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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Well you can check
- announce on social media to strangers that your computer uses a different OS.
Off the list.
that wasn’t even the point of this post to begin with?
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!
I’ll keep this in mind, thank you!
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.
install lolcat and make bash commands so that update and upgrade come out in rainbow.
Why did you switch from mint?
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Install PopOS
Socks.
Then estrogen.
Don’t forget the shark.
Setup - checked
Troubleshoot - checked
Install apps - checked
Import data - checked
Customize - checked
BoastTell people on social media - checkedI’d say Linux distro migration checklist completed.
Also that is a (mostly) good selection of apps right there.
Thank you brother
In a serious tone:
Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.
Install gentoo /s
No thanks
I’m not trying to brick my system
You should send me that sick ass wallpaper
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)
Get a non-creepy wallpaper you wouldn’t be embarrassed to show co-workers when screen sharing.
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
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.
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.
I don’t consider the image sexual. Maybe I don’t understand something idk. And anything sexual is not family friendly obviously
What do you imagine all those thick globs of white represent?
Is blue hair a fetish now?
I think he’s talking about the slightly sexualized cartoon of a child in a school girl outfit. I know lot of ya are in your internet bubbles, but that’s still borderline disgusting to a lot of folks out there.
Always has been 🙍♂️🔫🌎
Replace the Pop! Shop with the COSMIC Store.
sudo apt install cosmic-store cosmic-icons sudo apt remove pop-shopPop 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.
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.
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.
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!
