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Eighth LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, code-named "Focal Fossa". Released on April 23, 2020. Will reach End of Standard Support (ESS) in April 2025. Only use this tag for version-specific questions.

Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) was released on April 23, 2020 and is supported until April 2025.

Release notes: Focal Fossa

The eighth stable and Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Canonical will provide support for five years due to popularity of LTS usage in businesses:

  • Two years of support will include hardware updates
  • Remaining three years will consist of maintenance upgrades.

Notable new features:

  • Linux kernel 5.4
  • GNOME 3.36, including:
    • PulseAudio 14.0 (prerelease)
    • BlueZ 5.53
  • ZFS 0.8.3 which enables:
    • Native Encryption
    • Pool TRIM
    • Sequential scrub and resilver

Flavors and editions:

Ubuntu Flavors available under 20.04 LTS (questions on all are allowed):

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS variants are not commercially supported by Canonical.

Ubuntu Editions available under 20.04 LTS (questions on all are allowed):

Ubuntu releases:

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Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Very slow

I have just upgraded to 20.04 without any issues, however, Gnome is painfully slow 2second delay with every action, apps take an age to open, terminal takes 2 sec to scroll through the history one item at a time. Anyone else seen this and have any…
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How to show the day of the week on the desktop date with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS by default has the date and time show on the top of the desktop. How can I include the weekday (examples: Sunday, Monday, ect)? I want the day of the week show with the date and time how do i do this? date I am referencing is shown…
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CPU, memory utilization in Ubuntu 20.04 top pane?

I've found this post when searching for something to display CPU, memory utilization in Ubuntu 20.04 top pane. How do I show memory usage information in top bar or as notification? According to the accepted answer ... sudo apt-get install…
user1069309
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I want to encrypt folder

I just switched to linux (5 hours ago) I am still trying to encrypt my most important folders. There seems to be no easy solution for that. What would you suggest to encrypt few folders?
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How to hide window title bar in 20.04?

When window is maximized, I want title bar to be removed. I've installed gnome-shell-extension-pixelsaver, but it's not doing anything.
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I hate the three horizontal bars on top. Any idea on how to reduce or merge them like ubuntu 16?

I'm on ub20LTS and I really dislike how much top space the topmost bars use. Any idea on how to remove or reduce their numbers? Edit: Thanks to everybody's support, this is how my workspace looks like now. I've : Installed gnome-extensions for…
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US international keyboard on Ubuntu 20.04

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and would like to type French/Portuguese accents with a US keyboard. I just cannot find the US International keyboard that existed on Ubuntu 18.04. Anyone knows how to fix that?
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"Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key" message while running a program with the Terminal

I have a problem when running a certain program. The execution works perfectly fine, but there is an additional line that appears before the execution : Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Is there a way to prevent this message to appear ? With some…
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS move buttons for minimize maximize and close to the left

Coming from good old trusty Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Made a skip and jumped right to 20.04 LTS. I find it rather annoying that the buttons for minimize, maximize and close are now on the right side. I also want to move the apps button, which is in the…
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Why do I see a message SQUASHFS ERROR:UNABLE TO READ DATA AND PAGE WHILE INSTALLING UBUNTU

Since 2days onwards iam unable to install ubuntu on my windows 10 i am trying to install 20.04 version of ubuntu its appearing like this SQUASHFS ERROR:UNABLE TO READ DATA AND PAGE
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Ubuntu 20.4 update broke my Nvidia 460 driver config

It was working perfectly before. (Previous updates had broken it, like every 3 months, but it could be fixed by making sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall work after "fighting" with removing old versions, etc.) This time, sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall…
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Non-live Ubuntu Server 20.04 release

We've been using the "non-live" Ubuntu Server release. We use Kickstart to automate installations. From experience, we know our Kickstart setup does not work with the live images. It seems like the non-live server images…
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Why ubuntu doesn't start getting ae_not_found error?

I have an old computer with Ubuntu 20 that stops working suddenly. The computer doesn't open the ubuntu, I got this error: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND. While resolving a named reference package element - SATA (20190816/dspkginit-438) fsck.ext4:…
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Ubuntu server 20.04 netplan multiple IP addresses on one network card

I have some real issues with one brand new Ubuntu 20.04 installation. I'm trying to accomplish simple network configuration - one physical interface with 2 different IP addresses from the same network using the same gateway. I see netplan is not…
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Why are /bin and /sbin now symlinks in Ubuntu 20.04?

tl;dr: In Ubuntu 20.04, folders such as /bin and /sbin are now symlinks to the same folders in /usr. Why was this change made and shouldn't the release notes mention it? This took a few days, but I tracked down some issues I was having in system…
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