With 26.10 coming this week I was looking at what the update has, it does seem interesting enough to try it. I'm currently in 26.04LTS

Are there any downsides or risks when switching to an interim version? I'm aware you can't go back to LTS so my plan was to keep updating until the next LTS version comes out and so on.

What are the major differences between the interim and LTS? or is it just more of a background thing?

My computer is my normal daily PC where I watch, browse, download and game.

As it states in the title, the firmware that kubuntu ships with won't update past 2021***

sudo apt install firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-iwlwifi is already the newest version (20210315-3).

As you can see, that's quite outdated. That said it was working last night but this isn't the first time this issue showed up.

The temporary fix is to pull the deb from here and install from the directory but it would be nice if there was an official fix for this. (I have yet to figure out how to add the one thing into the sources list but that's a later problem)

Edit: I did notice that the above conflicts with linux-firmware so I have removed that and still am running into issues with it not working or being picked up in lspci though the blutooth works fine.... Onto the network manager I suppose..

During my experience whit KDE plasma, I always wanted to make a custom task switcher. I have looked through the tutorial on [KDE.org](http://KDE.org), and sailed the web in search of a more in depth explanation for it, or something that is close to what I would want, but at the end it was only time lost.

Are custom task switchers unpopular?

Is there a more in depth tutorial online?

Thank you for your support.

Hei, I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues with suspend (to ram) or with locked sessions? On my machine, each time a my displays go into stand-by and/or put machine into suspend, I can' t resume from it and I have to do a hard reboot.

I've had claude take a look at the logs and it came up with this:

1. When the screens turn off (30 s after locking, from TurnOffDisplayIdleTimeoutWhenLockedSec=30 in ~/.config/powerdevilrc), your MSI MPG 274URDFW goes into standby. It drops its DisplayPort link and its built-in USB hub. Linux sees that as the monitor being unplugged.

2. KWin then reconfigures the outputs. Inside the NVIDIA driver, that call waits on the GPU's on-board firmware processor (GSP), and the firmware never answers.

3. KWin gets stuck inside the kernel. The nvidia-modeset thread then blocks behind it (INFO: task nvidia-modeset blocked … likely last held by task kwin_wayland).

4. All display output is frozen. Ctrl+Alt+F2 needs the same stuck driver, so it can't work either. The machine itself is still running: the kernel kept logging after each freeze.

It then recommends to downgrade to nvidia-driver-610 version ..

I'm currently on: Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS / 7.0.0-38-generic / nvidia-driver-615-open