I've been using 26.04 for almost a month now, everything is buttery smooth (i even got Pro enabled!). Honestly, the experience is so far pleasant, apart from snaps (which i dont really like).
Also, I rarely use Cachy nowadays, i'll probably stick here
So, Im switching to Ubuntu from windows 11 (well more like a dual boot) but the thing im concerned about is security. Like the firewall, etc… Is there any guide to make Ubuntu more secure?
Or if anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated. :)
Hi,
I have a question. If you own 5K 27" can you please check what scaling options it gives you on gnome 50.1? Is there something like 225%, 233%, 235%, 250% ?
If i had 5K 27" display I would propably use 200% or something around 235%.
Also what is resolution of full size screen shot on those other (more than 200%) resolutions? Is it exacly 5120x2880 or something other?
and now, I got the old and the new "power off" buttons on the top right menu.
I'd like to get rid of the "old" one. How?
Thanks!
I only have one hard drive, it contains the installation media and I'm using it as the main drive. How would I remove it without unplugging the thumb drive? When I unplug it I get the screen from the 3rd image, no button does anything on the 3rd screen.
Hi all currently in my first year at uni and with Linux I’m struggling to figure out how to access the shadow file.
Pls help!
Hi!
I'm confused about the time frame of the recent fixes for CVE-2026-31431 and the communication by Canonical (or I'm missing something).
We've got a bunch of VMs with Ubuntu Pro enabled. After CVE-2026-31431 went public I was monitoring https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31431 to see if a fix was available.
At the same time I was checking with pro fix CVE-2026-31431 if there was a fix.
I know about the kmod remediation, but I wanted to know when a fixed kernel was released.
On monday (18th of May) pro fix still told me that there was no fix and the web page told me this, too.
When I checked again, today, the page was updated with fixed kernel versions and pro fix tells me this, too.
BUT, eg the fixed kernel for 24.04. (6.8.0-117.117) was already installed on our systems via auto-update on May 15th?!
So, why did it take Canonical so long to update the page AND why wouldn't pro fix tell me about it?
Are there other communication channels to check?
I hope someone can clear that up for me 😄
After I used it for a few weeks.It works quite great.Intuitive,fast and completed drivers.I can play many games on steam without tweak.
Then I decided to is it instead of Win11 for long term.
Wish me luck!!!
Hi there iam using amd ryzen on dell inspiron recently dual booted Ubuntu 22,04 along with windows 11 and iam facing an overheating issue with my fans blowing off at full speed it has never happened before has anyone faced this issue before and knows how to fix it?? Thanks
Hey everyone 😄
I am an android app developer, I use GCP and a lot of CLI based tooling to get work done on a daily basis, the main issue I've had with other distro's (this could be a linux kernel thing) is the insane chassis heating during gradle builds, which for some miraculous reason isn't an issue here at all. Where I'm at, the ambient temps reach 38 deg C easily, and I know that is a contributing factor, but I guess Ubuntu has such a wide reach that some patch upstream has finally made my laptop workable again (I've come from fedora 43 and Pop_OS! 24.04).
Regardless of the snap related negativity and other Canonical issues, this release has really made me love my laptop again, and I thank them for that.
Laptop Specs (Acer SFG14-71):
- i5-13500H
- 16gb DDR5 RAM
- 512gb nvme SSD
This laptop has known heating issues while charging and in general when running windows or the above mentioned distributions, Ubuntu for some reason just does not get hot, I do not see any notable performance dips as well.
I also added my fix to tenseventy7's repo for libudev detection, it's still an open PR. In case someone has the same hardware and cannot get the fingerprint reader to work, I recommend using his fix. https://github.com/TenSeventy7/libfprint-egismoc-sdcp/pull/3
Thank you Canonical for this. My laptop feels so much better to use now
This was seen at Halifax Shopping Centre, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ive found myself using Ubuntu more and more over other distros these days, not because it does anything special that I really prefer over Debian or Fedora, no, its because I really like ubuntu's stock backgrounds and color scheme.
When news of the the Dirty Frag vulnerability came out I did the manual mitigation mentioned on the Ubuntu blog and I was wondering if it was safe to undo that yet. I haven't seen any issues yet from the mitigation, but since I disabled something I fear it might be only a matter of time until I hit upon an error that might be caused by that and I'm left wondering why something's not working. From what I've been able to gather kernel 7.0.6 fixes the issue, but that's not what Ubuntu is currently running. Will that fix at some point get patched in to the kernel currently in use or will I have to wait for 26.04.1 when the kernel might be updated to a more recent version? Or not even then? I haven't been able to find anything beyond this online.
Hello Everyone,
I have this weird bug that I might be from my GPU. Sometimes when couple of apps are running like vscode, thunderbird, texstudio and few other, my laptop gets stuck when I try to do suspend and it never suspends so I have to hard press the power button to hard shutdown it and lose all my unsaved work. This issue affects me badly as a data scientist running ML models and some stuff are still saved on the RAM and going for a quick break and suddenly having to hard reboot due to this weird bug I mentioned.
Has anyone experienced this weird bug and know a fix for it?
I really hope someone has a fix as I left Linux unfortunately due to the non fixable bugs I had with Fedora 43 then came back happily when fedora 44 launched hoping they fixed the bugs caused to nvidia laptops/pcs. Unfortunately while loving fedora kde plasma I had to leave as nvidia issues were there and from day one I decided to try Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hoping for a stable system and it has been thankfully extremely very stable with just this weird bug.
Sorry for taking ur precious time and thanks in advance for all
I tried following the video below to set up a Minecraft server for my friends and I. I got to a point where playit.gg installer service was out of date and I got lost.
https://youtu.be/46T4cDQBkDs?si=5KeLyiS8ZLn38jgo
I tried restarting from scratch but now I can’t even seem to get it into a state where I can ssh in from another device on my network.
The only thing I can think is different from the first time (that worked) is that now it is showing me a key with randomart when I remove my installation tool and reboot.
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong as I select the exact same options as the video and as I did earlier and yet it still does not allow me to install casa os with the apt directly on the system. Nor can I ssh in to try and install it from there
So I just shifted to linux and started with ubuntu as I heard it's beginner friendly , I have learnt to use basic navigation codes and most of the settings in the os but what I don't get is , what is learning a linux means ?? Like when do people actually decide that they have mastered the os ?? I am planning on changing and trying multiple linux as I am really into tinkering with my laptop so wanted to know this before getting deeper