News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
NVIDIA 615, the latest feature branch driver for Linux, is finally made into official Ubuntu repository for Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
The NVIDIA 615 driver (615.71.09) was released almost a month ago with better Linux gaming and memory management and various Wayland and Blackwell GPUs related bug-fixes.
Missing the global menu that adds focused application’s menus to the top panel? Here’s an extension that brings it back in recent GNOME Desktops.
Ubuntu previously supported global menus when GNOME 2 and Unity were its default desktop environments. Since GNOME 3, there have been some extensions that implement this feature, but most of them discontinued.
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For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users, the channel for upgrading to the latest Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now enabled!
The Ubuntu Team announced the upgrade enable-ment yesterday on Sep 29:
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce that upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”, are now enabled.
As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. That work is now complete, and users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager, rolled out progressively over the coming days.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and try out Myna, Ubuntu’s new offline speech to text feature in Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is developing a voice typing application called Myna. It’s an opt-in feature in Ubuntu 26.10, while the current Ubuntu 26.04 can also try it out.
VLC, the free open-source and cross-platform media player, released new 3.0.24 version in last week.
The new version of this popular media player comes with more than 130 security fixes, some new audio/video codecs support, and various other fixes and improvements.
For those who want to install the most recent Krita 6.0.4 (or Krita 5.3.4) in native .deb package, I’ve updated the PPA for Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Krita, KDE’s digital painting software, is now at version 5.3.x and 6.0.x release series. They are almost functionally identical; one is built with Qt 5, while the other is built with Qt 6.
Shotwell, the digital photo organizer for GNOME, released new major 33.0 version a day ago.
The new version of this Ubuntu default/pre-installed app (when Ubuntu installed in Extended selection mode) is finally ported to GTK4.
GIMP image editor released new 3.2.6 version a few days ago. Here’s the PPA update for Ubuntu users who prefer the native .deb package.
GIMP 3.2.6 is a stable maintenance release that features various bug fixes, security updates, performance improvements.
This is a step by step guide shows how to enable NVIDIA GPU accelerated video decoding for Google Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, etc web browsers in Ubuntu.
As you may know, Chromium based web browsers do not support NVDEC (NVIDIA Decoder) for video acceleration in Linux by default. The open-source NVIDIA VA-API driver workaround the issue by translating VA-API calls (that most browsers supported) into NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decoding functionality.
Paint.NET image editor added experimental Linux support with version 5.2 Alpha. Here’s step by step guide shows how to try it out in Ubuntu.
There are quite a few Paint.NET alternative apps with native Linux support, but it’s always good to see a Windows app add Linux support.
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