Posts

This is the posts archive for Ubuntu Portal, where standalone articles and focused how-tos live. Unlike our Documentation pages (which serve as ongoing references) or our Step-by-Step Guides (which follow a structured tutorial format), posts are written to address a specific topic at a specific point in time — an application install procedure, a release-day review, a workaround for a bug that just landed, or a deep-dive into a feature that deserves more than a paragraph in a larger guide.

What You’ll Find Here

Posts span the full range of Ubuntu topics we cover:

• Desktop environment installs and upgrades — Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, and the occasional KDE Plasma walkthrough. Each post targets a specific Ubuntu version and explains exactly what to expect during and after installation.

• Application how-tos — Detailed install and configuration guides for tools that don’t fit neatly into our Tools section taxonomy, or that need version-specific instructions. Think XAMPP setup on older Ubuntu releases, browser installation decisions (Snap vs .deb vs Flatpak), or niche utilities like ddrescue-gui.

• Kernel and system updates — When a new kernel series lands in Ubuntu or a significant point release drops, we cover what changed, what broke, and what you need to know before running apt upgrade.

• Release coverage — First impressions and practical notes when new Ubuntu versions and flavours ship. Not reviews in the “score out of 10” sense — more like field reports. What works, what doesn’t, what’s different from the last release. For the full version history, see the Releases Timeline.

• Troubleshooting write-ups — Sometimes a problem is specific enough that it needs its own post rather than a section in a larger guide. X server restarts, login issues, driver conflicts — the posts that start with “if you’re seeing this error, here’s what happened and how to fix it.”

How Posts Differ from Guides

The practical difference: a Guide walks you through an entire workflow from prerequisites to verification. A post might cover one step of that workflow in more depth, or address a scenario the guide doesn’t cover, or respond to a change that happened after the guide was published.

Posts are also where time-sensitive content lives. A guide to “Installing Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu” is evergreen and gets updated with each LTS. A post about “Nvidia Driver 550 Breaks Suspend on Ubuntu 24.04 with Kernel 6.8.1” is timely — it matters right now, and it’ll still be useful to anyone who searches for that specific problem a year from now.

Browsing the Archive

Posts are organized by date (newest first) and tagged by topic. You can browse the full archive below, or use the section navigation to filter by category. If you’re looking for something specific, the search function on the home page is the fastest way to find it.

For structured reference material, start with:

• Documentation — CLI, filesystems, system administration fundamentals
• Hardware Guides — GPU drivers, printers, peripherals
• Step-by-Step Guides — Full task walkthroughs
• Tools & Utilities — Software recommendations and configuration
• Releases Timeline — Ubuntu version history

Every post on Ubuntu Portal is written from hands-on experience with the Ubuntu version and software being discussed. We don’t cover software we haven’t installed, and we don’t recommend procedures we haven’t tested. If a post is outdated or a command has changed in a newer release, we update it — check the last-modified date at the top of each post to see when it was last reviewed.