Pop! OS topic / talk / support (all in one)

[Michel]

My wifes 8 years old notebook, just got a kernel upgrade to 5.15.8, everything works just fine.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
09:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)

[Bourne]

System 76 Pangolin Review - dominickm.com

[Michel]

Playing Halo 4 on Pop! OS 21.10 ... and it look beautiful

Added @ 3 jan, i love the light effects in Linux! The reflections are so great!

[Desktop-Not-Working]

I tried the last Pop! Os build and even if it's a great distro I hated the fact that I can't search while in overview. Just... Why??? To me this is primary productivity feature! I feel like the new app library is totally useless.

[Michel]

@Desktop-Not-Working

I can't search while in overview

What do you mean ? the search bar is in top when you are in "library home" tab and you can do search

[Desktop-Not-Working]

Last time I tried Pop!_OS I couldn't search while in overview. In Zorin I usually hit super key, enter overview and whenever I hit a letter on the keyboard it starts searching for apps and files. I didn't find this behaviour in Pop_os. Maybe they reintroduced it? I hope so!

[Michel]

Maybe you ran into a bug or something because always worked for me (started to use Pop! OS 21.04 back in september)

[Desktop-Not-Working]

From the screenshots you provided I see you are using the new app library. With "overview" I mean the gnome overview from which you can see every app opened on every screen. From there, in Pop_os you can't do search.

[Michel]

@Desktop-Not-Working

From the screenshots you provided I see you are using the new app library. With "overview" I mean the gnome overview from which you can see every app opened on every screen. From there, in Pop_os you can't do search.

The one your talking about is 21.04 and yes it did have search.

[Desktop-Not-Working]

I'm talking about this

Search has been removed from the "Workspaces view". Was it really necessary?...

[Michel]

I am talking about this. It's under the clock the search button.

[Desktop-Not-Working]

Nope this is the app overview, I mean the worskspace overview! My bad you can't type-search in worskspace overview. At least on the build I tried!

[Michel]

Workspace overview is only the opened tabs, why do you need search on that ?

[Desktop-Not-Working]

Just because that's how I'm used to search for apps and things I need in Zorin. I love having the worskspace overview and search function integrated because I always have lot of apps running so I freequently use the worskspace overview. From there, I just start typing what I need and the search function does its job. And to me that's awesome in Pop_os I can't do that unfortunately unless I disable the cosmic extension.

[Michel]

@Desktop-Not-Working

unless I disable the cosmic extension.

So it is possible after all

[HSG]

I wonder when ZorinOS will have an upgrade module what POP!_os has for upgrading without losing your data, apps and config.

[Aravisian]

@HSG

I wonder when ZorinOS will have an upgrade module what POP!_os has for upgrading without losing your data, apps and config.

This is often asked about.

[Michel]

Today i installed KDE on my external test drive because i wanted to try out KDE + Sweet KDE theme. I still need to configure KDE because it has so many options. So i switched back to gnome for other stuff and now it looks quite cool haha.

[Michel]

People who updated the system with those updates from above might run into a issue with the "show applications" menu. It will look the same again as Pop! OS 21.04.

To fix that issue open terminal and write

sudo wget -O /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/pop-cosmic@system76.com/applications.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pop-os/cosmic/8628c618072bdabca00ad3f279d038da95bbdc67/applications.js

After installation log off and login again and it's fixed.

[Elegant_Emperor]

I switched to Pop! OS a few days ago and I am surprised with the stability...
It uses kernel 5.16 which is a plus for me..
They made the "show applications" menu bigger as well:

Personally speaking, I am impressed with what they have done. Another great thing is that they have Snap removed by default which makes the OS bloat-free. Canonical should learn from them..