The significant difference that users would see visually is the GNOME version change – GNOME 3.36 vs the GNOME 42. This is the significant difference that all users migrating to current LTS would face. The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with GNOME 42 brings a horizontal workspace view alongside the horizontal...
must admit I switched from Windows a few months ago and am fine with it mostly. My essential needs are browsing (firefox / chrome), music(banshee / rhytmbox) , movies (vlc) and rudimentary docs / spreadsheet work (libreoffice) and all of which are handled...
Ubuntu Serveris built for server environments, which is a lightweight and minimalistic version that is stripped off of any GUI applications and elements to enhance the speed and performance of running production-grade applications. It canserve as a web server, file server, development server, and ...
The same goes for other software like GIMP, LibreOffice, etc. This is a compromise you have to make with Debian. This is why “Debian stable = Debian stale” joke is popular in the Linux community. Ubuntu LTS releases also focus on stability. But they usually have more recent versions of...
Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu LTS (long term support) version as its base. An LTS version of Ubuntu is released every two years and henceyou also get a major Mint version every two years(Mint 19, 20, 21, etc). Like the Ubuntu LTS versions, a major Linux Mint version is also supported...
"The latest version of GNOME 3 has been released today. Version 3.30 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements and new features. This release features some significant performance improvements. The entire desktop now uses fewer system resources, which ...
With LibreOffice for your office suite; Firefox for your web browser; Thunderbird for your e-mail; and GIMP for your graphics needs, it has all the fundamentals you need for home and office work. And they're all free. There's no need to buy or use a pirated version of Microsoft ...
LibreOffice, VLC, and many more rich set of software packages. Software distributed to you in a form that is called package. As a distro has roughly 10000 software or more, so there are roughly 10000 packages, distributed to you. When we say package, (mostly) we mean package. And vice ...
LibreOffice6.2.2.2 (6.1.5.2) Firefox66.0.3 (66.0.2) Ubuntu Software33.0.6 (3.30.2) Files3.32.0 (3.26.4) GCC8.3.0 (8.2.0) glibc2.29 (2.28) OpenSSL1.1.1b (1.1.1) Should You Upgrade or Not? It's hard to make a compelling argument for upgrading based on what we've seen so far...
Then, open-source programs such as the Linux operating system and the Apache HTTP Server showed that this kind of software could be far cheaper, better, and more secure than their closed-source rivals. Since then, many popular end-user programs such as Firefox, LibreOffice, and Thunderbird ...