Ubuntu gamers can help test a new version of Canonical’s Steam snap that uses a core26 base and an updated Mesa graphics driver stack. A new testing channel sees the Steam snap’s underlying base runtime bumped to a version based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, paired with a matching gaming-graphics-core26 content snap providing a newer set of GPU drivers – and potentially, better performance. Users can opt in by running snap refresh steam --channel stable/core26 from the terminal, and test by doing what they’d normally do in Steam: install and play games, adjust settings, and so on. Because the Steam snap uses its […]

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Ubuntu gamers can help test a new version of Canonical’s Steam snap that uses a core26 base and an updated Mesa graphics driver stack. A new testing channel sees the Steam snap’s underlying base runtime bumped to a version based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, paired with a matching gaming-graphics-core26 content snap providing a newer set of GPU drivers – and potentially, better performance. Users can opt in by running snap refresh steam --channel stable/core26 from the terminal, and test by doing what they’d normally do in Steam: install and play games, adjust settings, and so on. Because the Steam snap uses its […]

You're reading Steam snap using core26 is now available for testing, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. Now, I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.” I appreciate its honesty and sympathise with the general sense of unease it imparts – I say something similar myself, looking at the state of the world – but surely it’s the software’s job to know what’s wrong – or at least pretend it does! Here’s the […]

You're reading Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. Now, I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.” I appreciate its honesty and sympathise with the general sense of unease it imparts – I say something similar myself, looking at the state of the world – but surely it’s the software’s job to know what’s wrong – or at least pretend it does! Here’s the […]

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Canonical has bumped its Steam Snap for ARM64 to the stable channel. First announced in January, the snap has been tested across ARM64 hardware including the NVIDIA DGX Spark, Radxa Orion O6 and Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, with Canonical now reporting ‘solid performance’ across many popular games. Valve doesn’t provide a native ARM Linux client (edit: they began quietly publishing Linux ARM builds in April, but these aren’t linked to on the main website). Canonical’s snap version of Steam uses the Intel/AMD Steam binary with the FEX emulator. This stable release of the Steam Snap for ARM exposes FEX’s configuration options to […]

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Canonical has bumped its Steam Snap for ARM64 to the stable channel. First announced in January, the snap has been tested across ARM64 hardware including the NVIDIA DGX Spark, Radxa Orion O6 and Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, with Canonical now reporting ‘solid performance’ across many popular games. Valve doesn’t provide a native ARM Linux client (edit: they began quietly publishing Linux ARM builds in April, but these aren’t linked to on the main website). Canonical’s snap version of Steam uses the Intel/AMD Steam binary with the FEX emulator. This stable release of the Steam Snap for ARM exposes FEX’s configuration options to […]

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Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 26, a new long-term support (LTS) version of its immutable, snap-based OS. Among the changes Ubuntu Core 26 brings is smaller over-the-air updates, with download sizes reduced by up to 90% for most snaps thanks to a new snap-delta format. Updates to the Core base snaps specifically drop from 16 MB to 1.5 MB. Installation times are faster as the initramfs-based installer skips redundant reboots during provisioning. Core 26 also enables live kernel patching on ARM64 devices so that critical and high vulnerability kernel security fixes are applied without the need for a device reboot. […]

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Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 26, a new long-term support (LTS) version of its immutable, snap-based OS. Among the changes Ubuntu Core 26 brings is smaller over-the-air updates, with download sizes reduced by up to 90% for most snaps thanks to a new snap-delta format. Updates to the Core base snaps specifically drop from 16 MB to 1.5 MB. Installation times are faster as the initramfs-based installer skips redundant reboots during provisioning. Core 26 also enables live kernel patching on ARM64 devices so that critical and high vulnerability kernel security fixes are applied without the need for a device reboot. […]

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