Long story short... I tried to save my sister's laptop since updating Windows 10 crashed it. I first installed the latest Ubuntu, worked for a few days before crashing. I installed again, did the same thing. I tried to install Mint instead, crashed sooner than Ubuntu. I changed the RAM then tried to install Ubuntu one more time, still crashed after some time. Now I'm confused. Any kind of advice or help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I installed Ubuntu on my ASUS ROG Strix G15 yesterday. The installation finished normally and there were no errors or power cuts during the install.

Today the laptop suddenly went to a black screen. I forced it to shut down by holding the power button, but after restarting it only the keyboard lights and power light come on. The screen stays completely black, there is no ASUS logo, no startup sound, no fan spin, and the Caps Lock key does not respond.

I tried a long power-button reset, disconnecting the charger, opening the laptop, disconnecting the battery, and removing/reseating the RAM. After one EC reset the ASUS logo appeared once, but then the screen went blank again. Now it is back to showing only the keyboard lights and no display.

Does this sound like a BIOS/firmware issue, a motherboard problem, or something else? Since it does not even show the ASUS logo consistently, I’m worried it may be a hardware problem rather than Ubuntu itself.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hello,

I am not techy. My ex got me into linux and used to be my tech support. I know this issue has been answered before but I am not sure how to run the answer in terminal. Please explain it to me with all the code lines I'd need to run. I don't know how to create a file with context. I understand some may be wondering why I am sticking with a linux machine if I am not techy. Honestly, I am sick and tired of windows and apple bloat and I am trying to avoid overfilling my life with subscriptions.

This is the answer I found:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-release-notes/39890

Problem: When I try to run steam either through the shortcut or through terminal I get the error:

Steam now requires user namespaces to be enabled.

This requirement is the same as for Flatpak, which has more detailed information available: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/User-namespace-requirements

System specs:

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Kernal Version: Linux 6.8.0-134-generic

Hi, I've tried many things (Pressing F2, F11, F12, DEL, commenting grub timeout and running systemctl reboot --firmware- or whatever it's called), but can't boot into BIOS. That means I can't reisntall my OS either.

I am using vmware workstation and the copy and paste works from my Ubuntu guest vm but when I try to copy something from my Ubuntu Host to Guest it doesn't work.

I have a Lenovo V15ADA with Ubuntu 26.04.

After the laptop has been asleep, whether through closing the lid or being idle, it won't respond. I try pressing a key or moving the mouse and get no response. I have to hard reset the computer EVERY time my computer goes to sleep.

Any help is appreciated!

I am using Ubuntu 22.04, Vivaldi 7.7.3851, and Artha 1.0.5.

For some reason I cannot figure out, highlighting text in Vivaldi is not recognized by Artha. Using a custom hotkey should bring up Artha, but does not. There are no conflicts in the hotkeys, and with all extensions disabled, I am still not able to activate Artha. Does anyone else have this problem? Do you know a fix? I should mention that in other non-internet programs, i.e., word processors, Artha works just fine.

And couple weeks ago I have suffered from my Instagram account being banned because of alleged CP. It was unbanned 48 hours later.

Meta services are becoming trash day by day.

Edit for update: I have managed to get it back, I would be giving it a cooldown period before trying to log in through my browser.

Good day! I’m trying to fix this anydesk issue in my pc wherein it says “display server not connected”. I have tried all of the options available online but I still can’t fix it. In the gdm3 config.conf it doesnt have a waylandenable=false line😭😭 and this one doesnt have a gear icon in the log in screen😭😭 Can someone please help me, I’ve been trying to fix this for days now.

A new Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-46242 ("Bad Epoll"), affects the eventpoll (epoll) subsystem and can allow an unprivileged local user to escalate privileges to root by exploiting a use-after-free race condition.

Here's a breakdown covering the affected kernel versions, Ubuntu release status, available security updates, upstream fixes, and mitigation guidance.

Hey folks,

I'm a Ubuntu user and I personally like to stick to the LTS version, which is generally much more stable and better supported. When Sway 1.12 was released I was pretty happy to see the window sharing support, but I quickly noticed it won't be available in Ubuntu 26.04 (the LTS won't get major version bumps).

I decided to build it from source and packaged it as a PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pgentili/sway
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sway
sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Should work cleanly on 26.04. Let me know if you run into any issues, and feel free to poke around the PPA page if you want build details.

Hope it's useful to someone else waiting on this!

I've been trying to download it through the console as well as through themes official install but it just doesn't seem to run and there's a lot of files that don't have properly functioning paths so they just are spewing errors. I tried to remove the application to reinstall but I don't think I've got it all and it won't let me delete all of it because it's "not empty". Why?

edit: thank you guys there is still those files with no pathways and I don't have a applications of click on to open Steam but it does open through the terminal and seems stable enough so I'm sure it's good enough just so strange.

Hi,

I'm trying to get my home printer/scanner/copier working. I'm using Ubuntu 26.04. The automatic installation used some HP driver; the downloaded linux drivers (deb packages) have a lot of obsolete dependencies - libxml2, libpango1.0-0, libpng12, libtiff4...

Is anyone successfully using this device in Linux? What drivers / software works for you?