Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements

[openminded]

They will still ship Gnome GTK 3 instead of GTK 4 applications, which is disappointing.

Is it me or there's something terribly wrong with fonts in GTK4 apps? They look awful on FHD displays. No matter if app is flatpak or not, some parts are just blurry as hell. Take Extensions, for example. Fedora, Ubuntu.

[wooque]

Latency - not ready for professional audio applications
Bluetooth audio support is rather poor
Higher power consumption - important on laptops

I use bluetooth audio for years and never had problem on Pulseaudio, as well with power consumption. Pipewire is better technically wise, but I didn't notice anything when I switched except it's started to automatically switch to Bluetooth audio when connected (at least on GNOME)

[tildearrow]

What the problem with pulseaudio this days? i dont have problems in the last 8 years

Latency - not ready for professional audio applications
Bluetooth audio support is rather poor
Higher power consumption - important on laptops

[szymon_g]

is kubuntu in beta as well? does it allows for an effortless zfs installation (the same way ubuntu does)?

[kvuj]

-march=power9 is absolutely brutal.

In my humble opinion, they maybe should have kept a special version for POWER8 and only compiled LTS releases for it in order to not absolutely shred the packaging servers.

[andre30correia]

PipeWire works surprisingly good (definitely better than Wayland) for me. Dropped PulseAudio as a nightmare.

What the problem with pulseaudio this days? i dont have problems in the last 8 years

[Steffo]

They will still ship Gnome GTK 3 instead of GTK 4 applications, which is disappointing. Seems that Ubuntu is the new Debian by shipping old packages.

[V1tol]

The moment they go PipeWire they will ship a broken setup by default.

PipeWire works surprisingly good (definitely better than Wayland) for me. Dropped PulseAudio as a nightmare.

[Amano]

POWER supprot baseline --> support?

Mesa 22.0 should also make it into Ubuntu 22.04 LTS --> it made it there already:

esa-va-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-va-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 i386
mesa-vdpau-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-vulkan-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64
mesa-vulkan-drivers/jammy,now 22.0.0-0ubuntu2 i386

[jabl]

The moment they go PipeWire they will ship a broken setup by default.

(I actually hope not)

Well, maybe. But yes, I do understand the logic of not doing a potentially disruptive change in an LTS release. Better to do it in a non-LTS release and let it mature for a while before including it in a LTS. Still, the little child in me that wants the latest and shiniest toys is disappointed.

OTOH I'm perfectly fine with the choice of the 5.15 LTS kernel. Once 22.10 rolls around there will be HWE kernels for those 22.04 LTS users that need newer kernels for driver support anyway.