Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives (zdnet.com)

Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, the latest version of Ubuntu, is now available to download. From a report: Under the hood, the Cosmic Cuttlefish boasts the 4.18 Linux Kernel. This updates comes with better support for for AMD and Nvidia GPU, USB Type-C and Thunderbolt, a way for unprivileged users to mount Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) can be mounted by, and CPUfreq performance improvements. On top of this, you'll find the freshest version of GNOME 3.30. You can, of course, use other desktops, but GNOME, since Ubuntu 17.10, is Ubuntu's default desktop. You'll be glad to know that GNOME is faster than it has been for a while. That's because some nasty memory leaks have been patched. Canonical has also added some performance tweaks that didn't make it into the GNOME 3.30 upstream. Ubuntu 18.10 also comes with a new desktop theme, the Yaru Community theme installed by default, for your visual enjoyment. Further reading: Ubuntu 18.10: What's New? [Video]; Ubuntu 18.10 Review; and Ubuntu 18.10 Flavors Released, Ready to Download.

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Interesting comments

[Anonymous Coward]

I see the community have lead in with some lively discussions on the merits of this new release.

slow memory leaks?

[Jodka]

from the ./ summary:

"You'll be glad to know that GNOME is faster than it has been for a while. That's because some nasty memory leaks have been patched."

That's not what memory leaks do. Unless you leak so much memory that the system starts paging out RAM contents to the swap partition on the drive. Was it really that bad?

Re:slow memory leaks?

[Tough Love]

I still don't get why anybody puts up with Gnome when KDE is available. I really don't get why Ubuntu ships with Gnome standard. A whole lot more Windows users would make the switch if Linux presented with a normal desktop by default instead of whatever Gnome is trying to be, which seems to change every year and never seems to have a lot to do with what users need.

Re:slow memory leaks?

[Tough Love]

Where to begin, there's a bunch of misinformation in your post. KDE was nearly always great except for the premature release of 4.0, which was only alpha quality but distros somehow didn't get the memo. You don't need to learn any new applications in KDE, the ones you already use work perfectly fine, including Nautilus, gnome-terminal, browsers, whatever. Look and feel exactly the same except window decorations will be whatever you set up in KDE, which can be almost anything you want.

BTW, the reverse is also true: KDE applications like Kate (great editor) work just fine under Gnome. This is thanks to the cross-DE APIs developed by freedekstop.org, thanks much for that.

Re:slow memory leaks?

[iampiti]

I do like KDE better than Gnome but there's still many things about it I dislike. Nowadays I usually use Xfce, switching to KDE from time to time to see what's new.

Re:slow memory leaks?

[KiloByte]

I still don't get why anybody puts up with Gnome when KDE is available.

Heck, even when twm is available. Anything available in that field is better than Gnome3. It's the epitome of what "UX designers" stand for. There are two valid directions for an UI to go for: ease for new users, and ergonomy for advanced ones. Gnome3 blows both to a ridiculous degree, at the same time trashing efficiency, portability (works on x86 only), and so on.

I really don't get why Ubuntu ships with Gnome standard.

Nor do I. It's the systemd of window managers.

A question

[Presence Eternal]

Is native support for installing on nvme raid still limited to "You don't want to do that because reasons"?