 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking a little bit about Ubuntu 21.04 Now the reason why this video is being made is because today was the feature freeze for Ubuntu 21.04 Which means that there's going to be no new features put into this release They're just gonna be focusing and now I'm getting it to be stable and working out the kinks and all that stuff now We don't know for sure the exact feature set of 21 out of 4 Hasn't been announced. We won't know until it actually comes out now We do know several things that are going to be in there We know a few things that aren't going to be in there and we have some conjecture over some things that Ubuntu might do But maybe not so that's what today's video is going to be about first. I just want to apologize for Crazy video. I got a new camera and it's a little wonky on the colors And it's been flashing for some reason. I'm not sure why I'll figure it out For whatever reason it just does not want to stay a single color. So I just apologize as I also say this I've moved my old camera over to my first monitor looks. There's the video. There's the Crazy lighting again has something to do with the focus anyways I'm so used to looking this direction You know because this is where the only camera I used to have I probably you'll probably see me talking over here But the camera will be looking like this. It's gonna be really weird It'll take some getting used to so I just thought I'd throw that out there before we jumped in So let's go ahead and jump into the topic for today So the first thing is They might be using the dark theme by default now whether or not this is going to actually make it through or not It was just it was just one of those proposals that we the OMG Ubuntu kind of picked up on For me, I think that's cool because the dark theme is actually you know Much better than the light theme almost universally. I think but We'll see if that makes through now. There are a few other things That are mostly under the hood that we know we're probably going to get we're probably going to get Python 3.9 Colonel 5.11, although I have a feeling will probably it'll probably be stuck on 5.10 This article here says we're for sure gonna get 5.11. I'm not sure that that's true They'll be all the usual app updates and stuff in the new wallpapers and the interesting one here in this list here is GNOME shell enhancements Now the one thing we know for sure. We're not going to get is GNOME 40 and they've already said come out and said that we're not gonna get and it probably won't appear in Ubuntu until the fall and that's perfectly fine and we know why and in the cards above you'll see a video I made on why Not using GNOME 40 is the right choice But it'll be interesting to see because I feel that the amount of effort they put into GNOME shell this time will kind of prophesies they'll kind of Give us an idea of where they're gonna go with GNOME 40 because if they put a lot of effort into making the current GNOME shell a lot better like Really fast and maybe even a couple new features or whatever They mean that may say that they're not going to be making as nearly as many changes or inheriting as many changes from GNOME 40 as Maybe we'd want them to Because really the big question is how is Ubuntu going to Adopt those features of GNOME 40 or are they going to adopt them at all because I mean there's some big UI changes in GNOME 40 and well Those design changes are almost completely different than what Ubuntu has looked like since like 2007 or something I mean Ubuntu's look pretty much the same for the last I don't know 13 to 14 years That's right personally I think that they should adopt as much of GNOME 40 as possible because GNOME 40 at least while I may not agree with some of their design choices at least looks fresh now there's a whole slew of Hardware support fixes and features and stuff that we'll see in 21.04 These things are perfectly normal. Every release sees these, you know hardware Fixes and support changes and stuff. So we'll see USB 4 and Thunderbolt support some new things for Lenovo's and different Intel CPUs and stuff a lot of this stuff is either going to be coming through because of the kernel changes or stuff that Ubuntu has been able to work out through vendor partnerships and stuff so Really the biggest thing we're going to see on 21.04 is Waylon support. So We've already I've already made a video about this I've already talked about it I'm not sure for whether I know I've talked about it in this video because I've now tried to make this video like four or five times because of the video problems but Waylon support basically It's going to be set as a default for every user who's not using it and video card so if you haven't if the installation media Detects that you're using an Nvidia driver or you have an Nvidia Nvidia card dropped it, you know into your computer You'll be using x.org Anybody everybody else will be using Wayland We believe that that's the way it's going to work at least so That's very interesting because for the They've been trying to get Wayland up off the ground for a long time and it looks like finally We're at a point where it can actually be not only be completely usable, but also start being supported by the bigger districts So we've seen Fedora obviously use it because they're behind the Waylon project Now we're seeing Ubuntu use it by default Eventually we'll probably see Arch use it arch is a little bit different because they don't actually associate themselves with any desktop environment so Really once we get Ubuntu Inline it we're gonna start seeing the desktop environment start to slowly make it the default focus so like mate and plasma and obviously, you know, I'm already there and probably elementary's Pantheon will be there pretty soon So really once we get past this Ubuntu thing. It's really gonna be on the The desktop environment teams to go through and start supporting the stuff So that's the big one and probably the one that will notice the most because they've tried to go Wayland full-time before That did not work and they end up having to switch back to x.org Maybe Wayland is but is good enough now and we'll see Wayland support be default by You know for the rest of time But we'll see So the last thing I want to talk about is this private home thing so for the glass Ever since well, I guess ever since Ubuntu, you know was released for the first time the home directory has actually not been private so the permissions on the home director would actually allow anyone who had an account on the system to view other people's Home directory if they had I believe if they had root access Then that's a huge deal because especially if you're in a corporate environment where computers may have multiple Accounts on them Being able to view other people's files and stuff without much effort is a big deal And that's gonna change you 21 out of 4 from now on the home directory will be complete private as it should be so really That is Ubuntu 21.04 now get them. I haven't tried it yet and Really We don't know like as we don't don't know a whole list of all the official features We won't know that until we get to the change logs My guess is that this is gonna be a very very minor update even with that Wayland support They focus so much on Wayland the rest of the features have kind of fallen by the wayside We'll see most of the new features in this generation come from the desktop environments specifically plasma and probably mate and cinnamon and all those those desktop environments will actually go through and be the Catalyst to change and new features and stuff whereas Ubuntu has kind of gone through and Just worked on getting the kinks out and becoming the most Stable it can be Screw you camera stop changing like I Maybe I need a bigger light in here. I don't know. That's really weird because it's not when I move. I Mean, I guess it's a little when I move Just really weird It's a cheap camera. I mean it's not like I spent like a thousand dollars in the camera So it's like a 50 buck camera, but still I shouldn't be doing that nonsense. That's crazy. Anyways Thanks for watching. I have a couple new screens to show you so first make sure you follow us on Twitter Facebook and patreon You can support us by subscribing obviously follow us on Twitter at Twitter comm slash Linux cast Facebook comm slash Linux cast Sensing a pattern here. You can also support us on patreon at patreon comm slash Linux cast and that being said I'd like to thank our patrons Devon see and Marcus B for being our first supporters Thanks guys and thanks everyone for watching. I'll see you next time