 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. We're going to do a very brief review of Ubuntu 20.10 now I've decided to do Reviews a little differently than the rest of the YouTube Linux community You know district tube or you know The Linux experiment or whatever would go through and they'd install it and show you how they installed it and go through the applications stuff They can do that and that works for them. What I've decided to do is Hit the microphone with my headphones Totally guys. I'm doing that. Anyways, what I've decided to do is go through and Just talk about my experiences and using it now because I mean anybody can go to the Ubuntu website and you'll look at the release notes Anybody can watch any of the dozens of youtubers out there who went through and installed Ubuntu You know step-by-step and then explained what's new and all that stuff. I'm not going to do that Because that would be a waste of time because there are dozens of YouTube's out there that done already done that Instead I could have said I'm just gonna talk about my experience and using it so The first thing I will tell you is that I'm beginning to change my thoughts on gnome For years gnome has just been so slow. It's been so slow people. It's just it's so slow It's unusable now part of the reasons why it is faster for me as I've been using it mostly in a virtual box in a virtual box Animations aren't here. So I'm not sure if this is the case on bare metal. I haven't used it on bare metal all that much I use it on my lap that for a little while. I but that's been ages ago So I don't know I don't really remember if The animation is there, but I remember it being even fast on there So that's one thing is it used to be you have to wait for ages for the icons to unfurl and this amazingly idiotic Animation and it's just not it was completely useless Excuse me it's okay Socially distancing anyways, it's just a cough Every and you can hear everybody running away from me as you speak anyways That's the first thing I noticed about it about 2010 is that for the first time in ages gnome is fast enough I mean launch times are amazing For the most part in almost every application. It just still starts right up And it's a little slower here on this virtual machine than what I experienced when I used on my laptop for a little while but For the most part. It's very very Responsive responsive in a way that gnome and Ubuntu really haven't been in the past and last year they introduced this new theme called yaru or something like that That may not be what it's called. I'm not sure But it was very Inconsistent last year. So that's another thing. I've noticed is that the theming this year is is much better you know consistency wise and I've also believed if I remember right here, you can also choose a dark for the first time I Believe ever this might have happened in April I'm not sure because I didn't try the April April release, but you can change the dark theme without installing gnome tweaks That's awesome. I Mean it is just awesome. Now. I know that there's still reasons to install gnom tweaks. I know there's a Evidently doesn't come pre-installed. I actually haven't done any extensions on this at all but There's still reasons to install gnom tweaks. You can install them themes that way and you can go through and install extensions that way I believe but Really This is all you'll ever need if you like You know, if you'd like the theme that comes with that and that's really great I think it'd be awesome if they gave you built in the option to actually change themes here if it was just between two or three themes or Um, just give us the the ability to change the accent. What if I don't like orange? What if I wanted to be blue or something because blue would look really good with his accent with this, you know theme But no, you can't do that and you can see how quickly it switches. I mean, it's just I mean, it's good It's not something that you really You don't have to think about and that's really the way it should be so theming Speed those are the two things I've really noticed the other big thing the big changes the last time I've used the boots I'm not sure if this is doing 2010 or if it was 2004 that this is different, but the Ubuntu software, which is now a fork of minimum software is now completely all snaps. I believe But more than that, it's more fleshed out than it has ever been before This is actually beginning to look more like a store Whereas before you come in here and some of these icons are missing You know, if you clicked on something here, it wouldn't have screenshots. It was just, you know, text It would have a place for screenshots, but they'd be empty You still can't make these any bigger which is annoying. I think like what if I want to What if I want to, you know Zoom in and I can't see that. I mean, that's that's dumb. So that's still annoying But the fact that there's now screenshots, I mean That's great, you know Now not every developer, not every program is gonna have those probably the more obscure The application probably the less likely it's gonna like see this one here. I'm not doesn't have screenshots So that's still a little bit of an a little bit of annoying my thought is that if you're gonna if you're in the Ubuntu software, you should have a full-fledged page That should be a requirement. Otherwise, you should just stick with PPAs, you know, whatever Or the or you shouldn't be able allowed to have reviews or whatever I think that that's just It would make sense because The more fleshed out the Ubuntu software becomes like reviews and stuff and maybe eventually they'll bring in ability to, you know, donate to The developers whatever like elementary does The more fleshed out it is the better it is for new users because it looks more and more like like Apple's app store And really that's what you want to be compared to So as you can see that the speed of this is fairly impressive now I will say when you first launch it after a Reboot it's a little slow and switch between categories here as you can tell just It drags a little bit now. I'm not sure again if this is because of I'm on a VM Or if it's just that way all the time. I didn't really test that You can you can also see how sometimes sluggish it is scrolling So this is it's a Ubuntu software is actually where I've spent most of my time critiquing because the screenshots that Not being able to make those bigger annoys me the slowness of it sometimes is annoying but it's still Miles away from where it used to be it's getting really really good and I'm really really impressed if you can fix you know, it's just the the little details and It's gonna be good. I mean, it's gonna be probably even now. I believe I Would say that of the stores on all the on all the Linux distros The Ubuntu software store is the best I don't care for elementaries mainly because it it's This is I'm a big open source kind of guy and I know that developers need to get paid I want them to get paid but The way the elementaries The elementary store comes off as these things have to be paid for even though you cannot pay for them It always seems a little shady to me. I don't know. That's just my maybe I'll make a video on that someday But that's beside the point. I really do truly believe that Ubuntu software is the best right now purely open source Store, you know, whatever It's very very good Even with the if they can make this faster and they can make it so that you can actually, you know Make these things bigger so I can actually see what that's, you know, the You know, I just thought maybe if I hit the space bar, it would make it bigger, but it doesn't anyways, that is The Ubuntu software store other than that there weren't that many great big huge In your face consumer facing features for Ubuntu 2010. They just weren't this is a very Very fairly quiet launch The last thing I just want to talk about is stability. It's this is probably the most stable Ubuntu I've tried and granted most of my time has been spending it and you know watching it or playing around with it in a Vm But it's been very very stable. I mean usually the interim Ubuntu releases are a little Wonky every once in a while because they're not long-term support and you know things break But I haven't any experiences in with problem any problems with this at all It's just been very very good If you're into Ubuntu, I don't think that there's any reason for you not to upgrade you now Excuse me the One thing I'd say against that is that if you're using the LTS, there's no reason for it upgrade Mainly because there's no new standard. I mean, there's no huge features that you need to have Really the only Thing you would be missing out is bleeding edge hardware support and even then that stuff's almost always Backported into the LTS. So you're probably gonna get that as well. So if you're on 1910 or 1904 and You enjoy the interim Ubuntu releases. I'd say go and upgrade because this is really good. You won't regret it You're not gonna see much new but it's faster. That's really where where you're gonna see your differences is that it's faster Compared to the LTS now I wouldn't say it's that much faster because the LTS was still pretty fast from what I remember I didn't play around much with the LTS, but it was still better than any can own before it So anyways, that's just a real quick review. I will get better at these as I go along. I'll make more notes Anyways, if you enjoyed this video Make sure you give us a thumbs up or thumbs down or a subscribe any of that stuff we really do appreciate it our Podcast, which is the Linux cast which is where we get the name for the channel if you didn't know Records every Sunday and we usually post it later that evening out here on YouTube and on anchor So give the those a subscribe if you want to you can check out all of our places to subscribe at Linux cast The Linux cast org and we'll see you next time. Thanks for watching