The best games you can play on Ubuntu right now, ranked and grouped by genre. Counter-Strike 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Helldivers 2, Balatro and more, each one labelled native, Proton or cloud so you know how it runs before you buy.
Ubuntu 26.10 introduces critical security hardening, featuring a streamlined GRUB bootloader, Rust-based core utilities, OpenSSL 4.0, TPM disk encryption improvements, and fully local speech recognition with Myna.
Discover how to deploy open-weight LLMs for real-time fraud detection on Ubuntu using MicroK8s, vLLM, and AWQ quantization without relying on external cloud APIs.
Run sudo ubuntu-drivers install and reboot to add the drivers your hardware needs on Ubuntu 26.04. See what NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Wi-Fi and printers need, and fix Secure Boot key prompts and missing drivers.
Most printers work on Ubuntu 26.04 with no driver to install. Check whether yours needs one, add the drivers Ubuntu leaves out, set up HP, Brother, Canon and Epson models, scan, and fix printers that will not print.
Most Wi-Fi chips work on Ubuntu 26.04 with no driver to install. Find your chip, add the Broadcom driver if it needs one, install it with no internet from your Ubuntu USB stick, and fix Wi-Fi that is off, missing or keeps dropping.
Intel graphics drivers are built into Ubuntu 26.04, so there is nothing to download. Update, add Intel’s video driver for hardware decoding, confirm OpenGL and Vulkan, set up an Arc card, and fix a desktop stuck on software rendering.
AMD graphics drivers are built into Ubuntu 26.04, so there is nothing to download. Update, confirm your Radeon card uses amdgpu with OpenGL and Vulkan, check video decoding, set up ROCm for AI, and fix a card stuck on llvmpipe or an older Radeon on the wrong driver.
Install NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 26.04 with sudo ubuntu-drivers install, choose the right version for your card including GTX 900 and GTX 10 series, run apps on the NVIDIA card in a laptop, and fix a black screen or a driver that will not load.
The first things to do after installing Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: install updates, get drivers now that Software & Updates is no longer installed, add codecs, turn on the firewall and set up backups. Then ten optional steps, from Flathub to free Ubuntu Pro.
Canonical released a guide showing how to fine-tune and serve your own language model on Ubuntu using Charmed Kubeflow, Feast, and standard CPU hardware.
