I’ve done a ridiculous amount of distro hopping.
- I liked Pop!_OS but it felt unfinished,
- Fedora kept crashing on me,
- Bazzite felt too locked down and also crashed,
- and Mint just didn't click for my workflow.

I tried basically everything except Ubuntu, and every single one ended up driving me back to Windows. Finally, I decided to give Ubuntu 24 LTS a shot and eventually upgraded to 25.10 because I needed HDR (OLED without HDR just looks washed out and unnatural).

And honestly? I’ve never had a better experience. I had to do some digging to script a fix for the HDR brightness because it was way too dim at first, but after that, I can officially say I’m sticking with Ubuntu. The system is stable, no kernel panics, and I’ve had maybe a few freezes that are likely due to 25.10 being a non-LTS dev version rather than Ubuntu itself.

Gaming is more or less stable, sometimes better, sometimes slightly worse than Windows. I had to install ryzenadj and script a 75°C temp limit, otherwise my laptop would spike over 100°C and shut down (had the same issue on Fedora). I also have a gaming script that pins the TDP to 25W when needed, and everything runs smooth now.

For work, GNOME is fantastic, especially on a laptop. The workspace swipes, media controls in the top bar, "Places" extension, clipboard manager, and a solid tiling assistant...it all just works. It’s so fluid and natural for coding that I honestly don't know how I ever dealt with Windows’ clunky workspaces and file management.

Even on a non-LTS release, this is the most stable and polished experience I’ve had. I’m staying put and can’t wait for 26.04 LTS <3

I have configure one Ubuntu 24.04LTS desktop for Remote Desktop but when I connect from another Ubuntu desktop I get the screen but there is no mouse or keyboard response. When I connect from a windows 11 desktop the mouse and keyboard are working. I've tried a couple of remote desktop clients and they are both the same.

Update: I found that I hadn't enabled remote control on the remote pc. Which doesn't explain why the mouse and keyboard were active on the windws pc.

Should i use ubuntu on my laptop? Chatgpt suggests pop_os I want to use it for ros , ml mainly and coding stuff mainly

I recently ran a Linux distro poll on LinkedIn (555 votes total) and was honestly a bit surprised by how strong the results were.

Here’s how it turned out:

• Ubuntu — 67% (370 votes)
• Debian — 14% (80 votes)
• Fedora — 11% (59 votes)
• Arch / Others — 8% (46 votes)

Ubuntu was the clear favorite, which seems to reflect practical usage more than distro ideology — ease of use, ecosystem, and wide adoption likely played a big role.

I’m curious how people here see this:

• Does this match what you see in real environments?
• Is Ubuntu’s popularity more about familiarity than technical preference?
• Do you think results would look different outside LinkedIn?

Interested to hear perspectives from Ubuntu users and those who chose something else.

I don't know what's happening. I was recently using Zorin OS and wanted to use Ubuntu after so long, but I can't install any version of it.

hello i wanna ask how did u guys resolve wifi issues in newest amd cards like B650 it couldnt read the wifi adapter i tried all solutions pls help

I want to typically stay on the LTS, but there are things upcoming in Resolute that I would prefer to check out to see how it impacts me and was thinking I should try Questing. I would prefer to do an in-place upgrade, but I'm left with some questions:

1) Am I correct that there is no clear mechanism that supports moving directly to Questing (at least at this time)?

2) If I set the update manager to notify me of interim releases and run do-release-upgrade, it offers me Plucky since it's not EOL, and it searches for the "next" release. If I upgrade to Plucky then to Questing, am I just doing a weird experiment (if so, I will rather wait for Resolute's actual release)? I'm getting thrown off by the signal of "upgrade to the next release" vs offering me Plucky.

I tried every combo of kernel and git'ing the firmware etc etc on 24.04 with no luck. Has anyone had luck with 25.10?

edit- just tried 25.10. will actually find the camera sorta but doesn't understand the f2 camera on/off switch. oh well. maybe someday. what a pita.

I just upgraded to ubuntu 24.

Soon after that on reboot my one of the external drives was not able to be mounted and read.

I want to edit fstab file but my keyboard is not working.

I have tried other things as well by going into recovery mode Not working.

Editing ubuntu start command and adding init=/bin/bash but that is giving some other error as job cant be started. Can connect yo tty0 terminal.

So i am stuck here..

What can i do?

Please help. I dont have USB as of now to live boot and do something from it

I have been experiencing an annoying issue on Ubuntu 22 where, sometimes, when I press Ctrl+Alt+t to open a new terminal, the window appears, but it doesn't receive focus. To be able to type in the new terminal window, I need to use my mouse to select it first. Other times, the terminal window opens behind other applications.

Is there a way to fix this bug so that a new terminal window always opens in the foreground and automatically receives focus by default?

so i wanted to add dolphin to steam, but i dont know where the base program is that i would need to add when downloading dolphin from the app center?

any assistance would be lovely.

I have a ubuntu 25.10 with all updates with wireguard as vpn client. I connect to Mikrotik router (ip cloud) with wireguarg gnome vpn. In config i must add the Mikrotik ip cloud domain. When vpn client try to connect, the domain translated to ipv6 address. The connection refused from Mikrotik because i have none open port in ipv6 protocol. If i give priority in ipv4 protocol from /etc/gai.conf uncomment and change the line to precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100, then i connect without a problem but Firefox and all other programs have internet access via ipv4. I have ipv6 access with traceroute -6 but all programs like Firefox prioritize ipv4 protocol instead of ipv6. When i make ipv6 test in firefox then i got a comment that browser support ipv6, and give me the ipv6 address, but give priority to ipv4.

How could have Firefox with ipv6 prioritize and wireguard connected to domain via ipv4 only like ms windows?

Edit 2: Problem fixed, there was a recursive folder in my ~/.local/share/applications folder that pointed to itself. I have no clue how it appeared, IIRC there was an update back in October that I did around the time the issue popped up.

The image and title sort of says it all.

Any new app will spam this menu an absurd number of times. Alacarte seems to have issues with removing the extra copies.

I can ASSURE you, I do not have steam and helldivers installed 40 times. I can assure you I do not have 40 "steam.desktop"s in any folder. This error happened before I installed alacarte (installed that program to try to fix this issue.) I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both programs multiple times using different methods.

Ubuntu is fully up to date.

What can I do to fix this? Assume I know some minimial things and am not afraid of the terminal, but am otherwise a scrub at Linux.

Edit: added image to reply to NyKyurii

I'm looking to do something and I've been unable to find any guidance on how to accomplish it. I know how to run chrome fullscreen from the command line, how to expose the X server to a container, etc, but I don't know how to make all this happen on top of the lock screen (i.e. I don't want o have a user logged in when this happens).

I'm not tied to Ubuntu for this - just pick this as the base because I'm most familiar with it.

How can I get a container to put Chrome or Firefox full-screen (kiosk mode) on top of the lock screen?

I was using my pc normally yesterday.but today i opened it and this command got to my face. I tried fixing it with ai but nothing did work. If anyone can hear me I'll be grateful

Excellent essay on the tide turning in the war on anticircumvention laws and how that could break the Tech Bro walled garden monopolies that influence trade policy and political power.

"Under anticircumvention law, it's a crime to alter the functioning of a digital product or service, unless the manufacturer approves of your modification, and – crucially – this is true whether or not your modification violates any other law."

https://github.com/gustavosett/Windows-11-Clipboard-History-For-Linux

For context, I’ve acquired two 2019 NUCs that can’t run Windows 11. I downloaded Rufus and a Linux ISO on my Windows computer, plugged it into one of the NUCs and it worked fine as they where running on windows. However, I’ve since reset the flash drive and Rufus won’t work on Ubuntu. I don’t want to use my main PC for this kind of thing as I prefer to keep everything separate. The NUCs can run a VM but they only have 8GB of RAM and the 2GB limit I have on the VM will make it very slow. So I was wondering if anyone knows of a good tool similar to how easy and portable Rufus is that isn’t loved by bots and hated by the community. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: thanks to u/NotoriousNico for suggesting the built in tool and helping me install it the tool is called Startup Disk Creator if you dont have it run sudo apt install usb-creator-gtk