Ubuntu 26.04
by lxst on 4/24/2026, 4:38:37 AM
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
Comments
by: teekert
It's nice as always, but I have some issues.<p>* Select - Middle-click paste does not seem to work<p>* 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.)<p>* 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]<p>* 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.<p>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).<p>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).<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/troyready/quarterwindows" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/troyready/quarterwindows</a>
4/24/2026, 5:49:50 AM
by: hnuser123456
Fine print on coreutils rewrite:<p><a href="https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773" rel="nofollow">https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/8...</a>
4/24/2026, 5:30:40 AM
by: jklmnopqrstuvw
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.
4/24/2026, 6:37:43 AM
by: compounding_it
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.
4/24/2026, 5:27:29 AM
by: satvikpendem
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.
4/24/2026, 5:26:15 AM
by: bashtoni
Also green light for Fedora 44 release on 28 April<p><a href="https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-04-23/f44-final-go-no-go-meeting-2.2026-04-23-18.00.log.html" rel="nofollow">https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...</a>
4/24/2026, 5:01:11 AM
by: egorfine
Unfortunately they forgot to remove Rust coreutils and sudo-rs from Ubuntu prior to releasing 26.04.<p>I am starting to suspect this even might be intentional.
4/24/2026, 7:47:57 AM
by: scorpioxy
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.<p>I am pragmatic about it though so I still run Ubuntu for some things but it's no longer my first recommendation.
4/24/2026, 7:36:43 AM
by: azalemeth
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 <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PluckyPuffin/ReleaseNotes" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PluckyPuffin/ReleaseNotes</a> for more information. "<p>The release notes don't seem to mention zfs. I hope these issues have been fixed?
4/24/2026, 5:52:56 AM
by: throwa356262
I am thinking of testing one of those AMD Ryzen AI laptops for development and local LLM. These come with win11 copilot+.<p>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?
4/24/2026, 6:26:08 AM
by: superkuh
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.
4/24/2026, 5:22:31 AM
by: rasengan
> TPM-backed full-disk encryption<p>This is going to be very useful for servers hosted in third party DCs.
4/24/2026, 5:04:27 AM
by: ChrisArchitect
Earlier official blog: <a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon" rel="nofollow">https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-...</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878560">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878560</a>)
4/24/2026, 5:44:22 AM
by: rs_rs_rs_rs_rs
Hard to get some spotlight for this with all these new models around, I feel bad for Canonical.
4/24/2026, 5:23:35 AM