Ubuntu 17.04 beta FACT: It's what's on the inside that matters, not looks Download Ubuntu 17.04 beta preview, recently released, and visually speaking you might be a little disappointed. Unity is almost entirely the same with some minor updates for a few core apps. Most of what's new comes from the move to GNOME 3.24 for a few apps and core components. Looks it’s said are not as important as what’s …
And Nvidia Optimus has PRIME Sync working ... no more screen tearing on the laptop's panel if you're using Nvidia Optimus. At the moment this needs xserver 19.1.3 from a staging PPA and a tweak to a config file, but it works, at last. This is a big deal for Optimus users. Fingers crossed X 19.1.3 makes it officially to 17.04 because then we can expect it in 16.04.3
I guess a new generation took over, one that only uses mobile devices, because Gnome and KDE are both wrecked in terms of multiple monitor support. I really do think it is a new younger generation to blame for this, even win10 is broken in this aspect, so new blood broke this across the board (a true generation bug).
I ran 17.04 for 4 days, then the radeon driver went panicy at boot, again, again, again....so bye to that for now.
"No UI Changes is a major plus point..."
I'm assuming the day will come when installing Skype for Linux, gives everyone ads in Files/Nautilus, too. By then, though the Windows 10 desktop will look more like Times Square billboards in terms of Ads, no doubt.
We all know where Windows 10 CU (NT) Systems are going.
Sounds like it incorporates a substantial amount of Borging too, for good measure. Maybe Canonical was just pushing that to its logical conclusion with those, uhhh, overly extroverted search lenses of yore...
"How else are you to ask for sugar from your neighbour?"
Yeah, about that - I don't personally know anyone who has ever done that or would conceivably consider doing it. We'd just stroll over to the nearest corner shop although that never happens due to a modest permanent stockpile. Buffering, people! It's not rocket science. Then again, that's just us...
I like Unity, for the sole reason that the title and menu bars merge into the taskbar at the top of the screen (I always maximise windows if I can). The lack of ability to customise it is fucking annoying but is secondary, for me at least.
All of my (personal) servers run slackware though. There's a lot of unnecessary crap on Ubuntu and its derivatives.
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