Review of Resolute Raccoon Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

[claydoh]

the issues surrounding KDE shortcuts

What shortcuts, specifically, and what issues/workarounds?
(this may be better asked in a general KDE/Plasma section rather than a pre-release chat topic, for more eyeballs)

[acheron]

Beta is out: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ch/000322.html

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-26-04-beta/

[kernelbasher]

Can't really fault it. Discover seems a bit flaky

[kernelbasher]

Actually iwlwifi
seems depreciated so I am having to use
iwlwifi disable_11ax=Y
Had the same in openSuSE Tumbleweed too with the new 7 kernel

[Aluminum]

Hello all,
I've tried beta and last snapshot last 2 days in VM. Live session work fine, but after installation it's completely broken. As soon as I try to type something, program and plasma crash. I tried it in KVM and VMWare Workstation, it's the same.

[acheron]

'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.

Fix should be on the way: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...h/+bug/2146607

[notabug]

So far, so good. Just finished install and usual applications.

[NoWorries]

Your excellant list of the current state of Kubuntu 26/04 shows the 1 month to go before its release. It will be released on the 23rd April, and no doubt we will all be looking forward to its status on that day.

[kc1di]

Install 26.04 beta and has been working fine for me, no major problems here. on my little laptop anyway. So think it should be good to go on April 23rd.
I found one small problem. HPLip-gui package installs but will not run. Work on 24.10 but not 26.04.
when you try to run hp-setup in terminal get this output.

raceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 48, in <module>
   from base import device, utils, tui, models, module, services, os_utils
 File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 2689, in <module>
   class LocalOpener(urllib_request.URLopener):
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'urllib.request' has no attribute 'URLopener'

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[acheron]

I found one small problem. HPLip-gui package installs but will not run. Work on 24.10 but not 26.04.
when you try to run hp-setup in terminal get this output.

raceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 48, in <module>
from base import device, utils, tui, models, module, services, os_utils
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 2689, in <module>
class LocalOpener(urllib_request.URLopener):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'urllib.request' has no attribute 'URLopener'

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Looks like the same error as: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...p/+bug/2146570

[kc1di]

Looks like the same error as: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...p/+bug/2146570

Yep I reported there.
It also same in gnome on ubuntu 26.04 beta. I think it maybe a PY 3 thing. But it's above my pay grade