I installed this OS on my pc about a year ago using an ISO file on a usb. I am someone who's used computers their whole life yet isn't quite tech literate, when I installed the OS I was following a tutorial on the ubuntu website.

I'm looking to uninstall MATE from my pc and start over with a fresh install, right now MATE is my "default OS"? When I boot up my PC it will boot into MATE unless I press Delete or F2 while it starts up, inside the BIOS go to Boot and then manually choose Windows, MATE also shows up there, twice under different names for some reason.

The reason why I want to start over with a fresh install is that I've managed to install a few packages in UbuntuMATE and currently I don't know what to delete and what to keep, I find it confusing to sort out what I installed myself and how to delete it throughtly or even to find out what I've installed in the first, so, a fresh install seems reasonable.

Thanks for any feedback, will provide more precise details if needed, I don't know if there is any crucial piece of information I'm missing otherwise. Forgive my lack of tech literacy.

Hi everyone, I’m new here! 👋

I want to use both MacOS and Ubuntu.

I’m planning to run Ubuntu in a VM on my MacBook Pro (M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) and could use some advice:

• How well does it perform ?

• Best virtualization tools (UTM, Parallels, etc.)

• Any tips to optimize performance ?

• Challenges to expect (e.g., GPU acceleration, networking) ?

Also open to tips about running Ubuntu natively or dual-booting. Thanks !

Hey there,

my Proxmox Server recently died (but not the SSD), so I connected the SSD to my PC and mounted it via WSL and opened the lvm. It's been a while since then but I just can say, that I renamed it or something, as my virtual machine on the server (the machine works again) doesn't boot up:

ALERT! /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv does not exist! Dropping to a shell!

$ lvm lvdisplay
  
  [...]
  LV Path    /dev/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv/ubuntu-lv
  LV Name    ubuntu-lv
  VG Name    ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
  [...]

Might anyone of you know how to fix that issue (renaming anything or changing the path? If you need more information, please tell me.

Thank you and merry christmas in advance,

guefra13

I am new to ubuntu. I tried connecting my bluetooth headphones which took some time to connect and now the audio quality is poor. While using windows I don't face any such problems

I am using the ubuntu 24.04 . I tried the setting in sound tab in settings. When output device is set to 'Headset-buds' and configuration to 'High fidelity playback (a2dp)' I hear no sound. But when output device is set to 'Handsfree-buds' I don't see any option for selecting configuration but I can hear the sound but it's quality is too low please help me with this.

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone!
So i installed Ubuntu 24.04 coming from 22 on a win10 dual boot X230. So far everything works like a charm, except that sometimes the shutdown is slow or doesnt work at all, suspend mode basically doesnt work. Screen turns dark, keyboard turns off, even the power button is in "blinking" mode but i seem to cant wake up the x230. I have to press the powerbutton for 5 seconds and basically restart the machine completely. Closing the lid to go into suspend doesnt work either.

I tried turning off bluetooth, which seemed to work at first, but nothing. Changed security settings in BIOS (was reading that in another forum) -> no success..

Any ideas on how that can be fixed?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I have an question i am currently dual booting win11 + Ubuntu for a long time now. So i am pretty familiar with everything.

However to make the full switch from Windows to Ubuntu i really like if someone gave me some tips on styling because the current desktop doesn't look nice.

The main issues i encounter is that Ubuntu just isn't nice on the eyes for a long time its something with aliasing or the font or something.

And i miss the acrylic transparency effects on Win11 like my current desktop https://imgur.com/a/OoMmaoP

How do i make Ubuntu look the same?

Performance isn't an issue because i have high end hardware

Also i looked into gnome extensions etc

but they sucked or they were outdated and couldn't be used anymore ):

Thank you in advance

After years of being a loyal #macOS user, I finally decided to make the leap to #Ubuntu, and it’s been an exciting ride so far!

I recently installed ubuntu 24.04 lts in my (Asus Vivobook Go 15 E1504FA) Everything works fine but the wifi driver is not detected by the OS. My laptop does not even have an ethernet port. The wifi driver works fine in Windows and it has no hardware issues.

I've tried the following troubleshooting steps:
Firmware Update:
I cloned the latest linux-firmware repository and copied the mediatek firmware files to /lib/firmware/mediatek/. I also updated the kernal and firmware which is the latest version
Driver Installation:
I attempted to load the mt7921e driver with the following commands:
sudo modprobe mt7921e sudo modprobe -r mt7921e and sudo modprobe mt7921e again

Check Network Status: lshw -C network shows the Wi-Fi card as "UNCLAIMED."
iwconfig shows no wireless extensions.
System Logs: I couldn't find any helpful output from dmesg | grep mt7921e.

Despite these efforts, the Wi-Fi driver doesn't seem to load, and the network interface remains unclaimed. Could anyone guide me on how to get my Wi-Fi working on Ubuntu? I'm using kernel version 6.8.0-51-generic.

Please help me to fix this.

i use 565.77,though successfully enable nvidia-powerd.service ,power is limmited by 80W or lower,it is dynamic. who can help me? im using ausa rog g16 (ultrla9 185H + 4060,ubuntu 20.04)

| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |

|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |

| N/A 68C P3 18W / 70W | 850MiB / 8188MiB | 1% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| 0 N/A N/A 1279 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 365MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 2508 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 135MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 3587 G ...erProcess --variations-seed-version 117MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 8534 C+G missioncenter 23MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 46804 G ...seed-version=20241217-180204.362000 134MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 229683 G /usr/bin/nvidia-settings 2MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |

|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |

| N/A 68C P3 18W / 70W | 850MiB / 8188MiB | 1% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| 0 N/A N/A 1279 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 365MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 2508 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 135MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 3587 G ...erProcess --variations-seed-version 117MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 8534 C+G missioncenter 23MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 46804 G ...seed-version=20241217-180204.362000 134MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 229683 G /usr/bin/nvidia-settings 2MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Greetings, what can I play? Of course without changing the operating system I am more into emulators

I recently saw open position for security Engineer,

Has anyone applied to it before?
If yes, how was the interview experience? What questions do they ask?

Also guys please give out review on the job env at Canonical :)

Hi All,

I've recently re located and I'm having trouble getting one of my favorite Weather Websites to recognise my new location.

My Web Browser is Firefox 132.0.2 and the OS is patched up to yesterday.

If I search for my location I get the correct location. When you click the drop-down on the website the location shown is many thousands of kilometers from my actual location.

I've flushed the cache, put my new location into the configuration of the website and everytime I go to use the ws again the location seems to have been lost again.

Can some of you who are knowledgeable with thhelp me solve my issue please put me out of my misery, its driving me nuts.

I've looked thru Firefox's config and I'm stuffed if I can see anything else that will help me resolve this issue

## Report details

- **Date generated:** 2024-12-18 19:19:13

## Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo Lenovo ideapad 330S-15ARR

- **Memory:** 8.0 GiB

- **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500U with Radeon™ Vega Mobile Gfx × 8

- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Vega 8 Graphics

- **Disk Capacity:** 256.1 GB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** 7WCN38WW

- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 46

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.8.0-40-generic

Hi there! Are there people here who work in Canonical, specifically in Accounting & Finance department? How is the working environment there? Just curious.

Thanks a lot!

This is on a relatively fresh install of 24.04 LTS and using Comcast Xfinity at home. I changed the apt servers from the main US servers to my local university mirror via the Software and Updates applet like a week ago. Everything was normal at first, but now whenever I do an apt update, download speeds are less than 500 kB/s. If I update via Synaptic, download speeds are normal ie. ~10 MB/s. I even changed the servers back to the default main US servers and the download speeds are still below 500kB/s, sometimes as low as 50 kB/s. For the life of me, I can't figure this out. Does anyone know what the heck I did to wreck my server download speeds?

i have just installed ubuntu 24.04 and for the first 2 minutes if i tried to open anything it would take so long to launch and then all of them start appearing at the same time.
i checked the system monitor (it took like 30s to open) but the used resource is not that much.
also i have faced issues installing some user extensions and software like docker desktop.
is this an issue with the new release? should i revert back to 22 or what is you recommendation?

Hi, I use Ubuntu 24. I need to definitely wipe all data that was stored on my SSD drive as I want to sell it. This need to be done well, I stored sensitive data on my SSD.

I made some basic research and it seems that i can use 'shred' or 'blkdiscard' commands (or both of them?) to write random data to my SSD. What are your opinions and recommendations?

I have a second laptop, the SSD will be plugged via USB adapter.

I bought this laptop off of someone and it has been working fine although slow so i decided to hard reset it after a couple weeks. It was stuck on 36 when restarting so i turned it off mid reset then turned it back on then the reset was done. Now every time i turn my computer on it brings me to gnu grub and usually when it did that i pressed windows boot manager but now that doesnt work it just restarts my computer again or bring me to ubuntu loading screen. Also i already tried the codes it didnt work either it said error secure boot forbids loading module. Im just tryna play roblox and now i cant even get into my computer any and all help is appreciated i think i may have broke my laptop

So i have a problem where my windows isn't guided to its efi, because i watched a wrong video on YouTube and made some big mistakes. Then i formated my efi, trying to get "bootrec /fixboot" to work, but now i still have the same problem and i lost my option to load into ubuntu, so now i am stuck with my black screen working windows and probably all of my lost files on ubuntu. Is there any way to recover my data and get windows to work properly?

Has anyone solved the problem with different fonts rendering in Ubuntu? On Windows all fonts are sharp but in Ubuntu aren't.

I am attaching screenshots from Ubuntu and Windows 11. For example letter "r" on Ubuntu looks little weired.

Screen Ubuntu 24.04

Screen Windows 11

Hi there,

is it possible to view the ink tank levels on my Canon Pixma 7250 printer? The software I ran on my Windows 10 machine doesn’t work on Ubuntu. Thanks for your help.

Hello,

after I had installed Ubuntu Server 24.04 using the default settings, I noticed that approximately half of my disk space was missing. I know this has been asked before (see e.g. here) and the commonly suggested fix is to use the lvextend and resize2fs commands.

Could anybody please provide an explanation for what those commands do? Is it correct/safe to retrieve the missing disk space this way?

Thanks!

I have some rare old games I want to share. I can read the contents of the disk when I put it in my Ubuntu computer, do I just copy and paste the files into a folder and compress it?

Updated my Ubuntu install with the app updater and am now getting stuck on the splash screen when turning on. I saw about pressing escape to see the logs when booting. A picture of that can be found here

im trying to install this version but when i mount it and go in the installation process it tells "system error" and dont show me options in the screen of how do u want to install

along side windows something else

it doesn't appear

i mount the iso file with rufus gpt fat32 and the cluster ssize default

Please help

So upon typing letters, I sometimes use caps like any normal user. The issue is that every time I press caps on for my password then turn it off it takes maybe 1 second to turn or off or even half a second or 1/3rd idk but im a fast typer. So what happens is that when I go to put my password when it keeps saying its wrong due to the slowness of the caps lock turning off. I came from windows and this was not an issue but now it is. Now if this is normal ill leave it as is but personally does not feel normal to me.

Installation method > via usb > followed exact guide from website to the tea.

Installation date > 12/16/2024

Dell XPS 15 9570

FRESH INSTALL ( NO DUAL BOOT OR ANYTHING)

I decided that i will switch to Ubuntu from Linux Mint, and so, i did. I made a separate partition so that the data from my Mint partition wouldn't just disappear, installed ubuntu on it, and i was just there!
Now, i saw that my Mint home folder was encrypted by 'eCryptfs' so I tried to decrypt it. I put a passphrase, mount phrase and all the other stuff. But, I had heard of something called 'UFS Explorer' which i could easily use to decrypt all of my files. I took the wrapped passphrase, converted it, used the 'transform file system files' option on the home folder, and i put the password in. It then opened a new tab showing something called 'ecryptfs filter volume' which had all of the same folders. But, when i looked into all the folders, i saw that they were still encrypted. I have also tried using the cli to decrypt them but it has not worked. Can someone please help?

Hi all - I appreciate this is maybe not a Ubuntu specific issue, but I'm looking for advice and this seemed like as good a place as any to start.

I have a laptop with Ubuntu as my main OS. The machine has a secondary SSD (1Tb) that I was using for archiving photos, but now my son wants to use more and more Windows based software (games mostly) I want to make it dual boot with Windows 10 or 11 on the second drive. I have been using VirtualBox with some success, but it seems to fall over all the time recently plus resources obviously will work out better running the OS directly. I tried to use WINE for a few things, but it always feels like a fudge and given I have a basically unused second HDD it seems that a full dual boot would be the neatest option.

Can anyone point me at an idiots guide to setting this up? Everything I've found tends to assume you are starting with a Windows machine and installing Linux as a secondary OS.

Any and all advice greatly appreciated - thank you!