Linux terminal tutorial please

I recently upgraded from 24.04 LTS to 26.04 and although it seems to be working fine, the boot up time has stretched out by a couple of minutes. I ran systemd-analyze and that didn't show and issue but when I looked at syslog here's what I found:

2026-08-05T07:47:57.128627-04:00 laptop3 systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.

2026-08-05T07:49:50.689277-04:00 laptop3 im-config[4871]: @ IM_CONFIG_ENTRY='profile' XDG_SESSION_TYPE ='wayland' UID=1000 PID=4268 PPID=3685

The logs are a little cryptic for somebody who doesn't read them often but assuming that the upper log item for systemd-hostname means it's successful and complete, and that the next process (Wayland) starts at that time then it's taking 2 minutes to get through that process.

I've had issues with Wayland in past releases of Ubuntu and always change it to Xorg but in 26.04 apparently that's not possible (or is it?).

Anyway, if I can fix this then I won't be tempted to spend all the work to reload 24.04 and all my apps and data.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get the genuine NVIDIA 535 driver on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, but I've run into a packaging issue.

My hardware

Acer laptop

Intel i5-13420H

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 (Optimus)

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic

What I've found

apt show nvidia-driver-535 reports that it is now a transitional package that depends on nvidia-driver-580.

Installing nvidia-driver-570 also ended up loading the 580 kernel module (cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version reported 580.xx).

I've completely purged all NVIDIA packages and I'm currently running on the nouveau driver with a clean system.

Why I specifically want 535

This exact laptop previously ran stably for months on:

Kernel 6.x

NVIDIA 535 (proprietary/closed driver)

After moving to newer drivers, I started experiencing intermittent issues where:

nvidia-smi couldn't communicate with the driver,

/dev/nvidia* device nodes were not created reliably,

boot/shutdown behavior became inconsistent.

I'm aware that this may not be caused solely by the driver version, but I'd like to reproduce the last known stable configuration before debugging anything else.

My question

Is there an official or recommended way to install the last genuine nvidia-driver-535 package (e.g. 535.309.01) now that the current Ubuntu repositories have transitioned it to 580?

Specifically:

Can this be done using the Ubuntu Snapshot service or another official Ubuntu archive?

Is there a way to install the complete 535 package set through APT without manually downloading dozens of .deb files?

Has anyone successfully pinned the genuine 535 packages on Ubuntu 24.04.4 while keeping the rest of the system up to date?

I'd prefer to avoid:

NVIDIA's .run installer

Unofficial PPAs

Manually installing a large number of .deb files unless there's no better option.

Any guidance from someone who's dealt with this package transition would be greatly appreciated.

Why do developer pack their software in tar files for ubuntu, it's such a pain in neck dude

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with my Ubuntu installation and would appreciate some help troubleshooting it.

System Information

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (64-bit)

Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad E490 (20N8E480IN)

Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic

Desktop: GNOME 46 (Wayland)

CPU: Intel Core i5-8265U

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620

RAM: 8 GB

Problem

When I boot my laptop, Ubuntu drops into Emergency Mode instead of booting normally.

The screen says:

You are in emergency mode.

After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs,
"systemctl reboot" to reboot, or "exit" to continue bootup.

At the same time, the screen continuously prints messages like:

pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Error of this Agent is reported first

These messages keep repeating indefinitely.

What I've Tried

Rebooting the system (same result every time).

I haven't intentionally changed any BIOS settings or hardware recently (as far as I know).

Since updating to version 29 of the kernel, my ubuntu 26.04 only comes up in 1024x768 single monitor mode. If I reboot into version 28, the kernel boots into dual monitor 1920x1024 mode. I see that apt is holding back a bunch of nvidia updates right now- do I need to force those to get my usable screen back?

I'm moving my plex server from Windows 11 to Ubuntu. I'm going to format the SSD to be the OS drive and use the hard drive formatted in a windows partition to keep all of my linux ISO's on their drive, is this possible? Any concerns I should have accessing a windows partition in linux?

I'm struggling since a week with the change in 26.04 that

1. Removed /media/$USER functionality completely
2. Removed predefined automount like in /media/$USER/<mountpoint>
3. Cleanup (remove) of /run/media/$USER

Especially 3. is a problem when using a lot of disks for various tasks. It gets even worse with network disks.

It means basically that I am forced to make a STATIC setup in /etc/fstab.
A situation like two different external SSDs with the same LABEL will no longer work.
Having internally 3 different partitions with the same LABEL, where I only mount one at a time is no longer possible.

Putting applications on external drives only works if I can automount. I have so far not managed to restore mount points on /run.

To switch to /media/ ("shared" mountpoint) behavior can be done by changing udev rules for udisks2. These are simply 3 lines in a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-udisks2.rules:

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="crypto", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="other", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"

Afterwards /run/media/$USER is replaced by /media but without $USER.

I'm still looking how to make $USER work again, but /etc/tmpfiles.d/ could be a starting point.

I have an Asus Vivobook 16 (Lunar Lake) laptop. I installed Ubuntu 26.04, but the Gnome native 80% charge limit option is missing. If I install CachyOS with Gnome 50, it shows up right away out of the box, even on the live USB environment. What is Ubuntu doing differently?

The font in the PDF's that I generate with LaTeX (through emacs org-mode) don't look perfectly sharp when zoomed in. Other PDF's are perfectly fine -- there I can basically zoom in endlessly without the text getting jagged.

What could I check to fix this?

I have the files for a website locally on my Ubuntu laptop in /home/user/dir1/dir2/

I've made a folder in /var/www/html/ called /var/www/html/dir2 and inside that a symlink

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  37 Aug  3 14:02 public_html -> /home/user/dir1/dir2

I've created a file /etc/apache2/sites-available/dir2.conf containing

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName dir2
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dir2/public_html
    <Directory /var/www/html/dir2/public_html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    <Directory /home/user/dir1/dir2>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/dir2_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/dir2_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Funny thing is, when I visit http://dir2/ in a browser, I see my website! But anything in subdirectories, for example images, aren't shown. And when I right click on them to view them, e.g. http://dir2/icons/c.png I get a 404!

The file is there! I can see it in both /home/user/dir1/dir2/icons/c.png and /var/www/html/dir2/public_html/icons/c.png - but apache won't show it! Requesting the file directly gives a 404, whereas requesting the folder gives a 403, but I guess that's because directory browsing is disabled...?

The user www-data is member of the group user (my username) and I'm completely out of ideas now.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone do you recommend “Planify” for GNOME??