So I'm going through the installation of #PopOS (at long last!) and the "Clean Install" option is making me sweat.
I basically have 4 main drives, 2 and 2 of the same model and size. 2 for data and 2 for OS. One of the OS drives is empty and the other has Windows, which I'm certainly not ready to erase just yet.
The "Clean Install" option doesn't clearly show which drive I should be picking (I used Gparted to check them out and see which one is empty).
Pop OS can't seem to use my two monitors. No signal detected on my 4k monitor. Pop OS sees the monitor, I can change settings, but nothing ever appears on my monitor. Thought it was just a problem with the installer image, but the same problem post install. It's 2024 and I'm dealing with problems from 2011.
Ok, so my second monitor can work, but only if I set it to the same resolution as my primary monitor. Which is extremely annoying because the resolutions are not the same. My secondary monitor is 4k, my primary is 1440p. Any #PopOS fans have a suggestion?
@LouisIngenthron I have installed four(?) different distros in the last week, and they all went in fine except vanilla #Debian, which I don't know how I screwed it up, but I did. #Ubuntu, #LinuxMint, and #PopOS were all just as easy as #Windows was once upon a time: click "ok" a bunch until you hit a welcome screen. Notably absent was the requirement that I sign into their exclusive service to even use the software.
@LouisIngenthron
Wow. Sorry to hear about your issues. I recently had a few issues myself with second screens and #OpenSuse.
Honestly, whenever I have issues with other distros on certain machines I turn to #Ubuntu and it never failes me, but of course #PopOS should be pretty much the same. Did you check if switching between the Wayland or X11 display manager on login makes your experience better?
Besides, there's still #Manjaro. They got some bad press recently, but I kind of enjoy it.
I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!
I thought #LinuxMint was previously based on #Ubuntu then switched to #Debian (or planned to at least), but doesn't seem like that's the case since I just read news of upcoming Mint release and that's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Unless I'm confusing Mint with the other newbie#Linux distro of choice, #PopOS, which often happens.
My Linux laptop used to suspend perfectly. I'd close the lid and it would go to sleep. Open it up, it would spring to life - presenting me with a password screen. But, some time in the last few months, it has stopped doing that.
If I close the lid, it keeps running. This is unhelpful.
If I manually run the suspend command - systemctl suspend - the laptop blanks the screen then immediately turns it back on at the lock screen. It doesn't suspend.
I know that suspend physically works - becasue running any of these other command does properly suspend the machine. But powering it back up goes straight to the desktop - no lock screen!
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole, following lots of suggestions from various people on the Internet. None of these helped me - but they may be useful pointers to you.
I tried disabling everything in . I couldn't get PXSX to be disabled. But even with everything else off, the suspend didn't work.
At some point in the last few months, Pop_OS has stopped sleeping / suspending when I close my laptop's lid.
Even manually telling it systemctl suspenddoesn't work; it just takes me back to the lock screen.
Running sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-sleep suspenddoes suspend. As does echo "mem" > /sys/power/state. But when I push the power button I get straight in, no lock screen.
Help! How do I get my laptop to sleep when the lid is closed, and awaken to a lock screen?
It's really nice to see the progress being made on @system76's COSMIC DE. I've been checking it out on my ThinkPad T14 with an AMD Ryzen APU running Pop!_OS.
Trying out #PopOS#Linux today. I really appreciate the auto tiler window management, and the system seems to run pretty well out of the box on my RTX 3060M card (until I tried to use Pop Wayland and watched steam freak out all over my monitors), but it's painful to have to manually add and modify GRUB to dual boot from a separate drive and also I'm still really not a fan of how claustrophobic GNOME feels.
I would rather just get the auto-tiler, dGPU, and super key menu configurations in KDE.