https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-26-04-lts-releasedhttps://ubuntu.com/download/desktopWayland-only – Xorg/X11 desktop support unavailable in GNOME 50Sudo password feedback – asterisks show when typing; hit tab to hideVisual changes – new icons, boot spinner and radii changesUbuntu Dock – no longer uses transparencySearch providers – results from App Center & web searches in overviewTelemetry controls – easily opt-in and manage Ubuntu Insights reportingSoftware & Updates removed – no GUI to manage PPAs, repos or driversNew movie player – Showtime replaces TotemNew system monitor – Resources replaces GNOME System MonitorDocument Viewer – new ink tools (pen, etc) and freeform text entryApp Center – sort, update and manage system Deb packagesROCm and CUDA in the repos – both just an apt install awaySpaceMIT RISC-V support – full support for the first RVA23 SBCLots of smaller changes, bugs fixes, package and tooling updates, security patches, translation updates and accessibility adjustments also make it in.
>Wayland-onlyStopped reading right there.Into the trash it goes.
>>108670207buy an ad snaptoddler
is this the sane option for windows users who are fine with the OS but want to punish MS for the shenanigans this year?
>>108670253No, it's a microsoft funded linux sabotage project.
>>108670227snaps are fine
>>108670207Based.
>>108670272>>108670275Here come the corpo bots.
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>>108670253Use Fedora. Don't forget the codecs.
>>108670253Ubuntu is the best for people migrating because it has a whole corporation behind it, so its pretty stable.I'd say Ubuntu and Mint are the better distros for newcomers and people that don't want to fiddle and fight their OS and a daily basis. Snaps are not that bad, but if you don't like them its pretty easy to remove them and everytthing Canonical with them
Upgrade went well for me
>>108671051same
>>108670207Thanks, but I'm sticking with Arch.
>>108670316literally the shittiest option:nothing specialneither really stable, nor rolling (unless rawhide)owners treat it like an alpha channel and are willing to experiment on guinea pig usersno out-of-the-box experience (requires a third party repo to actually "get codecs" built into base multimedia packages like ffmpeg's libavcodec.so)
>>108670207just seems like a worse version of arch
>>108672148ThisOut of all possible options WHY would you pick Fedora
>>108670207>no GUI to manage PPAs, repos or driversbased, you should be doing everything in a terminal
>>108670207I'm using it right now and really liking it. Everything seems to work great.Snaps aren't as bad as I remember, really similar to Flatpaks. I don't like that they removed "Software & Updates" but you can still install it anyway if you really want it.I will wait few weeks for them to iron out any bugs that could remain and I might install it on my main machine. I don't know if gaming would be the same or better than Bazzite for I'll test it out.All in all I like having a system that's stable, certified and works with everything. My distrohopping might be finally cured.
>>108670253It really is. I've been trying and testing countless distros for the past handful of months, even Ubuntu, and this release seems the best integrated distro I've used. And since every piece of software is made to at least support Ubuntu (or has a .deb) then I feel like I have access to every single program there is from official sources.I know and get why many Linux users dislike Ubuntu, but right now, it seems like the best introduction to the Linux world for newcomers.>MintYes, I love Mint with a passion, but right now it is WAY behind Ubuntu 26.04 in terms of cohesion.
>>108670316Fedora is great... as a base, but as a stand alone distro it lacks too many sane options out of the box. You can fix, tweak and customize it, yes, but Ubuntu has everything you'd get after fixing Fedora, out of the box.That said, Fedora-based distros like the Ublue images, Nobara or Ultramarine are excellent options.But I like having a big enterprise that can be held accountable for to have a reliable and stable system.
Remember when an Ubuntu LTS release was big news? How the mighty have fallen...
i'm still waiting on the xubuntu iso.
>>108672464they should've just put it behind a "developer options" or something like that. Having a GUI driver manager is actually one of the strongest points of Ubuntu. Canonical is either retarded or evil, maybe both.
>>108670207>Software & Updates removed – no GUI to manage PPAs, repos or driversWhy? This was convenient when I would throw one up an instance to test something that needed proprietary drivers.
>>108672148NTA, I haven't had any stability problems with it. Other than adding in the RPM Fusion sources it's pretty good to go.
>>108673047an experienced user can make any distro (or no distro at all) work. making things work on top of a kernel that never breaks ABI is not an achievement.the question was about windows migrants.
>>108670303None of this is in Ubuntu btw.
>>108672986Bazzite?
>>108673746Yes, Bazzite is part of the Universal Blue images (Bluefin, Aurora, Bazzite). They're my favorite Fedora-based distros although Distrobox/Homebrew still need much more development and documentation for them to work as intended.
>>108670303Huh? I installed 26.04 offline and it's working fine with apt cached debs
>>108670253I started on Ubuntu in 2018 and never left. For me, I much prefer the way gnome is laid out compared to KDE. I also like the update cycle of Ubuntu and the fact that they did have a bigger vision for ecosystem (Ubuntu touch for example).
>>108674224I used ubuntu shortly then went to kubuntu since I did not like gnome. I was on that for quite a few years, probably a decade. I've since moved to KDE fedora on a friends suggestion and I've liked it since it's been super stable compared to kubuntu.
>>108673035I never want to use a PPA. They are a Pain Point Always.
>>108670222fpbp
>>108674224I started using Ubuntu with 12.04, got burned by systemd with 18.04 (too slow, not the same hardware) which made me switch to Devuan and have been using that ever since.
I updated kubuntu. My shit is all fucked up now (as expected) but I will get it in order knowing I can stay on this release for the next few years. I'll hopefully retire this laptop before I need to reinstall my OS again. Forced migration to Wayland had me on 25.10 and even that was an unwanted upgrade.
>>108672938>and this release seems the best integrated distro I've used.What makes you say that? Are you using plain Ubuntu or one of the other flavors (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.)
>CachyOS is 10% faster in almost all benchmarks, more up-to-date and rollingWhy the dick would anyone use Ubuntu at this point in time.
>>108675612For one, its initrd generator isn't braindead garbage.
>>108675520>I updated kubuntu. My shit is all fucked up now (as expected) Imo, it's always better to do a clean install with point-release distros.>but I will get it in order knowing I can stay on this release for the next few years.Best part of Ubuntu is knowing you can coast on a release for *10* years if you really want. >>108675612>CachyOS is 10% faster in almost all benchmarksSnake oil. You might see a *slight* performance increase in *some* workloads. You can get most of the purported benefits on practically any other distro, anyway--this LTS release has x86-64-v3 packages available. Install the Liquorix/Xanmod kernel and you've basically got the same shit as CachyOS.>more up-to-date and rollingSome people like having a stable distro where every update isn't a game of russian roulette. Containers (flatpak, distrobox) bridge the gap here anyway.
>>108675612>>CachyOS>rolling release garbage*pukes*
>>108675783Technically ubuntu is rolling release like fedora. Arch, Cachy, Debian Sid and the like are just up to date, there is no "release"
>>108675876Ubuntu doesn't roll. It's a snapshot of Debian with Canonical mods and a HWE kernel.Fedora is closer to rolling, depending on the packages in question (e.g. kernel, KDE).Arch rolls.CachyOS I presume is a delayed roll on Arch.Debian Sid looks like it rolls but really it's just the development branch which behaves differently depending at what point in the release cycle it is and what specific packages are being looked at.
>>108670227apt install foosnap install foooh my gawd im such a toddler for typing one additional letter
>>108670207I love how the people coming here to shit on Ubuntu are just a bunch of 16 yo who thought they became 1337 enough to migrate to niche distros only to figure out Ubuntu was much better maintained, stable and polished.26.04 is very good LTS
>>108675989I used Ubuntu since about 2007. When rumors started about dropping apt to build their own app store like package manager, I switched to Debian.I'm tired of the enshitification merry go round. Stuff starts out great, then through extreme boomer less for more profit motive just becomes unusable like youtubes 6 unskippable ads per 10 ten minute video. I'm old and tired, and drop services and products when this shift starts now instead of waiting it out.
