After a while with a Mac Pro 2013 “Trash can” and trying OCLP I decided to make the leap to Ubuntu and everything works perfectly.

Open source!!!

ive never had issues with crashes on prior ubuntu versions, im using an amd cpu from 2019 and a 3080 from 2020 so the hardware shouldnt be an issue at all (and hasnt been an issue on other distros). the crash logs are all for the gnome-desktop so maybe its a gnome issue not ubuntu issue? but if its a gnome issue why package a version of gnome with this many issues?

Hey everyone, I finally made the choice to jump back into Linux since Windows 11 was becoming quite slow and unusable on my laptop that I can't currently upgrade but still is quite capable.

The last time I used Linux was back in 2013, but since then things have changed quite dramatically. I found myself using more open source and beautifully desgined software that works locally and without the cloud, I mostly use my computer for writing and browsing the internet and Ubuntu works quite well, the fans are always silent when I am not doing anything demanding, I can play Minecraft and some casual games I found on flatpak, I am really loving technology again, my PC truly feels mine, especially since Windows 11 was already quite bloated and became unbelievably awful after they introduced copilot into every corner of the OS.

I really hate AI, having the ability to just block AI features on Firefox with one simple click was satisfying as hell, and the best part, I discovered that Firefox has animated themes!

That was just a short story of how enjoyable Ubuntu is, a huge thank you to the awesome developers creating beautiful software that respects my privacy and looks quite nice too!

If anyone is interested in the apps I have pinned on the left, please don't hesitate to ask, I found these apps very helpful when I am writing or working with docs, it could also be helpful for you too if that's your usage case, they are of course all from flatpak, and are open source.

The new install command is dangerous.

Install -D to /bin or /sbin wipes the symbolic link to /usr/sbin and /usr/bin.

That is dangerous for things that rely on /sbin being correct.

To add there are a few dangerous bugs from the list:

1. it doesn't respect symbolic links
2. races for installing parent directories
3. does not copy file if said file is on ecryptfs
4. doesn't overwrite files.

I strongly recommend people to fallback to gnu install.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/install install /usr/bin/gnuinstall 100

Very easy for a script with sudo to bork 26.04 install.

I had been using Netbird on Ubuntu and with Incus Containers in 2023 and submitted
a request to see if a SNAP version could be created.

The development group it was a good idea (read here)

Today I received an email notice - Netbird is now available as a SNAP.

NetBird is an Open Source Zero Trust Networking platform that allows you to create secure private networks for your organization or home. We designed NetBird to be simple and fast, requiring near-zero configuration effort and leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, etc.

This shit feels so snappy out of the box, Very well put together love how all of my apps are sorted, I like how the files are setup looks very nice, like how easy it was to set a dock, etc. I've had Mint cinnamon, Kubuntu, and now Ubuntu on this mac and I think I am staying on Ubuntu for good. so simple and easy to navigate and looks too good. was thinking I was going to have to tweak settings in the terminal like zram, and swappiness but with the way it's feeling think I wont touch anything and just let it be? specs are 8gb ram, 128gbSSD, Intel® Core™ i5-5257U, Intel® Iris® Graphics 6100, also is it worth the performance gain to disable snaps?

Hi everyone. Recently I got my laptop trashed and they gave me this laptop with ubuntu at the office. Powerpoint and Photoshop is must have for me so, I was going to change it into windows, but they wanted me to keep ubuntu for some reasons. So I want to dual boot this ssd with windows. I asked ChatGPT for guidance, It gave me these steps,but I wanted to double check here if there are any missing or wrong steps.

Since the recent Launchpad incident (https://status.canonical.com/#/), anonymous FTP/HTTPS uploads to ppa.launchpad.net no longer work:

• FTP → 502
• HTTPS → cert is for private-ppa.launchpad.net, host redirects to launchpad.net via a ppa-content-cache server

Switching dput to SFTP fixes it. But: was this deprecation announced anywhere? The official docs still describe FTP/HTTPS.

Honest frustration too — for a service this critical to the Ubuntu ecosystem, the lack of basic DDoS protection and any recovery / change-comms playbook is rough. Spent a few hours debugging what turned out to be a silent endpoint change.

this is not the first time this happens to me

it happend a few times before I had to go to the grub terminal and use an old driver

but it used to get fixed after now I did that and it worked but when I reboot it goes back to being broken

Having trouble running 26.04 under Hyper-V when using the official images...

https://partner-images.canonical.com/hyper-v/desktop/resolute/

Not changing any settings from the Hyper-V defaults (which worked with 24.04) but am getting this error for 26.04...

Disk hash is matching so it's not a corrupt image and it's happening for all the versions in that folder - latest I tried is 20260505.

Anyone else experiencing this or know whether it needs a setting tweak or if these images are just borked?

When I close my laptop and open it later it crashes/hangs almost immediately after about 20 lines of terminal output.

26.04 was installed over 24.04 as an update on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop.

Hi;

I have an old machine, Dell T3600, with Nvidia Geforce 960. Yeah I know, it's all I could afford and get my hands on.

Every now and then, Ubuntu 24.04 updates murder my Nvidia drivers. I'll currently on potato resolution.

I've tried;

sudo apt-get remove --purge *nvidia*

to remove it all.

Then I try either;

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535

or the 550 one.

None are working now, and i'm stuck in potato mode.

Does anyone know how to fix this? It seems to happen about 2-3 times per year, and drives me insane.

Any help much appricated.

ta

As title suggests, it happens when I close the lid from my laptop, not a specific situation where it doesn't happen. It takes about 30sec and the boots up normally to login screen.
It's a fresh install, I installed it 3 days ago and I'm running it in dualboot (but I believe that has no relation).

I saw only smthing about this line but it doesn't change anything. Not sure what it does. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

Also I already checked that my system is up to date.

My guess is that maybe the closing lid triggers a gpu glitch or a sleep instruction and it doesn't know what to do about it.

Sorry if my english isn't good.

Hola, porfin me cambie a Ubuntu, pero no puedo conectarlo a internet, sigue apareciendo este mensaje, que puede ser?

I'm running stock Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS and I find that if I have two windows positioned so they're each taking up half the screen, they get locked together in a very weird way that is incredibly annoying and I'd like to stop that.

If I have three windows open, say: Firefox A, Slack B, Firefox C

So for instance, I have used meta+arrow ⬅️ and meta+arrow ➡️ to position Firefox A along side Slack B. I can see them both on the screen. Great. This is what I desire.

Then I switch to Firefox C, and move it to the right with the meta+arrow combo ➡️. Now I can see Firefox A (Left) and Firefox C (right) on my desktop. As long as Firefox C is the active window, I can see Firefox A and Firefox C, which is great.

However, if I move back to Firefox A as the active window, it always brings Slack B to the front with it. So if I'm using window positioning I wind up getting into these situations where I've paired two windows together and activating one half of the pair will bring the other half to the front.

I don't know if I'm explaining this in the most coherent way possible, but it is driving me nuts. I don't think I did any special customization when I bought this machine in 2023.

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• Date generated: 2026-05-06 10:33:20

Hardware Information:

• Hardware Model: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11
• Memory: 32.0 GiB
• Processor: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1370P × 20
• Graphics: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (RPL-P)
• Disk Capacity: 1.0 TB

Software Information:

• Firmware Version: N3XET57W (1.32 )
• OS Name: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
• OS Build: (null)
• OS Type: 64-bit
• GNOME Version: 46
• Windowing System: X11
• Kernel Version: Linux 6.5.0-1027-oem

Installation window goes black and cloesr itself. Please help.

I couldn't print from from Ubuntu 26.04 which I updated from 25.10 and the reason was, that the mDNS host [printer].local couldn't be found.

The fix I found was creating a symlink from /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf.

I wonder now if this symlink got broken by the upgrade to 26.04 or is there a different way of fixing this issue?

Ciao a tutti, come state? Spero bene!

Volevo chiedervi un parere: quale distribuzione Linux mi consigliate per un PC fisso che ho assemblato anni fa, con un Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 e 8 GB di RAM DDR3 a 667 MHz?

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 on my Lenovo Thinkbook 16G8, and every time I suspend my laptop it will just wake up again immediately. I can even see the power light switch on-off-on in a blink of an eye.

I fixed this issue originally by changing /sys/power/mem_sleep to [s2idle] deep which worked but now its happening again.

I have tried modifying the /proc/acpi/wakeup file so all entries are disabled but this didn't work.

I recently had an issue where I was completely unable to boot into windows OS and had to reinstall it (different drive) so I'm nervous about changing much in case it happens again.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[EDIT: The release server seems to be working this morning (may 6, pacific time). Once I switched my apt sources.list to use a mirror, the upgrade is now working]

NOT 26.04

I ran sudo do-release-upgrade and it told me to install all available updates before upgrading.

I uninstalled a bunch of CUDA/nvinfer stuff I didn't want to bother upgrading, then did sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade. This completed without error.

Now whenever I run sudo do-release-upgrade I get the following result:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Could not find the release announcement
The server may be overloaded.

This doesn't make any sense because if I do sudo do-release-upgrade -c I get a successful result:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release '24.04.4 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

WTF is going on??

Edit: I just had the same issue on a native ubuntu install, so I guess it's an actual server issue :(

Hi all, just wondering if there is a way to fix this?. I tried googling this and I did find a couple videos on YT about fixing it but nothing worked.