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Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available

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Here's your chance to test and get in early on the next Ubuntu release with Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available across standard Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours.

Some of the big changes to the main edition include their new Ubuntu App Center that replaces the previous Snap Store, a Firmware Updater app, GNOME 45, various app updates like Firefox 117, LibreOffice 7.6, Thunderbird 115.2 “Supernova”, BlueZ 5.68, NetworkManager 1.44, Pipewire 0.3.79, Poppler 23.08, xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.2 and Linux kernel 6.5.

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Pictured - Ubuntu 23.10 Beta

The majority of the user-facing changes largely come from the updated desktop environments like GNOME 45 with many new features like the dynamic workspace indicator, camera activity indicator and plenty more from the recent GNOME 45 release.

Beta download links for all can be found via Canonical.

All changelogs can be found here:

The full release should be out on October 12th.

If you're an Ubuntu fan, which edition will you be going with? I'm sticking with Kubuntu!

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BlackBloodRum Sep 22, 2023
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So many "flavours".
Fester_Mudd Sep 24, 2023
I see LiamD you moved from Fedora back to (K)ubuntu. What was the main reason for this if you will? Because i have many times returned to Ubuntus...
ladyanita22 Sep 24, 2023
Quoting: Fester_MuddI see LiamD you moved from Fedora back to (K)ubuntu. What was the main reason for this if you will? Because i have many times returned to Ubuntus...

I am strongly on the Fedora camp now, to be honest. With all the snapification of the 'buntus...
Liam Dawe Sep 24, 2023
Quoting: Fester_MuddI see LiamD you moved from Fedora back to (K)ubuntu. What was the main reason for this if you will? Because i have many times returned to Ubuntus...
I was having serious system lag / stalls that I still haven't tracked down. Had it on Fedora, OpenSUSE and Kubuntu and on both GNOME and KDE - still trying to narrow it down. I thought it *might* be the AMD CPU issue Linus had a recent rant about but unsure. But sticking with Kubuntu for now, because pretty much everything works on Ubuntu-likes and I prefer KDE.
BlackBloodRum Sep 25, 2023
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Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Fester_MuddI see LiamD you moved from Fedora back to (K)ubuntu. What was the main reason for this if you will? Because i have many times returned to Ubuntus...
I was having serious system lag / stalls that I still haven't tracked down. Had it on Fedora, OpenSUSE and Kubuntu and on both GNOME and KDE - still trying to narrow it down. I thought it *might* be the AMD CPU issue Linus had a recent rant about but unsure. But sticking with Kubuntu for now, because pretty much everything works on Ubuntu-likes and I prefer KDE.
That's interesting. I've seen a few people complain about sudden system slowdowns lately.

For example:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/16qtpgl/performance_issues/

Odd. I wonder what could be causing it?
fenglengshun Sep 27, 2023
Quoting: BlackBloodRumSo many "flavours".
Obviously, you don't want people to go to other distro, just because they want to use a different DE. All these flavors do a lot to keep people 'in the family' so to speak.
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