I just bought an Acer Nitro V15 laptop and installed Ubuntu on it. It’s been amazing how smooth the system feels, but I don't really get why there’s so much hate towards the Ubuntu distro (a lot of videos on social media show this hate for Ubuntu). This isn't my first time with Linux—my gaming PC runs on Bazzite, which is also fantastic. But isn't the point of using Linux, or any distro for that matter, to have the freedom to customize everything, take full control of your OS, and escape Windows (which gets worse every day with its Copilot integration)? Am I wrong about this, or is the hate actually real?

I'm looking for advice/tips. My goal is a personal desktop with up to date gaming related stuff, but everything else stable boring Ubuntu LTS. I'm tired of constant rolling updates and chance for breakages with distros like CachyOS, but I don't want to give up gaming related updates. I don't want to sacrifice much stability but want to optimize when possible.

I have over a decade on Ubuntu, Debian, and their derivatives and a year or two spread between Bazzite and CachyOS. I missed .deb and the convenience and calmness those distributions have for personal desktop and gaming use, so I'm back to Ubuntu.

It's a shame there's not a gaming optimized derivative of Ubuntu out there but I don't think there is.

Here's what I've done so far. Did I do too much? Not enough? Let me know what you think.

1. Up to date optimized kernel. I used Liquorix.

2. Up to date graphic drivers using kisak-mesa ppa.

3. Use official Steam .deb, not snap

4. Use CachyOS proton version

5. Use Feral GameMode, at least on demanding games

6. Use zram-tools for fast compressed swap (if ever needed)

7. Change swapiness and virtual memory allocation (vm.max_map_count = 2147483642, vm.swappiness = 10)

I know I could have went with Fedora but I would miss .deb and LTS too much, and Linux Mint or Kubuntu or something too but I personally prefer default Ubuntu (Gnome) desktop environment usually.

When i uodated blur my shel exstension, top bar shows up on lock screen

Is it possible to install Ubuntu server and then install gnome-shell package?

I'd like to set up an Ubuntu installation only with necessary software. Trying not to have so much ram usage.

I recently updated to 26.04.1 LTS. During the update, a few errors occurred in relation to LibreOffice, but in subsequent use there have been no problems.

However, all of my file icons except images in the file manager have reverted to black "document" looking icons. XLSX, PPT, DOCX, TXT, everything looks the same. App icons and desktop icons are still OK.

When I open the Properties menu by right clicking, I get no option to change individual file icons.

It's a bit of a pain. Does anyone have a clue as to how to repair the icons?

Thanks!

EDIT: Upon more research (and by that I mean trying the same commands I punched in yesterday) I learned that there are 3 things I can't upgrade due to phasing. All three of them keep me from downloading the recommended 595 Open driver because one of those kernels is a dependency. I guess I gotta wait now. I will still be listening to the comments though, because as far as I can tell the driver being up and running and the laptop recognizing the GPU are two different things. Please don't downvote me if I said something wrong, you *do* know better than me

I downloaded the recommended Nvidia driver months ago, and did everything the websites said. For some reason, the GPU was "not loaded" and I was using the AMD graphics that come with the processor instead.

I have no idea how this is possible. Zero clue on what to do with the kernel.

How do I load the Nvidia GPU and finally start to use it?

If it helps, I finally managed to write a xorg conf file, that seems to be working but it does not recognize Device0, which should be the GPU. I think.

Running Ubuntu 26.04.1 in VMware, latest updates installed. Whenever I sign out or lock, the screen goes black with a spinning wheel. The only way I can get out of it is by restarting.

Any ideas what might cause this?

This is after an upgrade to the newest kubuntu lts. 26.04.1 this also occurs on a fresh live boot usb.

Cpu: amd ryzen 5000 series

Gpu : 6700xt

I've already tried reinstalling the gpu drivers. What are my next troubleshooting steps?

Ps. Pc also occasionally freezes shortly after boot

Also

Live boot usb works properly on seperate pc.

Amd ryzen 5800x3d

Radeon 7900xtx

Is there any way this isn't the gpu dieing?

So... last night I decided to upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04. My initial idea was to stay up until the whole thing was done but the progress bar was advancing painfully slowly so I went to bed. And this morning I woke up to things not working.

When I tried to restart the PC via the power switch, here's what I saw:

1. grub worked, and the USB system worked (this will be relevant), so I selected Ubuntu.

2. as the system started, USB stopped working (the lights on my keyboard switched off)

3. a screen appeared, "waiting for cryptfs..." instead of the prompt for the cryptfs password

4. the screen blanked and I got a initramfs prompt, but USB doesn't work so I can't type anything.

Fortunately I have a Windows disk I can start from so I could come post this on reddit, but... how fscked am I w/r/t my Linux installation?..

I’ve been continuing reconnecting to the VM with Ubuntu OS but the screen stays black after entering username and password, idk what’s wrong, it worked this morning
what could be the problem?

When I updated the "Blur my Shell" extension on Ubuntu 24.04 (which has been behaving very poorly lately), I was met with what you see in the image. Basically, when my laptop is on the lock screen, the top bar appears—something that didn't happen before.

For context I'm running Ubuntu 25.10 on an older Dell Optiplex 9020. Firmware A25. I initially thought it was the drive, swapped it out. Same issue, let me know if there's any solution to this or any questions you may need to further explain. I'm a noob to Ubuntu and Linux in general so please go easy on me.

I am trying to install using this Bing Search for Hyper-V No Sound

When I get to /bootstrap && ./configure PULSE_DIR=~/pulseaudio.src - it comes back and says it cannot find pulseaudio.src. I checked and it does not exist. So I'm not sure why this file is missing

Trying to change my Ubuntu password a im getting error message.

Passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
Passwd: password unchanged

How can i fix this?

Hi everyone,

First of all, I'm not techsavy or really familiar with Ubuntu, so please forgive my imprecision

I have a home server that I used during the last year, build on Ubuntu. Everything worked fine until yesterday. I had a schedule power outage in my area and since the reboot, I'm unable to access any website, or resolve to some address.

The weird thing is that I can ssh into my server using both my wired and wireless addresses.

I tried updating my server using apt-offline but nothing changed.

I tried to edit my .yaml file for netplan but didn't work either.

My last resort would be to wipe my machine and restart from scratch, but if I can prevent myself from doing this, it would be better.

If you have any ideas or any guidance for me, it would be much appreciated !

Ubuntu couldn't use the camera between 24.04 ish and 26.04, but it seem that kernel 7.3 restored the camera access! (Tbh I'm not sure if I checked if kernel 7.0/26.04 was able to access the camera, but 7.3/26.10 definitely does)

Hey folks.

I've been a long time user of Howdy and it's been overall ok-ish in terms of experience. I mostly use it on Debian and occasionally on some other laptops that had Ubuntu.

Long story short, I was a bit upset with how the setup looks, dependencies and overall user experience and decided to try implementing a similar functionality myself, but in a more "modern" way with some extra goodies in terms of overall security. Since I don't have a large fleet of laptops with IR cameras to test this, I'd kindly ask the community to give it a try and leave some feedback if possible:
https://github.com/kennycoder/linux-hello

Much appreciated!

After I boot it takes anywhere between 15-30 seconds for me to see the desktop

And the fans sound are usually very loud

what can I do to fix this

Ubuntu 24.04

Is anyone else's ubuntu been lagging lately?

2 days ago it was completely fine, i could open multiple apps and tabs and it would run smoothly but since then it has started to lag on the most basic tasks (like changing between tabs/apps or even clicking buttons)

I always praise ubuntu for how smooth it is (maybe all the linux distros are, I haven't tried them yet) but recently it has been lagging very unnecessarily (where even windows doesn't, and its supposed to be bloated) so does ubuntu need some kind of update or is this only happening to me? Because this has never happened before.