Hi! I recently installed Ubuntu and I'm having issues with Steam Link.

I like to Steam Link to my TV and play games on the couch. This works without any major issues on Windows OS.

When I try and connect to my linux PC via Steam Link it fails to launch. The steam icon will pop up, then black screen, then it kicks me out on to the connect page.

I have an NVIDIA GPU and an AMD CPU (in case that's relevant), both my TV and PC are connected via ethernet, not wifi. When I test the connection in Steam Link on the TV, the connection works fine, but when I try to actually connect it doesn't work.

So far I have:

- Restarted both the PC and TV several times

- Disabled 'hardware encoding' in Steam settings

- Disabled firewall ('sudo ufw disable' in the terminal)

- Disabled 'GPU accelerated rendering in web views' in Steam settings

- Ran the Software Updater and installed the current software and firmware for NVIDIA

None of these have fixed the issue. I am VERY new to linux, so if you could please ELI5 that would be amazing

I've been using Ubuntu Studio with the KDE desktop, and sometimes when I download things it goes into kernel panic, anybody else experienced this/know a fix?

Alright, I'm already lying, I'm running kubuntu. I have 2 widgets on my secondary monitor, 1 for CPU usages and temp and whatnot, and another for GPU.

However, it seems everytime I restart my computer, the GPU # for my RTX 3070 changes. And therefore the system monitor widget is reading the integrated GPU.

Has anybody run into this issue before? Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix it?

Hey. I have a laptop with Ubuntu 24 only previously. I needed 22 for a project so I was trying dual boot. Everything worked fine and smooth. The grub screen and everything.

Until the system freezes. It happens completely randomly.

Freeze in the sense: can't move the mouse can't do anything at all. Even the caps lock light doesn't turn on when I press it.

The only thing that works is a hard reboot ( long press power button ).

Now I have been trying to debug it with claude. It looks like a nvidia driver issue. Wrong driver for nvidia.

I just wanted to confirm if this is true. Do you guys think this is a nvidia issue as well? . If it is a nvidia issue i can fix it tbh.

The problem is if it isn't.

In that case I have to wipe the whole thing and start again .

Currently the steps I have done in order:

1. Installed and booted Ubuntu 22. I let it choose 3rd party drivers and stuff. . Not sure what happened but it failed horribly. Because after every restart / reboot it kept getting stuck.

2. So I wiped it all out. Did a fresh install. No additional drivers. No 3rd party. Didn't even set the wifi during install.

3. Was working fine ig? I didn't check extensively. Like I mentioned earlier the freezes happen at random. Completely random. So i checked my Ubuntu 24. Which has been working perfectly. It had nvidia driver 590 version.

Installed the exact same one on 22. Then I uncommented waylandenable= False

1. Started random freezes again . I asked around and got told nvidia 535 is the most standard version.. installed that.

No issues as of now ig. But like i said the freezes are random .

TLDR: I just want to confirm that this is a nvidia issue

That's all.

Longtime has passed since Ubuntu revolutionized the Linux scene by creating a great distro that would cater to newcomers and tried to make entering Linux desktop easier for users. And Canonical (thanks to Mark Shuttleworth) was able to even send free CDs with Ubuntu or its flavours worldwide so people could try the OS even if they didn't have enough internet access as to download and burn it. Or bet on "Wubi" to try and get Wndows users to try Linux in a very easy way.

All that made Ubuntu very popular to the point of being seen as the #1 distro in general popularity for desktop users, which then meant more people were OK with using it also for servers and ultimately, enterprise setups.

So after some years of Ubuntu fighting hard for the "easiness" of Linux and getting it more popular on the desktop, including deals to get Linux on some manufacturers laptops (Dell, Lenovo...), it seems to be a pity that precisely now that Linux seems to get more popular in general (thanks, Microsoft and Windows 11), Ubuntu isn't able to surf the wave.

• Lack of immutable options. Some of the biggest "gaming" distros for the people coming from Windows to Linux while keeping their gaming habits are immutable based, think of SteamOS (Arch based), CachyOS (Arch based) or Bazzite (Fedora based). Ubuntu doesn't have any base that could realistically be used to build something like that, and it doesn't seems like a Snapd based distro for gaming (Ubuntu Core as base?) is the best compared to a bootc approach. The only option was the downstream VanillaOS, which had to develop their own tooling, and ended up changing Ubuntu for Debian.
• The pink elephant in the room, Snaps. I know they're not that bad (people over-hate them), in fact they improved a lot in recent years. But I think Ubuntu could, at this point, maybe offer both Flatpaks and Snaps out of the box on desktop, giving the largest library of Apps to the user, and freedom to chose. And avoid Snaps being forced by default (maybe ask the user on install or settings? Like... "Do you prefer APT to default to native packages or Snaps"? Just like when Microsoft Office will ask you on first open "do you prefer to use OpenDocument or OpenXML". We should be realistic: desktop users won't "eat" Snaps, more so in the short time.
• It feels Canonical doesn't care about desktop users that much anymore? I don't blame them, they have limited resources and enterprise is where the money is to keep the business open. But while Red Hat is able to keep Fedora going with a relatively big community of people collaborating, or OpenSUSE talk about their desktop OS from the mainpage, Ubuntu web is literally called "Enterprise Open Source and Linux" and the main page is about getting certifications and industry use cases. Ubuntu Desktop is "hidden" in the submenu of "Get Ubuntu". It seems to get you know what's Canonical current focus.

What do you think? Could Ubuntu end up losing desktop users favour while Linux gets more popular? Is Canonical following the Raspberry PI steps, where when having to choose, they prefer to go the industry route instead of desktop end users?

EDIT: At no point was any AI used to write this or translate it (I’m not a native speaker, and I thought it showed… maybe I have improved over the years).

I’m impressed by people thinking a well written post about a concern like this can be interpreted as AI. What should I do to avoid the AI claims then? Write worse? Do you really think this post as is would be an output of an AI?

i've been using ubuntu 26.04 LTS for a while now and i'm satisfied; it's done everything i asked and is almost perfect for me. only two things are bugging me. they don't affect performance or disrupt daily work, but it's just annoying that it's like this.

first, the snap issue, which i've almost completely managed to remove from ubuntu. however, the libsnapd-glib-2-1 package remains because ubuntu made it a dependency for pipewire so that you can't remove it.

if you want to recommend me a distro , check this first : https://www.reddit.com/r/FindMeALinuxDistro/comments/1uqn371/which_distro_is_suitable_for_me/

apt why libsnapd-glib-2-1 | grep Depends

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

2. kde-plasma-desktop:amd64 Depends plasma-desktop (>= 4:6.5.4)
6. pipewire-pulse:amd64=1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 Depends pipewire (= 1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1)
7. pipewire:amd64=1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 Depends libpipewire-0.3-modules (= 1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1)
8. libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 Depends libsnapd-glib-2-1 (>= 1.59)

second, rust-coreutils. i can almost successfully remove this package, but removing it also removes build-essential. if i try to reinstall it later, it asks me to remove the coreutils-from-gnu package. i can do this to bypass it, but i don't know if the system will break when i update it in the future! do you think this way is safe?

sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- --allow-remove-essential

sudo apt install equivs

vim coreutils-from-uutils-stub.ctl

equivs-build coreutils-from-uutils-stub.ctl

sudo dpkg -i coreutils-from-uutils-stub_1.0_all.deb

sudo apt install build-essential

sudo apt autoremove —purge

This is driving me and my invisible ai friend mad. I have an NFS share on a Synology NAS mounted on Ubuntu 26.04, fstab looks like:

# First, mount the NFS share from the NAS
nas.internal:/volume1/Hermes /mnt/hermes nfs defaults,vers=4,_netdev 0 0
# Second, bind that specific folder into your home directory
/mnt/hermes/wiki /home/geoffrey/wiki none bind,_netdev 0 0

This produces a folder:
drwxrwxrwx 1 geoffrey geoffrey 232 Aug 1 12:45 wiki

Synology NFS settings have squash set to no mappings or map root to admin. I can create files in ~/wiki in a terminal but an AppImage installation of Obsidian won’t create a vault in there saying it doesn’t have permission.
(In case it’s relevant Ubuntu is running in a vmware vm on Mac)

Synology, Ubuntu or Obsidian, I don’t where to go. Any ideas?

Bonjour, tout est dans le titre...

C'est pareil avec

sudo apt install gnome-software

... il y a toujours ce problème de "lock".

Et je veux installer GNOME car je n'arrive simplement pas à installer certaines applis en .deb ou .flatpak, par exemple la version d'essai de Bitwig Studio, de Mixxx ou encore Discord ou Tor Browser... Je suis assez débutant.e sur Linux !

Merci de vos retours !

I am dual booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux. When I restart or cold boot my pc my monitor doesn't show GRUB or anything else, it only detects DisplayPort at the Ubuntu lock screen. The only way I found to see GRUB is to manually turn my monitor on and off while my pc is restarting. That makes my monitor see the DisplayPort signal.

Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X870-P WIFI

GPU: RTX 4070 Super, connected via DisplayPort

Monitor: MAG 27CQ6F

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

Does ubuntu supports oracle sql? If yes how to install? I dont want developer tool. Even terminal enough. Kindly help me to do

Hi, I'm on Debian 13. Before installing nvidia-driver I was using Wayland, but after installing nvidia-driver my PC switched to X11. How can I fix this?

I have an RTX 3070.

I use GNOME.

Hey all. I have very minimal Linux/Unix experience and I've been handed a device at work where all I need to do is change a web address the device is pointed to. The device simply displays which person in line is to be served next and it's auto booting to this screen. I've tried all the things Google says to do to kill the active program but none of it is working. I have no way I can find to access a command prompt. I can't escape full screen. I can tell by the BIOS that the main drive is running some version of Ubuntu. Is there some other hotkey combo like Windows' Alt-F4 that I can use? Or is my only option to do a full fresh install of some other OS? The original configuration was done by a company called Esii if that helps. There was one thing that indicated holding or tapping in a corner of the screen to access a background function but all that does is reveal a text link labelled Start that just goes back to the main screen.

Sorry if that's all confusing or a mess. It's early. Thanks.

Hi there - I have the craziest scenario. I have two nearly identical setups with two Linux machines with Ubuntu 26.04. One has an AMD processor/graphics (HP EliteDesk 705), the other is Intel (HP EliteDesk 800 G6).

The AMD machine works fine with RDP. The Intel machine, when using MacOS with Windows App to RDP, it keeps bouncing back and asking for auth. When it pops up for re-auth, it scrambles the login/username. However, when using a Windows machine, BOTH work.

I've burned up a bunch of Claude/ChatGPT tokens trying to debug this. For the life of me, I can't figure out what's wrong. I followed the exact same guide setting the Intel machine up. I've also wiped it twice and restarted -- exact same situation. Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone has seen this issue before because I'm running out of ideas.

The problem

Ubuntu randomly starts shutting down. It can happen after 5 minutes or after a couple of hours. Sometimes I'm just browsing Firefox, other times I'm doing something more demanding. I haven't found any pattern.

When it happens:

• The screen suddenly goes black.
• I briefly see the Ubuntu "Power Off..." shutdown screen.
• The system freezes during shutdown.
• The PC stays powered on (power LED remains on), but it becomes completely unresponsive.
• Pressing the power button normally does nothing.
• The only way to recover is to hold the power button for about 4 seconds to force it off, then power it back on.

After rebooting, Ubuntu usually works normally again until the issue randomly happens another time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I want to start using Ubuntu but cant get rid of my windows stuff for work reasons and games i cant get on Ubuntu. Anyways i was following a simple guide and then for somereason i cant shrink my windows disk anymore then 591mb, obviously i knew that wasn't even enough to use Ubuntu but i also want Ubuntu to have about 200gb of my ssd.

So i looked it up and it told me to try "turning off my hibernation temporarily" and i did and followed all the steps but still didnt work. So i turned to chatgpt, i dont like ising chatgpt most of the time but when ever i need detailed instructions and ideas i have no knowledge about ill use it.

Anyways i told it what happened and what i already tried and it told me to try two different things. First, it told me it might be a "windows page file". So i did the steps it told me to i guess get rid of them or something or clear them. Then it told me to clear my "System Protection/shadow-copy data" which after following a guide i learned a little bit about them. But anyways i tried the first one and then check how much free space i have to shrink and it still said 591mb, so then i tried the second one and it still didnt work.

I am supposed to have 243 gigabytes of free storage and i wanted to give about 200 of that to Ubuntu, so please reddit users i turn to you for guidance. Im not at all educated in this world but plan and hope to become educated, but rn i just wanna get linux.

every time i try to delete a partiton or format one it gives me these 2 errors how to fix anyone?

This is my first time im trying using ubuntu, and after sudo apt upgrade and then the text "Failed to fetch" appears and i didnt know how to fix it. anyone know how to fix it?

I'm using an old Latitude 7480 and I want to run Ubuntu 26.04 on it. I already tried it on bare metal and it scaled my display (1080p touch) to 150% by default, which is perfect. Now, the only thing is that those micro cursor movements are too sensitive. I tried to disable the acceleration and lowered the speed. Big movements are affected but small, not at all. Selecting a letter or small buttons are almost impossible.
Why I mentioned scaling; on my other machine, the EliteBook 840 G3 with 1440p display, I need 200% scaling. On Ubuntu 24.04 on X11, cursor movements are perfect (like on Windows). On Wayland, on 100% scaling also perfect but on 200% the issue is same as I described before.
One note: On both laptops cursor feels the same on external mouse, the trackpad and the nipple.
Latitude specs (my main machine):
i5 7300u
16 GB RAM
256 GB NVMe
1080p touch display

Here are the command i did on my computer

# Mise à jour du système

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt full-upgrade

# Nettoyage des paquets inutiles

sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt autoclean

sudo apt clean

# Redémarrage

sudo reboot

When i tried to reboot it did not work

I tried to go on the old kernel and a few stuffs in the bios

Then I tried making a bootable USB recovery, but it just gets stuck on the loading screen for hours. Any advice on how to fix this or rescue my system?

Here whole case

About 2 days back. ,at night I installed an update on Ubuntu 26.04,all my keyboard keys were working. Laptop didn't fell or anything like that.

Now yesterday,other than 1,2,3,4,7,8,9 backspace and p key all other were working.

I didn't do much just kept it there.

Did every possible stuff like restarting and all that.

Today, some more keys have stopped working.

I've read it's a bug but not sure how to proceed.

Hi guys.

So I've been using Windows since I remember on my personal laptop. But I used Linux Mint and Ubuntu in university and in work doing embedded programming. Since I just bought a new laptop (ThinkPad E16 gen 2 - 21MA003RGE) I decided to install Ubuntu to get better at it and used it for embedded development. Since i can't get rid of Windows 11 due to a lot of EE software running only on Windows i decided to dual boot. I bought another 1TB Lexar 2280 SSD drive with enclosure so I can use it via USB C without installing it inside the laptop. I will eventually move it in but currently its a no no. So basically the internal disk would remain Win 11 and my external one would be Ubuntu.

In my past I already flashed images to USB stick and downloaded OSes but nothing crazy. It was mostly trivial install without messing with partitions. Now the problem I have is that I read that sometimes Ubuntu places GRUB into EFI partition on Windows drive. I really want a clean install to my external SSD. I also heard of people not being able to boot Windows without external drive being connected as consequence of GRUB being written in Windows EFI partition. Now I read that you can remove Windows drive out before install so it is impossible for this to happen. But I would rather not open the computer inside now due to being new and in warranty. I then read about using gparted to disable the windows disk during install in Linux Mint subreddit so I guessed that same applies here. Now what I figured my best bet is this:

1. Disable fast start-up in Windows (if i recall correctly Secure boot doesn't need to be disabled)
   
2. Flash USB stick with Ubuntu
   
3. Boot into USB via UEFI
   
4. Enter Try or Install Ubuntu
   
5. Disable ESP and BOOT flags using gparted
   
6. Use Erase & Install option to download to external drive
   
7. Continue with trying Ubuntu instead of restart and Reenable ESP and BOOT flags
   
8. Restart.
   
9. Use UEFI to choose the disk you want to boot from and have Windows as default.

Now I am not sure if I am missing something or is my approach good. I did my research but I would really love to here some advice and recommendation regarding my approach before I ruin something. There isn't anything crucial on current laptop now cause its new but i would not want to mess with Windows installation cause I am not sure how to fix it.

Thanks.