{"id":1356,"date":"2018-07-06T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:07:25","slug":"ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 18.04 &#038; Gnome 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded three computers to Ubuntu 18.04. Although I appreciate the modern software (including LibreOffice), each upgrade has had different issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenovo Server<\/strong>: upgrade was rocky because the root partition ran out of space part way through the upgrade. I hand-recovered and managed to get it to finish. Later, the journal (systemd journal) went nuts and filled up my root partition (which is shared with \/var) with log messages &#8212; causing so much I\/O that it was quite slow to log in to my computer. Once I figured out how to vacuum the journal, I recovered space, and set the journal size smaller. Now it seems to be working well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>System76 Galego Ultrapro<\/strong>: upgraded without a hitch. However, power management is less-than stellar. It won&#8217;t go to sleep when I want it to, and it comes out of sleep when I don&#8217;t want it to. <strong>Update<\/strong>: Later updates fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenovo P50<\/strong> with NVidia graphics card: It worked better at driving two external monitors with Ubuntu 16.04. It mostly works with 18.04, but it&#8217;s more temperamental. The upgrade didn&#8217;t go smoothly, aborted early, and I had to hand-recover, which, fortunately, worked out. I needed a new version of VMWare Workstation. The screen brightness buttons don&#8217;t work, even after trying various proposed solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I found out that I was missing a package that allowed me to mount external encrypted drives. This post had a solution: https:\/\/github.com\/pop-os\/pop\/issues\/163<\/p>\n<pre><code>sudo apt install libblockdev-crypto2\nsystemctl restart udisks2.service\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Things I appreciate about Gnome 3 (Ubuntu 18.04):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keyboard shortcuts, including WINDOWS + left-click-window + drag<\/li>\n<li>Window snapping: WINDOWS-LEFT, WINDOWS-RIGHT, etc. Very similar to Windows<\/li>\n<li>High-DPI support works well, which is excellent for my Lenovo P50 with a 4K display (4K is too much resolution for a laptop screen, but it was the only option with the Xeon processors).<\/li>\n<li>Looks great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I dislike about Gnome 3 (Ubuntu 18.04):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clock doesn&#8217;t include day of month by default. Requires gnome-tweak tool to enable. Sloppy and difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Too many clicks to get to network settings, including VPN. It used to be easier.<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t share my connection with wired-via-USB-cable computers anymore. Th reported workaround, which doesn&#8217;t work at all for me: launch nm-connection-editor.<\/li>\n<li>Login screen shows a background instead of a list of users, until I press a button or swipe. Please don&#8217;t follow Windows here. It&#8217;s dumb.<\/li>\n<li>When I zoom in on a folder in Nautilus, it zooms all other folders, including my desktop icons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other things I dislike with Gnome &#8212; longstanding issues that existed before Gnome 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nautilus uses too much white space between images when zooming in on icon view. It should be proportional &#8212; like windows Explorer does. I.e. when the images are 0.5&#215;0.5 inches, it&#8217;s fine to have 0.5 inches between icons. But when the icons are 3&#8243;x3&#8243;, I don&#8217;t want or need 3&#8243; of white space between icons! (This isn&#8217;t an issue with Gnome 3 &#8212; it&#8217;s a long-standing issue with Nautilus)<\/li>\n<li>Nautilus doesn&#8217;t show image meta-data such as camera model for images &#8212; I like to sort by camera model.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of a photo screensaver. I live without it, but it still frustrates me that Gnome is the only desktop, which, by default, doesn&#8217;t include one. Windows, Mac and KDE are much better in this regard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love using Linux, but Windows is squarely better at some things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded three computers to Ubuntu 18.04. Although I appreciate the modern software (including LibreOffice), each upgrade has had different issues. Lenovo Server: upgrade was rocky because the root partition ran out of space part way through the upgrade. I hand-recovered and managed to get it to finish. Later, the journal (systemd journal) went nuts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/ubuntu-18-04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu 18.04 &#038; Gnome 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}