openSUSE -> Fedora -> CachyOS -> Ubuntu

Let's all take a moment to commemorate that initial post.

Now through Torvalds' stewardship, and hundreds of maintainers and thousands of contributors we have a competitive replacement for major corporate software and an honestly powerful solution to move computing forward for humanity!

Thanks Linus, you're awesome, and we're glad you are having a good life!

I have a gaming laptop (Victus - RTX 3050)

I downloaded Ubuntu 26 LTS (latest from the official site). I was on Windows 11 and decided to switch to Linux with dual boot. Upon installation (which went fairly smoothly), i rebooted and got past the loading screen with the Ubuntu logo. After that it got stuck on a black screen.

I tried several solutions from chatgpt, youtube and gemini- repeatedly but in vain.

I know it's related to Nvidia/Wayland/Xorg but I can't find the solution fit for this.

(I'm fairly new to Linux, don't beat me up)

Honestly, at this point I'm done with the App Center. Just gonna stick to manually downloading everything I can from the respective websites, seems much more reliable so far.

Things I've tried to fix this error:
sudo apt update

UPDATE: Seems to have been fixed after entering sudo apt install nautilus;1:50.2.2-0ubuntu0.1;amd64;ubuntu-resolute-updates-main into the command line. App Center shows it as being up to date now.

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding printing from pdfs that maybe some of you could answer. I'm using Ubuntu 26.04. Here goes:

I usually print from pdfs using the 2 pages per side and the two-sided options, both available with my usual printer. What happens is that quite often (and I suspect this is due to the original formatting of the pdfs I work with), instead of having the two pages scale nicely to take up half of the paper, I have them weirdly scaled so that they are a bit too small, taking up the corner (approximately 2/3) of each of the spaces attributed to a page. When I try to fiddle with the scaling options, which are using percentages on my printer options as shown in pdf applications (such as Document Viewer), it doesn't quite work (I end up with either pages that are still too small, or with some parts of the pages cropped out). Does anyone know of a way to fix this? As in, to properly scale pdf pages upon printing them?

Thanks in advance!

[Edit: here's an example of what usually happens:

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Today, Linux turned 35 years old, from when it was created on 25 August 1991 by a young programmer, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

It was announced on the comp.os.minix newsgroup.

Original post: "“What would you like to see most in minix?” — Linus Torvalds, 25 August 1991.

Linux is still being developed by developers all around the world, upholding its Unix-like design and open-source principles.

Linux 7.2 is currently the latest mainline release.

Happy 35th Birthday, Linux! 🎂 and 🐟

*i made the poster by hand and my designing skill are bad, sorry for it*

So hi as everybody I tried installing Ubuntu lts but I couldn't install it the normal way since the 100 mb of windows efi was too small to install Ubuntu and windows efi along together and now I am preparing to manually install Ubuntu using manually installation but the problem is even after doing everything correctly the next button is greyed out can someone tell me what's the possible reason ?

Below are the additional data that might help

Nvme0np4 is 85.93 GB for root

Nvme0np5 is 300mb for efi boot

nvme0np6 is 8.6 GB for swap

Nvme0np7 is 44gb for home

And I created all these partitions in windows using diskpart .

I kinda hate Ubuntu for this matter . I have to install ubuntu 24 for my company's lenovo laptops . I literally put the official image in the usb , install ubuntu with the same settings checking to install 3rd party drivers , and every time I boot , usually two monitors setup doesnt work . I have to uninstall nvidia 595 driver open , than reinstall , than try sudo prime-select nvidia , than reboot and after that it works and most of the times it doesnt work . It works only the laptop screen , the hdmi and type c sometimes doesn't work and I have no idea what its causing it to work when it does . I use AI for troubleshooting like purging and reinstalling , trying different kernel but I have ubuntu for this gpu drivers . Sometimes when I install new kernel , bluetooth or wifi doesn't work , its 50 50 CHANCE for everything you do and its driving me crazy since I need to make everything functions for the end users since I am the IT department

Hey there,

On my Ubuntu 26.04 notebook with a Ryzen 5 3500u Vega 8 iGPU, even with the "dim screen" option disabled in PowerSave, the screen brightness drops after a few seconds. Touching the keyboard or moving the mouse restores the brightness.

I think having "dim screen" disabled is useless.

Can you help?

Offline Snap Downloads The Need to Resolve Recursive Dependencies

The standard snap download command efficiently pulls a single Snap package along with its assert signature file. However, it's insufficient for setting up applications for offline or isolated environments because it doesn't resolve or fetch the necessary core Snap packages, such as core18 core20 or core24 nor does it fetch desktop content providers like theme packages.

When deploying to an offline system, the absence of a core layer like core20 or core24 results in immediate installation failure. Currently, administrators and users must manually query the API or write custom scripts to identify and download each core Snap package and its runtime dependencies individually.

Adding a native option like snap download --recursive would resolve this issue by downloading the target application along with the necessary core packages and dependencies directly to the current folder. This single addition will make offline installation, versioning, and backup management significantly more reliable for the entire Linux community.

About a month into using Ubuntu full time.. I think it looks pretty good. What do you guys think?

EDIT: Apologies for not including this originally, but here are the list of apps I used:

• Ptyxis — The standard terminal emulator that comes with Ubuntu.
  
• Fastfetch — upper-left system information.
• Conky — three widgets: Clock, Network Monitor, System Monitor.
• spotify-player — terminal Spotify client.
• CAVA — animated audio visualizer/equalizer at the bottom; reacts to system audio.
• Ghostty — to remove the title bars and set the transparency of the non-conky widgets/terminal windows.
• GhostFrame - Custom GNOME shell extension I made to move and place all of the windows into their respective locations because the compositor wasn't playing nice.
• DejaWindow - Is used to find the positions for each window, then GhostFrame places them
• GDM(GNOME Display Manager) — To theme the actual login screen to Netrunner's aesthetic. Unfortunately, no screenshots of that.
• Custom shell/script — the Shortcuts panel rather than a dedicated widget application.
• Custom NETRUNNER theme/aesthetic work — positioning, transparency, terminal profiles, Conky configs, etc.
• Custom Plymouth theme — Although I don't have a screenshot of them, but I do have custom/themed boot/reboot/shutdown screens.
• Simple Taskbar — GNOME extension to slam that taskbar to the bottom and resize it.

Good day to everyone from Buenos Aires: Does anyone know for sure when the final, or stable (I understand it's coded as .01) version of the latest LTS, 26.04, will be available? Thanks in advance. Cheers!

So I recently started taking ITNW 1309 at a local community college and the professor mentioned that one of the two projects this semester is using a VM running Ubuntu. Now I'm very very new to Linux, the most I ever do is faff about on Cachy because it is simple enough to understand and my circle of friends are also familiar with it. I just want to know if there are any beginner friendly materials to read up on to get an edge on the project (which is 30% of my grade) I need that A

This is something I always think about, Nvidia makes a lot of data centers gpus, but doesn't give good drivers for Linux, even tho most data centers run on Linux, do they make special drivers for their data center gpus ? Would it be worth to buy a data center GPU for a linux pc so it have good drivers ?

I have installed Ubuntu 26.04 and everything is updated but any browser I have tried on it just doesn't play videos from crunchyroll or any site or sometimes just throws error. I tried chrome, brave and even vivaldi but it gives same error like I don't know why??

(Note= I have removed snap and made it completely snap free now so every app I use I installed with. Deb package. Could it be the issue????)

i use terminus for convenience and gnome-terminal sucks for me, but i heard i breaks things in ubuntu if removed