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I just switched to Pop OS, any tips on what I should do next?


I just recently migrated from Linux Mint to Pop OS, do you have any tips/extensions on what I should do with my desktop?
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in reply to Crafted

Install steam and whatever gaming things you have and give it a proper spin. I also added some gnome extensions for system usage. Besides that, pop is very simple.
in reply to Crafted

World domination, and if you can't achieve that... Well don't come back:)

Whatever the feck you want to do with your computer. Make it your own, do your stuff you regularly do.

And charge your battery!

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in reply to SK

Yeah I only became aware of it when I was attending the last secret penguin meeting. The world shall be at our fingertips!
in reply to Crafted

In a serious tone:

Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

in reply to Crafted

I daily popos for work. It's a great workhorse distro and I've had very little problems with it.
in reply to Crafted

Get a non-creepy wallpaper you wouldn't be embarrassed to show co-workers when screen sharing.
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in reply to just_another_person

The wallpaper isn't "Fetish-like" or suggestive at all; it's simply an anime girl with school clothes beneath water with fish circling around her. How dirty is your mind that everything you see is thought to be suggestive?

This isn't even useful advice; it's just you being dirty-minded, and if you believe everything is suggestive, seek mental help

in reply to Crafted

Yeah, now go crazy trying shit you probably should not be trying. From my perspective, that's the best perk of any Linux distro. Evidently, backup first.
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just_another_person

Hard disagree. I wouldn't consider an image depicting a fetish of some sort "family friendly".

Same rules for being in public: you shouldn't think it's okay to subject non-willing participants into your sexual proclivities. A jizzed up sexualization, anime or not, is not cool to subject others to without their permission.

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in reply to Crafted

Is the character on the wallpaper from some media or unspecific? Asking because she kinda reminds me of Haruka from PJSK
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just_another_person
What do you imagine all those thick globs of white represent?
in reply to Crafted

Get your keybinds the way you want and learn how to use the tiling extension that comes with pop. I found it super useful when I used to use pop
in reply to secret300

And then realize that tiling in popos is inferior and start using i3 or sway
in reply to Retiring

I used i3 for a couple of years, but I missed the ease of having a DE that just recognised USB sticks and external hard drives, and all the other little things that you have to set up manually
in reply to just_another_person

She looks like she’s under water (what with the fish and octopus) and they are on the same plane as the white outlines and other things in the image, like they’re reflections or clouds.

Kinda looks like it should be turned clockwise 90 degrees as she’s falling into the water. (You can tell because the way the tips of her hair are further towards the left like she’s sinking)

I mean, it’s a bit abstract, but there’s no evidence I see for them to be what you seem to be thinking they are.

Edit: actually it might be that there’s glass on the left like she’s in an aquarium with the fish and such. Again, “white blobs” are reflections.

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in reply to Crafted

That top right X for closing a window, it can be placed top left. Give it a try.
in reply to WeebLife

Not OP, but for a while I tried using Ubuntu and Mint but kept on having random issues with my printer/scanner combo (Brother) and a couple of other problems that I don't remember before I just gave up and switched over to pop.

Been using it as my daily driver for a couple of years now and even the one time I did have something go sideways I was helped by people on the Telegram channel.

On a side note there have been a couple of ranking lists released on YouTube and one of them noted that the desktop is a bit outdated but I really like the tiling window manager that pop has. Sure it eats shit sometimes but as of recently I haven't had to think about it at all. I'm excited to see the new desktop that they are currently developing as well.

in reply to Ransack

I'm sure I would notice more issues or hiccups if I daily drove my laptop. It's just my secondary device right now, but I'm also testing/learning linux for when I switch my main desktop over.
in reply to WeebLife

I went from Mint to Pop OS to increase my customizing options. Mint isn't very customizable, and installing GNOME or KDE with it may work OK but is not supported and I don't think it will ever be.
in reply to Crafted

I see. I'm just starting my linux journey, and right now, mint is working great for me. At some point I'll probably start distro hopping.
in reply to WeebLife

I tossed mint on a PC after about 8 years of not using mint at all and I've been extremely impressed at how stable and friendly it is. It works exactly how you expect it to and Cinnamon has the best default workspace implementation of any DE I've used
in reply to Crafted

Figure out how to do snapshots before doing updates or upgrades.

Timeshift I think? Maybe more available.

in reply to boredsquirrel

Does anyone know if Timeshift has any use with fedora atomic distros?
in reply to Lem453

github.com/boredsquirrel/awesome-btrfs

I think there are better tools.

Use is only
1. For cloning the entire OS to a different drive that is smaller or bigger
2. For snapshotting home

in reply to boredsquirrel

Snapper has a hook in apt so that it fires a snapshot whenever you do package things. It must have the same for other packaging systems.
in reply to Crafted

Click the windowing mode icon (far left of the icons in the top right) and switch that bad boy to tiled windowing mode. Tiled windows will feel odd for a couple of days, but once you switch back to free-floating windows you’ll realize why I’m recommending tiled.

Look up the PopOS keyboard shortcuts for moving tiled windows around the desktop and workspaces. It’s a game-changing way to use your computer.

PopOS has been my daily driver for a year. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

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in reply to mr_robot

Tiling is especially great for working with multiple monitors. It is far easier to move windows between monitors and workspaces, split screens between two windows, and so on with tiling.
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addie
Finest advice possible for any Linux sysadmin.
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Crafted
Thank you brother
in reply to Crafted

Link the wallpaper :)

Edit: never mind, I cannot read.

Edit2: lemmy.ml/comment/11532813

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in reply to Crafted

I'm pretty be to it too, and it's the first and only one I've used for more than a couple hours.

I dumped GNOME immediately, but haven't really felt a need to change anything else and don't really know what else I'd want to, at least not yet.

I got my stuff working, got colors and window decorations sorted out, and got gaming working.

Now I'm just vibing.

in reply to Crafted

install lolcat and make bash commands so that update and upgrade come out in rainbow.
in reply to Crafted

Just curious, why do you have Firefox and Librewolf at the same time? Also what is the black icon with the R?
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in reply to zelifcam

I guess a girl wearing a skirt is sexual now, you sound like the mfs that say girls get r*ped cause of what they wear 💀 edit: op edit there comment to gibber jabbish for whatever reason
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in reply to Crafted

Based on my experience migrating from Mint to Pop!_OS, the next step is migrate back to Mint.
in reply to Captain Aggravated

I also did the same thing. I'm back to Mint OS but at the end I'm not much happier.
in reply to jaschen

😁 EndeavourOS was for me the least time consuming distro so far. Installing everything via yay without having to add repos to it paired with it’s rolling behavior is the reason I use it.
in reply to Petter1

Been using EndeavourOS as my main driver for 2 years now, I'm putting in the time to learn NixOS and so far it's been solid, would recommend it for rolling release stability which is issue with Arch if you don't update regularly enough.
in reply to Crafted

Replace the Pop! Shop with the COSMIC Store.

sudo apt install cosmic-store cosmic-icons
sudo apt remove pop-shop

Pop Shop is kinda slow. COSMIC Store is part of Pop OS's new COSMIC Desktop Environment (DE). Everything is just a lot faster. It's an alpha so there are a couple of rough edges, but it's great overall.

Speaking of, get hyped for COSMIC. It's a DE written in Rust. It's not quite as complete as GNOME, but hopefully it will have better performance than the current GNOME mod that forms Pop's UI.

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in reply to pingveno

get hyped for COSMIC


Honestly I'm just excited for a non-gnome DE with an actual company backing it. I can't wrap my head around gnome's expectations for how you use it, so the fact that it's the default on every enterprise-backed Linux project is annoying as heck

in reply to Crafted

I really don't get some of these comments. I've been using popos on and off since it came out. I would check out gnome extensions to see if anything sticks out to you as being useful for your use case. I would also go into your settings and update your recovery partition. This is also the place to refresh your PC if you need in the future which has been a must-have for me.
in reply to UnculturedSwine

I don't get any of these comments either, I guess this is how it is posting on Lemmy compared to Hexbear lmao
Thank you for the tips though and I'll gladly do so!
in reply to Crafted

There's a song by Gucci Mane called Pop Music

I would play that really loudly using Pop! OS, like noise violation loud, and then just spin in a chair until dizzy while listening

(also enable TimeShift)

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in reply to T (they/she)

I use Firefox as my main browser and Librewolf as a second browser

The icon with the R is a FOSS chat app called Revolt

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in reply to bremen15

Or Debian-based =^_^=

devuan.org/

mxlinux.org/

antixlinux.com/

in reply to bremen15

Already did

It's my secondary distro

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in reply to Crafted

That's really cool! I put my wife on Pop_OS recently and it's been a little bumpy, but she's also got a bit of a specialty laptop. Glad it's been smooth for you :).

I really like your aesthetic, btw, how the wallpaper fits with your launch bar. Really pleasant!

Wish I had some advice for you, but heck, thanks for starting the thread because (after sifting highly opinionated goofposts) I'm learning a lot too. :)

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skizzles

KDE is fine. I've been using it for some time now and never really had any significant issues that weren't caused from my own meddling.

I say that as someone that has been on and off using Linux variants for probably 20 years now.

I run my kids machine on pop os with KDE, auto login that opens steam in big picture mode. Haven't had any issues at all.

in reply to Crafted

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in reply to EleventhHour

So I've been planning to install pop on my home computer for my parents to use. They don't know their way around a terminal, so will updating on the GUI store be enough. Or do they occasionally need to run apt update as well
in reply to karet

There are GUI update facilities. They won’t need to use apt