Ubuntu 20.04 — Whats new for Developers
Lets see, what the new kid in town has in store for developers.
Speed Speed
Same laptop after upgrade I could see how responsive it is, compared to what it was. Initially I thought its a Placebo effect. No its really faster than 19.10.
Snap first, Apt next
In Ubuntu 20.04 app installation via Snap is preferred. Even help recommends snap commands first followed by traditional apt.
Syntax wise its the same
sudo snap install <>sudo apt install <>
Default Python is Python 3.x
This avoids the headache of having 2 versions of python and pip.
Now one Python one Pip.
Unless you decide to install Conda and get into version conflict.
Everything 64bit
100% support to 64bit applications only.
Dark theme
Not just in text editors, overall look and feel is so nice.
To Enable Dark theme
Settings > Appearance > Dark
Displays — Fractional Scaling
If you have multiple Monitors and each have varied resolution then Fractional Scaling helps you to adjust the scale of monitors.
Settings > Display > Fractional Scaling
Downside : affect display sharpness, not a big deal unless you are working with videos
Misc
Software center, Icons got face lift which looks good till you get used to them.
Standard Kernel upgrades, ZFS upgrades which made all these things possible.
Whats Missing
When you have multiple monitors, Linux doesn’t allow you to share Single monitor via screen share apps like (webex, zoom, hangout..). That feature is still missing in this release too.
What went wrong
Upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04 was not so clean like it used to be.
I followed the standard distribution upgrade process, after reboot it threw a weird error and stopped. I thought I blew the laptop, luckily after hard reboot it came back good and fast.
