Hey guys, I am using Linux Ubuntu 22.04 as dual booted and I didn’t really find useful or good customisation options or tricks
Would love to see how your desktop or over Ubuntu looks like and if I find it acc to my taste would love a tutorial on how to get it.

Laptop - Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 1

There’s no Auth App available to download?
I’m trying to add a plugin for Firefox or Brave, but can’t find one .

Has anyone gotten it to work?

Hi! I’m trying to diagnose a repeatable performance problem on my Acer laptop running Ubuntu. It affects mostly my gaming performance (CPU clocks at 400 MHZ which leads to high CPU usage and low FPS).

Hardware and software details:

• Laptop: Acer Nitro Lite 16, NL16-71G
• CPU: Intel Core i5-13420H - 4 P-cores + 4 E-cores, 12 threads
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop GPU, 6 GB, plus Intel integrated graphics
• RAM: 16 GB
• Display: 1920 × 1200, 165 Hz
• BIOS: V1.19
• OS: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
• Kernel: 7.0.0-38-generic
• Desktop: Sway 1.11 / Wayland
• NVIDIA driver: 595.99.02
• Power profile: performance, confirmed with powerprofilesctl get
• Game: Warcraft III: Reforged through Lutris

How to reproduce

1. Reboot with the charger connected.
2. Launch Lutris and Warcraft III: Reforged.
3. The game runs at approximately 160 FPS, and Firefox/the desktop also becomes noticeably sluggish. CPU load is around 60-70% although the game is very lightweight.
4. Unplug the charger briefly while the game is running for about ~5-6 seconds, then reconnect it.
5. FPS jumps to approximately 300–330, and desktop responsiveness improves, also CPU load lowers to 15-20%. The improvement remains after reconnecting AC power.

I can get 300 FPS even with running on battery, before I reconnected the charger again.

Unplugging/replugging on the desktop before launching the game itself did not fix it in one test. Only when game is launched and I'm getting 160 FPS at 400-1000 MHZ - I replug the charger and plug in it again, and CPU MHZ increases to around ~2500-3800 and FPS increases to 300+, also CPU load decreases to only 15-20%.

Measurements:

In the slow state, CPU readings are often around 1.1–2.0 GHz, with roughly 50–60% overall CPU usage. In the responsive state, usage has been around 15–20%.

Earlier checks showed CPU clocks around 3–3.6 GHz after reconnecting power. However, some later /proc/cpuinfo snapshots also showed lower clocks in the fast state, so I haven’t established that CPU frequency alone explains the problem.

One pair of measurements, collected while the game was in the foreground:

scaling_max_freq remained unchanged in both states:

• P-core policies: 4600000 kHz
• E-core policies: 3400000 kHz

What I have checked

• The game appears on the RTX 3050 in nvidia-smi.
• nvidia-powerd is installed and normally running. Temporarily stopping it and starting it again did not improve FPS withouht unplugging the charger.
• The power profile remains performance before and after reconnecting.
• The issue occurs after a reboot without needing a suspend/resume cycle.
• In one test, suspending and resuming after restoring performance did not bring the slowdown back.

Has anyone experienced this on Acer gaming laptops, or on another Intel/NVIDIA laptop under Linux?

What would be the most useful logs or measurements to distinguish a firmware power-limit issue from Linux power management or charger detection? I’d prefer to establish the cause before changing firmware or disabling any protection mechanisms.

P.s. On Windows I don't have a FPS issue, so it's not a mechanical/physical defect of the charger or laptop.

P.s.s. I don't know, if I can fix this issue, but at least I want to understand, why this issue happening at all.

Appreciate any help!

This entire time I thought the screenshot on ubuntu.com was an animated webp. But it's actually html. The time and date also follows your system. Just felt like sharing my discovery

Hey, I need to set up a VM for 24.04 LTS to access my college's Citrix environment.

Citrix currently does not support 26.04 LTS and when I go into overview mode it tricks my Citrix session into thinking my super key is held down, and that will even follow me to other devices if I don't end the session so I need 24.04 but can't find the download. Everything I google looks like a pirate website so idk... If someone can please provide a safe link that would be much appreciated!!

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

Currently when I click on Steam, App Store, and Brave, it shows up not at the pinned icon in the dashboard, but as a gray gear icon below my pinned applications. Why is this happening and what's the fix for it?

Helloo, I recently upgraded my Ubuntu version and after this, my Huion tablet no longer recognizes clicks. I can no longer close out tabs, draw, or any action that involves putting pen to tablet. I've re-installed my drivers, but no dice.. tablet worked fine on the previous version, though. Should I just roll back my version?

I installed ubuntu 26.10 despite it being non-LTS. an issue i noticed was Ubuntu Dock (also dash to dock) with multi monitor. I keep my dash at the bottom with autohide enabled. it works just as expected in the primary monitor, but in the secondary monitor the dock behaves weird when i try to see it by moving the mouse to the bottom edge. it shows up but instantly autohides, again when i move the pointer away from the bottom, it similarly unhides for a moment and then autohides. i noticed same issue in gnome 51 in other distros. i myself tried out dash to dock extension in Fedora and CachyOS. so it is mostly an extension compatibility issue. hope when Ubuntu 28 ships with gnome 51, this small thing gets fixed.

Hi All

In my office we use internet from Hotspot via usb dongle connected to computer ,where only LAN connection is available to the computer

And when power outage conditions -we manually turns off hotspot and use Phones' internet to computer

So how i make a script to switch between wifi and hotspot -in the absence of presence of LAN

If there is no LAN connection from router -it should work wifi

When LAN connection is established from router -usb wifi should switch to as hotspot

Ubuntu 22.10 ik it but older version and no security updates ,as of now no ways to update it

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UML is a program that runs a full Linux kernel as just another process. It works on Android without root access and also allows for running SystemD and Docker. Making it useful for those who do not have root access or a custom kernel.

So, I'm considering updating to the latest LTS. It's been almost a month since the upgrade path opened up. Should I wait a bit longer for general issues to be fixed, if there are any?

I've attached a list of the containers I'm running. Anyone with a similar build, apps, or containers is welcome to share their experience!

I have a Dell Latitude 7280 running Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in a dual-boot setup. Everything was working fine at first, but Ubuntu started freezing just after booting.

Now, the system becomes unresponsive either during startup or shortly after login.

Has anyone experienced this issue on a Dell Latitude 7280 or with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? What could be causing it, and what are the best steps to fix it?

so i recently installed ubuntu server 24.04 on my old laptop and i am facing lan issues

now when i connect my phone to the laptop and enable usb tethering it works but when i connect it to my college lan it shows connected when i check in nmcli device but its in a state of no internet and my clg lan works with other laptops which run on both windows and ubuntu

what do i do ?

I'm using a Samsung monitor, no way to screen fit or change resolution via the monitor controls, no way to do that either on display settings, resolution and refresh rate are options it offers, but has no other options. It's out my video card?