Tweaking and rewiring
Some final edits to perfect your installation, plus a little Ubuntu nostalgia.
Wayland by default was tested in Ubuntu 17.10, but that was perhaps a little ambitious. Now the technology has matured and Canonical is confident that it’s – to dredge up an irksome phrase–“ready for prime time”. Extensive testing has taken place and the team are confident that the Wayland experience will be good for all. Yep, even those using Nvidia hardware. If it’s not, well, that’s fine. The old X11 session is still there.
Wayland has been fairly misrepresented in the press, (who, me?–Ed) historically. The most egregious falsehoods were that remote desktop sessions, screen sharing and even humble screenshotting are impossible with Wayland. Do not believe such myths. The problem wasn’t Wayland, it was programs that didn’t support it. All the screenshots in this feature would not be here if that were the case.
WE’RE IN GNOME’S GOLDEN AGE
“The stutters and memory leaks that dogged Ubuntu Gnome’s performance for so long are well and truly gone.”
One change mulled for 22.04 but which in the end never made it is the replacement of PulseAudio with PipeWire. The latter is a whole new multimedia framework which, as it happens, enables desktop sharing and screen recording on Wayland. Programs may still depend on PipeWire (particularly web browsers), but venerable PulseAudio remains the default sound server. If you want to change this (for example, if you’re having difficulty with Bluetooth