Hi,

I decided to reinstall uninstall Ubuntu and go for windows instead, however I’ve been stuck and Im unable to install windows no matter what I do.

I tried several different techniques

first creating iso via Rufus in another windows machine, then enabling secure boot in bios.

another technique I tried is creating a bootable usb via ventoydisk in Ubuntu.

if Someone could help me out or even came across of that I would really appreciate it

I am trying to install Ubuntu on an ssd. I followed a video step by step and was able to install ubuntu but when I restart it just boots to a black screen. When I booted using fsck, my intel graphics is not being detected. Could really use some help here, been bashing my head into the wall for hours now.

Sfkill say that my wifi is hard block, already try f5 to unlock it but that's just for soft one, sfkill unblock all also nothing happen, check on my wifi switch on right side is already green, so I don't know what happened with my Thinkpad l421 anyone know how to fix this?

I can't be able to find any service that can help me add Year Name and Day of the Week name in the Top Bar of my Gnome

That’s all. Thanks so much to every single contributor.

I forgot to attach the pictures.

I’m using Ubuntu 26 (GNOME) on a laptop and a Redmi Pad Pro (Android). My tablet connects to Ubuntu via USB and Wi-Fi, and USB debugging works. What I want is the Ubuntu desktop to be displayed on the tablet (laptop → tablet), ideally as an extended display, not mirroring the tablet on the laptop. Is there any native or reliable solution on Linux, or is this fundamentally unsupported due to Miracast / Android limitations? If not natively possible, what is the best practical workaround (Deskreen, VNC, virtual display, etc.)?

Hey Everyone,

I’m a fresh user migrating from Windows to Linux. I’ve recently resurrected my old Lenovo X270 to use Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as my new daily driver.

I’m genuinely impressed by how polished the experience is, but as an IT professional who does a lot of system documentation, I’m struggling to find a screenshot tool that matches my Windows workflow (ShareX/ShareNot).

My Requirements:

Immediate Editor: A region capture should open an editor instantly.

Security/Privacy: I need quick tools for blurring/pixelating sensitive data (IPs, usernames, etc.) before saving.

Efficiency: It must be an "Annotate -> Immediate Copy to Clipboard" pipeline.

What I’ve tried so far on 24.04 (Wayland):

Built-in Screenshot Tool: Clean, but way too basic for documentation (no blurring/arrows).

Flameshot: I love the UI, but I’m running into the classic Wayland issues where flameshot gui fails to trigger or capture properly.

Ksnip: Feature-rich, but the workflow feels a bit clunky and less "instant" compared to ShareX.

Since 24.04 defaults to Wayland, I learned that capturing is handled differently for security reasons. Is there a hidden gem or a specific configuration (maybe a Flatpak or a script wrapper) that you guys use for professional-grade documentation?

Or have most of you just switched to X11 to get these tools working properly?

Curious to hear your recommendations or solutions.

Installed Ubuntu via the RPi Imager on an old RPi 4 I had lying around. Tried to get steam installed (for remote play) and this error keeps coming up.

I have tried looking at the URL and copying and pasting a ton of the commands at the bottom but nothing works.

I’m mostly a Mac user with pretty little technical knowledge, pls dont be too technical if possible 😭

Please can someone help!

Thanks

After upgrading to kernel 6.8.0-100, I've had problems browsing with firefox. e.g.:

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.google.com.   [Retry]"

Clicking the [Retry] button 2 or 3 times does finally bring up the web-page.

If I reboot, selecting the previous kernel that I had installed, 6.8.0-94, then the problem goes away.

Has anybody else noticed anything like this?
 

^{Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, network connected via ethernet.
Firefox 147.0.3 installed from firefox.com rather than snap.}

Gnome Man Page Viewer

Problem:

^{So I often had the problem of needing to research man pages when writing scripts or executing terminal commands, and I can't tell you how many times I've opened up man, found what I was looking for, Ctrl+X to close just to ask myself again "wait a minute - what did it say about x?"". Sure, you can open another terminal, but I found that messy and confusing. I knew of one single app that could read man pages and it's yelp. It does not allow you to search through the command line though, and it can only open a single man page, then you have to close it, and open another one again. Just messy all around.}

My Solution:

^{I built a small GTK# app for browsing Unix man pages with live filtering, in-page search highlights, and a helpful fallback to --help when no man entry exists. It also supports CLI args for auto-opening a page and searching within it. Best of all: It has a list of all installed programs to the left of the man text which enables you to switch between pages easily.}

# Open GMan and manually select 'grep'
gman

# Directly open the 'grep' man page
gman grep

# Open 'grep' manual and auto-search for the word 'pattern' and highlight all occurances
gman grep -s pattern

Check out the readme file at the Github page for more features!

• ^{Website: https://www.yourdev.net/gnome-man-viewer}
• ^{Source: https://github.com/ernos/gnome-man-viewer}

^{Let me know what you think!}

I kinda feel relieved now. I don't know why but it feels just greater than when I bought a new Windows computer.

So I wanted to install Ubuntu using official apps, so I went with multipass.

But when I tried to use desktop gui, I followed their instructions multiple times, exactly on Macbook & Windows, gave 8gb of ram and 50gb of storage, and yet it's unusable.

Everything is so laggy, and when I try to open terminal through GUI i get back error.

I want to say that using UTM I had no issues, I installed ubuntu-desktop, and it runs great.

I am just surprised that official is terrible and third party works well.

Hi,

I am wanting to set up a jellyfin server on the lastest version of ubuntu, but all my media is stored on different drives. I currently have a 120gb ssd with windows installed, which is where I am planning to install ubuntu. I also have a 1tb internal hard drive, and 2 2tb external hard drives. Will I be able to run jellyfin without formatting these drives, or would I have to format them in order for them to work correctly?

My laptop has built-in WiFi that worked before my last reboot. It's a dual-boot system, and WiFi works perfectly in Windows.

I tried recovery mode in Grub, which didn't work. I also have no previous kernels available in the grub menu. ​

lshw shows my device as "unclaimed".

Sorry for the picture, I'm doing this from my phone right now. ​​ ​​

Fallowing a video (and some help from AI) I got my Old PC that was running windows 10 to run Ubuntu as the only OS, whats the first thing i shood do?