Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
This is the best summary I could come up with:
His post notes though how the desktop is evolving with a greater focus on security, a rapid transition of user data and enterprise management to the cloud, cloud desktops, more experimental technologies like embedded AI, and augmented or virtual reality productivity environments coming about.
The expressed values of the Ubuntu Desktop are choice, quality, support, enjoyment, performance, privacy by design, security by default, seamless integration, and looking towards the future.
As for security by default, Oliver notes that Ubuntu 23.10 is working on a "highly experimental" implementation of hardware-backed full disk encryption as an option in the Ubuntu installer.
Or on the performance front, their example is how they partnered with Intel to provide hardware accelerated video encoding/decoding within the Chromium browser Snap package... That hardware-accelerated video support in the Chromium Snap is working its way to stable.
Let's not forget though how browser video acceleration on other platforms has just been pretty much assumed for years and it's due to Snaps that enabling this VA-API support has been more of a challenge.
More planning details around the Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS release, which is due out in April, should be shared before the end of the year.
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I've looked into the hardware disk encryption before. The problem that it has with Linux is it isn't compatible with secure boot OOTB and could cause sleep issues. That's just the nature of OPAL 2 disks. I'm curious to see what they will do, but then the security is up to the TPM chip and the BIOS.