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