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 […]

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.

If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon as turned off in Ubuntu 26.04 (with no toggle in Settings to turn it back on). It’s not as “risky” as it sounds, though. Ubuntu ships with unattended-upgrades enabled by default, which installs security updates in the background – you’re just not told about them. Turn […]

You're reading Why Ubuntu 26.04 is hiding update notifications [Fixed], a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon as turned off in Ubuntu 26.04 (with no toggle in Settings to turn it back on). It’s not as “risky” as it sounds, though. Ubuntu ships with unattended-upgrades enabled by default, which installs security updates in the background – you’re just not told about them. Turn […]

You're reading Why Ubuntu 26.04 is hiding update notifications [Fixed], a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.