Review of Resolute Raccoon Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

[tenplus1]

barfly - Cant say I have any issues with shortcuts, everything seems to work fine on my wayland desktop now that I've remove the need for snap apps.

[barfly]

Has anyone seen if the issues surrounding KDE shortcuts has been resolved? This is the only thing that stops me (and thousands of others) from using Wayland. The work-a rounds I have seen are pretty convoluted involving loading an app and changing various permissions in the Wayland ecosystem.

This is a very basic requirement, and used to be a trivial exercise under x which was baked into the KDE environment - heck - even Windows makes it simple.

I have to say this is a very polished early release, everything works smooth as silk, even clunky old Mythtv works well, now to try and setup printers.

[barfly]

kubuntu (and i thing all of ubuntu) has required at least 2 digits for a password for years now, afaik

i think you can also just leave it blank, but do not recommend that

No, it needs at least 8 digits and with very specific exclusions on a normal install

[barfly]

I posted this morning about the password requirements. This was in a VM, I have just tried on a bare metal and because I run an esoteric HDMI setup I always use nomodeset when installing as I cannot read the tiny fonts in normal mode. This time I was able to input a simple one digit password when entering a user. Just my observations, so if you can't install due to the extremely restrictive password requirements, just install in safe graphics mode.

[skyfishgoo]

kubuntu (and i thing all of ubuntu) has required at least 2 digits for a password for years now, afaik

i think you can also just leave it blank, but do not recommend that

[barfly]

I just tried to install snapshot 4 and hit a brick wall. I thought I'd try on a virtual machine before installing to bare metal. I got as far as attempting to create a password, and every attempt was thwarted by some sort of code that specifies what can and cannot be used. I gave up after 10 attempts. This is something that needs to be addressed, I like a simple one digit password at the install stage and later when I am comfortable with the install I create a new one. I cannot be the only one who has come across this restriction. If I cannot install a system what are the chances of meeting other restrictive practices later on?
I have been using Linux since 1996 so I am not a newbie. What sort of introduction to Linux would this sort of unnecessary hurdle pose to a new user?

[cookiemuncher]

'fastfetch' doesn't list correctly, but 'sudo fastfetch' does.

BTW: I don't have a screen attached to the laptop as the laptop was dropped and the screen was shattered and so was surgically removed. I have a Dell monitor connected via HDMI.


PS: Don't know how to copy/paste the text output correctly so I screengrabbed.

[Virginio Miranda]

I just did a large update today and everything is working like a charm.I have various sound devices and all of them recognized by the SO. No problems using firefox ( snap version )

Congratulations for Kubuntu team. It promises to be one of the most beautiful and functional versions.

Plasma 6.6.2 is wonderfull. Really nice.

[oshunluvr]

Latest update broke my install. It boots to login but them goes black. If I shift to terminal mode before attempting graphical log in, I can log in there. A fairly large amount of errors in syslog:

 2026-03-12T14:03:31.957018-04:00 kubuntu2604 ksplashqml[2325]: qt.qpa.services: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could not register app ID: App info not found for ''")

Somewhere like 40 or so, each for a different application.

The sddm log is zero bytes.

The exact same install in VM works no problem and has a couple errors in syslog, but not many, and has a normal sddm.log.

Not really sure if it's worth trouble shooting or just wait it out. On 20 Feb. I copied the installation root subvolume from my VM onto bare metal and that original version works fine and still does. It does not have the above errors in syslog.

[acheron]

Sound issues with snap browsers may be? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/2142428

systmed with a fix for this should be installable as an update soon.

[die.boer]

Out of curiosity I ran the .deb version of Firefox for a few hours and the sound issue never appeared, seems to only affect the snap release.

iv'e said it before , it seems snaps & browsers don't mix well ,always seems like there's one thing or another

[tenplus1]

Out of curiosity I ran the .deb version of Firefox for a few hours and the sound issue never appeared, seems to only affect the snap release.

[cookiemuncher]

My sound issue is now fixed after the update this morning.
EDIT:
No, it's not.

[exploder]

I have the sound bug too...l. Everything else works surprisingly well. I was interested in the rust based core utilities and the Wayland only session in Plasma. Both seem fine so far. I upgraded from 25.10 to 26.04 because the installer was broken at the time I grabbed a daily build. Not only was the upgrade successful, my NVIDIA drivers did not break in the process! This is really looking amazing and it's not even beta yet.

[cookiemuncher]

Sound issues with snap browsers may be? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/2142428

Caused by Firefox & Youtube. VLC plays fine.

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber​

...does restore sound.