Hey everyone, I’m new to Ubuntu. I switched from Arch because I wanted a bulletproof daily driver for dual boot, and I wanted to stop fixing my system every other week and just get work done.

I’m a CSE student, so this setup is built around studying and coding. Brave, VS Code, a terminal, Spotify with some lofi, Obsidian for notes, and that’s about it. I kept the dock clean and went with a dark theme and a Musashi wallpaper to keep me focused.

Pics in order: the desktop, the GRUB menu with Ubuntu and Windows dual boot, then the rest of the customization.

Specs: Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

Still learning, so if you’ve got extension, theme or workflow recommendations, I’d love to hear them. What should I add?

Found this old Ubuntu 14.10, 16 and 17 installation disc while digging through my stuff. A little piece of Linux nostalgia!

Release notes linked.

I've been running a beta on some of my machines for the past week and from what's I've seen it's rock solid, seems to have some of the 26.04 worked out. Plus kernel 7.3.x is nice.

Mininalism sudo apt install ubuntu-español Alguien que sepa español aqui??? Deberiamos empezar nuestra comunidad en nuentra lengua! (Tech question: Hay gente que habla en español para revisar problemas entre nosotros?)

Wth is this issue

It took my permissions, and I can't open clamtk-rs or any apps. I am pretty sure that it came from cracked minecraft.

okay so i was wondering, i have my igpu disabled and im using an rtx 5060, do i need to pre install the nvidia drivers or can i still run it, or do i need to reenable my igpu beforehand

Re-posting this to the Ubuntu forum. Interesting what the Brave AI mentioned about KDE/Plasma.

Anything I can tweak in Ubuntu/Gnome ?

So i have an old HP pavilion 15 laptop. And i installed ubuntu alongside Windows, since I gave important files on windows. Anyway, when I booted in live USB, i saw that i cannot turn off the airplane mode. I tried f12 key since that is the key to turn it off on windows, but it didnt turn off and insyead it says "Hardware airplane mode". I installed ubuntu offline and thought it will probably download some drivers and it will be fixed, but it wasnt fixed. I tried several things like resetting bios, rfkill unblock all etc. It still doesnt work. I need help.

Wifi chipset: RT3290

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 11 on my Dell Inspiron 5620 having 512 GB NVMe SSD, but Windows won't let me shrink my C: drive by more than around 7.8 GB, even though I have about 310 GB free.

I've tried defrag C: /X, disabling hibernation, deleting shadow copies, resetting the USN journal, and running chkdsk. Nothing has helped much. The latest Event 259 points to \\$Mft::$BITMAP as an unmovable file.

I want to free up around 120 GiB for Ubuntu without losing my existing Windows installation or messing up the recovery partitions.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Is there a safe way to fix it? Would fully decrypting BitLocker be worth trying, or is there another solution?

Thanks!

I recently switched from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu) on my Acer Aspire Lite AL15-53. Since switching, I haven't been able to turn my keyboard backlight on or off. I left it on in low brightness when I was using windows and it continues to stay in low brightness in ubuntu. Plz suggest me a solution🙏

I've recently done the upgrade from 24 LTS to 26 LTS but I can't find the Software & Updates App.
Also there was a Livepatch icon in the top panel where I used to check for its condition, also gone.
Have those two things been removed from the 26 LTS?

​Hey everyone,

​My current ThinkPad T460s (i5 6th Gen, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is choking under my daily workload on Ubuntu.

​My Daily Stack:

​Multiple VS Code windows & workspace instances

​Local LLM / Claude developer tools

​Android Studio (Gradle builds)

​Local Docker containers & Kubernetes (K3s/Kind)

​With only 8GB RAM and a 2-core CPU, memory thrashing and slow builds are killing my productivity.

​I have a very tight budget and am looking at a budget-friendly option like the Lenovo V14 G3 (Core i5-1235U, 10 Cores). Plan is to buy it and immediately toss a 16GB RAM stick in the open slot for 24GB total RAM.

​Questions:

​Will the Lenovo V14 G3 (i5-1235U + 24GB RAM) smoothly handle Android builds, Docker, and multi-VS Code setups without thermal choking?

​Are there better secondhand enterprise laptops (like a used ThinkPad T14 or Dell Latitude) in the same budget range I should look for instead?

​Thanks!

Hey everyone,

​I’m a product engineer running Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS on a ThinkPad T460s (Core i5 6th Gen, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD).

​My daily development stack involves:

​Concurrent VS Code instances & multiple workspace windows

​Multi-agent LLM / Claude developer tool setups

​Android application builds (Gradle compilation & indexing)

​Local containerized environments using Docker & local Kubernetes (K3s/Minikube/Kind)

​Naturally, 8GB RAM and a 4-Thread 6th Gen Intel chip create severe memory thrashing and long build times. Here is how I’m tuning my Linux environment to squeeze maximum performance out of this 8GB setup, along with my planned upgrade path to a Lenovo V14 G3.

Hello everyone! A little while ago I got my hands on an old dell poweredge t710 tower and didn’t really know what to do with it, recently i’ve decided to make it into a media server running jellyfin and maybe host a minecraft server for my friends. I decided to install ubuntu server because I didn’t feel like trying to work with microsoft server, i’ve got it installed properly and signed in, what should I do now?

I have 2 monitors, 1st in standard landscape configuration and 2nd - rotated, vertical.

On Ubuntu 26 after Screen Lock I sometimes got monitors all wrong, with monitor 2 displaying what monitor 1 should've displayed (and rotated, of course), and monitor 1 displaying small fraction of what monitor 2 should've displaying.

In journalctl it is "Failed to use stored monitor configuration: Invalid mode for monitor" with 1st monitor having 1024x768 resolution tops.

What's solving this is to Ctrl + Alt + F3 to enter terminal session and then Ctrl + Alt + F2 to return to Wayland

Bonjour,

Je suis étudiant et je souhaite abandonner Windows pour Linux. Mon PC est un HP avec un processeur Intel i7-1355U, 16 Go de RAM, et une carte Wi-Fi Realtek 8852BE.

J'ai deux questions :

1. Est-ce que ma carte Wi-Fi est bien supportée par Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (noyau récent) ? Si non, quelle est la procédure la plus fiable pour installer le pilote ?
2. Quels sont les risques concrets de faire une installation "effacer le disque et installer Ubuntu" pour un utilisateur qui n'a jamais touché au partitionnement ? Y a-t-il un risque de rendre le PC inutilisable si je fais une erreur ?

Merci pour votre aide.

I don't think this is suspicious, but web development isn't the first thing I think of when I think of Canonical. As I work in this space, if someone works there, I would be quite interested in what their web team is up to.

Im getting some werid errors after the latest software updates whenever i alt tab out and back into games i used to be able to before. This error is from crash 4 (yes i know ironic that crash crashed) but it has happened in multiple games.

Checking to see if its a coincidence it happening after an update or if everyone is affected.

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

rtx 4070

The error is

LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 1155]

GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs

Edit: booted into my windows partition and the issue isn't happening there so it is definetly something wrong on the software end. Tried reinstalling the driver but no dice. I'm just going to leave it alone for a bit and assume its something that'll be fixed in another update.

Device: Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

* Dual Boot Ubuntu & Windows install on device, although Window has not been booted into for at least a year, if not more.

* Last updated and upgraded yesterday

* Last backup a year ago. [Went to backup yesterday and unable to gain access to the external hard drive, showing this error (same message as in picture 3, which I sourced from onlien as I can't replicate it to take a picture due to the current issue). The hard drive showed that it was formatted as NFTS, and after installing nfts3 and running nftsfix on the hard drive (`nftsfix /dev/sdv1` or something like that; trying to do this from memory) in the terminal, got an input/output error. Was going to troubleshoot that more today and do a separate backup, but then this happened.]

Report:

Went to log into my primary user, and it showed a brief "Authentification error" beneath the password box before I even started typing in the password. Then, upon entering the password (due to muscle memory being faster than processing the "Authentification error" message), the password box froze out. I was unable to get the screen to change from that state. I could get the basic settings/network drop down (WIFI, bluetooth, etc) in the upper right to drop down and go back up, but was unable to escape to selecting a different user.

I force restarted the device, and upon selecting Ubuntu in the GRUB boot menu, the normal Linux Ubuntu booting screen showed (picture 2, please ignore dirty screen). However, after that instead of the user selection GUI screen that normally populates upon Ubuntu booting, this screen (picture 1) showed up. I do not know what command line this is (e.g. GRUB, GNOME, something else?) nor what the issue is aside from noticing that it shows dependency errors and says `no UUID available providing old NGUID`, which I don't understand how those came about. I don't know how to fix this issue.

Solution Attempts:

Honestly, as I have no idea what this is, I have not done anything besides several device hard reboots to see if that somehow would miraculously fix the issue. Since I don't know what this command line is even in/for, I have not entered any commands—not going to fuck around and find out here when I don't have a recent backup.

Did anyone experience issues over the past 24/48 hours? I didn't notice anything, but apparently a heck of a lot of CDN-related services were down? Was this somehow regional?