What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

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Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why?

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

and then

sudo apt update

and then type:

sudo apt full-upgrade -y

This should give you whatever the “latest” is if you don’t want to stay on this new “long support” version of KDE.

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If you’d bothered to check at Kubuntu Backports : “Kubuntu Package Archives” team before posting, you would have seen that this would not update anything right now.

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This is good news for the wider adoption of KDE and has prompted me to give Kubuntu 26.04 a try out. I note that the minimal installation option does not include snap, which will be welcome to some.

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just be aware it doesn’t include a lot of things that most ppl would consider basic functionality of a desktop environment… so you will need to all of that manually.

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Oh yes, but that’s how some of us like it :wink: I even found a couple of things to uninstall first before adding the applications I want.

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Something I just realized, that nobody mentioned in the various releases about this news, and which might be of interest to a certain vocal group of Linux users:

This pushes back by a considerable amount of month the EOL for Plasma/X11.

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Not sure to which degree that is correct – since AFAIK running the X11 session on Kubuntu 26.04 is unsupported by the Kubuntu development team. That means, while the respective packages still can be manually installed, you are on your own if you use them since there is no testing for the X11 session. Haven’t head anything yet that this has changed with the new announcement.

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Neither I nor my hardware has any problems with Wayland, but I’m sure that clarity on this would be welcomed by others.

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