 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today just a little brief video covering a little bit of news out of the Ubuntu world So in April, we'll see you the next release of Ubuntu and it will be 2104 for those of you who don't know what the naming mechanism is for Version or versioning mechanism is for Ubuntu so it's the year and then the month that we get updates in April and October and obviously April was the next one so For the vast majority of Ubuntu releases we always expect at least obviously since Ubuntu has switched back to using GNOME as their main desktop environment We've seen Ubuntu use the most recent major release of GNOME in their Releases, you know, whether that's 3.38 it's or you know, or whatever this next time Because of some changes that GNOME has just recently decided that they were going to make It's been announced that Ubuntu will not be using the most recent version of GNOME, which would be GNOME 40 They'll actually be sticking with 3.38 I believe is the the version of GNOME that they'll be sticking to and their Reasoning behind this if we look if we look at the article on OMG Ubuntu Their reasoning behind this is the redesign of the GNOME shell 40 and its potential to impact on GNOME extensions which Ubuntu uses a whole bunch of and the new Yaru GTK theme Is it is the other reason that they're saying why they're not going to Ubuntu or GNOME 40? So my agreement is this it's a good thing So when I made my video of looking forward to Ubuntu 21.04 I said that At that point we pretty was pretty sure that they were going to use GNOME 40 I said it was going to be very interesting to see how they were going to implement these changes If you look at this little graphic here, they have on Ubuntu or on OMG Ubuntu This shows you the changes that they're going to make the doc is moving to the bottom the way that the multitasking thing is in workspace switcher is going to be is Completely different than it is right now It's a very big UI shift From what it was before and like I said in that video It was going to be interesting to see how that Ubuntu was going to implement this because that their UI has always been a little bit different than you know stock GNOME's The panel has always been you know vertical on the left hand side To kind of mimic what it has always looked like since they use Unity So it's not surprising to me at all that they've decided not to go through and implement GNOME 40 because it completely changes the way GNOME looks and they have to decide whether or not they want to Implement this new look or try to make it so that it stays the traditional Ubuntu way So and I also think it because this change came so late in the development cycle for Ubuntu I think that it's a very good idea for them just to hold off and wait and decide which way they want to go Personally, I would love to see them implement the new GNOME You know look because I think it looks really good whether or not they will I don't know I Leaning towards them probably staying with their traditional, you know panel along the side thing But it wouldn't surprise me to see them implement some of it and then Not implement other things so they'll probably leave the panel on the side, but maybe they implement the workspace switcher thing It'll be interesting. See I I do think it's going to make give the or it's gonna cause the Ubuntu developers a lot More work because of this change Whereas before the GNOME UI and the Ubuntu UI were fairly similar all they had to do is change the dash to dock thing and make it You know so it was always visible This seems like it's a much bigger change between stock GNOME and what Ubuntu is likely to do so the other thing we won't see in Ubuntu 21.04 is GTK 4 This is I mean anybody who thought that they were actually going to see GTK 4 in the next Ubuntu release It's kind of naive because it's literally was just released in like early January. Maybe December It was just released No theme supported yet. Hardly any. I think Yaru just got support for GTK 4 like two days ago And it's gonna be very flaky for quite a while There's gonna be a whole bunch of apps that aren't gonna support it for a long long time It took years for GTK 3 to be adopted I Wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a good support for GTK 4 and Ubuntu until after the LTS And we might see initial stuff for it in October, but I doubt it It's good. I would really I would suspect that we're more likely to see full-fledged GTK 4 support in Ubuntu more likely in 22.10 Then we would in 21.10 That's just a feeling so That those are the two big things that they were announcing another thing that I Just kind of want to touch on Is this here Ubuntu 21.04 will ship with Wayland by default now if you don't know Wayland is Wayland is a Alternative to x.org which is a which is the display server that Linux has used for the last 20 plus years Waylands is more modern. It's It's more efficient. It's a Been worked on for about 10 years It's it's been around. I mean we've been have the prom. We've had the promise of Wayland for a long time And really what's been holding a lot of things back is the Nvidia support for Wayland and apparently Nvidia is much more interested in Wayland now to the point and Ubuntu feels more confident that Wayland is going to be Actually something that everybody can use so it's being shipped By default in 21.04 and this is huge news because Ubuntu is the biggest distro out there And now they're not the first to ship Wayland by default Fedora has been doing it for a long time I think Debian has actually been shipping Wayland by default for the last release I may be wrong about that one either way That the fact that Ubuntu is going to be doing it this time is a big boost to Wayland And it might kick the pants of Nvidia into making that support a little bit better And we've also I mean and we've also seen this recently a lot more support for Wayland from the steam and proton developers so gaming has actually become more Possible on Wayland instead of using some kind of bridge between Wayland and using something called like x Wayland or something in order to get those things to work So that is big news and probably actually is bigger than you know, I'm 40 not being there So that is it for this video if you liked it give it a thumbs up if you didn't give a thumbs down Make sure you subscribe you can support us on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast follow us on Twitter and Facebook and all those things And I'll see you tomorrow with another video. 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