The original post: /r/ubuntu by /u/digiphaze on 2024-11-13 02:48:24.

Was on Ubuntu Desktop pretty exclusively from 22.04 through 24.04. 24.10 has presented some rather annoying bugs. I’ve found solutions to a few. I’ll present them here as some may be difficult to search for if the user doesn’t know what they are looking for.

* Keyboard inputs get stuck for a few seconds in games and graphical apps. sometimes crashing the game

IBUS issue, solved by adding XMODIFIERS=@im=none to /etc/environment

* Audio starts 1 to 3 seconds after loading a video (browser/youtube or VLC affected for me)

Solved by following pipewire wiki troubleshooting step 5.1.13

* Audio crackles under even moderate IO and/or CPU load.

Partially solved… I say partially because I’ve only been able to moderate the issue a bit by increasing the buffer sizes as suggested. But the system still crackles when say installing a steam game in the background. I’m on a 7950x3d with ZFS on samsung 990pros. Its not struggling. Is this a process priority issue?

* Gnome power settings (display blanking specifically) being ignored.

Not solved. Gnome is stuck on timing out the display 1m after inactivity. Nothing I set it to changes… Went through the gamut of gsettings in the CLI as well to disable the power settings to no avail. I have another older 2950x Threadripper that is not experiencing this and there are no differences I can discern at the moment.

* SNAP package issues. (warning rant)

I get SNAP packages aren’t Ubuntu issues… But at the same time, THEY ARE… They keep migrating more apps to SNAP. And those SNAP packages bring new innovated ways to cause issues and headaches… (DEB packages largely work). Again I realize this is a complex interconnected community… I’ve had problem with Signal message app SNAP package that deleted my database causing a loss of all historical messaging. Issue the snap community finally solved… Problems with Steam SNAP package not being able to use external USB connected or foreign formatted “NTFS” drives. Problem with Brave browser SNAP package, loses state everytime you restart it. I have solved this by switching to the DEB packages for Steam and Brave. Call me old school but I absolutely hate this push to containerize everything. Its like they are trying to get me to turn on the Dedup ZFS feature. Is it so hard to statically link libraries than to containerize your program? Maybe I’ve been away from programming to long.

Anyhow, I’ve ranted long enough. Hope the solutions help. I’m going back to managing these old RHEL7 servers because for the life of me, app developers can’t be bothered test their app on anything newer…