Review of Resolute Raccoon Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

[barfly]

I have just installed the final release on bare metal, old i7-770K 16gb ram Nvidia GTX1660 with USB stick install. Tried 5 times and failed. Number 6 I cut everything back to a minimal install and this time finally got it to complete the install. It failed at all different stages of the install routine with the first 5 attempts. This is after first choosing GB English for the install.

I really love it, it runs smooth as silk, first thing before de-snapping I installed the Brave browser so I can obtain the Firefox .deb installer after removing all snaps, then installed the X system for programmes which will never run on Wayland. I use Wayland as my primary desktop, and only go to x when I have to do serious office work, as Autokey will never work on Wayland.

Mythtv works beautifully, but for some reason the devs have seen fit to either not include or squirrel away the needed .toml files for infra-red remote controls in some totally inaccessible directory hidden deep in the guts of the o/s. Luckily I have kept previous versions from older o/s's.

It correctly identified all my rather esoteric hardware peripherals, and my sound and video are working beautifully. It is a great release, but the install badly needs sorting out before it puts too many users off.

Well done to all devs, thank you all for all your hard work, Tony.

[tenplus1]

APT 3.2 has been released that has proper rollback support for any failed installs, so we already have fixes in place for deb, and yes I would totally love for Firefox and other packages to be available as standard .deb files once more, and if needed users can install an up-to-date flatpak or snap if they really want it, not as default.

[rec9140]

Lets be clear here. I am Kubuntu developer. I am also a full Ubuntu Core developer.

The pipewire package (and sub packages) in resolute 26.04 are conventionally packaged self contained.debs, which themselves contain the pipewire binaries, shared libraries, data/config/services files all in those. They do not install a snap version or require one. Ubuntu itself, and none of the flavors, ship pipewire as a snap or require it.

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Here is some feedback....I am attempting to keep this constructive, and to reign in my personal venom over this and the whole X11 debacle, that as far as I am concerned go hand in hand with many other things over the years I very vehemently disagree with. So with my notice of viewpoint upfront on the table.....

First, I didn't see the video, which is really irrelevant.. I'd have already flipped out over it was true... especially with Kubuntu

BUT #1 - I had a video show up about Ubuntu that mentioned this, I won't dive into that too much, but it dismisses this situation out of hand, which is not true.

BUT #2 - My constructive viewpoint which I noticed from these posts...

Maybe you take to heart and review the POSTS here... ".... DESNAPPED INSTALL...." Review how many of the posts have that. Just about EVERY REPLY HERE starts DESNAPPED INSTALL .... and goes from there.

Maybe its time to take a step back and go.. this ain't working rather than full speed ahead ! We will tell them what they like! I could apply this to something else as well, but that battle is lost, and it just time to move on, which I will be doing or well locking in place at some point... Maybe BSD? GhostBSD has since started to lead a path... but BSD is NOT Debian/*Buntu or Linux and thats a pretty large change...

BUT anyway MAYBE JUST MAYBE take a look at the posts here and review that they start off "....DESNAPPED.." and accept that users don't want this.

Look around at the the number of various web sites which list:

"Remove snap, restore firefox to DEB based repo... etc... "

Maybe instead of wasting time, resources on developing this NEW format, we SOLVE the packaging issue and fix/improve/enhance DEB much like XLibre did for X11 (NOTE: I am not discussing it here this is an example, there are parallels here, and I not interested in the BS in XLibre that many want to bring up.... and above I stated above)

You want to go hey... DEB has some issues here, here, here, here, etc.. I will 100% AGREE! Just like X11, don't disagree, but enter XLibre, so lets DEB 2.0 or what ever you want to call it.. There are a lot things I see this is attempting to do to "manage" non Linux converts, but that ain't me, was never me.

I thought it was rather noticeable to note that the posts all started out "DESNAPPED" install... and that now is one of the first things I do now on new installs, much like I did with pulseaudio was so intertwined into things.

So summing up/tl;dr - maybe take a step back and just go, wrong path, and go back, and JUST FIX/IMPROVE/ENHANCE DEB..versus starting over and bringing in a lot extra drama.

[life0riley]

It's been smooth sailing in in QEMU/KVM. I've been testing the daily builds off and on since April 7th. My last daily build was from April 22nd, and I let that roll into the release. It doesn't seem to be heavy on resources. I'm planning to install it as the only OS on an old Windows 10 laptop.

I haven't attempted an install on VirtualBox. To do that I have to update to VirtualBox 7.2.8 for kernel 7.0 support. VirtualBox 7.1.x is no longer supported. I'll give it a try in VirtualBox when I get some time.

[manull]

Kubuntu doesn't work on my Core Ultra 235 with integrated graphics. When I switch to the graphics driver, the image disappears from the monitor screen. I can't even boot into live mode. It only works in safe mode.
On another PC with the same monitor, an i3-10300 with integrated graphics, everything works fine. Everything also works on a Lenovo ThinkCentre 50Q Gen4 with an i3-1215U.

Meanwhile, version 25.10 works perfectly on the Core Ultra 235.

[tenplus1]

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

[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]

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.

[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).

[kc1di]

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

[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

[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"…

[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.

[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]

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