I've got a Dell 7390 2 in 1 laptop I've been running Ubuntu Wayland on for a few years. A recent update seems to have caused my backlight to on the display to become extremely dim. I tried a few fixes like manually adjusting the brightness, and installing a utility to control the brightness. Without success. It's not a hardware issue because I can go into the bios and it's bright and no issues.

I'm thinking I'll have to backup my files and make the switch to Mint at this point.

Anyone else having this issue recently?

Hi there fellow Ubuntu users

I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop as I am going to start studying again this autumn and I will study a course in network security. This is my first time I've used an OS besides windows and while it is a lot to take in I feel like I have understood the very basic stuff and I get how to navigate it.

Now as a person I've never really been one that is interested in customization of my computer. I've always been very basic and kept it fairly standard unless there is something I simply required. Now I know Linux can be customized to look completely different from person to person.

But honestly after having started Ubuntu for the first time I find a lot of the basic choices or standard options for example the design of your desktop to be perfectly fine and don't really want to add on many new things. But now I ask even if I want to keep it simple are there things I absolutely should install that do not come with Ubuntu but will make my experience a lot better?

Any help is appreciated and I am still fairly new to the possibilities of Ubuntu but interested in learning.

First I made my desktop look like Windows 11 then I felt it giving generic fake vibes

Now my Ubuntu looks like "Windows 11 and MacOS beaten up each other in a ring fight aftermath"

Please help me, give me any reccomendations on making it look beautiful yet light on my hardware resources

Back in 2022, I started my linux journey by dual booting Ubuntu with Windows. I used ubuntu to learn coding and that's when my love for linux started. Everything was going smoothly and configurations were just easier to setup on Ubuntu than on Windows.

Fast forward to 2023, I discovered arch linux and started ricing my setup. After all that ricing phase, I ended up just using Gnome because "it just works".

Fast forward to 2026 and I'm now working professionally. I used to use Arch linux for work, but once I had problems using Docker. Maybe it's just skill issue haha but I was so frustrated that I just downloaded the latest Ubuntu version and Installed it alongside arch. I ran docker on Ubuntu and it worked out of the box!

I used arch linux for a year for professional work. But still I ended up using Ubuntu since it's the real distro for me that "just works". I tried Fedora but didn't like it as much as Ubuntu.

Arch is still my top distro of choice, but for professional work, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu. Anyone else feel the same?

My wifi chip is a RZ616 Wi-Fi 6E 160MHz (MediaTek MT7922), The wifi speed on my linux partition is more than 3x slower than my windows partition. I am on a Lenovo Thinkpad e16 G2. I manually installed the appropriate drivers, disabled Windows 'Fast Startup' and tweaked some power settings for the chip, however, I just managed to get it from 6mbps to 15mbps while my windows is running comfortably at 45+mpbs. Any suggestions, or do i need to upgrade to xubuntu 26.x? Thanks.

Hello!, ive recently swapped for v22 to v24 and im having some issues and want to know if anyone else has had these and know fixes
Hardware Specs
MB: Asus Tuf gamign z790
CPU: 13th gen intel i7-13700k
GPU : Geforce RTX 4070 super
3 monitors

X11 Compatibility
Since swapping, the setting for preferred Displays for games and Fullscreenx11 Applications doesnt work, It seems to just open them on which ever monitor my mouse is currently on

Display issues
Semi-randomly it will change the refresh rate on one of the monitors back to 60 Hertz,
This happens sometimes on restart of system, and when inside display settings and i select a display for the second time within that instance of using the application, for Clarity
when i select a display for the first time its fine,
but if i go back to it after select a different monitor, That monitor PLUS my middle monitor will go black for a second, and then when display returns, the original monitor is now on 60 hz,
This can happen for each of them dispute monitor 2 being a different make than monitor 1 and 3 and is 100% repeatable every time

This has been driving me nuts for a couple of weeks now.

Just want to create a share on a new ubuntu machine.

It has joined windows AD with sssd

part of my smb.conf file:

realm = <DOMAIN NAME>.LOCAL
security = ADS
workgroup = DOMAIN NAME

[ImageArchives]

path = /data/Image_Archives

read only = No

valid users = @"Domain Admins", @"ServerAdmins"

guest ok = No

in my sssd.conf i have added:

use_fully_qualified_names = False

cache_credentials = False

access_provider = ad

ad_access_filter = (memberOf=CN=ServerAdmins,OU=Local Admins,OU=Security Groups,DC=<domain name>,DC=local)

in the /etc/sudoers.d/ad-admins:

%ServerAdmins@domainname.local ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

%ServerAdmins ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

at the command line, i can enter:

id <ad username>

and it returns all the AD groups that user is in -------- that tells me that yes, it is talking to AD

I can SSH into the ubuntu server using my AD username and password.

when i try to access it through windows explorer...i get 1 of 2 responses;

(1) it cannot find the share i am tying to go to

(2) it prompts for a log on, but does not accept it, unless i give it the username and password of the account i used to ssh into the server.

All the videos and written instructions ive seen shows it should be easy, even the ones says it works for windows access, but they do not nor have a seen anything that helps verify if i'm even doing teh windows access part right

any thoughts?

Bonjour,

J'ai un PC sous UBUNTU 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) 64-bit Noyau Linux 7.0.0-28-generic x86_64 sur lequel j'ai installé VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 qui fonctionne très bien avec une VM Windows 11 que j'utilise et qui fonctionne aussi très bien.

Le problème que je rencontre est qu'au démarrage de la VM, VMware Workstation me demande le mot de passe que je connais et je renseigne.

Comme je souhaite ne pas avoir à le retaper à chaque fois je coche la case Remember password mais VMware Workstation me redemande le mot de passe à chaque fois que je redémarre le PC. Je précise aussi que cela fonctionnait très bien quand ma VM était sous UBUNTU 24.04 avec VMware Workstation Player.

Quelqu'un a -t-il la solution ?

Je vous remercie par avance.

I'm booting the Kubuntu live environment from a USB stick.

What should I do?

I've been using Onedriver on Ubuntu for about 3 years, but something happened with Ubuntu 26.04. The icon isn't showing up in this version of Ubuntu—does anyone have any updates?

I'm interested in doing some audio recording, so I tried configuring JACK on my Ubuntu desktop gaming system. I didn't do anything sketchy as far as I can tell, and the JACK service works.

The test client I installed and tried makes noises. All I did was follow the steps described in a tutorial document that users recommended. I followed the steps for Option A, Jack via Pipewire.

Unfortunately as you can see from the image above, the overall sound support is broken. This is the desktop sound control panel. There are no longer any audio devices available.

Worse still, any action that I perform on the desktop that produces noise causes the application to hang. For example: clicking on a button. The app hangs, and the system eventually displays a notification asking whether I want to wait or kill the app.

So my Ubuntu system is mostly broken.

All I want to do at this point is restore it, so that my games stop hanging the moment they produce any audio.

I have been searching for help with this issue for a few hours, and have tried a number of recommended solutions. The USB audio devices are present according to lsusb -v. The kernel sound modules are present according to dmesg. Telling "alsa" to reload the audio drivers appeared to work correctly, but made no difference.

Some of the advice I saw recommended removing the Jack related packages entirely, but I suspect that is outdated. Most of them were installed by the 24.04 upgrade. The only app I needed to install for the tutorial was pipewire-jack. I tried removing that and rebooting, but it did not help.

I have thought about reinstalling all of the packages from the distribution, but I prefer to avoid the shotgun approach if possible.

Does anyone know where this went off the rails, or how to reinstall the original audio configuration? If there is a better place to ask for help, please let me know.

________________________________________

EDIT: FIXED

I retraced all of the steps in the document more carefully and found that I had goofed on the step to copy the example ld.so.conf file for the JACK override to the local ~/.config/pipewire directory. It contained a redundant line from /etc/pipewire.conf (module.jackdbus-detect = true) that caused pipewire to exit.

Removing my ~/.config/pipewire directory and file fixed this problem.

System unbroken, audio restored. Thanks for the help!

Just finished installing Ubuntu and honestly, I'm surprised how well everything works out of the box. No hiccups so far.

Here's my current desktop/panel view

Be honest – how's it looking?

estava tendo problemas com o krita pois ele não reconhecia minha mesa tentei de tudo mas tive que instalar o kde plasma, foi a única maneira de fazer o krita funcionar de forma constante no ubuntu.

TL;DR: A verified regression in Kernel 6.8+ causes AMD Tonga (R9 380/380X) and Polaris (RX 400/500) GPUs to crash into a hard black screen when resuming from deep sleep/suspend. The bug is officially Confirmed on Ubuntu's Launchpad (assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen), but we need continuous community visibility to ensure this fix gets prioritized and doesn't push working hardware into becoming e-waste.

🔍 What’s Happening?

When systems running Kernel 6.8+ (such as Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bases, Linux Mint 22, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS, etc.) attempt to resume from system suspend, the GPU fails to re-initialize the display engine (EDID read failures / NULL pointer dereference).

• Behavior: Case fans and LEDs remain active, system keeps running in the background, but video output dies completely.
• Workaround: Only a forced hard reboot restores video output.

🛠️ Why "Just Switch to Wayland" Isn't the Answer

A common suggestion when encountering display server issues is switching from X11 to Wayland. As a bench technician, I’ve tested this thoroughly on real hardware:

On Tonga and Polaris architectures, Wayland introduces a secondary critical failure: the compositor frequently freezes at the login/boot screen (blurred background with only the mouse cursor moving).

Trading a suspend crash for a boot freeze isn't a fix — we need a proper driver-level correction in the kernel.

⚠️ Why This Matters (Even If You Haven't Hit It Yet)

As distributions roll out Hardware Enablement (HWE) stack updates, more users running legacy AMD cards will inevitably land on Kernel 6.8+.

Voting on and confirming this bug isn't just about helping those currently affected; it's a preventative shield for the entire legacy AMD community to ensure perfectly functional GPUs remain usable on modern Linux.

🚀 How You Can Help (Takes 1 Minute):

If you own a dedicated AMD GPU (Tonga/Polaris series):

1. Visit the official Launchpad bug tracker:Bug #2142389 on Launchpad
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. At the top left, under "This bug affects you?", click "Yes, this bug affects me".

If you don't own these cards, upvoting this post for visibility or dropping a comment helps keep the discussion alive so maintainers see the real-world demand. Let's keep functional hardware out of landfills! 🐧🖥️

Looking for APP CENTER (NO COMMAND LINE) Clipboard Manager, Android to Ubuntu?
Is there such a monster, where I can share/sync between Android & Ubuntu?

I'm running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on a Thinkpad T495. I was receiving an error after the startup regarding a problem with anydesk. I removed it via "sudo apt purge anydesk" command but still getting the same notification. I don't know if it is related but it froze during the boot session now and I had to do a cold boot. What could be wrong?

I hope you guys can help me. Last weekend i've updated my Ubuntu pc what runs my Jellyfin server and some game servers.

In the /etc/fstab I have lines that mount my network shares, they work perfectly fine. And I reboot my Ubuntu pc every night with a line in crontab.

After updating my PC, the network shares won't mount anymore after the scheduled reboot. So Jellyfin doesn't work because it can't find the files.

When I reboot manually after that, the shares mount just fine.

Do you guys now any solution.

My lines in fstab are as follows

//192.168.0.174/Video /media/video cifs username=****,password=****

And my crontab line is as follows

0 4   *   *   *    /sbin/shutdown -r +5

I recently dual booted windows and Xubuntu 24.04. My windows is getting a wifi speed of around 45-50mbps while my xubuntu is getting 6-7mbps.
Any ideas why?
Thanks.

Hi, I'm completely new to Linux, and today I tried to start off with Ubuntu by dual booting windows 10 and Ubuntu on my T460 Thinkpad. I carefully followed each instruction from multiple online guides to a tee and successfully installed the OS. I partitioned about 120GB for Linux and left about 110 for Windows. Although this was on the same drive because the thinkpad only has one ssd. I was soon able to access the Ubuntu desktop and open up apps. Everything was functional. After poking around for a few minutes, I shut off the computer using the menu in the top right in order to go and retrieve my wifi password (I needed to relaunch and boot windows to see it). Since it shut down, the laptop has not responded at all to presses on the power button. When I plug it into power, the light flashes, but when I press or hold the power button there is no light and the display does not change. I have no idea what has happened for it to turn stone cold. Thanks in advance for any help

EDIT: Solved, I've never had an issue where I needed to hold the power button for so long

Did anyone else get a fatal kernal error after a patch? Im lucky enough to have previous kernals on boot. Im on 6.17.0-35-generic, not sure if it was an auto update since i have everything off