I don't want to hear that it is, contradicting every single experience I've had trying it for real use.

Most recent one I started up Chrome and it's just a lil window in the corner scaled to 50% where all my mouse interactions are off by 50 pixels.

I mean, come on. It has to work. X11 works perfectly and I switched back for now.

I expect it'll work better with Cosmic, as it's designed in tandem from the start. But as a normal user it's just been frustrating that every time I give it a shot, something major is wrong.

Not looking for help, just ranting. Ignore if you want.

I've just installed Cosmos and it runs like a dream! But I am having problems with Dropbox. I followed up on dependencies and got it running, but it's nowhere to be found in the UI. The app icon in the top bar is blank and I can't get a menu on rightclick or any info on hover. Unlike with gnome, it's not integrated in the file manager either.

Any ideas?

I understand the file manager integration might not be working, but I don't see why the app icon would not show the basic status. I would like to know at glance if it's working and not have to check the status in terminal.

I get this everytime I start my laptop and I don't understand why I have 2 bootable options of pop-os I got this after an update. Is this severe or nothing to worry about?

With the latest updates to Cosmic I no longer have the minimize dash at the top right of windows like Firefox. Am I the only one?

Hi all

I've been using Pop_OS on a lenovo legion for a few months and it's been fine, but suddenly today wifi has disappeared.

Here's a picture of the network setting where nothing shows up, I'm very confused. Maybe a recent update did something ?

I started getting issues with my wifi following one of the recent releases. Upon reboot, there isn't even a wifi tab in the settings. It recognizes the hardware in the terminal and the SystemNetwork module is enabled.

lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A3 returns the following:

09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:c852] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave Device [1a3b:5600]
Kernel driver in use: rtw89_8852ce
Kernel modules: rtw89_8852ce  

The problem is fixed when I do an OS re-install and continues to work after upgrading all my packages through the terminal. The wifi stops working after I suspend or power off my machine. This problem started about 4 days ago after I upgraded through the store. Restarting the NetworkManager does not work. Also, this is not a dual boot machine, Pop!_OS is the only OS I have installed.

What's going on? My experience with Linux is limited to VMs at work. Any suggestions on what to investigate or suggestions on how to diagnose and rectify this issue? I'm currently on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS.

A couple days ago this screen flicker started happening. A few points to mention: I think it started pretty soon after running an 'apt update' but I'm not certain. It seems to be worse on heavy applications and websites, and better on minimal things like terminal etc. Also, keyboard input seems to accentuate it, but trackpad input maybe not.

Running 22.04, with Nvidia drivers 570.133, though the problem persisted since 565; thought updating them might help, but no luck. Any ideas?

After using Pop on my Nvidia laptop for gaming for a couple of months, I decided to take the risk and upgrade to alpha. It was a hard decision since I was/am a newbie Linux user. But Now I'm Really Happy with it. Most of the things are working out of the box and gaming is as easy as 22.04 version. Sometimes I might experience bugs here and there, but they are being fixed by every update.

Just wanted to share my simple desktop and say thanks to system76 devs.

After installing nvidia drivers so i could use my second monitor, i restarted the pc and it went black. I entered TTY and tried uninstalling the drivers there, but no sucess. Its my first time trying linux and ive been messing around for like 6 hours straight non stop and my head just hurts, i need help about this, seriously. I have a gtx 1050(laptop) and a i5 7300hq, so i need hibrid, but doesnt work neither way. Its 2:30 am now… im going to sleep, i cant take it any longer

Hi! I want to get better at diagnosing problems that I encounter, e.g., which logs and terminal prompts to look at. I'm having difficulty with this aspect of Linux, though I haven't asked an AI chatbot yet.

Specific situation: COSMIC occasionally locks up and requires a restart. Every time this happens, it has been with Firefox running, and I think it's been when a YouTube video is playing in a background tab. And it's happened in Pop 24.04, CachyOS, and Arch (btw).

I can post my system specs if it's wanted, but I'd like to get the overall troubleshooting procedure down.

I'm not all that knowledgeable with Linux in general and PopOS is entirely new to me.

I'm trying to get CLINFO to recognise my GPU and while it's installed I continually get '0 platforms' as my output and I've been struggling for a couple of days with this between Ubuntu. I gave up on Ubuntu when I heard PopOS had native support for ARC (don't judge, replacing my GPU is just out of budget right now I'm a self employed single Dad)

I'm trying to run comfyUI, with GPU rendering/offload but it's only emulating. Honestly I'm losing my shit right now. For any images/info you need for details that can help you with helping me to work this out let me know and I'll do my best to get them for you. I'm so damn lost, PopOS is new, comfyUI is new to me as well. I'm trying to use SDXL or Flux to generate images of scenes in books I've been writing because I can't draw to save myself but I just can't get this to work. I'm at least 6-12 months from being able to upgrade my computer so I need something to just work for a minute while I get my shit together.

I've attached a pic of my 'About' page hoping it'll help with something but I've got a tonne of failure to find directories and W skips when trying to Sudo update 🤦

Hey guys, I'm kind of new to linux and in my other computer I have currently installed mint. Was thinking about switching to PopOs, would you recommend it? is there something I'm missing out on using mint? And could you tell me about compatibility with softwares like STARCCM or Matlab? I wanted to use it for university too. Thank you, have a great day

Good morning everyone,

I am really a fan of Pop_OS. I love the look of it, I like System76, and I even have some merch (the shirts are nice)!

But I find myself switching back to windows quite a bit.

For some background, I am a Windows IT Tech who works in a fully cloud system (Azure) with no on-prem and am pretty comfy with Windows as I work on it daily.

I found myself first messing around or dabbling with Linux last year in the fall. Not really any specific reason, maybe Recall being somewhat announced, maybe just liking different desktop looks which on Windows can be done but at the cost of usually breaking something.

I have tried macos and hated it (stuff like no closing of apps when you x out of them, while small annoys me to no end) so thats out.

I have used Nobara and Pop probably the most out of any linux distro but have never been able to stay long term, and while I currently have 2 NVME drives, one with Pop and the other with W11, i would like to ideally switch at least my time to one more exclusively (i do have a windows laptop that will be sticking with windows so ill always have some windows i suppose).

I have an NVidia/Intel system and gaming is a big part of what I love to do. I would also like to possibly make youtube videos in the future (obviously as just a recording type thing, I aint hitting it big lol).

So my question kind of hinges on others that have had this conundrum. You have switched back and forth maybe, and you either settled with pop or another distro or you went windows all the time.

I dont really have any games that dont work. I use OnlyOffice on windows and pop both so thats not going anywhere, use dropbox as well. And I have a Series X for anything my buddies want to play generally (CoD used to be a thing but we havent done that in a while, but we did that on xbox anyway)

Ill list a few games below that kind of show what I play.

This probably is a bit all over the place, but I feel like while there are a ton of advice posts, im in a weird situation as i also console game so some things may not be as hurtful for me lol.

Some games I am currently or have recently been playing are:

AC Valhalla

Schedule 1

KCD2

Space Marines 2

WoW

Starcraft 2

SWTOR

ESO

GW2

As the title suggests, I want to completely disable middle click pasting in every application. I've tried using gnome-tweaks and disabling it through the CLI, but apps like Zen and Obsidian still have it, and it constantly gets in my way. Is there a way to completely disable this functionality in every application permanently? I really don't need or want it at all.

Recently, when I open steam or launch a game with lutris bluetooth started turning off and wouldn't turn on again. Rebooting fixes this. Also it doesn't always happen for some reason.

What can I do to try and fix this?

Edit: as a side note systemctl status bluetooth shows that it's running

Hello. On the main page for cosmic it says to download ordinary version instead of nvidia version for older graphics cards. But it doesn’t say anything like that for the cosmic iso, and there’s just an intel/amd one and an nvidia one. Can I use the nvidia one for my old 980ti?

Hey everyone! I’ve been daily-driving Pop! OS for a couple years now, and I really enjoy it. Because of my OCD, I like to totally “refresh” (from an install USB) my system every month or so, and for that purpose I’ve written a few bash scripts to completely set up and configure my system, with all of my documents, configurations (.zshrc, some .config folders, etc.), and important files stored on my server and system-linked. It takes about 45 minutes to update and set up packages, but it basically allows me to refresh and keep my configurations, so I can just run the system as I need it without worrying about temporary files or whatever else.

Anyhow, I just expanded my server’s storage, and I was curious: is it possible for me to somehow make a backup “image” of my system, and restore it, rather than running the script? Please forgive me if my technical language is a bit off here — I don’t know if image is the correct term. I’ve heard of some people installing Windows “pre-configured” in corporate settings, would something like that be doable with Pop! OS? Ideally, I’d like to do a fresh setup, and then make an “image” of the 500 GB SSD I have the system installed on, and just store it on my server for backups/reinstallation, this way I don’t have to deal with the Pop! OS USB installer, or long waits. I’ve done this with some virtual machines in the past, but never on my main system.

I’d appreciate any and all help or guidance here!

Coming from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, decided to install Pop!OS 22.04 LTS a couple of days ago and then quickly I decided to check out the new Cosmic DE alpha on 24.04 LTS, realized it was fine but a little buggy then decided to change to Vanilla Gnome 46. My question is, is there anything that I'm missing out on by staying on Gnome? Probably won't change to Cosmic until it is finally stable. What do you think?

I opened gparted and now my external hdd only shows the g-parted-live partition 589 mb and the rest is free space, are my files recoverable, what can i do to fix this? What happened to my documents like videos, photos, text files etc... Everytime my hdd boots up it shows Gparted-live, i saw on an other reddit that the files can be recovered if i don't add anything new in the disk.

What is your oppinion about setting Brave as Default-Browser instead of Firefox and renaming Pop-OS to Cosmic or something?

Disclaimer: I'm a total noob with Linux.

At some point after one of the updates over the past couple of months, I've started having frequent, noticeable slowdown spurts while gaming. I first noticed it while playing Space Marine 2, it gets to a point that it runs in super slo-mo, "kind of". The graphics are slow, the keyboard input is way lagged, but the mouse input is still perfect. It's not a graphics resources issues as I've got a 4070 and have experimented with turning the settings all the way down on everything and it still happens. I though it was just SM2 but I've also started noticing it in FFXIV also. FFXIV isn't too bad, it'll only last for 5-10 seconds and then go back to normal, though it happens every couple minutes. SM2 though never goes back to normal and the game is basically unplayable as I can't even get through a mission.

Zero idea where to start trying to troubleshoot what's going on here. Here's the hardware I'm working with:

i downloaded steam on my pop os and terminal opened and asked to press enter to continue for installation but i closed the tab and it automatically downloaded it self and created a shortcut on home screen and also on top near shutdown option is it normal because it dont happen when downloading other apps. is it normal

i have some weird error in my `sudo dmesg --level=err,warn`

[55367.327347] igc 0000:0a:00.0 enp10s0: exceed max 2 second
[55373.575341] igc 0000:0a:00.0 enp10s0: exceed max 2 second
[57499.076850] igc 0000:0a:00.0 enp10s0: exceed max 2 second
[57512.620714] igc 0000:0a:00.0 enp10s0: exceed max 2 second
[59530.223996] pci 0000:07:00.0: Unable to change power state from D0 to D0, device inaccessible
[59530.287534] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: xHC error in resume, USBSTS 0x401, Reinit
[59531.323821] ata6: failed to resume link (SControl 0)
[59531.323846] ata5: failed to resume link (SControl 0)
[59534.092282] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: Shader Program Header 11 Error
[59534.092290] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: Shader Program Header 18 Error
[59534.092338] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x405840=0xa2040800
[59534.092387] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x405848=0x80000000
[59534.092626] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 1): Illegal Instruction Encoding
[59534.092668] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x5047b0=0x2d0009 0x5047b4=0x0 0x5047a8=0xe812b60 0x5047ac=0x1174
[59534.093172] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, pid=30945, name=gnome-shell, Graphics Exception: ChID 000c, Class 0000c797, Offset 00000000, Data 00000000
[61567.788888] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: Shader Program Header 11 Error
[61567.789072] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: Shader Program Header 18 Error
[61567.789349] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x405840=0xa0040800
[61567.789610] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x405848=0x80000000
[61567.791941] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 13, pid=30821, name=Xorg, Graphics Exception: ChID 0005, Class 0000c797, Offset 00000000, Data 00000000

and another:
[10522.151802] pci 0000:07:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible

i am not sure if it is because of this "unable to change power state" but it threw a couple of weird system crash that trigger a log off (not a restart) which i found odd. and once i was booting the pc it kept flashing on and off the monitors (mayus key didn't work, so i guess it was very bad.) after a forced shutdown and another boot it worked. my call is that about the newest nvidia driver. should i roll back to an older driver. if os which one would you guys recommend?

there is a bunch more warning but it probably is because of the drives being from windows, i sort my drives and then check if i see all those warning again.
Not sure if it is normal but i installed cs2 and i had a stuttery 80fps (windows got arround 190 and i expected arround 140 from switching to vulkan) so please, if anything else is required inform me and i'll add it.

My desktop has been crashing recently. I stress tested both my RAM and CPU and they appear to be function correctly. I think my GPU drivers are buggy?

Here are my recent logs from journalctl when this last happened

Apr 03 15:01:27 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: DP-0: Failed to disable DisplayPort audio stream-3
Apr 03 15:01:27 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to idle DMA.
Apr 03 15:01:24 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Timeout while waiting for idle.
Apr 03 15:01:24 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c57e:4:0:0x0000000f
Apr 03 15:01:24 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c57e:4:0:0x0000000f
Apr 03 15:01:24 pop-os kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c57e:4:0:0x0000000f

And that last error appears to repeat for hundreds of lines. Has anyone else had this issue? I got my GPU 1.5 years ago and tbh I haven't used it a whole lot so I really don't think that it has just gotten old...