Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available

Appears an awesome release! Optimizations for gamers too (vm_max_map_count and performance toolkit etc.)

Thanks for all your hard work at Canonical in midst of demands and accusations (and special thanks for Popey for arranging manual checks to Snap Store apps!)

Every Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.

While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.


Last edited by Calinou on 25 Apr 2024 at 5:53 pm UTC

Higher vm.max_map_count (1048576) to stop various games crashing

I can't wait to use this feature... in Mint 22


Last edited by MiZoG on 25 Apr 2024 at 5:57 pm UTC

Now I should decide whether to reinstall with base Ubuntu or use Kubuntu. Choices, choices.

Every Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.

While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

Now I should decide whether to reinstall with base Ubuntu or use Kubuntu. Choices, choices.

Personally I am going to reinstall with the base Ubuntu. I am excited to try out the new Gnome 46.
Kubuntu looked less interesting to me because it is using using Plasma 5 instead of the newer Plasma 6.

Hopefully Ubuntu 22.04 works okay with my old (ancient) video card GTX 770. In 22.04 my monitor goes to sleep after a while and will not turn again and I forced to do a hard restart.

Higher vm.max_map_count (1048576) to stop various games crashing

I can't wait to use this feature... in Mint 22

Well you can set it right this minute, nothing stopping you. :)

On another note, I could have sworn I saw at least one game needing a lot higher value than 1M to function properly. Perhaps an outlier...
I've used 16M for a long time and had no issues. Then we saw the Valve guys setting some completely insane value like 2 billion which I really can't recommend, but what the heck do I know.

in my case stay using around november and many things runs good

sadly lubuntu dont have lxqt 2.0 and kde dont have plasma 6, maybe appear for 24.10 around october

Now I should decide whether to reinstall with base Ubuntu or use Kubuntu. Choices, choices.

Personally I am going to reinstall with the base Ubuntu. I am excited to try out the new Gnome 46.
Kubuntu looked less interesting to me because it is using using Plasma 5 instead of the newer Plasma 6.

For me it's kind of weighing plusses and minuses. I seriously dislike the tabletification of the UI that Gnome is doing. KDE is more a proper desktop UI and a much better usage experience. On the other hand, Gnome is just technically better. Everything feels faster and I have way less issues with the compositor. I can't even count how many times KWin restarted itself over the year I used it.

in my case stay using around november and many things runs good

sadly lubuntu dont have lxqt 2.0 and kde dont have plasma 6, maybe appear for 24.10 around october

KDE Neon should have you covered for that.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

It's just been released, so most users definitely haven't upgraded. But history is a good teacher. It's not just Ubuntu but other operating systems have had significant issues in their early post-launch days. As a result, some people prefer to play it safe and either wait for .1 to be released or, at the very least, give it a month or so to make sure that any leftover bugs are discovered by the early adopters, and fixed by the developers.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

It's just been released, so most users definitely haven't upgraded.

They were talking about the two and the four years old release...

Right now, I'm debating whether I want to stay on LTS after my Kubuntu install(s) upgrade from 23.10 (whenever the update drops). I've been pretty satisfied running normal releases the past year, but it may be worthwhile just sticking to LTS.

After upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.

Can you screencap with 24.04?

I love Ubuntu but I ditched GNOME a long time ago (for many reasons) for Xfce and never looked back. Still, I'll probably wait until the end of the year to upgrade my 22.04 XUbuntu desktop since it tends to take them (Ubuntu, not Xfce devs) that long to work out all the issues.

After upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.

Can you screencap with 24.04?

shift+prtsc works for me in 23.10, perhaps check that the shortcut haven't accidentally been changed?

Every Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.

While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.


Last edited by F.Ultra on 26 Apr 2024 at 5:27 pm UTC

Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...

After upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.

Can you screencap with 24.04?

Also upgrade from 22.04 from 20.04 here, print screen button works great, starting a little tool for capturing or recording the screen. You can choose between the whole screen or a selected area.

Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...

I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks. Not sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)


Last edited by F.Ultra on 27 Apr 2024 at 4:50 pm UTC

Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...

I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks.

Yeah. I'm developer of industry software too, and we're doing our best to not do such things anymore. Bits do rot.

Not sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)

For old software, we're keeping old environments around as well.


Last edited by Eike on 27 Apr 2024 at 7:55 pm UTC

I'd love to go back to Ubuntu on my laptop but...ugh Snaps....just no. Until then, It's either Linux Mint or OpenSuse Tumbleweed for me for my Desktop and PopOS for my laptop.


Last edited by TactikalKitty on 28 Apr 2024 at 2:02 am UTC