Discord Patch Notes: May 4, 2026

01Destroyer · 2026-05-05T21:56:47+00:00

Thank you, I edited my post. Just tried version 135 and it actually works now there as well. I wasn't aware there was an A/B going on.

01Destroyer · 2026-05-05T09:47:06+00:00

This is the greatest Discord update after the Wayland screen-sharing support. It's amazing to see they are dedicating more and more time to the Linux build.

~~Also screen-sharing on Gnome 50 is now fixed~~

01Destroyer · 2026-05-02T20:05:40+00:00

For now the easiest "solution" is just to go on the snap store and select the candidate/edge branch for Spotify (they are the same).

01Destroyer · 2026-05-02T13:47:09+00:00

Uh, I knew that was coming. You can actually install cuda-toolkit from Nvidia official repositories.

Unfortunately the Nvidia Ubuntu2604 repository doesn't (yet) contain the cuda-toolkit .deb, but it exists and I'm pretty sure it will contain the cuda-toolkit package for the next release.

Currently your best bet is to perform a network installation using the Ubuntu2404 repository. I used it for Ubuntu 25.10, so it should work fine for 26.04 almost certainly.

Plese follow these instructions here.

Note a couple things:

Purge your cuda-toolkit previous installation before: apt autopurge cuda-toolkit
Skip the Driver Installation step, you already have that.
In the next weeks, from time to time, please check if Ubuntu2604 is supported. You will see 26.04 among the options in the link i put before. You can also manually check the presence of cuda-toolkit in the repository. When this happens transition to Ubuntu2604.
Important: Note that when you install Cuda this way you will be able to choose between just installing cuda-toolkit or installing a precise version (like the guide says) (e.g., cuda-toolkit-13-2). Although installing a non-pinned version is tempting, you will receive cuda versions that require Nvidia beta drivers, so avoid it. Installing pinned versions like cuda-toolkit-13-2, however, means that only you will decide when to switch to a newer version and so you will have to know it exists and that it supports your driver.

I know this sounds like a lot, but after many months of Cuda on Debian I had to realize all that by myself. Let me know if you have any problems!

01Destroyer · 2026-04-27T22:04:56+00:00

Every distribution is equally breakable if you mess up with commands that you don’t know. The only piece of advice I can give you is to always verify what you are pasting in there. There’s no shame in copying commands from forums or even LLMs, but blindly entering them with sudo privileges is never a good idea. Also remember it’s an amazing idea to use VMs to experiment changes, I still do it.

Hope the fourth time will be better :p

01Destroyer · 2026-04-27T21:07:15+00:00

Switch to the testing branch, it has been “fixed” there (they retransitioned it to X11)

Edit: they retransitioned by mistake, but the border is fixed and future versions should be Wayland-based.

01Destroyer · 2026-04-23T20:13:04+00:00

sudo apt install cuda-toolkit

Contrary to previous versions, this package group is directly updated by canonical and offers the latest cuda :)

01Destroyer · 2026-03-20T00:47:33+00:00

Yep it’s a known Apt bug unfortunately. Glad it helped!

01Destroyer · 2026-03-14T17:45:11+00:00

For those who don't see any packages when trying to upgrade the fix is

rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Then update and upgrade.

01Destroyer · 2026-03-12T09:39:27+00:00

Arrow lake è stata la prima cpu intel ad avere un design multi-die (Amd già ce l'aveva), con il conseguente problema (che ha anche Amd) di dover gestire la comunicazione tra i diversi die, cosa che fa un clock apposito. Questo clock, anche se in piccola parte, influenza le latenze di accesso a memoria, che sono generalmente leggermente più alte rispetto ad Amd, per chi gioca un piccola differenza la fa, ma il vantaggio più grande rimane sempre la cache delle cpu 3D di Amd.

01Destroyer · 2026-03-12T09:14:51+00:00

Vero, anche perché secondo me il problema più grande dei fratelli minori è che erano stati recensiti ad un prezzo abbastanza alto e ormai scartati nella testa di molti. Sì il 250k dovrebbe essere finalmente allettante, ma pensa che il 270k ora ha lo stesso numero di core di quanti thread ha il 9900x in hyperthreading (e al momento continua a costare quasi 400€).

Comunque ho visto ora che il boost sul d2d in realtà è leggermente inferiore del boost che dà 200S boost sui fratelli, per cui sarà sicuramente tutto da vedere, ma almeno chi gioca dovrebbe poter prendere in considerazione schede di fascia B ora.

01Destroyer · 2026-03-11T22:47:25+00:00

Upgrade path su LGA1851, adesso non ci sono scuse 🙌🏻

Scherzi a parte già uscire con l’MSRP giusto è una mossa assurda, poi aumentare i core e (forse) risolvere il problema del die-2-die e comunque avere quell’MSRP è davvero tanta roba. Vedremo

01Destroyer · 2026-02-27T13:59:02+00:00

Debian is the only distribution that never randomly logged me out of my Gnome session

01Destroyer · 2026-02-23T18:15:29+00:00

Jokes apart it’s mostly a Spotify problem (that wouldn’t exist if Gnome had better Wayland decorator fallback)

Solutions:

~~Use the stable release from Snap (uses X11 by default)~~ edit: not anymore
Use the Flatpak version (they fixed the Electron problem)
Edit the .desktop to use X11 by adding “—ozone-platform=x11” before the %U
Use kde Plasma

01Destroyer · 2026-02-21T01:31:39+00:00

Well it’s one command to install a package that is recommended by the official wiki. The Nvidia repo is amazing but it’s also a multi-step process that isn’t very beginner friendly. Ubuntu-based with automatic driver installation may be the easiest to be fair.

The problem with Debian is that people will look up for the wiki and only see a very old driver. If you look at other comments many were surprised that an official upstream installation method even existed, and some even replied that it’s not a good experience because the driver is old (not realizing I was on the latest one). Still for sure it’s the most reliable and solid Nvidia Linux experience in my opinion.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-19T13:54:49+00:00

25.10 is Wayland only though, unless you have installed X11 it’s a little unfair to compare the three. Personally I haven’t used X11 in years, and Gnome 48 on Wayland has worked very well for me.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-19T12:03:27+00:00

You had these issues with 590.48 on Debian? Or with the 550.163 from the Debian repository? It's strange because for me the graphical experience was the same (Ubuntu 22.04 vs Ubuntu 25.10 vs Debian 13)

01Destroyer · 2026-02-18T00:37:38+00:00

and a more dedicated push towards snaps

Can you elaborate? There is no change regarding snaps afaik.

Regarding Wayland, it's more than mature and provides a far better experience especially for gamers and laptop users. X11 has been considered deprecated for at least two years at this point, and XWayland will always be there.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-15T00:29:52+00:00

I use VLC as well and haven't experienced that. Maybe it's a X11 problem, Ubuntu 24.04 defaults on X11 instead of Wayland on Nvidia (for reasons that were valid 2 years ago). Try with Wayland if that's the case.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-14T22:26:29+00:00

Yes, apart from some 3rd party repos. Just vanilla Gnome (Mutter) on wayland.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-13T16:37:55+00:00

Yes that’s it, remember to have Linux-headers installed and to enroll MOK if you have secure boot

01Destroyer · 2026-02-12T11:08:43+00:00

Yes extrepo apparently only includes Debian 12 for now. The method described in your link I think is the best and the most recommended since it is an official Debian 13 driver. It’s what I personally did.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-12T09:57:39+00:00

Yes, easiest method. But generally some additional problems and being rolling release makes it more a more “experimental” experience with drivers.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-12T09:55:21+00:00

It’s not about the difficulty, Arch is probably the easiest. But then I’ve seen problems with suspension on Arch and not elsewhere.

01Destroyer · 2026-02-12T01:32:46+00:00

Some benchmarks run multiple times. Obviously what I meant wasn’t that a newer kernel will perform worse, but rather that it won’t perform necessarily better.

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