Gnome
SUSE? Gnome.

Even historically non-gnome places like SUSE have Gnome as their desktop for their enterprise offering.

[Hibbelharry]

If you want to be a stable distribution, you can not use GNOME.

Sorry but your comment is deprecated. Others: just don't care.

[Shadywack]

I like how you are reality have never met. it does however lead to poor quality trolling.

How many enterprise stability distributions offer a default desktop other than gnome?

RHEL? Gnome
Ubuntu LTS? Gnome
Debian? Gnome
SUSE? Gnome.

Even historically non-gnome places like SUSE have Gnome as their desktop for their enterprise offering.

Ironic too considering each release breaks the majority of extensions people come to depend on, causing either the distro and/or extension maintainer to have to rebase every release. Stability in software often considers backwards compatibility, which Gnome is terrible at historically. Suse still prioritizes Plasma too, and I don't see YaST moving to the insanity of gtk4 anytime soon.

[Eberhardt]

Ironic too considering each release breaks the majority of extensions people come to depend on, causing either the distro and/or extension maintainer to have to rebase every release. Stability in software often considers backwards compatibility, which Gnome is terrible at historically. Suse still prioritizes Plasma too, and I don't see YaST moving to the insanity of gtk4 anytime soon.

It's true that extensions break, but they are not considered an official feature after all. And if you use a distro like Fedora or Ubuntu your extensions have been patched by the time you move to a new GNOME version 99% of the time anyway. And what do you consider the insanity of GTK4? Vastly imrpoved performance maybe?

[You-]

Ironic too considering each release breaks the majority of extensions people come to depend on, causing either the distro and/or extension maintainer to have to rebase every release. Stability in software often considers backwards compatibility, which Gnome is terrible at historically. Suse still prioritizes Plasma too, and I don't see YaST moving to the insanity of gtk4 anytime soon.

More ironic that you dont realise the enterprise stable distro releases generally stick to a single version of gnome, or even if they were to upgrade, the only extensions that will matter will be the ones they ship in their own repositories.

I think RHEL 7 and 8 used to update the desktop to a newer version, but even they have stopped. Ubuntu LTS and Debian never have. (I dont know what SUSE does).

The only version of gnome that matters to an enterprise distro is the one it ships. The only extensions that matter to it are also the ones they themselves ship, which will be in lockstep with their version of gnome.