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Ubuntu spotted in the latest Mark Rober video (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The moment in the video: https://youtu.be/6KcV1C1Ui5s&t=938

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

From what I've seen Ubuntu LTS to LTS updates still work just fine. When I see a post on reddit asking why did it fail, it's usually due to PPAs or because they upgraded to a LTS that released recently and something is wrong with the upgrade path. Mistakes happen, and get fixed. Windows 11 also fucked up some computers that attempted to upgrade to 24H2.

I totally get not trusting the distro anymore if it caused you so many problems tho.

I also want a progress bar or something to indicate when things are complete and I can resume doing whatever I had in min

This was actually added in 24.10. When you close the running app that wants to update, a progress bar appears under its icon in the dock. (https://youtu.be/MI0cN1tuZGU?t=5m44s)

As for the notifications, yes I can see them being annoying. But they can be turned off in the settings. In which case the ideal behaviour is you quitting the app, doing something else, and the apo quietly auto updating in the background. There are bugs. I experienced having to close Firefox for a few seconds because it wanted to update. This should be changed.

What I also don't like is how you will encounter abandoned snaps such as qbittorrent, but under it there will be qbittorrent-something, the app maintained by another person. It would make a lot of sense to just transfer the ownership of qbittorrent to the active maintainer.

Edit: Progress is also being made to make the Snap permissions behave similarly like apps on Android. A user will open Firefox, save an image, and a popup will ask whether Firefox should be allowed to access to Downloads, or to the entire Home folder. More permissions like this are expected to arrive in the future.