Experiences on Ubuntu Gnome 17.4

I update my Linux from Ubuntu 16.4 LTS to Ubuntu Gnome 17.4 - Now I'm here sharing my experience.

Ubuntu Gnome is Ubuntu with Gnome. This is the latest version of Ubuntu Gnome since Canonical announced they are killing Unity - next year Ubuntu will come with Gnome by default.





Gnome is clean and nice but....

I always like Gnome over KDE since Gnome was always cleaner. However, I had issues with my GeForce graphics card so the fix for me was to switch to LighDM a lightweight version of Gnome. You can see there is so little difference, the biggest difference is on Login UI and also when you block the PC.

Here are some screenshots.

Apps

Console

Desktop


























FileSystem explorer(Nautilus)

Another Headache

apt-get was slow and update-manager too. So there is this nasty issue with IPV6. Where you can do this to fix it.

sudo vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/1000-force-ipv4-transport

Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";

sudo apt-get update

more one: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-apt-get-with-ipv6-or-ipv4-transport-on-ubuntu-debian/

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Still Slow... 

Also had to disable tracker-fs and them the installation got really fast.

echo -e "\nHidden=true\n" | sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop > /dev/null

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2  

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false  

tracker reset --hard   

more: https://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup

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Installing Other programs

Here is how I installed most of the basic programs I use....

ORACLE Java JDK 8

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true update
sudo apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true install oracle-java8-installer
sudo vim /etc/profile

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

source /etc/profile

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Atom

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true  update
sudo apt  -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true  install atom

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Chrome

sudo apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true update
sudo apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true install gdebi 
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 

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Dropbox

wget https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true gdebi
sudo gdebi dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true

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Spotify

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true
sudo apt-get install spotify-client -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true

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Docker

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main'
sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true
sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true

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You also can see this everywhere: -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true this is way to disable ipv6 in line so you don't need to disable for everything.

Final Thoughts

Besides this issues with apt-get and update-manager / NVidia-graphics card and the issues with tracker-fs, it's all good and I'm glad to update it. The UI is better than the previous one and the performance is also great(after some fixes).

Cheers,
Diego Pacheco