Thanks for the review, Mr Explains

Thanks for your review, Gary. I find Ubuntu based distros work on my old 2013 MBP. (I tried Fedora; but, every so often, an update breaks something since Fedora is based on the "latest and greatest".) I've tried Ubuntu 22.04 on my MBP and found I kept having to deal with some incompatibilities or issues. Not so in 24.04. Ubuntu 24.04 on the MBP is really solid. No issues so far. I notice it runs a little hotter under load than before - I'm hoping some future updates and bug fixes will address that. Other than that, everything else works. I installed drivers for my FaceTime camera as well as mbpfan daemon. Response of the distro is snappy and I don't experience any lag. All in all, a very solid release and a much improved experience.

Great Video, Looks like some good progress from Ubuntu and the RDP feature now part of the OS Release.

Great review mate. Love Ubuntu. Regards from Adelaide, South Australia. 👍🏼

I noticed the change of the scheduler. Every Friday I update my VMs and that takes 2 to 3 hours, so I start my Windows XP VM to play the wma copies of my LPs and CDs to have some nice music, while working. Normally I had to increase the priority of the Win XP VM to ensure the smooth playing of my music and to avoid hick-ups. Running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, I don't have to do it anymore. The music is playing smoothly even with CPU loads on the Host of ~100%, due to a large update of the Windows 10 VM. The scheduler notices that XP did not use much CPU time, so they directly get access to the CPU, when needed :) :) I even had the impression, that the updates went smoother. In the past I did one VM at a time, because after a while I did not like to do stuff in parallel. Now I did run the large Windows update and in the same time I updated ~14 Linux systems and those Linux updates seemed more responsive than in the past :) :). Note that I run a Ryzen 3 2200G (4C4T; 3.7GHz), the 2nd slowest Ryzen ever.

Thanks. Time to upgrade then.

That Canonical video presentation of new Ubuntu is simply spectacular.

nice primer. just what I needed to know for upgrade consideration. question: isn't rdp for remote desktop insecure?

Installer is broken for me. The logs it asks me to check out for the errors are literally a black terminal window with nothing in it. This desktop previously had current Mint on it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

No UKpostsr selected Manual partition during installation of 24.04

Can this be used to update the "Ubuntu on Windows" system?

Broke my system when I forced an upgrade from 22.04 to this. Anyone who tries, keep this in mind. I finally clean installed it. OneDrive file access using files not working. It crashes every time I try to access files. However, the files shared with me works fine!

okay now I want to install Ubuntu , 😅

Tried to add flatpak via terminal, installs software plugin+flatpak + flathubrepos. No success, flatpaks are not displayed. Did I miss something?

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With an LTS version, can you still upgrade it to non-LTS releases? I am new to Linux and am currently ripping this ISO to a USB drive.

I don't know if anyone noticed the UKposts promotion cards in the background and I've been trying to click it and after a minute realised it was just a background

Will you also do a review of the latest Fedora 40 release?

I feel this version 24.04 is slow to load, apps are slower to load and some like Google Chrome I cannot get to run at all. Compared to 22.04 which I felt was very good this latest release is a step backwards and I am considering moving to another distro.

Wow, it has the Earnest Edible Visual Deadman Fist.

One concern for me? Snaps! I have yet to be convinced of how secure and dependable some Snap apps will be. Otherwise, a great release.

time to update my minecraft server.

Novice question. Gary is there a way to install it on an Android tablet ? And can you do a tutorial if it is possible. Thank you .

So can you now install drivers, utilities and games without being a terminal guru?

snap and gnome it it the reason I try to avoid Ubuntu

Unity all the way