Just in time for the launch of the first beta which is scheduled for today, Canonical has made a small change to Ubuntu 20.10 It seems that the community is liking it. It is about the new design in an icon, more specifically that of its installer, which in Canonical's system is Ubiquity. Focal Fossa changed the old icon for a much more visual one, but it did not seem to make it very clear what it was. Did the image fade or ride?
The change have discovered in the middle OMG! Ubuntu! Otherwise, probably users like me, who have it installed in a virtual machine, we would not have noticed until reinstalling a new virtual machine, in this case the Ubuntu 21.04 HAnimal target. What about if He Installer icon redesign it makes sense, especially if we see the image where the previous and current appear enlarged. Again it speaks for itself.
Ubuntu 20.10 is coming in three weeks
Ubiquity Icons (Source: OMG! Ubuntu!)
In the previous image we can understand why they have decided to go back to the past: in Eoan Ermine, the icon was that of a hard disk with an arrow indicating that something was going to be put into it; in the of Focal Fossa, the icon was incomplete and was being assembled, but could lead to the confusion that it was disintegrating; already in Groovy Gorilla, although, as we have explained, it is better understood if we expand it, we see the same hard disk as in Eoan Ermine, with the difference that this time there is no blue arrow, but a Ubuntu logo written to the drive.
It is true that it is not a change that will improve things much, in fact, although it was confusing, it seemed more visual to me in the previous one, but it is a change that will come to Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla and we are obliged to report on it . As for the arrival of the new version, its landing is scheduled for the next Thursday, October 22.
One question, and the caption for the installer icon (text), which says "Install Ubuntu 20.10" is not descriptive enough of what that launcher, shortcut, icon or whatever you want to call it does.
Because always, as we say in my country, looking for the hair in the milk or looking for the fifth leg of the cat ..
That it clearly says "install Ubuntu 20.10" already tells me a lot about what it does.
regards
I do not know what repository made the hell the other day (and that I had configured to update any type of distribution, silly me, I have already changed it to the LTS), I think it is the one of the latest AMD drivers or go to know, that my system was updated to Ubuntu 20.10. Suddenly I had an update like 700 megabytes. Then I realized that the Gnome was 3.38, my eyes went like eggs and I thought "wa japens?".
Obviously it would be a beta, because it failed more than a fairground shotgun.
Nothing, to reinstall the LTS and I think I put Diosito as a witness, with a bunch of
hand, I will never install something that I do not read a previous analysis that works in conditions.