Official Ubuntu flavors told to stop including Flatpak

However, you might be overwhelmed with this list of Ubuntu flavors at your disposal and end up confused about which one to consider. Create a live Ubuntu USB Drive and then test each of the mentioned Ubuntu flavors without the need for installing any. Therefore any other Ubuntu flavor you find out there that is not on the above list only makes it unofficial but not illegal. The main difference between the Official and Unofficial Ubuntu flavors is the direct association the official flavors have with Canonical. They are the work of hobbyists who take advantage of Linux’s open-source platform and, therefore, explore the Linux Operating systems’ horizons. It might be news to some of us, but Ubuntu has had a premonition towards fixing such a user problem for a long time.

Ubuntu Studio uses the Xfce desktop environment, just like Xubuntu. However, the performance specs it brings to the table are higher due to its Rolling Rhino Remix intended functional use. The Ubuntu flavor is packaged with pre-installed audio and video tools. Such tools are important to individuals or hobbyists pursuing audio, video, or graphics creation. Therefore, Ubuntu Studio favors Ubuntu users in the creative fields more. Take a chance at Ubuntu Studio to create your first audio, video, or graphics project on a platform designed for such a purpose.

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Thank you to our Diamond Sponsor Neon for supporting our community. Now let me lead you into the background of Ubuntu Remixes/Flavors, what the differences are, and what they are, and how many are there right now. After I label those that do exist and what they are, I want to then label 10 remixes I would love to see exist.

• Built using the Qt toolkit it offers a modern, good-looking and stable system for home and office use.
• As of yet, no Ubuntu flavor includes the X-Apps, which is why Ubuntu Unity went with the MATE accessories instead.
• In case you weren’t aware, Ask Ubuntu is somewhat unofficial and is hosted by Stack Exchange, and they’ve been less-than-cooperative with the moderators there.
• Despite some initial hesitation I quickly came to realize what an amazing opportunity we have here to offer help and support on many different levels.

Official vs. Unofficial Ubuntu Flavors

Lubuntu is a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu originally using LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Starting with 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish,” the desktop environment was switched to LXQt and a set of Qt-based applications. It is targeted at everyday PC and laptop users using low-spec hardware, or wanting a faster experience. The images remain in the form of ISO files sized to fit CD/DVD optical media, but are increasingly stored on USB flash drives or served via the internet. Each image is constructed from a master file listing the packages to be included, known as a seed, with robust tools that allow anyone to replicate them using a program called germinate.

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However, now the forums have moved here to Discourse, which is much more future-proof and editable, and completely within the purview of the Ubuntu community and Canonical. Every Snap is compressed, regardless of the underlying file system, and recent versions let the packager choose between different compression algorithms. Ubuntu 21.10 packaged Firefox as a Snap, and users saw slower startup times as a result. So Canonical switched to an algorithm that did faster decompression, resulting in 50 per cent faster launches.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic creators, be they enthusiasts or professionals. The app is fast, it has an adaptive UI, and it makes it so easy to search for, install, and manage Snap apps (through the snapd Dart library). It can also handle the installation of software distributed as a .deb (through the PackageKit Dart library). Devs describe it as ‘an alternative software store for the Ubuntu Desktop made with Flutter‘, the app-development tech Ubuntu is all-in on. It’s not developed by Canonical (though Canonical employees do contribute to the code) and there’s no suggestion it’ll ever ship by default on the OS itself.

Kubuntu Mobile was a flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop for mobile devices. Please keep in mind that you are toying with alpha-quality software that it is neither developed nor approved by Canonical. Expect bugs, broken features, and the occasional inter-dimensional space-time anomaly. In summary, this unofficial Ubuntu App Store is a promising alternative to Ubuntu’s official software client. It delivers a night and day difference, with a nimble, uncluttered UI, logical navigation, and deft integration with multiple software formats.

The distro is tailored for users who value minimalism and control, facilitated largely through keyboard commands. Today, the distro’s developers released Ubuntu Sway Remix 24.04, built upon the foundation of Ubuntu 24.04 “Noble Numbat,” so, let’s see what’s new. In terms of memory usage, Ubuntu Unity is one of the lighter remixes. It uses a purple-themed version of its parent’s wallpaper.

This was quick and thorough, leaving nothing for apt to do – although there was a snap update pending. We did experience a crash of the menu application, though, which is a little worrying. After installation, Kubuntu noticed some updates and prompted us, but then the apt full-upgrade command found a few more. After we installed those and rebooted, it then notified us that the localizations weren’t fully installed.