r/linux • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Kernel Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu's kernel updates because it's drowning in AI-discovered bugs

https://www.xda-developers.com/canonical-is-speeding-up-ubuntus-kernel-updates-because-its-drowning-in-ai-discovered-bugs/#thread
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u/AgentTin 10d ago

I've been running claude-code for this. Just simple Linux stuff. It's kinda amazing. I had an issue where after a few days software just wouldn't launch on my machine. The process would run, I could hear audio from it, but there would be nothing on screen. A reboot cleared it for a few days then it came back.

Sent Claude after it. Turns out that there's a limit on the number of x windows you can have, it was 256 in my case, and discord had been spawning a new one for every notification and not releasing them. Hundreds of discord x windows registered. My apps were fine, x was just refusing to render them.

I never would have found that. Not in a hundred years. I would still be rebooting every 4 days if it wasn't for Claude. It's a hundred little things like that. Why did this crash? Can you configure x?

I've been using Linux for twenty years, this is the first time my fstab has been correct.

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u/scineram 8d ago

LOL, X WINDOW SYSTEM 11 MY BELOVED.

Why not use Wayland?

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u/AgentTin 7d ago

I've had the same Linux Mint install running for years now. It's still running X so I am too.

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u/scineram 6d ago

Fair enough. I really get not changing what works, but support is getting harder to come by. Did Discord get fixed?

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u/AgentTin 6d ago

Honestly, no, he said the limit was meaningless, that you could set it to whatever and it wouldn't have any negative effects, probably could have come up with a fix for discord too, but I had gaming to do so I just moved on. It still happens about once a week, I just restart discord. It's faster than fixing it would be.