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

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve installed Pop!_OS on many machines over the years, and my standard process is:

    • Install PopOS
      • rare for PopOS, but, depending on specialized hardware (some legacy Nvidia cards), a little driver rejiggering might be called for. Or a weird network printer setup that CUPS doesn’t like.
    • sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y apt-fast && sudo apt -y upgrade
      • pee, smoke weed, feed kitty…
    • set up my custom zsh/bash profile for the terminal
    • enable firewall
    • configure SSH and whichever remote management tools I need (I happen to deploy remote machines frequently)
    • sudo apt install gnome-tweaks & a few other UI tweaking tools (obviously, this step will no longer exist soon)
    • tweak UI/UX
    • search through gnome extensions website for extension I want to install. There’s usually a Top 10 or Top 20 gnome extensions list you can google (eg: “best gnome extensions 2024”)
    • make sure I have all appropriate media codecs installed and updated.
    • set up pip-/pip3-installer.

    After that, it’s setting up/configuring whatever software that particular machine needs.

    Edit: there’s probably a lot that I’ve skipped/missed, and a lot that others will do along their way through these steps. This is just a basic outline of some of my post-install processes (developed over time), and I hope this answers your question.

    Also, you can google for post-install guides for Ubuntu and they’ll largely be applicable to PopOS since it’s based on Ubuntu.

    • karet@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      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

  • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • Crafted@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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!

    • jaschen@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I also did the same thing. I’m back to Mint OS but at the end I’m not much happier.

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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

    • Crafted@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I tested the new Cosmic Desktop Environment on an experimental laptop, and it performs fairly well. I can’t wait to use it on my main machine. I actually already have Cosmic Shop, Pop Shop is far slower than Cosmic Shop, and it wasn’t even created by System. I’ll definitely uninstall Pop Shop.

  • mr_robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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!

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    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. :)

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      As I always say, as long as the wallpaper is family-friendly and not promoting anything bad like terrorism or racism, someone being not ok with it is solely their problem. People should pay attention on more important things instead of microbullying and judging meaningless stuff. You may want to temporarily adapt to a person that’s important to you in case you’re afraid of them being not ok with it or something like that but there’s no point in doing this with coworkers. It’s just ridiculous.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          I don’t consider the image sexual. Maybe I don’t understand something idk. And anything sexual is not family friendly obviously

            • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
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              3 months ago

              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.

    • Crafted@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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