Kubuntu

Tiled Menu \[Plasma 6\] also available

I love Windows 10's start menu with the tiles. I think it's one of the most intuitive and easy to use start menu ever made. Having moved from Windows to Kubuntu, this is one of the features I missed the most.

Thankfully this widget brings that functionality to KDE.

I just reinstalled Kubuntu 24.04 on my system and after installing the NVidia drivers using the Ubuntu solution "sudo ubuntu-drivers install" and rebooting my system, all the snap based applications disappeared from my application menu. This includes web browsers and other OOTB applications.

I tried to reboot again, I tried to reinstall some of these snaps and the apps still don't show up in the menu.

Has anyone ran into this issues?

UPDATE:

It turns out it was because I installed and switched to ZSH as my default shell and the /etc/zsh/zprofile script doesn't execute the /etc/profile script. Which in turn doesn't execute all the /etc/profile.d/* scripts WHICH SET ALL THE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES AND OTHER STUFF FOR SNAP AND FLATPAK!

Anyway, I added this line to my /etc/zsh/zprofile script and rebooted and it fixed my problem:

emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile'

UPDATE2:

I gotta say, I am really disappointed in Canonical pushing Snaps on their users the way they do. Sure, they want us to eat their dog food, like they did with Unity. But this time you don't have an alternative. Many apps and other software aren't available in other form than snap packages. Like CUPS for printing. Or Firefox and Thunderbird or Chromium. Why? I get that Snaps are sandboxed and add a layer of security, but c'mon. Let users decide. And modifying APT to install Snaps instead of .deb? No. That crosses a line in my opinion.

Is anybody home?

Hello all!

Muon package manager was KDE's answer to Synaptic package manager. I used to love that app, but apparently it was taken out of the repos for lack of support/updates and therefore is not available for installation in 24.04.

Does anyone know if there's been a fork of the app or if there is any other QT-based alternative for KDE? And I'm not talking about Discovery.

I was first on KUbuntu 22.04 LTS and was able to connect to my router's attached USB storage drive by adding client min protocol = NT1 to the smb.conf file within user/share/samba. My router doesn't support the newer SMB protocol.

I just recently wiped my computer and installed KUbuntu 24.04 LTS and I tried adding that same line of code to the smb.conf file, but when I try to go to the IP address of my router it tells me that "Connection to host 192.168.1.1 is broken".

I've been trying to find a solution online, but not having luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Me gusta mucho el Sistema Operativo #Kubuntu #Linux

cross-posted from: https://social.opendesktop.org/users/thisweekinkde/statuses/111944545371849648

> This week in KDE: longstanding issues crushed > > https://pointieststick.com/2024/02/16/this-week-in-kde-longstanding-issues-crushed/ > > @[email protected] @[email protected] > \#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5980880

> To start off with I had a Ryzen 3400G and an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max that had become unstable and took several tries to boot. I decided to swap in an ASUS Prime B550M-A wifi. > > The only issue is I was triple booting Kubuntu, Windows 7, and Windows 10, so this would be interesting. > > TL/DR: > > Kubuntu booted normally. Like seriously, just a regular boot, no messages or anything. > > Windows 7 froze a few seconds into the loading screen. I tried rebooting and using safe mode, but that froze too. > > Windows 10 gave a bunch of 'rechecking' and 'fixing file system' messages, and after about 2 reboots with more messages, opened to a workable desktop.

So, I just start firefox on a virtual desktop by itself. Is there a way to move it from that virtual desktop to another?

Other programs have a gadget that puts them on all the virtual desktops at once. click that gadget go to the desktop you want the program on, and click the gadget in that window to collapse the app to that one virtual desktop.

I dual boot Kubuntu 22.04 on the SD. Using a Pinnacle 801e TV stick and NextPVR for viewing.

The TV stick does most of the heavy lifting, CPU usage was really low. Drivers weren't an issue. It's already supported in the kernel.

I just got sick of that damn hedgehog struttin' around like he owns the place.

[!Steam Deck with TV tuner and antenna connected](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/d160cb1a-f74d-49fa-b446-f03cb3e07aba.webp)

[!Steam Deck with TV tuner and antenna connected sitting next to Bud Light can](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/5196e29a-212e-4beb-a105-69d931babd96.webp)

[!Screen shot of Steam Deck running Kubuntu linux and viewing TV broadcast](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/2cfb474d-996b-46cf-a9c2-99a1944850e2.webp)

I, for one, am running Kubuntu 23.04

It is more than a week since Ubuntu 20.04 is released. But still there is no upgrade available for Kubuntu flavor. There are some workaround suggesting to run do-release-upgrade -d which is not correct as it upgrade to development release.

Has anyone had success in upgrading to Kubuntu 20.04?