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

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?

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?)

I'm trying to run rsync command, but it synced everything in dir "source/" to "dest/". What I want to happen is I want only everything in the include list to be included, and everything in the exclude list to be excluded, and also everything that I didn't list to be excluded.

I ran this command: sudo rsync -ahP --stats --include-from="list" --exclude-from="list" "source/" "dest/"

file "list" contains: ``` + /a + /b/c + /b/d + /a/e/i/j

• /a/e/f/*
• /a/e/g/*
• /a/e/h/*
• /a/e/i/* ```

"source/" contains the directory structure I provided in the include/exclude list, for example, dirs "a/" & "b/" are at the root of "source/", and dir "b/" contains dirs "c/" and "d/" at the root of "b/", etc.

How do I do this? I've been searching around and can't find the answers I'm looking for.

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.5

Help?

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.

As it says in the title, all .desktop files of wine/proton applications appear repeatedly in my app launcher regardless of DE/WM. All of these entries work. I have checked /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications for any duplicate files but there's only one .desktop file for each app. I'm running Ubuntu 24.04

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!

Update: I successfully partitioned Windows and dual-booted Ubuntu alongside Windows!

I fully decrypted Bitlocker and then used MiniTool Partition Wizard to unallocate 120 GB from C: drive. Decryption took around 10-15 minutes and partition took a similar time as well. The windows side still functioned as usual after that and i was left with the intended 120 GB of unallocated space. Thanks for everyone's replies, they really helped me in the process.

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.