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I'm going to assume you have an Android phone.

On your Linux machine:

$ sudo apt install kdeconnect

On your android phone, install KDE Connect.

Pair the two over your connection.

Profit.

You can just directly access files, use your phone as a mouse and keyboard, remote control music playing, get notifications from your phone on your desktop, etc. Really shows what the term 'integration' should mean for every other smartphone-to-desktop system out there.

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-18-04-has-been-released/

> "Upgrades will not be enabled immediately at release time. They will become available when the release team are happy with the final state of the archive for upgrades."

Clementine has support for iphones. https://www.clementine-player.org/ I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for but I've used it for years and have been happy with it.

At no point would I ever suggest adding a debian backports repository to a Kubuntu install as advisable.

If you do not want to use the virtualbox from the Ubuntu repositories, you can download builds from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Kubuntu Ninja here!

We'll be shipping KDE 5.8 in Kubuntu's Backports PPA, and that has much better multi monitor support than what's currently in Xenial.

I would suggest adding the PPA and the update will come in as a normal system upgrade. Here is the link to the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports

We're working on shipping new software in that PPA in the near future, so stay tuned. :)

https://kubuntu.org/contribute-to-kubuntu/

is the perfect place to let your appreciation work ;-)

Its not just perfect on a Mac. On an average PC, Kubuntu runs like a charm and sometimes, when I read which trivial and stupid issues the users of "Mother Ubuntu" have, I wonder why Kubuntu isn't No. 1.

18.04 already was very good, but 20.04 brings us a little more towards perfection.

Just to add to my last post - at some point you'll probably realize that it's far more convenient just to use the terminal to copy things around.

After using Linux for a while, you'll soon learn that there are soooooo many cool things you can do. Just one example: sshfs can be used to mount drives/resources on your home network.

I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (without the GUI) that does nothing more than act as a "gateway" in to my home network. While I could have gone down the VPN route (and installed something like OpenVPN on it), I decided just to use SSH.

For my personal use case(s), I have found that the value of "RDP'ing" in to a GUI system exponentially dimishes over time.

It's a known bug, fixed in the 4.9.1 release (which should be released and available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA any day now). If you don't want to wait, you can just disable KDE's power management service (System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Service Manager).

Reason I ask is that I looked at the comparisons and the 1080 seemed comparable but the 1080 has just a little better performance.

BTW - I always like to buy my Video Cards on Amazon with Prime Shipping. If there is a problem with compatibility, it's an easy return. New Egg charges restocking fees and you have to pay freight back.

This one is $500.00
MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-1080-GAMING-8G/dp/B01GLYD7MG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536212774&sr=8-1&keywords=msi%2Bgtx%2B1080%2Bduke&dpID=51Avu5iodlL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch&th=1

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If you paid around $450.00 then you did good. At same price I'd go with the Nvidia over the AMD.

I Have a MSI Gtx 1080 Duke and am very happy with it. MSI has a 3 year from date of manufacture warranty too.

I do wish you the best of luck with the AMD. Just my experience with Linux is that you never want to buy the newest technology, it takes awhile for the right drivers to filter down to Linux.

The Sandisk Cruzer line is wildly known for its unbearable slow speed at times, see the bad reviews at Amazon. I would be quite certain thats the reason for your problems. That Kubuntu runs fast after certain point also supports this, this is when all important parts are read into the RAM cache.

What can you do: Maybe, just maybe its the fault of your Bios, see if you can change a setting there to hand over USB handling to the OS.

But I would suggest you get a different drive. If you want a USB drive, I had ok experiences with SanDisks Ultra Fit Line. They are generally way cheaper online than in local shops. You can also get a cheap SSD and a USB3 ->Sata Adapter for below 40€ and will have amazing improvements.

I was able to get everything set up and utilized a lot of your stuff in dialing things in. The main game I play with my friends is overwatch so I tried to get that going first and feel into the same issues I was having again going through Lutris' steps. The application bar disappeared, super key doing nothing, my mouse would move but I couldn't let it right click nor could I use the scroll wheel. I've also noticed that dual booting is making it so the system seems to "forget" my time and date settings when I switch back and forth (I'm definitely not GMT).

This is a helpful overview of the Ubuntu ecosystem, but the confounding factor here is the Kubuntu Backports PPA, which seems to be maintained by the Kubuntu team and is therefore a semi-official way to get more recent versions of Plasma.

The linked press release clearly states that Plasma updates are offered for the most recent version of Kubuntu. I am not clear what would happen if you added this PPA to a 20.04 LTS installation though. My suspicion is that you might have problems with unmet dependencies in libraries like libc and of course Qt. But that is lay person's speculation, as a 20.04 user, I'd be grateful if anyone could clarify how far back the PPA can be used.

I'm on 21.10 and for video editing I'm using Davinci Studio and they have a native linux client for both the paid and free version. Visual Studio code with the Microsoft Python. Proton VPN on Linux guide is here https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/#linux_app .

From my understanding, this isn't a good idea. Technically, you could install the KDE desktop, then uninstall the GNOME DE, but this would likely muck u your system with leftovers and unwanted crap. Best to make a backup of your home folder with something like BackInTime, then do a fresh install of Kubuntu. You can install your programs and then restore your home folder.

>Neon is the flagship if you want to think about it in those terms. It's literally the KDE distro.

Not according to the official website FAQ (though I still agree with both you and OP, KDE needs a flagship distro, yet Kubuntu is bound by Canonical's policies).

>What is KDE neon? 🔗
KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository. Most users will want to use the packages built from released software which make up our User Edition. KDE contributors and testers can use the packages built from KDE Git in the Testing and Unstable Editions. It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04).
Is this "the KDE distro"? 🔗
Nope. KDE believes it is important to work with many distributions, as each brings unique value and expertise for their respective users. This is one project out of hundreds from KDE.
Will there be a version using non LTS Ubuntu releases? 🔗
No, we plan only to base on the latest LTS version of Ubuntu, this comes with Linux and graphics stack updates to keep drivers relevant. We will backport other software as needed.
Is it a distro? 🔗
Not quite, it's a package archive with the latest KDE software on top of a stable base. While we have installable images, unlike full Linux distributions we're only interested in KDE software.

Strawberry is where it is at. Install from flatpak. It fits into the role of Amarok / Rhythmbox.

Here are the repos if you would rather have those.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#repositories

I reckon that there will be bug and security fixes but no big point releases so it will improve over time.

With all versions of Kubuntu, there is a back ports repository which contains newer software. It is an "install at your own risk" kind of thing as it can work perfectly for some people and break the install of others.

Are you running 15.10 ?

Is so, check the driver manager

System-Settings -> Driver Manager

Install the Intel Microcode driver (if available) and perhaps you may see an ATI/AMD driver also, however I have zero experience with AMD GPU drivers, all I know is that at present driver support with AMD/ATI cards is poor.

I would also check for firmware updates (from HP).

I have read however your graphic card model performs better with the updated mesa stack and update free driver - see

http://askubuntu.com/questions/586345/amd-radeon-hd-7310-driver-support

The oibaf repo is

https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

Yeah, starting with Ubuntu 21.10 (and future versions), Firefox will be distributed as a snap package instead of the deb package.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-makes-firefox-snap-default

As others have suggested you can use a KWin script to manage tiling but an alternative to that is to run a tiling window manager with the KDE Plasma desktop instead of kwin. I believe the I3 window manager is commonly used with Plasma to get tiling.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting#Pops_when_starting_and_stopping_playback

> Muting the master volume works in 99% of the cases, so it doesn't make the POP! noise when system goes to sleep. I do not find that to be too practical though, for example, I work from home as many other people are, and at the end of my work day, I am simply too tired to remember doing that. Or, I get called away from the computer and it is long forgotten.

You're not supposed to do that manually, write a script that does that automatically.

> I would like to add, this is on a Dell Optiplex 990 MicroTower so I checked the soundboard settings in the UEFI and did not see anything there other to enable/disable the onboard audio.

Check documentation for a possible compatible model parameter here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/hd-audio/models.html

worked, but now system icons and fonts are in the wrong size:

https://snipboard.io/OHWhBc.jpg

I will sleep now, will try to continue later.

TY for the help until now

There are two packages: plasma-widget-homerun and plasma-widget-homerun-kicker. You need the first one.

They should be available in one of the official repos, or you can add the one maintained by the Blue-Shell team: https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/ubuntu/homerun

I use X2Go for remote desktop access to Kubuntu 14.04, and it works just fine. I don't think I touched anything on the Kubuntu server side, and the Windows client side worked on the first try.

Note that I already had a working PuTTY/Pageant/public key setup on Windows; X2Go can use Pageant to use the same unlocked public key as PuTTY.

Have a look at that Launchpad page to easily install X2Go on your Kubuntu machine: https://launchpad.net/~x2go/+archive/ubuntu/stable

As for packages, I have yet to do some myself, but here's some info:

• Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu variant, with a different selection of packages; you don't make packages for Kubuntu, you make packages for Ubuntu.
• Ubuntu packages are regular Debian packages, except they typically depend on other packages distributed by Ubuntu rather than Debian (most often, it's just the version number that is slightly different; I believe you can install Debian packages on Ubuntu just fine, most of the time).
• Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) offers the Launchpad project hosting infrastructure to the community.
• Launchpad can host code, bug reports, translations, and of most interest to you, has a build farm and stores your packages in a Personal Package Archive (PPA), which is a personal package repository that your users can easily add to their system (cf. X2Go page I linked above). Graphical package managers may facilitate using PPAs, but I don't use them anymore.
• Launchpad has some work to do to improve its UI and allow SCMs other than the dying Bazaar (bzr). Typically projects will have they own source code repository outside of Launchpad, and will configure it to pull from there; X2Go does that.
• I suggest you don't try to host the .deb files yourself (you could have them as a backup, or for non-Ubuntu distros that can make use of .deb files), and help your Ubuntu users add your PPA to their system.

It takes me half a day and well worth it as a fresh install is always more stable and less problems (as you said).

If this matters to you at all --> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/private-home-directory-in-ubuntu-21-04 A fresh install would be a good idea for Kubuntu 21.04 probably.

Kind of a side question but this thread raises another issue in my mind: I have LibreOffice (6.4.3.2) as it was installed under Kubuntu 20.04 LTS. I would have expected an LTS release to include the "stable" version of Libreoffice, but according to https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ the "bleeding edge" version is 6.4.4 and the "stable" version is 6.3.6 ... is this the way it always works? And if I want a more stable version of LO, is there any way I can "downgrade" to the "stable" version?

The current version of KDE is 5.16, so I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.

That said, AFAIK Kubuntu 18.04 ships with 5.12, so that's what you're stuck with. Even on neon which ships the current build of KDE the version is only 5.16. If you want to track the latest version of KDE on a generally working system, KDE neon is probably the way to go, but you'll be updating all the time as opposed to a relatively fixed version of the desktop.

Have you installed anything related to Ubuntu-mate? They do similar to what Ubuntu has done, and have a custom Firefox home page as part of the ubuntu-mate-settings package.

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Kubuntu don't have have this sort of customization, and it can only come through this package. If you can't change it, you may have to look at this

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When Ubuntu flips the switch on upgrades, though one can start it manually

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hippo-released/

Looking at it on their site, plasma is in beta, not Kubuntu. https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-18-lts-beta-5-17-90-available-for-testing/. Kubuntu itself is probably still in nightly which is pre alpha just like Ubuntu currently is. Beta isn’t until April 2nd. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule. To answer your question, you are running barely alpha software and it will be alpha for almost another month

Samsung Galaxy 12.2 (inches), $350. Thanks for the lead! Here is a Kubuntu Focus 16.1" model. Excellent specs, and the keyboard looks top-notch.

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-focus/

The message says you installed Kubuntu 19.04.
Thats an old version which is not supported anymore. Many bugs have been fixed in 19.10, the current version.

You can get the current kubuntu from https://kubuntu.org/

In Linux Mint 19.0 Cinnamon I had "UI freezes" where I'd still see occasional disk activity, so the underlying OS still was running. Stopped using Synaptics touchpad driver, and the freezes went away. See https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tina_cinnamon.php for some info about touchpad drivers.

I am on Kubuntu 18.04, I have also found the KDE partition manager does not work on USB drives. Of course neither do the partition managers of Windows 7, 8.1, or 10. What I use is Rufus: https://rufus.ie/

Rufus is FOSS (GPLv3), be nice if somebody ported it to Linux.

I follow this guy and just turn down the screen brightness to saver battery, https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-power-management-tlp.html. He reviews a bunch of distros so you could peruse through them and see what he says about battery usage.

If you want to try something else, https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/slimbook-battery-optimizer-ubuntu.

PPA's should be used in the last place, prefer static linked apps, appimages, snaps, flatpaks if they work and visit official sites of apps to see what format they recommend or support. As for PPA's that change system components like Nvidia drivers for example use them with caution. Although now you will get newer Nvidia drivers not fast, because of testing, from Canonical directly without any PPA's https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/install-nvidia-driver-update-ubuntu-its Also if you somehow need a PPA and are afraid that you would bork your system, just use a backup utility named Timeshift, it should be available in repositories in 19.10, but in 18.04 you need a PPA.

You simply use the default Kubuntu installer and there is now a check box for minimal install. The following website talks about it in Ubuntu but the installers are the same.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option