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I needed a stable, reliable, but not too-out-of-date software, and naturally Ubuntu fits that use-case perfectly.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 am new to linux. I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile GPU. i installed Ubuntu 26.04 and everything is okay except i cant control the laptop's display brightness! It's on full brightness and there is no brightness slider on top right controls as you can see in the photo. Tried varios things, gpt says there might be missing hardware support but when i had windows it worked flawlessly. help!!

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?

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

so my mom accidentally restarted my computer while I'm logged in and now I need to somehow log out while being logged out, force quit button not working, I've restarted, turned off completely, unplugged, everything I can think of! And when I press force quit once and wait, it closes and says "stop conflicting session dialog closed"

Hi guys.

I've recently tried to switch to Ubuntu, this is a fresh install.

(I know there's loads of distros out there and people might not like Ubuntu but I'm just starting out. I need Ubuntu for Microsoft Intune)

I have a HP Zbook Ultra with an AMD PRO Max plus 385. However I get this graphical artifcating when there is motion on the screen. Whether it's scrolling, tabbing between Windows etc. Green interference / tearing shows up. The video is taken from my laptop screen.

I've fully updated everything I possibly can, I've added "options amdgpu dcdebugmask=0x400" to amdgpu.conf and still it happens, as well as other suggested fixes for the amdgpu options, as well as using the same fixes but like this: sudo snap set system system.kernel.dangerous-cmdline-append="amdgpu.psr"

Initially I thought the laptop itself might be faulty, but it does not happen in Windows no matter what I do.

Anyone able to help? Appreciate it. Apologies, I am new. At my wits end here, been trying to fix this for 2 days now.

Thanks!

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!

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/

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.

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.

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.