I got back this old HP EliteBook 2560p from 2011 that I bought then and was left for use to other people. It still has it's original battery and it had W7 installed on it.

It was kind of nightmare to install Linux since all the different distros installed but most did not boot.

Now as I got the disk set as mbr and made it to legacy boot I finally got Kubuntu 24.04.1 in it.

And boy, was I surpised.

That thing booted in 25 seconds including login. Quite impressive for such an old piece of equipment. Fastest laptop so far I had booted was Arch in about 33 seconds. But now this. And I'm talkin about from completely shut down.

And the other thing. That battery life. The fresh install has now been up 3h 50min and the battery says 40min left. Battery from the times of rock and stick.

edit: Yeah. I replaced the hdd with old ssd.

Hey r/Kubuntu! Linux newbie here. I recently upgraded to Kubuntu 24.10 with KDE 6, and I’m honestly impressed; definitely worth switching from the bloated Win11. But, I’ve got three minor problems I can’t figure out how to fix:

1. Notification system acting weird: The first few notifications work fine, but after a while, they start flying upward and creating clones. These clones get stuck in the top-right corner even after the original notification disappears. Sometimes these clones get stretched too.
2. Cursor lag when opening apps: When launching applications like Chrome or Discover (specifically when the app icon appears next to the cursor), the cursor movement drops to what feels like 60Hz, even though I’m running a 240Hz display.
3. Hot corner animation stuttering: When using the hot corner to select windows, the animation isn’t smooth and has noticeable lag. (Yeah, I know it's a minor issue and shouldn't affect the experience all that much, but it just bugs me quite a bit if you get what I mean. :P)

Has anyone encountered similar issues or knows how to fix them? Despite these minor annoyances, I'm really enjoying the KDE 6 experience! Thanks in advance for any help! 🐧

EDIT: Fastfetch gave me this:

https://preview.redd.it/lqfrrpp9wvzd1.png?width=1227&format=png&auto=webp&s=192dcfa9c83b19676422353b1969a103e1abe5de

My panel is a verical one, to the left. Like the one in ubuntu gnome edition. It is set to be always visible.

When I do tiling to the left/right (Meta+left, Meta+right), I expect kwin to resize the window to such width: (screen width minus the panel width) / 2. I expect it both on left and right tiling. It was so in 20.04 and 22.04.

But in 24.04 it behaves weird. So, with my panel to the left, when I tile a window to the right, it makes it of width (screen width) / 2. When I tile to the left, it makes it of width ((screen width) / 2 - panel width).

I've just checked it in a vm on kubuntu live iso 22.04, 22.10, 23.04, 23.10, 24.04, 24.10. It started with 23.04.

Is it a bug or an intentional change I can revert with some config option?

Upd: I also tried Fedora 37, it has plasma 5.26. It behaves like pre-23.04 kubuntu. So, the issue is related to the changes introduced with plasma 5.27.

It looks so yummy 😋

(Also by everything I mean the folder manager, terminal etc)

When I listen to music, my PC randomly freezes, and I always have to unplug it and plug it in. When I get to the boot screen, busybox appears, And I have to turn the machine back on. And after that, the PC turns on normally. Seriously, this happened several times this day.

Yesterday,i installed kubuntu by erasing my hdd,and today it does this for some reason.kde plasma says that it is loading,but after it says it's done,this greets me. Also the cursor works fine,even if i move it a lot,it still grows like it is supposed to. Also if you couldn't tell,im very new to linux and have no idea what im doing

Hi,

I changed from Windows 11 to Kubuntu, I had some driver problems with the amd chipset driver, amd gpu driver and the xmp profile didnt worked right.

So I thought, when I also work on ubuntu with kde on my sysadmin job, why not try kubuntu for my home pc.

I installed all programs like steam, obs discord etc. via the "discover" application, and some via the apt package manager / nala frontend.

I also found a application for downloading and installing drivers and other proprietary software. I think the name was "software & updates"

I clicked on the "additonal drivers" tab , but for none of my hardware components he found any drivers.

also I had to install this "software & updates" via the discover? it wasnt preinstalled

My Hardware:

Ryzen 7800X3D

RX 590 Fatboy

crucial 2x16GB 4800MHz DDR5 XMP 6000MHz

B650M Pro RS

CT1000P2SSD8 1tb qlc nvme ssd

my question is:

are the drivers already installed, and there is no dedicated application for the amd gpu/cpu ?

how can I check that the required drivers are installed properly?

thank you

I switched from linux mint to kubuntu and it seems that packages installation takes longer than other debian based distros for some reasons.

Fresh install. Then installed the stupid Nvidia drivers. Then rebooted......and everything went fine! Then installed some apps, steam, flatpak, bunch of others. I'm done with distrohopping! (Yay!) Until I signed out and signed back in for the flatpaks to appear! And...black screen... Sorry if I sound like an a-hole, but this is my 4th time distrohopping and having to deal with the BS rivarly of Wayland and Nvidia drivers, I really, really want Linux to work, but if I can't solve this, I'm going back to the spyware that's known as Windows. So if anyone has a solution, help would be appreciated.

Specs:

Nvidia RTX 3060ti Intel Core i5 11400f Asus Prime B560M-K

https://preview.redd.it/3mwpa84nxazd1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c0fa1eb336e2a5d7f4bc96c2c1e2e7ea32c1e8e

I was trying to open basic data proportion (Local Disk C: as i have dual boot) but it gives me this error, this didn't happened the last time i tried to open it... any fix?

I have a Victus 15 laptop with a Ryzen 5 7535hs and an RTX 2050. Nvidia Driver version is 550.120 I should also mention I'm running Kubuntu off one of my two external drives over USB at the moment.

I've noticed that when gaming my computer will have hiccups that involve stuttering audio and a complete lockup of everything save for maybe the mouse. Sometimes they're temporary, other times they require a reboot. This happens with both proton and native titles. It seems to maybe stem from a cpu lockup judging by the logs I've read, but I can't find a definite answer online. It's not something I can just deal with as it also corrupts my game drive's file system if it's mounted.

Below I will attach my screenfetch and my journalctl from roughly the moment of the most recent crash.

./+o+-       hika@hika-pc
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+      OS: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
://+//////-yyyyyyo      Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.8.0-48-generic
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/`      Uptime: 5m
.:++o:  /++++++++/:--:/-      Packages: 2766
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/     Shell: bash 5.2.21
.:+o:+o/.          `+sssoo+/    Resolution: 1920x1080
 .++/+:+oo+o:`             /sssooo.   DE: KDE 5.115.0 / Plasma 5.27.11
/+++//+:`oo+o               /::--:.   WM: KWin
\+/+o+++`o++o               ++////.   
 .++.o+++oo+:`             /dddhhh.  
.+.o+oo:.          `oddhhhh+    Disk: 68G / 220G (33%)
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+     CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with Radeon Graphics @ 12x 4.603GHz
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os:      GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o`      RAM: 5141MiB / 15184MiB
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/     
````` +oo+++o\:     
`oo++.     

Log file: https://pastebin.com/gYNHUEfM

Ive been lookin for a way to increase the gamma and saturation of my desktop since i really enjoy bright, poppy images. Anyone know of a way outside of the cool/warm temp to change thesr settings?

Can I revert to an earlier version of the "save as" dialog that opens when downloading a file through a browser? A recent update must have changed it a few days ago. The old save dialog was fine, I had a long list of custom save locations. The new dialog is formatted differently and I hate it. It won't save any custom locations I add to it.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? I assumed the save as dialog is part of the OS and not the browser.

Edit: my old save dialog still exists. When I save a file in Kate, e.g., the old save dialog with all my custom locations comes up. My problem is only when saving using a browser, in this case Brave Browser. I don't see any settings in Brave to force it to use the system dialog, so maybe this isn't a KDE issue.

Edit 2: this issue was resolved by removing the Brave snap package and installing via apt.

My desktop computer was previously running Kubuntu 24.04 with Plasma 5.27 and X11. I had kept it on X11 because my GPU is a Nvidia GTX 1660 and it worked really bad on Wayland. Lots of flickering and panel freezes.

Then I upgraded to Kubuntu 24.10 and it defaulted to Wayland... so I gave it a try and I can say that I'm surprised by the performance of Plasma 6.1 on Walyand + Nvidia. I've been using if for the past 10 days and I have not found any significant issues whatsoever.

Screen sharing is working nicely on Firefox and Chromium... Games are working fine (I'm not a heavy gamer though; just simple single-player stuff). Drag and drop is working fine (on Fedora I'm having some trouble with it). The panel has not crashed or flickered. I use Gromit for annotating the screen and it is working too (I'm a teacher, so I use it a lot)... So basically everything that might fail is actually working fine... so I'm sticking with Wayland, and I'm glad to say that all my machines are on Wayland now =)

The only very minor issues I have are: (1) on Overview there's a little bit of flickering when hovering the mouse over screen previews and (2) when maximizing Chromium, sometimes the window is positioned incorrectly on the screen.

Thanks for all the devs of Plasma, Kubuntu, Wayland, etc who made this possible.

The tray icon of Ktorrent is blue instead of white.

I just made the switch from Ubuntu to Kubuntu and i have managed to come up against a slew of issues. My most recent one has been that I tried adding a widget to my menu bar, but when I added it, my screen went totally black. I can see the cursor but nothing else. I can access searching for things through the Alt F2 command and have tried to find the broken widget, but even after I deleted all of the widgets in the folder (inside the Local folder) nothing changed.

Someone help me so I can go back to being frustrated with the other computer problems I'm having!

I installed Kubuntu few days ago just to test how it works (I have no prior experience), I am kind of liking it and want to add more space (I have a dual boot so I created a disk partition for Linux), is there any way to add more space without reinstalling kubuntu or smth?

Since upgrading to 24.10, if I pair by Bluetooth headset and then reboot, when I click to connect it says "Failed to Connect". With 24.04 it would connect, but with 24.10, I am forced to forget and pair after every reboot.

This seems to be related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1531659/24-10-fails-to-connect-to-jbl-speaker-every-time-it-boots-up

Have you had this problem? Do you know of a fix?

Yup, windows 11 has thoroughly discusted me. It's an older Asus q526f laptop with a 1tb SSD, and a 1tb HDD. So I dug out an old copy of win 10 pro, and downloaded kubuntu after several days a reading on various distro's. After a few minor issues with grub and window boot manager, I'm reliably booting to where I wanna be. Here's my issue, I have the wavlink USB ax5400 WiFi dongle. Hunted about and find it uses the rtl8852be driver. Great right,...well in Linux I can't even see the device let alone download from GitHub... Can someone walk me through how to download this stuff thru windows to a USB to install to Linux after booting to it? Sadly, I have to keep windows until I learn enough about Linux to find what to replace certain programs I use.

Need some help with settings and all

I just installed kubuntu distro from KDE plasma(I am totally new to Linux and only used win10 before), I wanna know what things should I download for this and are there any settings which will be helpful later on ?

(For gaming btw)

Hello everybody,

How i can manage with GUI Snap permissions?

Previously, it could be set in Discover.

Now even if I install the Snap Store, I don't see anything to set permissions.

The only thing that is here is the CLI method.

snap connections app

Will the GUI method ever be available again?

installed Kubuntu last night after some trial and error and even managed to get some games working- one thing, i have a 2nd SSD in my machine and im really not too sure as to whether or not its being recognized all on its own. are there some key things i should look at?

How do I use proxies such as GreenTunnel (https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel) on Kubuntu? I installed the edge version listed in the GitHub, and ran it using green-tunnel in terminal, yet I seem unable to access restricted websites such as YouTube (I am in Russia).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello,

I got the problem that discover doesn't want to open. When I uninstall the snap backend, it opens, but I want to use snap in Discover.

When I run it using the command line it loggs:

fetch ratings! false
adding empty sources model QStandardItemModel(0x5cafca8b21b0)

Are there any fixes?

Regards,

~schemil053

I'm a beginner and just installed the latest kubuntu yesterday, it was working perfectly fine after.

Today I turned on my laptop (Dell xps 13) and my keyboard works in grub but once kubuntu has booted I can't do anything on the login screen, it's not frozen because the clock is working.

When I installed it yesterday all I did was try some themes and change wallpaper, update all in discover and then browsed on Firefox. I didn't delete or install anything that didn't come with kubuntu.

I saw many people had a similar problem but the troubleshooting I tried didn't work for me.

My attempts: My laptop is not a touchscreen model. Ctrl alt f2 does nothing. I entered this "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all" and it says is already the newest version.

Something that may be important is when I did the system summary in recovery mode it says under "lvm state" that "physical volume: not ok (BAD)". Is this correct? My laptop is 2-3 years old and only been used for school work, how can the ssd go bad already? Would that even affect my mouse and keyboard?

EDIT: I have found a workaround but not a fix, if I use x11 instead of. Wayland it works as normal. There must be some kind of misconfiguration but I'm too noob to fix it.

EDIT 2: Possibly fixed one thing. When using wayland after booting from recovery mode I saw a pop up about a GTK and QT IM MODULE and i unset both in terminal, i then changed the virtual keyboard to fcitx 5 wayland. The layout still switches to us after every reboot despite me deleting it from the layours in settings. I have spent too long on this and have no more patience to fix that today.

Hi! 24.10 is out and I wonder when Plasma 6 will reach backports. If 24.04 + Plasma 6 becomes real I'll make my way back to Kubuntu.

The image install was stuck at 92 when downloading snap krita. So I quit it to unselect krita from install to grab it's flat pack instead later.

The system booted after I selected quit during the install. Is there anything I need to be concerned about or to to prevent issue of an incomplete install? Or was krita the last thing and everything is fine?

https://preview.redd.it/lh2b0l9g31yd1.png?width=954&format=png&auto=webp&s=94fe1d03772261109d42673ddf78c71e614d41fb

It shows every time, I previously installed Brave Browser and Discover worked fine.