 For those of you who follow Ubuntu, you'll know that for the last two years or so They've been working on a brand new installer for their distro And it is finally time for me to take a look at it for the first time It is apparently going to be released in the next major version of Ubuntu, which will be 23.04 So they'll be released in April of next year So it is now on the daily builds and you don't have to do anything Special to actually try it, which is how it previously worked If you want to try it, you had to enable it in order to actually try it Now it is the official installer on the daily build So I've downloaded the ISO for the latest daily build And we're going to take a look at the brand new Ubuntu installer right now So let's go ahead and jump in Now I'm doing this in a virtual machine just simply because it's easier to record that way But I have entered the try Ubuntu phase simply because I wanted to change the display resolution So that we could see everything that's going on So here's what you get when you look at the brand new Ubuntu installer And right off the bat, it does look a little bit different Not a lot different, but a little bit different And you get language selection, so we'll select English and hit continue And then here's where you can still see that it's kind of in beta Because we're already trying Ubuntu, so we shouldn't actually have to see this page again But we'll hit install Ubuntu this time, hit continue And if you've noticed something at least so far It does look a little bit different than the traditional Ubuntu installer I'll show a picture of that here and post that in post But in terms of flow of the installer, there's not a lot different here You choose your language, you choose your keyboard, which we'll do here By default, those are the right ones Will it continue again? And then it's going to... This is something that's at least a little bit new Usually when there is an internet connection that's already established Which in this case, the wired connection already is They wouldn't show this to you Usually they'd only show you the Wi-Fi thing If you have Wi-Fi or you need to connect This here is something that's a little bit new So I'll just choose wired connection Will it continue? And this one here looks basically the same as it does in the old installer So normal installation or minimal installation You already had those options and then you can choose to install third-party software Install additional media formats Interestingly though, something is different here It didn't occur to me until I read through those Neither one of these things say, hey, would you like to install updates? It's interesting because this used to be like one selection And the other selection was install or download updates during installation That option seems to have been removed And replaced by these which is basically the same thing So they're separating out codecs and drivers That actually makes sense because it used to be downloaded the codecs and the drivers together Because it was just one checkbox Now they're split out so if you wanted to just install the drivers And leave the codecs out you could Or vice versa That's kind of cool Interestingly again, nothing there about updates though Will it continue? Here's the partition manager I'm going to go ahead and hit something else just because I want to see If there's anything here that's different We will probably just go back That looks basically the same The one thing is that the aesthetic here is just a little bit flatter than it was before That's the major design changes that I'm seeing There's not a lot of depth to any of these things The buttons don't look like buttons all that much Unless you hover over them there's no shading I do think though is if you were to go in here and choose the dark mode So let's go ahead to settings If I can type in settings If we change this to dark mode Like so Does the installer actually will go to dark mode It doesn't change great But it does at least have a dark mode which is different than it was before Other than that the partition manager here looks basically the same as far as I'm aware as it did before I'm going to go ahead and go back and we'll do the automatic partitioning But I wanted to make sure that there wasn't anything really big new and exciting there in the partition manager The additional features are still here Interestingly though the ZFS option is gone Now I don't know if that is just because this is the beta of Not beta but like a pre-release software version has just been taken out Or if the ZFS option is going away I don't know which one of those things is true So there's no ZFS option here Interesting Maybe it's perhaps they just use ZFS by default now I actually don't know We're going to find out So we're going to hit continue And it doesn't say what it's formatting these partitions as So we won't be able to know what the partition is until we're done So we're just going to start installing and that's it It's going to apparently go ahead and install in the background So I guess it said start installing The map here is new Or at least it looks better than it did before The map from the old installer was the one that's been around for a long time It's really hard to click on I wonder if this one is just as hard to click on Maybe a little bit easier And we'll go ahead and hit continue And then here's the user creation This has been restyled a little bit It's really odd that they didn't center these text boxes It just looks with all this space over here I mean I would assume that centering it would look better I'm not a designer but having it left aligned with a whole bunch of extra space Along the side seems like a weird design choice But that's just me So we're going to enter a name here We'll call this Lunar VM And that's a good username A very strong and complicated password And then let's just go ahead and hit continue Why would they ask you to change the theme After you're all the way through the installer That's a little weird Why wouldn't they ask you to the beginning of the installer Where it would make sense I mean we're almost done here And now it's asking We'll leave it as dark And that was the last choice of the installer That is really weird Maybe it's just me But why wouldn't you ask for the later dark selection at the beginning So that you can actually use the dark mode Because I mean unless of course That's for after the install So we're going to find out If we go into the installed system And it's dark mode That'd be cool That it remembered that setting But I don't think that that's what's going to happen I'd be surprised I'm going to cut the video here And we'll go look and see And then I'll give you my final thoughts on the installer Okay so that took three or four minutes It wasn't very long And this screen here is also new So it's been redesigned Honestly again it's centered But the user creation page wasn't Again just pointing out it's pre-release software So I'm not being too critical But it's just something that I noticed So I'm going to go ahead and hit restart And we'll restart into the installed system And the reason why I'm going And showing you the installed system Is just simply because I'm very interested To find out if it kept that dark mode setting Because otherwise I don't understand Why it was at the end And it did in fact remember the dark mode setting That is I mean it's cool Okay don't get me wrong it's really cool But it is also really weird Because first of all Why not put it at the beginning and still remember it Because if you put it at the beginning Then the installer itself can be dark mode And help people who want to use the dark mode Through the installer So putting it at the beginning Means that they can actually use it through the installer That's the first thing Second of all Ubuntu has a welcome screen Like I clicked through it really fast And you can put that dark mode selector There And it would make more sense to me But the fact that it remembers it is cool It just feels weird To me it just does It's just a little weird I'd like to talk to a developer Who could explain why they put that there Where they did Putting it at the beginning of the installer would make sense And then having it remember it would be cool It'd be an extra feature Something that you wouldn't expect With an installer where You don't get to use it through the installer Unless you go do like I did And set the dark mode by default Or manually It's just a little weird So let's talk a little bit about the overall experience So first of all Not much here has changed There's a little bit of design work that they've done There's still some more it looks like they need to do In my opinion some centering that needs to go on In order to make it design Look and feel nicely designed Hardware, there are some animations that don't show up If you use a VM We didn't get to see those because I was doing it in a VM But apparently those do exist Other than that The design and flow Of the installer Is mostly the same as it was previously There are a few extra things as I pointed out The network page that shows up there Whether you have Wi-Fi or not Is something that's new The user creation Page has been redesigned A little bit And the end screen there has also been redesigned So those things are completely new And then we talked about Where they split out the options for Codex and drivers And took away the option for The updates So whether or not that's something that's going to come back As they continue to work on this I don't know Also the ZFS option is missing So that's maybe just something that they haven't put in yet That's also possible Although they have been working on it for two years I'm just going to put that out there They've been working on it for two years So if those are missing features Then maybe Writing and developing it in Flutter Has just been more complicated than they expected I don't know I'd be very curious to talk to a developer And ask them How the workflow has been Why they decided to actually do this Because for the most part I don't see that much of improvement In this installer There has to be back end improvements That have made this worthwhile So it'd be really interesting to Find out why they've done this And what changes they still are expecting to make So that is it for this video If you have thoughts on the brand new Ubuntu installer I'd love to hear from you You can tell me in the comment section below You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey Those links will be in the video description You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com Slash Linuxcast In the description if you'd like to support me there Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube Because they're all absolutely amazing Without you the channel does not be anywhere near Where it is right now So thank you so very much for your support Truly all the appreciation in the world So thank you so very much again Thanks everybody for watching I'll see you next time