Ubuntu 26.04

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by lxst • 3 months ago

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bashtoni• 3 months ago

Also green light for Fedora 44 release on 28 April

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...

wao0uuno3• 3 months ago

Cool. I'm pretty excited for the new login manager. Maybe now KDE will be able to fit all customization options (wallpaper, lockscreen, login screen) on a single Settings page.

everybodyknows4• 3 months ago

Is there a CLI way to dump/restore those settings?

rasengan• 3 months ago

TPM-backed full-disk encryption

This is going to be very useful for servers hosted in third party DCs.

djkoolaide• 3 months ago

The beta installer was completely unsuccessful in setting the TPM-backed disk encryption on both a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Intel 258V) and a ThinkPad P14s (AMD 300-something). Hopefully they ironed that part out in the release, but it seems still early for this feature (at least for my comfort level).

nechuchelo• 3 months ago

Same on my Framework Desktop. Looks like it works only with a limited number of TPM chips for now.

senectus1• 3 months ago

oh man i hope this works on dell laptops

Daviey• 3 months ago

Keeping the key in the same room as the padlock only protects against casual drive theft and secure disposal.

Personally I'm more worried about someone stealing the entire server or a local threat actor.

Sure, keep TPM to help with boot integrity, maybe even a factor for unlock, but things like Clevis+Tang (or Bitlock Network Unlock for our windows brethren) is essential in my opinion.

aaravchen2• 3 months ago

TPM locking is for ensuring the disk isn't removed from your machine. It's technically possible that someone could tap the hardware while the disk is still in your machine, but otherwise they're stuck contending with whatever other security setup you have on your machine.

The TPM locked disk encryption is more like embedding your safe in concrete with deep foundations. It doesn't affect the thickness or quality of your safe.

Gigachad4• 3 months ago

I want this on my own homeserver. Protection against someone stealing the server without requiring me to type a password every boot.

zenoprax3• 3 months ago

In what way is TPM protecting your data if someone steals the entire server? TPM only ensures that the boot environment has not been modified. Whatever key is being used to automatically decrypt the disk would be in the clear.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your situation, I think you should look up the "Evil Maid Attack" to better understand how to mitigate risk for your threat model.

superkuh• 3 months ago

The comments there note there is no official Ubuntu MATE release for the first time since Ubuntu 15 (and before 14.04 gnome2 was an option). That's a shame but probably most people who chose MATE (or gnome2) no longer chose Ubuntu due to the conflicting ideologies inherent in the two. MATE users generally don't like change for change's sake.

razingeden• 3 months ago

its in the daily builds. I haven't tried it yet.

not sure if this confirms the impression you have there... I wasn't like this until a couple of headless VPS'es (on Arm8) got through the upgrade from 18.x -> 20.x -> 22.x and then crashed out over -> 24.x for a still unknown reason. now I'm just afraid .. or I should say reluctant ..to repeat that whole fiasco.

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/daily-live/current/

Joel_Mckay3• 3 months ago

There were some issues with how the menu icon manager handled the new security policy defaults. This means the editor will break, and the displayed menu may be missing any item that didn't follow the naming convention syntax. Its a lot of packages to bring into compliance, for that one silly feature the devs had to put in before it was ready...

Maybe they fixed it since the rc release, but there were some rough edges in Feb... the kernel USB support cooked the thumb drive partition structure.

In 22.04 to 24.04 the kernel Nvidia GPU driver EOL abandonment began... In 26.04 people will discover most EOL hardware support prior to RTX series will be difficult to bring up.

Probably wise to wait a few weeks for the bug reports to clear out a bit. =3

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs• 3 months ago

Hard to get some spotlight for this with all these new models around, I feel bad for Canonical.

satvikpendem5• 3 months ago

What should I use if I like Ubuntu but not snap, just Debian? Or are there alternatives around? Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support so just curious what's new in Linux land.

compounding_it3• 3 months ago

PopOS

satvikpendem5• 3 months ago

This looks like it might be the best solution, no snap, maintained by an actual system integrator and laptop maker, and I also like the new Rust-based desktop environment. I wonder how well it runs on Framework laptops or MacBooks as well.

bboozzoo2• 3 months ago

Isn't that essentially a release of Ubuntu with a different kernel, DE and maybe some userspace utilities?

vanc_cefepime• 3 months ago

I distro hopped for a while and settled on Linux mint. Uses flat packs. Hits the spot for easy to use and easy to maintain without needing to use terminal scripts to get things my way. Just my opinion.

dima552• 3 months ago

Debian is great, and is where the distro development actually happens. What doesn't it do that you want?

ntoskrnl_exe2• 3 months ago

I’m curious about proprietary Nvidia drivers. Ubuntu normally comes with fairly outdated, if not obsolete ones, but there’s a semi-official PPA with more recent versions. How does Debian handle this?

ziml772• 3 months ago

Hasn't there been reporting recently that Debian development is struggling with a lack of maintainers?

manvel_hn• 3 months ago

I hate snap as well. Use flatpak and KDE on Ubuntu. Never have been happier.

jwrallie• 3 months ago

Now Debian is packaging non-free drivers in the iso images directly. I would suggest to try Debian first, if it works well for you just keep it.

If you feel the need for newer packages, try other alternatives (or Debian unstable). I’ve set down on Fedora with XFCE, it’s really stable yet packages feel new.

throwaway20562• 3 months ago

Just install Ubuntu and remove snap. We are doing this for our University pool etc and encountered no issues.

Make a list of all ppa before proceeding.

What is your use case?

satvikpendem5• 3 months ago

The issue is them adding it back, sometimes even on apt upgrade, or silently installing it as a dependency for certain apps without mentioning it unless you look closely. That gets tiring after a while and I gave up on Ubuntu as even after having removed snap multiple times it always returned.

evdubs2• 3 months ago

Doesn't snap come back on the next OS upgrade?

I was using Ubuntu and installed the apt version of Firefox as the snap version would not open html files in locations like /var/tmp and would not work with USB devices. Every time I ran `do-release-upgrade`, all of that work would need to be redone. It was very annoying.

encom• 3 months ago

Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux. You have to do brain surgery on it post install, to remove unwanted crap. At least there's the option of using a different distro.

notabotiswear2• 3 months ago

You can de-snap Ubuntu itself.

Dunno about the this release, but till 24.4 it was simply a matter of removing some packages then holding/masking the primary snapd one, followed by manually adding the official PPAs for Mozilla’s stuff (or just use the Flatpak).

Of course, there’s still the philosophical and long term issues with staying on a distro that’s promoting and continuosuly expanding the thing you dislike…

LtWorf8• 3 months ago

This is what I do, because on my work computer IT imposed Ubuntu.

I initially tried to just use snaps but firefox was crashing quite often so I had to go with adding the mozilla's repository and of course configure the fake "firefox" package that actually installs the snap to be low priority for apt.

predkambrij• 3 months ago

This is a bad strategy, I fell victim for. I configured so it would use apt instead of snap package, but canonical silently stopped shipping packages and I was running some packages that were not updated for a long time and debugging weird bugs, because I didn't assume that this was a problem. If one wants Ubuntu, one must accept snap. If you use apt with disallowed transition to snap, you might be stuck with old packages that were transitioned to snap.

My choice for now is Debian, didn't finish transition yet, very annoying to plan this in my schedule. I'll churn from Ubuntu after more than 15 years of daily driving... I also don't like ubuntu user with uid:gid 1000 in their Docker images. It's a cancer.

satvikpendem5• 3 months ago

Ubuntu keeps adding snap back again and again so I got tired of removing it each time. Someone said to try Pop!_OS so maybe I'll try that.

flakeoil• 3 months ago

I have a year ago switched from Ubuntu to Fedora and I like it. Clean and stable. Uses Flatpak. I'm using Fedora Workstation which is the default, but Fedora KDE Plasma seems to be nice as well if you want to have more configuration options available directly in the GUI. And the layout is more Windows like with start button menu etc for people coming from the Windows side.

troupo3• 3 months ago

Gaming-oriented distros like CachyOS and Bazzite might be what you want. I'm on Cachy and can recommend it. Because they try to "just work" without jumping through hoops.

Even though I very much intenseley dislike the completely unintuitive idiosyncratic package management that Arch has. Which is further not helped by the fact that Cachy's default GUI for it isn't even integrated properly.

newtwentysix• 3 months ago

I was in the same spot recently, and my friends recommend Linux Mint. It is built on top of Ubuntu LTS, and no snap. I've been using it for the past few weeks in my old desktop computer. Definitely Good. Perfect fit for your needs

foresto4• 3 months ago

I switched to Debian and have been happy with it. The release cycle is less frequent than Ubuntu Desktop, which means fewer disruptions, and Debian Backports make it easy to pick new versions of the important stuff. Flatpak is also available on Debian.

Linux Mint is widely praised for being basically Ubuntu without the worst Canonicalisms (such as Snap). They maintain a Debian edition in parallel to their main one, as an exit strategy in case Ubuntu ever becomes unsuitable for their base. Some people already use that as their daily driver.

Just in case you're not aware, the default desktop environment on whatever distro you pick doesn't have to be what you use. I switched to KDE Plasma when Gtk-based desktops became intolerable, and haven't looked back.

everybodyknows4• 3 months ago

worst Canonicalisms

Do the Mint team treat fixing the other half of the problem, the GNOMEisms, as out-of-scope?

Asking because I maintain my own pile of gsettings and .gtkrc tweaks as mitigations yet pain points remain, apparently unfixable outside the source code.

foresto4• 3 months ago

P.S.

MX Linux also looks interesting. Like Ubuntu, it's a Debian derivative. It offers a supported path for avoiding systemd and has an official KDE Plasma edition, both of which appeal to me. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

nreece• 3 months ago

Linux Mint.

prmoustache2• 3 months ago

Seems like Ubuntu has the best hardware and driver support

It is an urban myth

dspillett2• 3 months ago

“Urban myth” kind of suggests that it was never true, which isn't the case, though it is one of those out-dated truths that doesn't go away quickly.

At one time Ubuntu as the easiest distro to get certain hardware running with because of the inclusion of proprietary drivers & codecs (unlike its Debian parent, amongst others, at least at the time) and making them easy, near-automatic, to configure compared to others that did include them. The distinction is long gone, and Ubuntu is simply one of several (many) good ones in that regard, but the perception that others have not long since caught up persists.

cpburns2009• 3 months ago

It used to be true. I've never had problems using the proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu. You used to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get them installed on Debian. Now Ubuntu lags behind on kernel versions leaving new hardware less usable.

beAbU• 3 months ago

Just don't use snap. No need to throw out the baby woth the bathwater.

bluGill• 3 months ago

Problem is most things are only snap. You can get them ocherwise but not by default

bravetraveler5• 3 months ago

Easier said than done, surprise: apt, who we know and love, is redirected to Snap for an ever-increasing number of packages.

"Don't use Snap", you say? I'll do you one better! Skip Ubuntu. 'Just' use anything else more suitable. Debian is an excellent replacement being upstream, but I hold no illusions over undeclared requirements.

pezgrande• 3 months ago

I think snap is not preinstalled in Kubuntu.

lproven8• 3 months ago

This is not correct.

Snap is preinstalled on all official Ubuntu graphical editions.

However, Xubuntu's _Minimal_ install does not include any snap packages at all, not even a browser. This means it's trivial to remove snapd:

sudo apt purge snapd

Then you can install the `extrepo` command, and use it to install Firefox ESR direct from Mozilla's repos, or Chrome from Google's repos.

Once it's online you can copy and paste a couple of commands to "pin" snapd and prevent it from being reinstalled. Then you can switch to current Firefox or anything else without snapd sneaking back in.

Xubuntu Minimal is also available as a separate ISO file, which is not true of any of the other flavours.

amelius3• 3 months ago

If you're using Ubuntu on Jetson then you're out of luck. That platform is tied to Ubuntu.

ButlerianJihad4• 3 months ago

That statement may have been true in 2014, but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Jetson#Software

ddtaylor• 3 months ago

Best of luck avoiding all of the system level packages that just shim a snap.

Use Fedora if you dislike snap. Canonical has made their stance clear and are hostile to users for a long time now on this matter.

Qem4• 3 months ago

LMDE: https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

lexlambda• 3 months ago

LMDE is Debian-based, I believe you meant Linux Mint itself, which also doesn't use snaps.

You get all the driver support and tools from the Ubuntu base, with some nice additons. However, not all desktop environment are supported.

KronisLV• 3 months ago

Debian is good!

If you want something desktop oriented and Ubuntu based without the focus on snaps, take a look at Linux Mint: https://www.linuxmint.com/ (there's Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE versions; personally I think Cinnamon is pretty good nowadays)

throw0101a6• 3 months ago

What should I use if I like Ubuntu but not snap […]

Because of business needs, if you're stuck with using Ubuntu (at least in some situations), an `apt(-get) purge snapd` helps. It's in all of our auto/post-install stuff.

snarfy• 3 months ago

Try Arch linux.

dartharva• 3 months ago

Linux Mint was my go-to but I have shifted to MX Linux, its KDE edition is a decisive upgrade in every way.

CoastalCoder• 3 months ago

I'd usually say Pop_OS!

But my recent upgrade to Pop version 24.04 has been a bit of a step back in terms of desktop experience.

I suspect it's growing pains from (switching to Wayland) + (non-System76 hardware) + (laptop with nVidia dGPU + external monitor).

So with different hardware, and/or some more time to mature, this Pop release will probably be a very solid choice.

cr125rider• 3 months ago

Debian is fine but their kernels are so old if you have any new hardware it can be clunky and you have to fiddle with backports of the bleeding edge version

foresto4• 3 months ago

1. Enable Backports.

2. Install the kernel from Backports.

I don't think of such a simple process as "fiddling", but to each his own I guess.

compounding_it3• 3 months ago

Ubuntu LTS is still the choice for many production environments and education and learning. As someone with Ubuntu from 2010 CDs, I find it refreshing that modern Ubuntu distros work OOB on most computers these days with excellent driver support.

alprado50• 3 months ago

Is this even true? I mean, Windows is the main focus for all hardware vendors, and everybody who has owned a PC knows that malfunctions are unavoidable. If that is the case for Windows, then Linux cant be better.

Joel_Mckay3• 3 months ago

Windows 11 set a low bar to clear... Most popular hardware will work on linux, but like always its better to check before your buy.

Distro like Ubuntu are a fair compromise to get amd/nvidia GPU drivers, wifi, and brother laser printer/scanner networking installed. =3

edit: seriously, why down vote the guys karma if its a honest question. Try to be kind people.

abrookewood3• 3 months ago

Windows is a dumpster fire at this point. Just unusable

dmos62• 3 months ago

Linux has been better for old hardware since early 00s. Just don't expect hw acceleration to work for older GPUs.

ButlerianJihad4• 3 months ago

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/linux-standard-base/

When I was shopping Lenovo.com for my ThinkPad in 2018, there was a table with ThinkPads certified for Ubuntu Linux in one column, and certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in another column.

I chose the T580 as a RHEL-certified notebook, and it was fantastic. Lenovo.com let me configure each individual component exactly according to my needs and tastes, and it was custom-assembled and shipped from Shenzhen.

It did arrive with Windows 10 pre-installed (this was the least hassle and most popular OS option). I initially installed CentOS, but quickly realized that Fedora would be the sweet spot, and so it was a Fedora system for most of its lifetime. Near the end, I did revert to Windows 10, which also worked flawlessly.

The ThinkPad T580 literally never malfunctioned. It was still 100% working when I turned it in for recycling in 2025.

I've also run Ubuntu on my "daily driver" desktop system, which ran from 2006-2022. Yes, that's 16 years' worth of Ubuntu installs and upgrades. It was mostly a KDE Plasma (Kubuntu) system. I enjoyed every bit of that.

In 1999, I was avidly using OpenBSD on really old hardware (such as HP Apollo 425t workstations.) OpenBSD simply couldn't deal with the special graphics subsystem on those machines. I tried and tried to get something working, but there were obstacles, not only with the hardware and drivers, but also the monitor connection needed a particular type of cabling and a proprietary monitor, too.

However, OpenBSD did great for networking, security, Squid cache, proxies, all kinds of things. And even in 1999, though it was early, I ran Linux on a 386DX-40, because Linux supported the "ftape" floppy tape driver at that time, and I had some kind of QIC tape backup from Eagle that wouldn't be recognized by OpenBSD or NetBSD.

Meanwhile, in that same year, my "daily driver" desktop machine was a 486 with VLB, dual-booting Windows 98 and OpenBSD. The Windows 98 was set up with a Cygwin system and X11 server, so that I could run X11 clients on the OpenBSD machines, or the Linux machine, or whatever else was on the LAN.

michaelt• 3 months ago

There's working, and there's working.

20 years ago your Linux installation might not include wifi drivers, bluetooth support, decent GPU drivers, fat32/ntfs drivers, or the widely used video/audio codecs of the era. And you had to be careful when shopping for things like wifi cards, as only certain chipsets could be made to work.

Much of which was kinda fair enough, because if you're a volunteer making an open source OS because of a strong belief on the open source ideal, you don't want to distribute closed-source driver blobs or patent-encumbered codecs. But it meant mean the initial installation process was not always easy. One of the things that contributed to the success of Ubuntu was a particularly easy initial setup process.

Today, things are a lot better - you'll still get unsupported hardware from time to time, but it'll be much less severe. If your laptop has a non-USB integrated camera you might have to download and install a kernel module. Your corporate laptop's built in fingerprint scanner might not work, but who cares?

hnuser123456• 3 months ago

Fine print on coreutils rewrite:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...

throwa3562622• 3 months ago

That was a lot of CVEs

Goes to show that not all security bugs are memory related bugs

nine_k3• 3 months ago

Indeed, many bugs are API usage bugs, something that no language can verify. (The API is implemented in C anyway.)

IshKebab5• 3 months ago

I wish they'd put the severity. There are 4 highs, the rest are medium or low. Here are the high ones:

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35338 - `chmod --preserve-root` can be bypassed. That doesn't seem that bad tbh.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35341 - `mkfifo` accidentally resets the permissions of files that already exist, so if you manage to do `sudo mkfifo /etc/shadow` then it becomes world readable.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35352 - TOCTOU in `mkfifo` lets you do the symlink trick to get it to change permissions on an unrelated file.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35368 - You might be able to get chroot to execute arbitrary code.

Tbh I doubt if any of these would ever result in a real hack, unless your system is doing really mental things like running shell scripts with untrusted input.

I could only find a couple of CVEs that looked actually serious for GNU Coreutils too though. IMO if you're using these tools with untrusted input your system is janky enough that there are going to be serious flaws in it anyway. Probably though quoting mistakes.

sph5• 3 months ago

Not aimed at you but... no sh*t. The "Rewrite it in Rust" community never heard of the second-system effect.

I'd rather use something written in a crappier language that has been battle-tested for decades, personally.

LtWorf8• 3 months ago

I think this should be the real news.

Pay08• 3 months ago

Not to mention sudo-rs.

ChrisArchitect• 3 months ago

Earlier official blog: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878560)

teekert2• 3 months ago

It's nice as always, but I have some issues.

* Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work

* When something requires a password (ie just tried a bitlocker volume) the whole screen is blocked, so no password manager for you (unless you copy it before, or cancel - unplug drive-copy password - replug drive - paste.)

* The default tiling does not jive with me, sometimes I don't even know what it wants (it always tries to force you to also set a left windows if you tile right and vice versa) so I disabled it `gnome-extensions disable tiling-assistant@ubuntu.com`. Default Gnome tiling is ok (but missing quarter tiling (and 1/8th would be nice on my ultra-wide) imho so I use [0]

* I've been trying to use Nix home-manager for packages but I have GPU errors, need workarounds, icons that just remain generic. But I guess that is not Ubuntu's fault.

Ubuntu remains my nr. 2 choice, after NixOS (but I didn't get the latter to install on this Nuc, perhaps a bios update will help).

The installer offered (under experimental) to run root on zfs, I didn't end up selecting it because only on the forth try (and by that time you're clicking at a fast rate just taking defaults) I understood that it would only download packages via wifi, not the cable (same for NixOS installer, so must be my network).

[0] https://github.com/troyready/quarterwindows

WD-42• 3 months ago

Select middle click not working is a stupid decision from GNOME to disable in 50. You can turn it back on with the tweak tool.

Gigachad4• 3 months ago

Probably changed to work the same as macos. Not sure if windows does middle click paste.

jl6• 3 months ago

Did they publish some rationale somewhere? It’s a useful feature.

Sol-• 3 months ago

Jesus, do the people who work on GNOME even like Linux?

PaoloBarbolini• 3 months ago

Why do we still put up with GNOME?

I've spent the last 10 years off and on from Linux. Had I used something other than GNOME, I believe my experience would have been better.

I've been on KDE for the last 3-4 years and things work so well I could never imagine going back to GNOME.

littlecranky674• 3 months ago

It is a preference - and not everyones. I always hated middle click paste, middle click is amongst the first thing I remap on my systems to do the macOS "exposé"-style of window rearrangements. Other people will have other preferences.

teekert2• 3 months ago

THANX! I don't know how people live on platforms that don't have this :)

As for the negative Gnome feedback (not from you but others) I do like Gnome, it's just enough window manager for me, I like the defaults and I like the touchpad gestures etc. Generally looks and works well for all I do. I always feel swamped by KDE.

giancarlostoro2• 3 months ago

I just use KDE on arch, though for a little while it was glitching out on me frequently, idk if I've been too busy to notice it recently or if they finally patched it up.

I miss KDE 3.5 it felt drastically more stable than KDE today.

I've tried other DE's but they get weird if your Distro is not built for them.

LtWorf8• 3 months ago

* Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work

They did it on purpose for some reason. If I were you I'd give Plasma a try.

dotancohen• 3 months ago

Plasma, meaning KDE.

I've been using the Kubuntu 26.04 prereleases for a few weeks. No surprises from KDE, but Wayland has broken a few things. Autotype in Keepass does not work, keynav and even the Wayland keynav forks don't work, and Wayland does not support priority keyboard layouts for switching between two specific layouts.

reddalo4• 3 months ago

If you want an experience that's similar to GNOME-when-it-was-good, I'd suggest Cinnamon, the desktop environment of Linux Mint.

kstenerud• 3 months ago

Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work

Good. It shouldn't be on by default. It's surprising behavior, too easy to fat-finger, and too disruptive when it accidentally triggers.

reedciccio2• 3 months ago

What???? That's the most expected feature of any *nix user since the dawn of X Window!

AntonFriberg• 3 months ago

For Nix Home-Manager on non-nixos you need to fix the driver integration. https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#sec...

Nowadays it is quite easy https://github.com/AntonFriberg/dotfiles/blob/master/modules...

Note that the way this works is that after you activate your home manager generation it outputs a script path that you need to run manually as root which installs a Systemd service which ensures that the drivers are linked correctly.

azalemeth• 3 months ago

I know that the interim releases had issues with zfs and trying to update gave the message "Sorry, cannot upgrade this system to 25.04 right now System freezes have been observed on upgrades to 25.04 with ZFS enabled. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PluckyPuffin/ReleaseNotes for more information. "

The release notes don't seem to mention zfs. I hope these issues have been fixed?

raudette• 3 months ago

Just FYI - That defect only impacted systems which boot from ZFS - mine did not.

The installer would stop an upgrade if it found a mounted volume - it apparently checks for zfs volumes as follows: sudo zpool list -H

I could get around the installer's ZFS check by unmounting the drive: sudo zpool export poolname

I upgraded.

Then remounted the volume: sudo zpool import poolname

Then I was up and running...

throwa3562622• 3 months ago

I am thinking of testing one of those AMD Ryzen AI laptops for development and local LLM. These come with win11 copilot+.

How well does 26.04 with the 7.0 kernel support these? Can it, say, use their GPU and NPU for compute out of the box?

notLayz99• 3 months ago

Kindly keep us updated with your findings. Please also let me know where you publish it. Thanks

tuna747• 3 months ago

Not very good: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-With-ROCm

jklmnopqrstuvw• 3 months ago

Ubuntu 26 + KDE Plasma 6.6 perfectly handles high-DPI scaling for me. I was originally planning to buy a Mac, but luckily I saw the news about Ubuntu 26 being released a few days ago.

abrookewood3• 3 months ago

I've just moved to a Mac for the first time, after using Windows for work for decades and Linux as my primary desktop for about 3 or 4 years. It certainly takes some getting use to: - Keyboard shortcuts are all different - Doesn't seem to like my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard (lots of keys do nothing) - I really hate the dock - Limited customisation on the menu bar - I also hate the universal menu thing / menu bar in general ... I run a really wide monitor and having to go all the way to the left hand side to access the menu when working on an app that is on the far right is crazy - Fonts look fat or washed out

I am sure a lot of this is fixable and will jsut take time to get used to, but honestly, at this point, I think I prefer ubuntu/linux to both Mac & Windows at this point.

I do love the hardware on the Mac and would probably try Asahi out if it wasn't a work machine.

Also worth pointing out that macOS is still better than Windows 11 at this point - MS should be ashamed at what they did to that OS.

IshKebab5• 3 months ago

I am sure a lot of this is fixable

It is - sucks that you have to though. For keyboard shortcuts use Karabiner Elements.

rswail2• 3 months ago

As a both old Linux and now decade user of MacOS, after I got used to no middle-click paste and no focus-follows-mouse:

1. Keyboard shortcuts are Emacs, Ctrl-A: start of line, E: end of line, K: kill selected or to end of line, Y to paste, etc. https://support.apple.com/en-au/102650#text

2. Karabiner elements (FOSS) fixes keyboard mappings outside of the Settings: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

3. I have the dock on the left hand side, not bottom and I have a 2 monitor (iMac 5K 27"+ Dell 4K 27") setup with the iMac flat in front of me and the curve/2nd to the right. Menu bar is then close to the main windows.

4. Menu bar widgets etc are fixable with thaw https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw

5. Window management via keyboard is fixable with rectangle https://rectangleapp.com/

6. Use Macports to add all the Linux/Unix utilities, works with MacOS properly (eg Python/Java frameworks). Ports can have variants, plus you can have multiple versions installed side-by-side with `port select`. https://www.macports.org/

Not sure about fonts, on a 5K iMac they're fine and the 4K Dell works too. You need to use a resolution that fits with Mac's ideas of resolution, so I've got the 5K and 4K both at 2560x1440, which is Mac's idea of 2x resolution.

lowdude• 3 months ago

I have the dock on auto-hide with a fairly slow timer for it to pop up, as I never actually use it. May be useful to you as well

Jean-Philipe• 3 months ago

Ah I can resonate with your feelings! I've been using a MacBook Pro as my daily driver since 2013 and I initially liked it a lot, but things have not improved over time. MacOS got more buggy, bloated and less and less customisable. I never fully got used to the way window switching works, and to the fact that I always see all the apps from all work spaces. I still regularly switch to the wrong work space when I switch apps. So confusing. So now I'm in a process of switching back to Linux - it's just so much more fun! I have an M1 MacBook Pro now and Asahi linux is really nice on this one.

I do like the energy consumption of MacOS and that sleep just works so well. Also the laptops feel really nice. I got a few things to make life easier (sketchybar, rectangle.app, see other posts here) but overall these days Linux is just a more polished experience. Never thought I'd say that. At least it's the least glitchy experience nowadays.

OneOffAsk• 3 months ago

Fonts look fat or washed out

Disable font smoothing and restart/relogin.

  defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

scorpioxy• 3 months ago

After using Ubuntu for many years both on the desktop and server, recent decisions have got me thinking that Canonical has lost a lot of its community spirit. That got me switching over machines to Debian which, to me, still feels like a community project. It's a shame.

I am pragmatic about it though so I still run Ubuntu for some things but it's no longer my first recommendation.

ErroneousBosh2• 3 months ago

recent decisions have got me thinking that Canonical has lost a lot of its community spirit

The rot set in when #ubuntu on Freenode (now Libera) became rigidly enforced as on-topic discussions of Ubuntu support only.

The channel is absolutely dead now. Maybe one person will say something in any given 12-hour period and no-one replies, just page after page of joins and parts.

egorfine2• 3 months ago

Unfortunately they forgot to remove Rust coreutils and sudo-rs from Ubuntu prior to releasing 26.04.

I am starting to suspect this even might be intentional.

Joel_Mckay3• 3 months ago

Those packages can simply be reverted like dracut, at least for a few months of testing.

And yes, using a user-base as Beta testers is fairly cheeky. =3

egorfine2• 3 months ago

Those packages can simply be reverted

For now, that is. I am afraid that they will stop providing coreutils and sudo for some of the future releases (like they did with upstart) because obviously they know better what's good for the users.

Qem4• 3 months ago

Unfortunately my favourite flavor, Ubuntu MATE, will sit out this release cycle: https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=showheadli...

ndsipa_pomu2• 3 months ago

That doesn't bode well for the future of MATE if they skip the 26.04 LTS releases.

ulrikrasmussen• 3 months ago

I'm sad about that too. I have been running MATE with XMonad for a very long time and has been very happy with it, primarily because the experience has remained entirely unchanged except for a few bugs which have crept in and have never been fixed, probably due to the maintainers not really being active. A particularly hilarious one is that every time the update notifier wants to restart the computer it tries to show an icon in the status bar which begins with `un-<...>.png`. The real icon file is actually missing, but some helpful fallback logic defaults to the closest match which happens to be a 512 pixel wide logo for the United Nations which gets vertically cropped and placed in the status bar.

I just got a new laptop this month and saw that Ubuntu MATE was probably going to be unsupported, so I switched to Manjaro Sway.

Qem4• 3 months ago

From Ubuntu MATE I went to Mint MATE, then LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

kuschku2• 3 months ago

As this is an LTS, that means another 2 years with the old version, and having to support the old version of MATE until 2036? That's... A long time.

haunter• 3 months ago

What happened to the Ubuntu Core Desktop? Snap only immutable variant (like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite). It was delayed in 2024 and haven’t seen anything about it ever since

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-core-desktop-dela...

aaravchen2• 3 months ago

I think it basically died for general consumers because of the Canonical-only licensed software lock in, and consequent limited software support.

Snaps are hard coded to only be able to get snaps from the official Canonical-licensed store URL. Especially on Ubuntu Core, where everything can only be a snap. Even the commercial licensed version for embedding in products requires private companies to use a private space on the Canonical Snap store to distribute thier custom/proprietary software. Absolutely no one is willing to let Canonical become the Apple Store of thier devices, especially given thier even shittier track record.

naveen99• 3 months ago

Does it respect your choice to not connect to internet during install now ?

ProllyInfamous• 3 months ago

Has the MacPro5,1 community already booted this new version?

...interested to know since I couldn't ever get v25 to work — never tried using OCLP, but v24 is absolutely stable (for some reason not directly; had to USB install v22 then internet update to v24 (i.e. v24 USB wouldn't finish install).

foxwolf• 3 months ago

I installed 26.04 on one of my laptops last night.

The latest version of PrivateInternetAccess doesn't seem to run (the window never opens).

I also could not get my wifi connection to use my local DNS server.

mrkeen• 3 months ago

Just tried installing the server variant on a dell precision.

The installer let me connect to my WiFi, but then spun indefinitely trying to get an ipv4 address.

If I skip connecting to WiFi, and just let the installer do its thing, I get no network on the fresh install either (all the tutorials say to use nmcli, which I don't have).

rationalist2• 3 months ago

I might have experienced the same. It spun and spun after connecting to the WiFi on an Intel NUC 13.

rationalist2• 3 months ago

Not a fan of the new boot animation, the old one was way better.

Why must everyone feel the need to change things for change's sake?

mixxit• 3 months ago

Kubuntu has way easier integration for windows people migrating and expecting similar mouse and touchpad interactive and intertia

Something gnome could do well to learn

Ubuntu 26.04

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