Hands-On with Ubuntu's Brand New Welcome Screen in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

With only three days left before Canonical's highly anticipated Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system hits the streets, today we're taking a first look at one of its newest features. As the headline implies, the next Ubuntu release will ship with a brand new Welcome screen, for the first time in the history of the Linux-based operating system. After installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on your personal computer, you'll be greeted by a welcome screen to help you set up a few things. Welcome screens have been used before in the Ubuntu world, by the Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie official flavors for example, and are also being used by numerous other GNU/Linux distributions out there to provide a one-stop solution for setting up your freshly installed operating system. Ubuntu itself never used a welcome screen, but with the forthcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release things change in this regard. The new welcome screen in Bionic Beaver will help new and returning users better understand how the brand-new GNOME user interface works, as well as to set up things like Canonical Livepatch.

Games Leftovers

• The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

  DRM free store GOG has just released their new profile system and it's surprisingly slick to look at.

• Brutal Hexen-inspired FPS 'Apocryph' is planning to release on April 27th

  Remember Apocryph? The brutal FPS inspired by the likes of Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and so on. Much like its inspiration, it's set in a brutal dark fantasy world, one that you're going to turn red. Well the developer has announced that they're aiming for an April 27th release!

• Six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' to release May 31st

  Overload, the fantastic six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent is due to officially release May 31st with full Linux support.

• Paradox has announced Stellaris: Distant Stars, a new story pack

  Space is about to get bigger again, as Paradox has announced Stellaris: Distant Stars, a new story pack for the space grand strategy game. I've said many times they needed more overall content and they've gradually delivered bit by bit. This has me quite excited, as the last big expansion was pretty damn fun to play around with.

Security Stunts From Microsoft and Crash Reporting

• Microsoft picks Linux over Windows for IoT cloud connectivity and security product Azure Sphere [Ed: No, that still requires Windows and Microsoft subscription/surveillance among other Microsoft proprietary software. They just (mis)use the brand "Linux" to promote words like "Azure" with "security". A sort of googlebombing of many terms that are hoping to latch onto.]

• gksu Removed From Ubuntu, Here’s What You Can Use Instead

  gksu is deprecated. It is removed from Debian, Ubuntu 18.04 and other newer Linux distribution version. You can achieve the gksu functionality with gvfs admin backend. Here’s how to do that. I am exploring Ubuntu 18.04 these days. And when I was trying to suppress the Ubuntu crash report, I tried to use a command with gksu.

 

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