8 New Ubuntu 23.04 Features You Should Know

Apr. 5, 2023

During our testing, we found some new features like the option tochoose the dark or light modeand a separate screen for partitioning the storage in the installer. Although the new Flutter installer has some great new looks, we found it to be a bit slow to react at times, and it froze up too, which we hope gets resolved in the final release.

As a neat little visual update, you will now see the number of unread notifications from any application in the Ubuntu Dock. This feature also works when any application window has been updated. For example, when an IDE has finished executing a code, the app icon in the Dock will show a new notification badge with ‘1’ at the top right.

The good news is that the support for Flatpak is not completely withdrawn, and you can still easily install Flathub from official Ubuntu repositories.

While scrambling through the Wi-Fi settings, we found this nice little feature that allows you to share the Wi-Fi passwords using QR code. This saves the users from the hassle of sharing the password manually every time they need to add a new user to the network. Simply open the Wi-Fi settings from the quick settings menu and click the miniature QR code icon beside the Wi-Fi network you are connected to. You can now view the QR code for the Wi-Fi password.

This will open the Appearance settings window. Choose from a range of award-winning wallpapers and simply click to apply them. Your desktop wallpaper will get changed.

Also, Apple’s M-series chips are now natively supported, thanks to the awesome work done by Asahi Linux developers – upstreamed to the latest kernel. Other notable changes found in the new Linux kernel 6.2 are:

The best part of the new kernel is that it has optimized the OS to the next level, which is evident from CPU usage statistics in the picture below:

The main benefit of the Mini ISO image is that it can run even on a CD, a pen drive, or even via UEFI HTTP. Also, they will require fewer updates due to the fewer number of pre-installed packages.

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