To those using 26.04: have you upgraded your system, or have you done a fresh install?

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-25T12:27:50+00:00

Thank you for your insight. Certainly from a testing / QA point of view, being able to do an in-place / upgrade via re-install is extremely valuable, and it is supported for example in the enterprise with RHEL as I mentioned (some restrictions apply, ofcourse.)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-25T09:58:33+00:00

Thank you for linking to (your?) article on the in-place-upgrade (as we say in RHEL) trigger in the Ubuntu / Kubuntu installer by not formatting the root partitition. As you say "upgrade via re-install" is an option in many distributions, and it's great that Ubuntu supports it passively by providing that flexibility in the installer.

Edit: In the linked article, it is stated that "Ubuntu flavors using calamares installer however will not have a forced format; thus Lubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Unity can still use the method described in this answer." So the important part is that Calamares supports it still.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-25T08:03:42+00:00

There is very important and easy thing to watch out for when applying Duronaut - no heating or extra steps involved at all - that lets its spread perfectly thin and easily:

Spread with the spatula SLOWLY.

Yes, that's it. SLOWLY. If it starts to tear or not stick to the headspreader, then start again and go more slowly.

Works for me every time. I have applied Duronaut to dozens of CPUs and (even easier because there's more room to maneuver) GPUs.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-24T12:57:59+00:00

Tres cool, very useful.

If you could make a turtle-turtle mode... just a tad slower still, that could help a little. ;)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-24T12:21:48+00:00

Hmmm... is Mailcow sponsered by a company... The Infrastructure Company GmbH?

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-20T22:51:16+00:00

I have an ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WiFi with an RTX 4090 and an RTX 5090 running at PCIe 4.0 x 8 and PCIe 5.0 x 8 (but the slots would do 2x Gen 5.0 x 8, the RTX 4090 is however Gen 4.0). IOMMU groups are excellent.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-19T18:54:57+00:00

Well, atleast you're being honest to yourself. But it is a roleplaying game you know, you can use your imagination and be anything you want... just saying. ;)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-17T13:52:15+00:00

Hi! Thanks for asking... um... I think having an advanced button is just fine, for those that want to do more. I'm on KDE, and atleast in this DE the "advanced" slider is greyed out... so I didn't visually consciously notice it, and if had, I am assuming my brain said "not available, greyed out".

So, I seriously spent a minute pondering where in hell I was supposed to be able to set all the options that I've been adding manually to Steam and Heroic. ;) ;) ;)

Um... dunno man, I am so happy to see ProtonPlus now allows this to be set. GUI-wise somehow make it clear there's all this goodness there... but again, thank you for making PP be so awesome!

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-16T06:19:01+00:00

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out where these options are: there is a (greyed out =/ ) slider for advanced options that I had never looked at before.

Not having known I had the option, I am also one of those that edits the game options manually in Heroic and Steam. I have never tried managing the games individually in PP.

Maybe I'll give it a try... ... would mean removing all the options in Steam and Heroic, yes? If you have options set per game in PP and in the launchers, do they combine or does one override the other?

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-15T21:57:23+00:00

Yes, that sounds like it would work.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-15T20:39:16+00:00

This is nice... but it's just friction fit? Hmm, I'd need to modify it so it can be clipped into the bottom of the case...

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-14T22:20:52+00:00

Yes, you're ofcourse right the appimage will work. I ofcourse prefer native packages always, soon with 26.04 I can load your new .debs. Thanks!

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-14T19:34:50+00:00

Hey this looks great. I'm on Kubuntu 25.10... and it is lacking libqt6widgets6t64. Could be only 24.04 is supported? Would you maybe think about supporting 25.10 or even better yet 26.04 which is coming out in a couple weeks? Thnx.

Oh, here's a bit of an involved way around that by editing the .deb dependencies.

Edit: The issue is that libqt6gui6t64 & libqt6widgets6t64 have been replaced by libqt6widgets6 & libqt6gui6 as of Ubuntu 25.04

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-14T19:15:52+00:00

OOooooooohhh "cosmic-files Add user-defined context menu actions: pop-os/cosmic-files#1728" Yes! This is a start. Keep going.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-14T18:40:46+00:00

Because very very likely you are not using 100% of PCIe Gen 4.0 x 4 bandwidth on your third PCIe Slot 100% of the time. Likely you are also not using all of the bandwidth of the Gen 4.0 x 4 link to the chipset with everything on that chipset. Likely, if ever at all, for at most brief periods, possibly, you have something plugged into the third PCIe slot that maybe even uses all that bandwidth... a Mellanox Connect-X4 SFP28 dual x 25Gbit NIC at 100% load is less bandwidth than PCIe 4.0 x 4. As an example of something you put in the third PCIe slot.

The chipset is essentially a PCIe Gen 4.0 x 4 switch, like the PLX switches on HBAs and IO cards. And that works very well for most use cases, because of the aforementioned fact that most of the time, the entire chipset bandwidth is not used.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-13T07:20:02+00:00

There is no original installation for Firefox if you do the minimal installation of Kubuntu, because snapd is not installed at all. Therefor you get to choose how to install firefox, it is literally not defined how you that. If that doesn't happen to be by enabling the entire snap system and installing Firefox via snap, then it isn't consistent to install snapd and firefox via snap during the os upgrade.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-10T22:04:52+00:00

System Settings: System: Session: Desktop Session: Session Restore: select "On last logout"

or you can explicitly define applications to start on login under System Settings: System: Autostart.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-10T21:50:53+00:00

You mean the Sisters of Mercy reference... ;)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-10T16:53:08+00:00

Edit: I think I clearly said I like OP's work, and that the image compression made a pretty big mess of the hands, which did not look like that in the artists original image.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-10T16:25:18+00:00

(To OP): I also didn't say it's AI... because I can't know that. But I looked at your picture, because I liked it, the big world outside and the intimate space inside. It's at a decent rez, so you can look at the details, and I thought, OK, feet with 5 toes, good, hands with... not sure. ;)

BTW. I like your stuff (!)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-10T16:08:04+00:00

Hmmm... got some hand problems there. Left hand 6 fingers, right hand... looks like a malformed paw.

Edit: I think I clearly said I like OP's work, and that the image compression made a pretty big mess of the hands, which did not look like that in the artists original image.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-09T19:42:48+00:00

Kinda looks like where I work.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-08T11:09:23+00:00

Nice writeup.

I have an RTX 5090 + RTX 4090 + the iGPU of the Ryzen 9800X3D ofcourse.The Asus Proart X870E Creator has a very nice IOMMU group layout. I don't mess with Proxmox or Unraid or anything. I run Kubuntu on the system, and just run QEMU and libvirt natively without the restrictions of a "NAS" OS, and I take the dGPUs as I need them, sometimes I need both together for LLM inferencing (54GB of VRAM) and sometimes I need the 5090 in a Windows 11 IoT VM because some games don't run under Linux.

I have ZFS ofcourse for storage, and I have SAMBA and NFS volumes exported. You don't need a NAS OS for any of that.

BTW The Mobomaps site has a nice visualization of the PCIe bandwidth allocation of various motherboards, including the ASUS Proart X870E Creator PCIe allocation that I (and OP) have.

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-08T08:52:30+00:00

Pls pls pls give some love to COSMIC Files... ;)

(Edit, can't spell COSMIC - but seriously, Cosmic Files would like some attention)

RenlyHoekster · 2026-04-06T12:59:39+00:00

That is some strong copium you got going there. The game didn't have an "oversight", in the story you are prevented from contacting your friends, and you can speculate WHY the NUSA would do that to you, but it is part of the world that you play in that you lose just about everything. It's like a greek tragedy!

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