The new Ubuntu installer, Subiquity is now available

Repair, test or install

For someone like me who often chooses Kubuntu or Manjaro, the installer currently available for Ubuntu is a bit outdated. Canonical takes this into account, and that is why it has been is working, in fact, it is already finished, in the version with the graphical interface of the installer subiquity. It is written in Flutter, from Google, and promises to offer a renewed user experience, which is lacking in the existing one.

The novelty should be one of the prominent features of Ubuntu 22.04, but Canonical doesn't like to add things to an LTS version if they are not well tested. So Subiquity will be available in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri, but as an option. Right now you can try it, but for that you have to download the Canary version of Ubuntu 21.10, a different edition than the Daily Build that can be downloaded from this link.

Subiquity will be one of the novelties of Ubuntu 22.04 JAdjetivo JAnimal

Choose language in Subiquity

The new installer highlights an option to repair the operating system, which in theory should avoid some reinstallations. Canonical's plans go through offering Subiquity as an option in Ubuntu 21.10, but not everything will be available and you have to keep in mind that things could go wrong so it is recommended to use the normal installer for production or main teams.

Choose keyboard

What heads this article is what appears after choosing the language, and at the moment Spanish is not available. When choosing the language of the keyboard, it appears blank if I do it in a virtual machine, so I have not been able to take screenshots of the rest of the screens. Yes, I would like to highlight the failure in the previous image, at least in my tests, that the perfect window does not come out.

Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri will be released in october, and rumors do not agree on whether it will arrive with GNOME 40 or will make the direct jump to GNOME 41. It seems clearer that it will use Linux 5.14, although the most outstanding novelties will be seen in the graphical environment and the new applications.


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