Is #PopOS_COSMIC serious!?!? I used to love #Pop_OS back in the day when they used a near stock Gnome DE. I never liked the way Pop!_OS worked against the upstream and how outdated that distribution is nowadays. But Cosmic is so ugly and forcing the themes on apps that explicitly beg you not to do so is just insane. I wouldn't mind if apps had a check to see if they are ran on Cosmic and just segfault if so.
@matias_hettich I'm using Pop!OS for pro software development and hobbyist gamedev with Godot4, and have no problems. What sort of issues did you find before, or are you anticipating?
Finally after three months of trying, i found a way to get rocm/hip working on blender. Had to move to #Pop_OS and follow a guide to download the rocm drivers but it finally worked. No more hacky workarounds that didnt work on arch linux nor flatpak not supporting it for some reason, I can actually learn 3d modeling without dealing with 2 hour cycle renders!
@Nouvanity Hey Dan! I'm trying to understand if this is worth a post on BlenderNation - do I understand correctly that Pop is the first distro where you managed to hip?
@BartV im not dan, it's just a guide i found on the internet! And no, i used to be able to use it on arch linux but that has been broken for a few months and switching to pop os was the option i choose to get it back working. It seems blender just doesnt work with up to date versions of rocm, every version after 5.6.1 just comes with nothing but crashes and troubles.
This is actually Bullshit, like how tf is it not supported when the entire fucking thing runs in Chrome?? also why is it only telling me now? #Pop_OS#Linux
@travis I see you got a response from @ahoneybun already, he's a support lead, so you're in good hands. Based on your partition table, you seemed to have attempted a custom install. I'd start over with a standard clean install if you're not too deep.
@ahoyboyhoy@ahoneybun thanks! It was a custom install, I have Ubuntu in a separate partition that I'd like to keep. I'd prefer to not go through the install process again just to end up in this same situation.
Noticed I hadn't rebooted my rig in a while (182 days!!!) so I rebooted this morning. Now, once it comes back up ... none of my flatpak apps will start. Not Thunderbird. Discord. Slack. Etc.
:-(
One of these days I'll admit I actually have no idea what I'm doing. But for today ... halp?
Sometimes (not always) when I try to install software from the Pop Shop, popos prompts me to authenticate using my fingerprint. Great! Except my fingerprint reader is inaccessible, under a closed laptop screen, when I'm using my desktop workstation.
Is there a way to get it to switch auth methods in the moment so I can type my password instead?
It's funny how you get stuck in your ways after using whatever you've been used to for so long. I've spent years running sudo dpkg -i somepackage.deb followed by apt-get -f install when it invariably fails.
It turns out you can just apt install ./somepackage.deb now. Knowing my luck this has been available for 10+ years and I am only finding out about it now.
Maining #pop_os again. Got tired of weird quirks in Fedora/Nobara. I'm fine using an LTS distrosince i'm running mostly all Flatpaks. Sucking it up and using #GNOME as my DE though. #Linux#LinuxGaming
@jcrabapple Being honest, it's mostly Wayland. Nobara also has the slightly weird update process since their repos aren't on sync with Fedora. But it's Wayland causing issues for me.
I know I can run it as an X11 session but from what I've read Fedora might drop that next release. I figured my best bet right now is to just run an LTS release since almost everything I ran is Flatpak anyhow and PopOS keeps the kernel updated.
This is a very new issue, and I'm not really sure what's going on. I'm hoping someone out there has had the same issue and fixed it or has some ideas. So I have a laptop with Pop!_OS and a pretty old (8ish years) second monitor attached via HDMI to DisplayPort....
Excited to see this community spring up! I just got started with Pop!_OS (and my first real #Unix machine) on an old #Surface Pro 3. I'm impressed that the screen and everything still works!
Looking forward to learning some tips and tricks! #popos
