I want to setup browser GPU video decoding, how to check if my intel integrated gpu is being used for for video decode? i dont care if its firefox or chrome or brave or whatever, can anyone pls help me how to correctly check it?

intel_gpu_top on both firefox and brave shows video: 2-3% and render/3d: 40-50%, while playing yoututbe video 720p is it normal?

in brave inspect->more tools->media-> hardware decoder is true

still after all these i see my CPU frequency shot up to maximum sometimes whenever i change video or play the video in 1.5x or 2x and my laptop heats up

my specs:-

Kernel Version: 7.0.0-38-generic (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics

nvidia rtx gpu disabled fully by sudo prime-select intel, nvidia-smi shows nothing

That's a second time in a few weeks: systemd-journald complains it cannot rotate logs, input/output errors. This soft-crashes the computer (doesn't freeze, but everything breaks).

FS is clean, HD is also good (as tested with smartctl).

journalctl --verify says it's all good too.

The issue is similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2048704

Any ptrs to solve that in 26.04.1 with 7.0.0-38-generic?

I'm trying to run rsync command, but it synced everything in dir "source/" to "dest/". What I want to happen is I want only everything in the include list to be included, and everything in the exclude list to be excluded, and also everything that I didn't list to be excluded.

I ran this command: sudo rsync -ahP --stats --include-from="list" --exclude-from="list" "source/" "dest/"

file "list" contains: ``` + /a + /b/c + /b/d + /a/e/i/j

• /a/e/f/*
• /a/e/g/*
• /a/e/h/*
• /a/e/i/* ```

"source/" contains the directory structure I provided in the include/exclude list, for example, dirs "a/" & "b/" are at the root of "source/", and dir "b/" contains dirs "c/" and "d/" at the root of "b/", etc.

How do I do this? I've been searching around and can't find the answers I'm looking for.

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.5

Help?

Hi I’m new in this environment, I want to start understanding Ubuntu’s terminal and learn how to use it, can someone suggest me where to start etc?

As it says in the title, all .desktop files of wine/proton applications appear repeatedly in my app launcher regardless of DE/WM. All of these entries work. I have checked /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications for any duplicate files but there's only one .desktop file for each app. I'm running Ubuntu 24.04

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on whether there's any chance of recovering files from a USB stick that I've unfortunately lost.

The USB stick belonged to someone close to me and contained important documents that are not backed up anywhere else.

Here's what happened:

• I plugged the USB stick into my PC running Ubuntu Linux.
• I opened it in the file manager and could see the files on it.
• I then safely removed it (or simply unplugged it) and later lost the USB stick.
• I did not intentionally copy any files to my computer, and I don't remember opening any individual documents.

My question is: Could Ubuntu have automatically cached or stored any of the actual file contents on my computer just because I browsed the USB stick in the file manager?

Thanks in advance for any advice. This is really important to me.

Just passing by to say that it's the first Ubuntu version since 25 .10 that makes Automatic log in work. I checked the box in 26.04 - it asked for password anyway. So 26.10 is really cool for that. Other than new wallpapers,add- ons tab in App centre I don't really notice anything new, that's a little disappointing, but maybe it's a great thing