[Music]welcome to another video from explainingcomputersthis time we're going to take a look atubuntu2204 the latest version of the highlypopular linux distrothis was released on the 21st of april2022 and it's an lts or long-termsupport version of the operating systemwhich means it'll receive updates until2027solet's go and take a closer lookright it's april the 21st and here weare on the ubuntu website where ubuntu2204 has just been released and as wecan see here it's got the code namejammy jellyfishso we'll click on download and go toubuntu desktop so we can get hold of afile and if you look down here we'll seethere we are there's ubuntu 2204 veryexciting and we can see with its systemrequirements are not too onerous a 2gigahertz dual core processor 4gigabytes of memory and 25 gigabytes ofdrive space to install so this should beokay for the majority of of moderndesktop and laptop computers so we'llclick on download to get hold of an isofile there we are and we'll save thatlike that and as the download proceedsit's worth noting that a new long-termsupport version of ubuntu is releasedevery two years with its name reflectingthe year and month of release so forexample the last lts version was ubuntu2004 or focal fossa released in april2020 and now in april 2022 we haveubuntu 2204 the jammy jellyfishbetween each long-term support releaseubuntu also gets six monthly updates butas these have just nine months ofsupport many people myself includedstick to the lts versions and if you'rewondering i run ubuntu every day on a pcconnected to my televisionanyway with the download complete we'llclose down a browser and run upbelow.etcher which you could obtain fromboleno.io forward slash etcher and we'llselect the iso file we've justdownloaded there we are and i've alreadyplugged the usb flash drive into thecomputer which etcher has picked up sowe'll click on flash and yes windows wereally want to do it and etcher will nowturn the flash drive into a bootableubuntu 2204 media and do note that doingthis will delete all files from the usbdriveright i've now got the usb drive pluggedinto my i5 test rig so we'll turn it onthere we are and the pc is set in itsbios to boot from a usb drive if presentand there we are it's worked so we'llpick the first option which is trioinstall ubuntuand note that booting ubuntu from a usbdrive and selecting the option we justselected will not change anything onyour computer so it's perfectly safe todo it if you just want to try ubuntu outhowever here we'll be doing a fullinstall onto the computer's ssd which iscurrently a blank drive with nooperating systemand here we are we can see the jammyjellyfish coming into view and here wecould just try out ubuntu if we wish tobut what i'm going to do is i've justset this to an install so i click oninstall ubuntuand i have to pick my language like thatwhich is definitely english uk andenglish uk and continueand i'm going to do a normalinstallation we want to download updateswhilst installing and i also want toinstall third-party software forgraphics and additional media formatsso again we'll click on continueand the top option we've now got is toerase the disk and install ubuntu whichis what we're going to do you can dothings which are more complicated undersomething else you could for example beinstalling ubuntu alongside windows ifit was already on your computer but herewe've got the most straightforwardinstallation possible onto a blank ssdso we'll click on install nowand it'll just check we want to do ityes we doi now have to set some of the basicthings we always set during aninstallation where i'm in the world fortime things like thatand now to set up an accountthere we are all the details are enteredi'd note this is just a local account onthe computer and we'll now click oncontinue againand there we are the happy marineinvertebrate the jammy jellyfish willget on installing itself on the computerand there we are the installation iscomplete so we'll just click on restartnowand remove our installation media andpress enterand by jingo we've now booted ubuntufrom the ssd so we'll just login there we go and we've got a first runwizard here do i want to connect onlineaccounts now i'm going to skip thatam i going to help improve ubuntu yesi'll do that i think i'll help the callsbut i'm not going to turn on locationservices and there we are we're allready to go with the jammy jellyfishhiding just under herebut as usual in one of these videos andi want to make a few scaling changes sothings look better on video and i'llcome back to you when i've done thatgreetings here i am back again and we'regoing to take a look around both tointroduce ubuntu to new users and tohighlight new featuresplease note that i'll be includingchanges introducing ubuntu 2004 as manypeople don't install the intermediatesix monthly updatesso the most important thing to say hereis that ubuntu 2204 is a no major shocksrelease there's no difficult transitionhere from the previous version it's notlike going from for example windows 7 towindows 8 rather the jammy jellyfishdelivers subtle and polished updates tothe user interface and applicationsalong with some technology changes underthe hoodstarting with the interface by defaultthe updated gnome desktop continues tohave a top bar and a vertical dock fromwhich i think we'll launch the nautilusfile manager which has been updatedlooks very nice and i'm sure i'll enjoywrangling data hereif we go to the top bar on the right wefind there's still a menu here whichgives us access to important things likethe ability to log out and power off atthe end of the session but we've alsonow here got access to some powermanagement modes which are new in ubuntu2204 and i'll say more about these in asecondalso here we can open up all settingslike that where as you can see in screendisplay i've already set fractionalscaling and set a scale factor of 150if we move up to appearance which isjust uh up here there it is let's movethat down there there's quite a fewchanges here and most notably theability to change the accent color fromubuntu's classic orange to one of nineother colors so we could have forexample blue and that would reflectstraight away in the farm manager upthere over on the dock etc or we couldhave reds or we could have a green it'samazing what difference changing a colormakes isn't it but i think i'm going tostick with orange i can't deal with allthis change straight awaywe've also here got revised dark modesand light modes i do like the dark modelet's stick with that for a second butwe've lost here the standard mode so nowwe've only got two modes to select fromif i scroll down here we've got more newsettings lots of which deal with thedock and one of the things you mighthave noticed is that the trash can whichis called the rubbish bin here becausei'm in the uk has been moved from adesktop onto the dock but we canconfigure this if we wish there's a newconfigure dock behavior button whichallows us to turn on off the rubbish binor trash can like that and we can alsochoose whether we wish to includevolumes whether they're mounted or notetcthere's also now a control called panelmode and if we turn that off the dockdoesn't fill the entire display we cansee that more if i make it smaller withits icons it just fills some of thedisplay although i think again i'm goingto stick with the the classic modeif we go up a bit you'll see there's nowa button to control showing of apersonal folder let's just move up therethe personal folder is down here we canflick that on and off and you'll alsosee it down there the default positionfor new icons is bottom right but againas you can see we can change that so newicons would go where we wanted themanother thing to look at here let's justget rid of that bit tidy is we've got abrand new section called multitaskingand this controls things like forexample active screen edges if i tookthis window and push it to the top itwould do that thing to move it out andwe can move it back again i hatefeatures like that in operating systemsfor me the most important thing aboutthis new control panel is that we canturn that type of thing off but if youlike using things like hot callers andthat sort of stuff this is important andalso down here we've got control ofworkspaces whether we have a fixednumber a variable number and how theywork on multiple monitors things likethat it's exciting to a whole new partof the the settings paneland talking of new things let's go downto power which is justdown there where we've got more optionsnow although not massively more here ondesktop but earlier i ran things up on alaptop where we now have a wide spectrumof power options and not least thesefinally include the ability to show theremaining battery capacity as apercentage on the top barso let's now turn to applications withfavorites included here on the dockthings like the rhythm box music playerand the firefox web browser let's launchthat up there we go and let's also havelaunched for example libreoffice writerhave to launch that in a video like thisand we have to write in the wordhello in very large letters it is thelaw we're making review videos to dothat there we areand as you might have noticed on thedock when we've launched an applicationagainst a dot appears in the accentcolor therefore libreoffice writer andhere for the firefox web browser and ifwe open up another window in anapplication for example in libreofficewriter we open up a new text documentlike that and we'll write saygoodbye here would seem a sensible ideawouldn't it let's keep things nice andyin and yang and all that type of stuffand as you can now hopefully see on thedock we've now got two dots againstlibreoffice writer because two windowsare open and if we click on the icon wecan now move between them using this asa means of a navigation which is ratherhandyor if we wish there is a menu whichappears on the top bar up here for theapplication with the focus here forlibreoffice writer and again we can usethis as a means of navigation or oflaunching new documents or quittingthings like that and you'll see if i goacross to the firefox web browser thismenu changes because firefox now has thefocusacross from this control we've also gota button labeled activities now if ipress that it will show everythingrunning on the system and again we canuse it as a means of navigationor if we wish we can get to activitiesby pressing the super key the button onthe keyboard with the windows logo on itif i press that again it brings upactivities and we can select betweenthings using that button to our heart'scontentalthough this said we can also still usealt and tab which is my favorite meansof moving between different applicationsand works perfectly well here in ubuntunow fortunately we're not just limitedto using applications from the dockthere's lots of other applicationspre-installed and if we go down here toshow applications it shows us everythinginstalled on the system and indeed italso shows us workspaces we can see atthe top here the workspace we're usingor we could start a new workspace whichhas got nothing on it let's just launchthe file browser to have something onthat workspace and if we go back to showapplications you can see there's thatworkspace we can go back to the firstone just like thatand as i'm sure you've worked out herewe can see all applications installed onthe system we can stroll across themhorizontally like that if i get it rightin previous versions of ubuntu thescrolling here was vertical nothorizontal not a radical change and ihave to admit in this screen is i thinkthe one thing it isn't quite writingubuntu 2204 in terms of the interfacewhich is the labels on all theapplications and i know i've got 150scale factor set here but scale factorsgo up to 275 and even on 150 all theactual labels on these icons are gettingcut off for no apparent reason there'smasses of space available why aren'tthey on displaythis said there is something verypositive about this screen because nowif i grab an application for examplesolitaire i can grab it like that moveit around you couldn't move these iconsaround you couldn't rearrange them inprevious versions of ubuntu and the factyou now can you can bring your favoriteapplications to the front of this screeni think is a very useful thing to beable to dotalking of applications and innovationone of the great additions to ubuntu2204 is a much improved screen captureand screencasting facilityand we access this using the printscreen key like this where as you cansee we can grab a selection just move itout as we wish or we can grab a windowdifferent windows are available we couldhave for example that one or we couldgrab the entire screen let's do a windowjust to prove the principle we'll grabgoodbye and capture like that it's nowput that in the clipboard but also if wego across to the file manager which ison another workspace i hope you'rekeeping up with this i think i am we canopen up pictures and we can open upscreenshots and in therethere we find the capture which made ofthat particular windownow finally when it comes toapplications i thought i should show youubuntu software over here and thisallows us to see everything installed onthe system again and to uninstall themif we wish it allows us to performupdates everything's currently up todate and here of course we can add newapplications if we wish and we can dothat by searching for them we can do itby going down to editor's picks downhere editors choice or we can lookinside categoriesart and design being obviously a greatone to look at we can install somethinglike blender for example if we wanted toso it's very easy here to install newpieces of software and i think what i'mgoing to do is to install critter by wayof example a great painting applicationall we have to do is to click on installand enter our passwordthere we go and it'll install theapplicationand there we go that is finished let'sclear upon this workspace like that andhopefully down here if we look at allapplications on the system critter isnow there on the end it is we have verystraightforwardly installed a new pieceof software which i'm sure the jammyjellyfish willenjoy right let's now look at sometechnical changes starting with the factthat in ubuntu 2204 the default displayserver is wayland rather than thetraditional x orgbut you can still use ex-organoboom2204by selecting it using the gear icon whenyou log inand this setting will be remembereduntil you alter it againpersonally i have made the switch backtoorg as wayland has a problem withfractional scaling that produces blurryoutput in some applications unless youhave a high dpi displayso i'm using xorg to obtain a sharperand more comfortable browser image asyou may be able to see in thiscomparisonback with our list of technical changesfirefox is now a snap installation andif you upgrade from ubuntu 2004 the debversion is replacedsnap is a linux software packaging andinstallation technology developed bycanonical the publishers of ubuntu andwhilst using snap rather than othertechnologies is potentially beneficialand transparent to many users othersfind it controversialfinally note the two boon 2204 uses thegrub 2.06 bootloader and there have beenreports that by default this is not setto probe for other operating systemsso if you rely on grub to dual boot yourcomputer do check this out carefullybefore you upgradesothere we are we've got a new version ofubuntu solid dependable and colorful asalways and i look forward to upgradingthe pc connected to my television fromthe focal fossa to the jammy jellyfishbut what do you think about ubuntu 2204will you be trying it out will you beupgrading to it please let us all knowdown in the comments sectionbut now that's it for another video ifyou've enjoyed what you've seen hereplease press that like buttonif you haven't subscribed pleasesubscribe and i hope to talk to youagain very 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