Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements

[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

[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)

[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.

[hax0r]

I went back and installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS on my i7-2600K, Unity7, HUD, global menus, fonts, and compiz are so comfy. I'm on GTX 680 so reclocking with nouveau works out of the box on 4.15 kernel with "echo 0f > /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate" and everything feels fluid and snappy thanks to compiz.

[Linuxxx]

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.

AFAIK, GNOME copied their great role-model there (Apple), i.e. just getting rid of sub-pixel hinting altogether, because if Apple is doing it, then it can't be bad or wrong.

[mantide]

I am on this beta right now. And it feels unbelievably responsive. Not sure what's the reason but everything is so fast. Never experienced this before. Granted Gnome crashed way too often at this moment but it recovered almost instantly, definitely recovered in less than 1 sec. I am using a high refresh rate monitor and I play competitive FPS games. This feeling is awesome! It's almost smoother than Windows 11 but I cannot say that for sure.
A side question, has anyone successfully running 4k 160hz with default amdgpu driver? The max setting I can achieve is 144hz on 6700 xt.

[Linuxxx]

I went back and installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS on my i7-2600K, Unity7, HUD, global menus, fonts, and compiz are so comfy. I'm on GTX 680 so reclocking with nouveau works out of the box on 4.15 kernel with "echo 0f > /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate" and everything feels fluid and snappy thanks to compiz.

Telling the same story multiple times still doesn't change the fact that you are running an EOL-OS, unless you paid for Ubuntu's extended support, which I very much doubt (by pressing X).
[Though come to think of it, I maybe once could have read that said extended support can be obtained for free for certain individuals that meet certain requirements;
you might want to check on that...]

[Linuxxx]

I am on this beta right now. And it feels unbelievably responsive. Not sure what's the reason but everything is so fast. Never experienced this before. Granted Gnome crashed way too often at this moment but it recovered almost instantly, definitely recovered in less than 1 sec. I am using a high refresh rate monitor and I play competitive FPS games. This feeling is awesome! It's almost smoother than Windows 11 but I cannot say that for sure.
A side question, has anyone successfully running 4k 160hz with default amdgpu driver? The max setting I can achieve is 144hz on 6700 xt.

Just in case you want to make sure that your Ubuntu install definitely beats Windows 11 in the smoothness department:

Either install the "lowlatency" Linux kernel flavor or add preempt=full to the kernel parameters in GRUB.

Both options will turn your Linux kernel into a soft real-time one, which ultimately boils down to giving user-space apps (e.g. games) a faster response time than Ubuntu's default "generic" flavor with just preempt=voluntary.

[er888kh]

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.

Yeah, there seems to be a problem. I tested fedora 36 beta today (using live on bare metal, didn't install) and it looked blurry AF. I don't have this problem at all with Arch (daily driver), Manjaro or Ubuntu 22.04 beta (both live).

[Paradigm Shifter]

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

I know it's less efficient, but would it not be possible to install Ubuntu Server or vanilla Ubuntu with the ZFS adjustments desired, then apt kubuntu-desktop?