Review of Resolute Raccoon Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

[claydoh]

The dumb part: in this dialog, note the (yes/no/fingerprint) bit: enter the appropriate one here, then you will get asked for the password. Or is it the reverse order? If you enter a password here, it will pop up a dialog more clearly asking (yes/no), and then the password. I think that is the order I saw, on neon and/or KDE Linux. \

I don;t know why the dialog has changed to be less...clear.

[claydoh]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516657

[die.boer]

i don't want to wait for the 26.04 to eventually show up on my system , what command can i run now to upgrade ?
i tried sudo do-release-upgrade but it says no new release found.

EDIT: ok seems i can run this sudo do-release-upgrade -d to force it , but i think i'll wait for the proper release (26.04.1) ,just to be safe
let the minor kinks be sorted 1st ...i don't want to start troubleshooting everyday , i'm tired and old

[claydoh]

i'm tired and old

Lol that never stops me.
I may not be normal, though.


Upgrades may not be turned on immediately, and even using -d can be blocked if there were a need to do so.

[Schwarzer Kater]

I guess this is the final pre-release one now (2026-04-23 01:09) before the name is changed to "kubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso"…

[tenplus1]

Update: The graphical stutter issue seems to have disappeared when the 7.0.1 kernel was installed, so hopefully final 26.04 release will include this

[kc1di]

Today should be the day for final. Looking forward to it.

[NoWorries]

In Australia, today is the date for the release of Kubuntu 26.04. For me it has been an enjoyable development of Resolute. So from now on it should continue to provide a stable system to use as it is an LTS.

The official stable release date for Kubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is April 23, 2026. As part of the Ubuntu 26.04 family, this Long-Term Support (LTS) version is scheduled for final release on this date following a beta release in late March 2026.
Kubuntu +5

• Release Date: April 23, 2026.
• Codename: Resolute Raccoon.
• Support: Long-Term Support (LTS).

[tenplus1]

Downloaded final 26.04 release, flashed onto it's own thumb-drive and booted, got to Try/Install menu and it flickered to white so I couldnt see anything (like the old adaptive sync issue), working blind I could tab a few times and select Try and it would boot into desktop just fine but not a good look for the newest LTS release, and while it works on Safe Graphics mode during boot, if you select a different installer language it hangs.

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780m graphics.

[Ganton]

Downloaded final 26.04 release, flashed onto it's own thumb-drive and booted, got to Try/Install menu and it flickered to white so I couldnt see anything (like the old adaptive sync issue), working blind I could tab a few times and select Try and it would boot into desktop just fine but not a good look for the newest LTS release, and while it works on Safe Graphics mode during boot, if you select a different installer language it hangs.

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780m graphics.

It looks like there is a bug. Something like that happened to me the first time that I installed Kubuntu 26.04 (also using a different installer language) in a new Virtualbox virtual machine. Later, I assigned 128 MB of RAM to the virtual graphics card, I tried to install Kubuntu 26.04 again and it worked. Note: I had 3D acceleration disabled.

Afterwards, I executed:

sudo apt install --allow-remove-essential coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- rust-coreutils- sudo-rs-
sudo apt-mark hold coreutils-from-uutils rust-coreutils sudo-rs​​

to avoid https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rust-coreutils

[tenplus1]

Ganton - So their rust implementation of coreutils seem to be breaking things, ouch!