Weird Glitches on specific apps in ZorinOS

First of all, Huge appreciations and thanks to the ZorinOS devs, maintainers, and helpers. I have huge respect to them for this amazing OS.

I have installed ZorinOS on my slow laptop and it works perfectly fine with no issues in there.

Though on my PC, That's also relatively OLD. I have encountered very unusual and weird glitches on specific Apps.

I have faced same issue on Brave Browser that was preinstalled into ZorinOS. and same has happened with Spotify app.
It's really hard to explain my problem. When i launch spotify app, it looks just fine. but when i try to scroll or minimize/maximize it, it creates a weird glitch and then fixes itself 3 seconds later.

Then after any changes like scroll/maximize/minimize, It does the same thing again

however, all the rest of apps like mozilla firefox, system apps or software app doesnt give me that glitch, it works perfectly fine when maximized, minimized etc. Its only certain apps that give me that kind of error, for me it was brave and spotify so far that i have opened.

During installation i had unchecked the option to connect to wifi. But i made sure i updated softwares after installation. So i dont think it might be a driver issue from my side.

However. I want to mention that during installation, During the first phase where the ZorinOS checks the iso file and its integrity, It gave me an error that the "4.deb: OK4.debb.debb is giving error" but i didn't think much about it and went with the flow since ZorinOS installation continued to work instead of giving me an option to abort.

click to see Spotify glitch

Click this to see the 4.deb error during installation

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Hello and welcome,
What is your Graphic Card ?
You are under Wayland or X11 ? (type in Terminal)

echo "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE"

Didi you disable Secure boot and Fast Boot from BIOS ?

The Error could be a Point. It would be good to check the Checksum of the downloaded ISO. Are secure Boot and Fast Boot in BIOS disabled? If Windows is still installed: Is Fast Start-Up in Windows disabled?

Because of Brave: Did You tried it with disabled Hardware Acceleration?
Because of Spotify: How is it installed? As .deb, Snap or Flatpak Package?

Does You System run in Wayland or X11? You can check that with the Terminal Command echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

Could You post Your Hardware Specs please?

My System is HP Z600
It doesn't have secure boot or fast boot by default, So i assume both of them are disabled.

The Graphics Card I'm running is AMD FirePro V5900 (But it says AMD Cayman in system details idk why)

And It says i'm running Wayland

MY PC SPECS:
Hewlett-Packard HP Z600 Workstation
Memory 16GiB
Intel Xeon E5620 x 8

Firmware Version: 786G4 v03.61
OS Name: Zorin OS 18.1 Core
OS Type: 64 bit
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.0-23-generic

I have HP Z600, Secure boot and Fast Boot are not available in the bios, quick chatgpt check led me to conclusion that both of them don't exist in my pc.

As for Brave, I don't know if it had hardware acceleration disabled or enabled, I have uninstalled brave.
As for spotify, It was downloaded from Software App, It's a snap store Package and it says "verified" in the software app.

My System runs Wayland.

MY PC SPECS:
Hewlett-Packard HP Z600 Workstation
Memory: 16GiB
CPU: Intel Xeon E5620 x 8
GPU: AMD FirePro V5900 (But it says AMD Cayman in system details idk why)

Firmware Version: 786G4 v03.61
OS Name: Zorin OS 18.1 Core
OS Type: 64 bit
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.0-23-generic

Hi @sooJotPe , this looks a little bit like a problem I had on one of my computers with an NVIDIA card and the solution (for me) was to switch to X11 as the display manager (see this thread).

If you want to try this out: log out, then in the login screen you should see a little symbol to switch the display manager, switch it and log back in (you can always go back to Wayland if needed).

There may be a better way to fix this long-term though, but that's what worked for me.

PS: chatGPT is a language mimicking program, it doesn't "know" if you have secure boot or fast boot enabled; to check that you would need to go in the BIOS, let us know if you don't know how to do that.

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Thank you, Fixed!!!!

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Glad to hear that! :raising_hands:

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