The missing 32bit packages will hopefully soon be there. See https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2021/06/23/%23ubuntu-release.html#t11:44 [External Link] the intention seems to be that all new nvidia drivers automatically get added to the i386-whitelist including those in this new PPA

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Quoting: no_information_here

Quoting: RedfaceThe updates should be available soon.

Thanks for the info. Good to know it is in the works. My systems are not high-risk, but I am sure there are others that are.

I got the 460.73.01 drivers on my 20.04 system today.

And its upgraded for all releases from 18.04 up to the upcoming 21.10 impish idri, except for the eol ones:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Bladeforce"An enterprise partnership with Microsoft.."
Enough reason to not use it

Sadly, this is what gets it onto corporate desktops instead of something like Redhat Workstation.... better integration with AD is basically the thing that has held it back for a long long time. Got to be able to let CIT log in and do things to your laptop remotely, right???

The blog post is actually about two different things, notice this at the start

Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application development SDK. Separately, Canonical and Microsoft announced performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu.

And then they do not clearly distinguish in the following text which is about what. Typical marketing text.

I could be wrong but the joint support is for Microsoft SQL server for 20.04 LTS, while the AD integration from the installer is for 21.04

For the discussion about 21.04 its better to go from the release notes in my opinion. The release announcement the blog post refers to without linking to it is out now to: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-April/000268.html [External Link]

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The release notes are here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hirsute-hippo-release-notes/19221 [External Link]

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Quoting: SwitchesShould be interesting to see how this goes.

Looking forward to updating my ThinkPad laptop to the release rather than the beta, although I've actually had very few problems with the beta. Hopefully, the enterprise partnership will bring more advances with WSL as a side effect.

You are already on the release if you installed the beta. Its the same repositories, so just keep on doing normal updates as they come along.

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Quoting: no_information_hereHmm. Stock *buntu seems to be late in the game.

My system updated from 460.39 to 460.56 a week ago. Nothing since.

The updated versions should be in the different supported Ubuntu releases soon, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-460-server/+bug/1923062 [External Link]

See also the queuebot messages in yesterday ubuntu-release IRC log: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2021/04/20/%23ubuntu-release.html [External Link]

The updates should be available soon. I guess Hirsute is not mentioned due to its pending release tomorrow but should get them soon too.

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Putting the code in manually worked for me and I have an active subscription.

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Quoting: RedfaceThere is one application (snap-store the Ubuntu branded gnome-software and its dependency snaps) installed as snap in 21.04 same as it was since 20.04

I haven't followed recent snap news so it is good to know they haven't pushed more into the default system, yet.

I don't use Gnome, but was helping a friend running mailine Ubuntu using the Ubuntu software "store" app, and it kept trying to default to installing snap packages of many of the things they were looking for. It took real effort to figure out which version of the software came as a deb vs a snap.

The source under details will be like ubuntu-hirsute-universe if its a deb, and snapcraft.io when its a snap
Where there are multiple source for the same app and gnome software which Ubuntu software is a branded version of recognize them as the same app, a source selector button is on the right upper window bar, where you can select between the sources, and here the format, deb or snap, or flatpak, is also shown.

But sometimes there are several entries, you have to select each on the search results and check them then.

This is how Gnome software and appstream data handle it, not Ubuntu specific as far as I know.

It would be nice if the format always was under the details

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Quoting: KimyrielleI have been a long-time Ubuntu user, but their push towards Snap is a dealbreaker for me.

Yeah. I am getting a bit nervous as well. Snap is OK as a technology for commercial or very fast moving projects, but seeing Ubuntu wanting to push core components to snap makes me unhappy. So far KDE Neon has remained snap-free for the important stuff.

There is one application (snap-store the Ubuntu branded gnome-software and its dependency snaps) installed as snap in 21.04 same as it was since 20.04

You can remove it and snapd then put in a preference file like Mint does to not get snapd in as a recommend or dependency.
And then if you still want gnome-software install it as a deb, but that is then not Ubuntu branded but the stock gnome-software.

This is what Mint has to prevent snaps, but since Ubuntu repositories are available you can just remove that on Mint and then install all snaps you want.

 
more /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref 
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
# For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sn
ap.html

Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10

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I have been running 21.04 for some months now on my desktop PC, its coming along great.

Gaming related its worth to note that Lutris is in the Ubuntu Hirsute (21.04) repositories since it finally got in Debian unstable. I mostly game native games, or Stadia, so I do not use it much, but seems to work for what I tired.

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