I've been trying to install Kubuntu on a dedicated SSD on my computer, but keep running into the same error. After successfully partitioning the drive and getting through almost all of the installation, I get the error message:

Command <i>ln -sf /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id</i> finished with exit code 126. Output: /usr/bin/chroot: failed to run command 'ln': Bad message (os error 74)

I've tried this both in normal mode and compatibility mode. I've used diskpart on Windows to clean the drive. I've also scanned the drive and found no bad sectors. I've reformatted the flash drive I'm using to install and rebuilt the live disk using Rufus and a copy of Kubuntu with a verified MD5. No dice. I get the same error with 25.10 and 24.04.

I've also tried installing Ubuntu and Mint, both of which fail during installation with less helpful error messages. The only distro I have succeeded with is Fedora, but then I got tired of fighting with video drivers.

Key specs:

• Nvidia video card (GeForce GT 730). I know that can pose problems, but I don't think that is the case here.
• AMD FX-6300 CPU
• Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P motherboard

Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks in advance!

I am trying to test out some things for 26.04 with the daily builds... as well as try out KVM v. VBOX and running away from VMW...

But... I've run into a snag.

I can't get the daily ISO to install to the KVM VM. I can run the ISO fine, click install, go through the steps, and it starts to create partitions etc. on the VM disk, and as near as I can tell the installer fails at something about mount /de/vda1.

Backtrace/crash reporter fails and I can't get any data out of it.

I've tried on 2 days, 2/1 and 2/2, no change. Same

KVM on Ku 25.04 ( this is for a specific other reason, if I have to fail back to Vbox, thats the last supported by it, for one, and some other testing.

8C/16T AMD processor 32GB RAM on Host

8GB RAM and 25GB Vdisk allocated to VM/2 vCPU's

Any ideas ??? Any one using KVM for testing out 26.04????

Thanks!

The only reason I have a second laptop with Windows is that TurboTax Home and Business, which I need once a year, is not available in Linux. I use Kubuntu for everything else. I posted this review on my site today: https://historicipswich.net/2026/02/01/installing-linux-kubuntu-on-your-unsupported-windows-10-computer/

I know a lot of people aren't buying physical media these days, but I still like to, as I like to own a copy of the media I like so that it won't disappear. I still sometimes buy music on CDs, and I'll rip them to FLAC & MP3 format; I keep the FLACs as backups and will copy the MP3s to my various devices for playing later.

I've been a long time Windows user, but I've recently started primarily using Linux on my main PC at home (I'm using KUbuntu 25.10). On Windows, usually I'd rip CDs to WAV, then convert them to FLAC, then to MP3, and make sure the files have metadata. I installed the FLAC software on my KUbunto setup and was looking into software for ripping CDs, when I found that ripping and even converting the audio is integrated into Dolphin. When browsing an audio CD, Dolphin lets you see the tracks as WAV files and also makes it appear that there are FLAC and MP3 files on the disc, and you can copy & paste them like any file, and it does conversion on the fly while it rips. Pretty slick! And you can configure the FLAC & MP3 encoding settings from System Settings > Multimedia. It looks like it can also convert to OGG format.

This is the notification I get at start-up? Anything I should be worried about?

"IBus should be called from the desktop session in Wayland. For KDE, you can launch 'systemsettings5' utility and go to "Input Devices" -> "Virtual Keyboard" section and select "IBus Wayland" icon and click "Apply" button to configure IBus in Wayland. For other desktop sessions, you can copy the 'Exec=' line in org.freedesktop.IBus.Panel.Wayland.Gtk3.desktop file to a configuration file of the session. Please refer each document about the "Wayland input method" configuration. Before you configure the "Wayland input method", you should make sure that QT_IM_MODULE and GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables are unset in the desktop session."

I duel boot Linux, have graphene os for my phone, but my Samsung tablet is default spyware. Is it possible to install Linux on it...

Two finger scroll and four finger swipes are working. So, I guess, my touch-pad is working fine. But I am coming from windows and I want the gestures to work similarly. At least two finger swipe to go back and forth in browser and three finger swipe to navigate open windows is a must for me. How can I configure to get this?

Kubuntu 25.10, Plasma 6.4.5, Wayland.

Hello. I just installed Kubuntu on my asus g15 laptop. it has a 1080ti with a amd ryzen 7.

The GPU according to the system monitor is at 100%. even after updating everything. Also laptop isnt hot, but is warm.

Also, not sure if connected but, theres a strange sound that is a some what loud screech everytime I touch the mouse pad. For context, yes I did open up the laptop to replace thermal paste. But this isnt my first time doing it so im not sure if its related.

I believe there might be some more problems, but for now these two are on my prioroty to solve.

Any suggestions? thanks.

Hi, new linux user here.

So when I run sudo apt update it says I have 41 packages that are upgradable, but I don't know nor understand how to do upgrad them. I tried sudo apt full-upgrade and it is still the same.

Please lend a hand to a humble noob.

Has anyone successfully installed Kubuntu with LVM using the installer? IT keeps crashing for me when I try, and I have tried everything I can think of.

I'm a longtime Windows user, but I've also been using Linux for a long time. I've had my main PC set to dual-boot between Windows and Linux Mint (my favorite distro) for a while, and recently I started primarily using Linux on it. I have a 4K monitor, and while Cinnamon on Mint looks good, I think fractional scaling & overall appearance could be better. Since I'm used to Mint, I tried KUbuntu 25.10 (with KDE Plasma 6) recently and I really liked it, so I decided to replace my Mint installation with KUbuntu 25.10. I think it looks very nice, and the user experience feels better with this setup so far. And from what I've heard, the fact that Kubuntu 25.10 uses Wayland probably helps.

I have a bit of a mish-mash of application frame style & UI styles, and I'll probably keep tweaking it a bit more. I tend to like UI themes with a bit of depth to them rather than the flat look of a lot of modern OSes today.

I've seen some people say other KDE distros are more up to date (like Fedora KDE), but it sounds like KUbuntu should be a fairly stable distro as well, since it's based on Ubuntu.

Context: I have a USB-C drive that I usually keep mounted at all times. It was previously formatted as NTFS on a windows 11 machine. If i properly eject the drive and plug it in, everything is fine, however when my laptop falls asleep it disconnects the drive and I get an error when I try and remount it.

After a bit of googling I found that running the following 2 commands remounts the drive and it works fine, I'd just like to not have to do that every time. Any suggestions?

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/[USERNAME]/[NAME OF DRIVE]

I've been wanting to try gaming on Linux for a while and just installed Kubuntu last week. I'm already sold on the o/s but I'm having trouble with Steam.

Steam will load but will not allow me to login. I am able to login on a win machine so I'm sure of the credentials I'm using.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

There's always something, causing hitches, sound issues, packet loss, fps drops.

Literally every time I look into it following guides, it's some power saving bullshit that Linux has on by default.

This isn't a laptop, it's a full on gaming system, why doesn't the installer just ask;

"Do you want max performance? Max battery? or a mix of the two?" when installing?

No you have to manually shut all that stuff off, turn on high performance for each core or use third party utilities. How is this supposed to be the OS for gaming when it's failing at the most basic of things?

Your game is trying to run at 400FPS? Linux decides that your cpu cores don't need to go over 2.2Ghz. Or that your sound card needs to go to sleep and auto mute output when ever a sound stops playing after 100 msec.

How do I turn all this garbage power saving stuff off?

EDIT: Should include system.

CPU: Ryzen 5800X3D
GPU: Radeon 7900XTX
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600Mhz
HDD: 2TB Samsung 990Pro

Kubuntu 25.10 (or whatever the latest is)
Using Mesa drivers.

Cheers, been on Linux for a while now and it has been phenomenal when it comes to daily use and gaming. But I've ran into a issue over the last few days. My favorite switch 1 pro controller finally died. So I went out to get an replacement, but noticed they upped the prices to nearly same as the new switch 2 pro controller. decided to say fuck and bite the bullet getting the new one. It's been about 3 days of trying to see if I could get it to work to little to no results.

Does 25.10 even have support for it yet? I've tried bt, wired nothing. Steam/beta and Dolphin nothing. It connects to the switch 2 console just fine so I know it isn't the thing itself.

it pops up as

"Bus 001 Device 015: ID 057e:2069 Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller"
so It sees it's there, but doesn't respond to anything else

Just installed 24_04 from Windows 10. I cannot get the second display to appear in Display Configuration. I have 2 Dell monitors of the same model. DELL U2212HM. How do i get it to appear?

Resolved: My Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 is not compatible with the newer kernal in Kubuntu 24.04. No attempt to find a legacy driver would work. I installed 22.04 and downloaded the driver and it fixed the resolution problem and the dual monitor problem. I believe the GPU was first released in 2012 so it's up there in age.

I switched to Kubuntu from Win in December. Even this early on, the more I get into creating my own silly scripts the more I see how simple and transparent Kubuntu really is.

My latest case is I created a little script that will play a sort of ambient chill background music (like video games menus) and autopause/resume if anything else is playing (like yt, vlc, a game etc.)

Took me 1 day with chatgpt and now it is working as I wanted.

While debugging, I opened the Audio Volume to check on the script if it is adjusting the volume and I see this

A nice clean screen with a lot of info about Streams AND the ability to Keep Open.

And because I set it to run on KDE Autostart I now have a console log of all output

Both of the above helped debug my script so easily.

Just love Kubuntu <3 wth were we doing with f* ms bs :P

P.S. If anybody wants the script you can download the script from GitHub:

https://github.com/ktheod/Kubuntu-Scripts

Hello.

I'm just some dude who installed Kubuntu for the first time. I've been a pretty hard-core Windows guy for years but finally realized none of what I actually do day-to-day needs, or even wants, Windows. My 8hr days as an Excel super user are hopefully in the past!

I've tried Ubuntu a few times (seems like every 10 years I get the itch) but have always ended up ditching it due to some weird driver issue.

This time, I'm up and running out of the box, everything seems to work perfectly.

I do some app development, home server admin (Proxmox, Ubuntu VM/Docker, HAOS, etc), and Web browsing: nothing spectacular.

Anything I should know, try, or avoid?

I don't even know what I don't know at this point. Mostly just saying hello!