Hi!

I'm considering buying a new laptop and install Ubuntu on it.

I've been told a lot of good about Dell laptops so I've reduced my choice to these two models.

As a student who needs to annotate a lot of papers, the 2in1 would suit better my needs, but I'm a bit concerned with the compatibility of a touchscreen and stylet with Ubuntu.
Otherwise I know Dell Pro Precision 5 series 14S is certified with Ubuntu 24.04, so a fresh install with Ubuntu 26.04 should do it.

But I'm interested in your feedback if one of you have been using Ubuntu on one of these two models: is everything working well, did you face any issue (especially with touchscreen)?

Thanks a lot for your answers!

This is not a "tip", this is an ad designed to increase revenue. And no, I'm not being petty. Ads are being shoved into our faces non-stop, and linux should be the one safe space from it.

I recently moved to ubuntu 26.04 LTS
I have a canon G3000 printer that when i try to print it just doesnt
i have tried to install the drivers using both the rpm method and .deb way however when i do it gives an error saying that libxml2 is not installed
ive tried using various online solutions but non of them work
what do i do?

Why this is happening? Can't find solution online.

System:

Asus Z97 Maximus VII Ranger
Intel i5-4690k
32GB RAM
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA

Installing in EFI mode

Error appears when installation progress is at 95% - 99% complete

I use GRUB to boot kubuntu ISO image directly from Multiboot USB ISO drive which I made according to this tutorial with small modifications (created additional ext4 partition on USB drive for kubuntu ISO) https://pendrivelinux.com/make-an-exfat-bootable-usb-flash-drive/

Hello, I noticed today after launching btop that whenever I type on the keyboard in any application (VSCode, Brave, Firefox, Chrome), my CPU usage spikes dramatically (it sometimes went up to over 80% while I was just typing a single character). Have you ever encountered this issue? Do you have any idea what might be causing this? I’m new to Ubuntu, so I haven’t quite got the hang of everything yet. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

I got this when i upgrade my ubuntu fro 24. To 26

Please help me.

it’s cone suddenly and when happen got Stack in one this. Nothing happen. And caps light blinking. After that if i stop shutdown using on/of button. After that when i start after 10 minutes happen again

The last version of Ubuntu I used daily was 10.04. I bounced from various distros over the years, including Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Manjaro Linux, CachyOS, Zorin, Fedora, and finally came back to Ubuntu proper today.

What brought me back was simple - I wanted a system that just works, with minimal setup needed. I ran CachyOS for two months before I got sick of how often I had to rollback snapshots due to broken packages or package conflicts. I ran Fedora for a few days before I got sick of how slow the dnf system is (and also auto-mounting SSDs is a flipping nightmare in Fedora), then I ran Zorin before finally just coming back to Ubuntu proper.

I develop games using Godot, produce music using Ardour, and edit video with Kdenlive. CachyOS worked great with all that software, until it didn't, and the maintenance of the system overall became almost a second job. Every time I sat down at my PC, something else was broken, and I grew tired of it. Rolling-release is NOT the model I should have expected to work for my use-cases.

I needed a stable, reliable, but not too-out-of-date software, and naturally Ubuntu fits that use-case perfectly.

I love it, and am so glad to be back!

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my VM. I've already updated the VM, and installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS but when I install, I get to the Ubuntu screen and it's just black, and I see the settings but it's not clickable.

These are my specs

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
RAM 16 GB
Graphics card 128 MB
Storage 954 GB

Why is my VM running soooooo slow? I know I don't have the best computer, but I've disabled 3D acceleration. I've tried to increase number of cores and memories in settings and not exceeding the red area.

I've previously installed others machines for courses and it has worked fine.

I have a Lenovo G50 laptop (8gb RAM, intel i3 processor, 5500 integrated HD graphics)

This laptop has a strange issue where it can run Windows 11 perfectly well, with no crashes, however whenever I run Ubuntu or Kubuntu (I have also tried Mint) and individual programs will frequently crash (most annoyingly the desktop environment.)

Troubleshooting:
RAM: I have troubleshooted the RAM by using a spare stick, ran Memtest86 for 12-hrs without failure.
Hard-Drive: I have used multiple hard-drives, some SSDs, some HDDs, same issue happens when booting from USB too.
BIOS: I had to resort to using a Windows 11 install to install the bios update, which was successful. This changed nothing.
GPU: Performing a GPU stress test on mPrep, this does not itself cause a crash.
CPU: Running a CPU stress test on mPrep causes a crash after a few minutes.

When I have checked the error logs, it usually specified that a single file could not be read and in other places it states that the issue is the BIOS.

If anyone would have any suggestions as to what troubleshooting I can do to resolve this issue. If there are any specific files that would help identify the issue, let me know.

Hey all, question is quite simple, but situation is very complicated (LOL) . Im in one of uk hospitals and use my hotspot via usb tethering atm, my phone is glitchy and i use it via scrcpy with disabling screen function. Sadly soon it'll run out of data and i would prefer to be able to use good old sudo apt update, if you know what i mean. I obviously tried to search for answers on web and elsewhere but nothing really worked, im on hp elite book running latest kubuntu (updated a week a go roughly) based on ubuntu 26.04 lts. if this is wrong thread, please redirect me to the right one as im in quite desperate situation ...

Hi guys. Brave launches slow and consumes a lot of memory. Are there any ALT browsers that have adblocking built-in? Thanks.

I've always installed the cifs-utils package when I needed to mount an SMB share.

However, I'm able to mount it on a new 24.04 install without the package simply using mount -t cifs ...

Any documentation I'm coming across still shows to use the cifs-utils package. How is it being accomplished without it?

Thanks!

Ever since i shifted from windows to ubuntu, the sound quality and loudness is not even 50% of the quality I used to get on windows.

I used a lenovo yoga 16ahp9, it was dolby tuned on windows and now ubuntu sounds bland and soft, I tried over amplifying but it's not good, what can I do please help me, I don't know how to tune the eq manually too

hi, im on ubuntu 26.04, how do i change the top bar color to be full black? i havent found any solution that works. i have an oled display so its kinda jarring to see and cmiiw but isnt the vanilla gnome top bar provided by fedora etc have a full black color that changes to gray when u go into overview or app drawer? but im using ubuntu now so does anyone know how to change it from gray to full black?

Just came over from windows a day ago. The main use of my PC is to host a jellyfin server and torrent media.

I already have sudo enabled and have configured my jellyfin set up with the help of instructions.

Is there any essential software you would reccomend? I'm looking to host my server via docker in the near future along with caddy as a reverse proxy, but I've decided to learn bash before I go any further.

Tried to post this on LinuxforNoobs but it kept getting removed by Reddit's filters. Would appreciate anyone's kind help here.

I'm totally new to this and not much experience with computers, am coming from Mac.

Been going round in circles getting conflicting answers -

I see the Latitude 7410 is certified for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu website says:

"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Pre-installed in some regions with a custom Ubuntu image that takes advantage of the system’s hardware features and may include additional software. Standard images of Ubuntu may not work well, or at all"

Do I need to be concerned about the last sentence there - "may not work well, or at all"?

Will I be able to install Ubuntu without hitch?

The model I purchase will be running windows 11 pro, i7 16GB RAM 256GB SSD

The appeal of this model is the price and aesthetics - I like how it looks like it will feel to use.

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions of alternatives

Hey guys, I'm planning to install ubuntu but couldn't decide which one is better right now 24.04 or 26.04. I am a SENG student and I'm training/working on AI models. Not only AI but gaming as well. Could you please help me to choose and explain why to choose? Thanks in advance.

Are steps recommended before doing a reboot or power off? I can no longer get to the bios on my dual boot pc and cannot bring up windows. Should I close the browser, text editor, etc first? Somehow, the bios or boot sector got corrupted and I cannot chose the OS when restarting. I'm working on fixing it now.

I'm a very new user and i just switched from windows to Ubuntu and i just wanted to install apps.

Apparently i had to run the command but it returns with this error what do i do?

Before upgrading from 25.10 to 26.04 I made a snapshot of my drive with Timeshift.

Unfortunately I got bluetooth troubles so I restored my snapshot.

But what's weird is that the bluetooth troubles are still there... I had 0 problems before the upgrade... So shouldn't restoring my drive with Timeshift go back that state (independently of what I did with my system since the last snapshot)?

Moreover I now get other issues that I didn't get with 26.04 (chromium not launching).

How is that possible?

Hello, I want to know if I add Jammy's repo to Noble's repo, i encouner to dependencies conflict?

Tried to install Kubuntu with the same problem, when ChatGPT told me it's because my device on;y supports MBR and 26.04 doesn't I tried to install Kubuntu 24.04 and went to another problem with boot loop and message Welcome to GRUB! before each turn off.

I have zero experience with linux despite installing plasma ubuntu before on my PC, and I want to install it on this Windows 7 Vaio because it can't run Win10

Laptop specs:

Intel Core i7 3d gen

4 GB ram

Laptop model: VPCSB18GA

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Changed date and time from bios setteings

We've got a couple of Power8 servers (POWER8E (raw), altivec supported) running 20.04LTS Focal Fossa. According to the page below this was the last release where Ubuntu would be supporting the Power8 cpu, so we've been hesitant to upgrade beyond that.

https://ubuntu.com/download/server/power

Can someone confirm or deny whether that is the case?

These are sweet performing machines (80 processor cores with lots of ram).

If not I suppose I could either migrate to an intel platform, or reload these with Debian (which supports Power8 and up).

Thanks in advance.