pop os will remain on my external drive for more testing and to install apps on IF i managed to get that working. It's always good to have a main os and a test os so you won't get a messy main os haha.
Sample: Installing the origin client and epic game store into linux
So i tried a few things again on pop os!. First i really wanted to know why language is half baked. So i went into settings -> region & language -> installed language and i got a message it was not fully installed and i could install the rest. After installation i removed all others like japanese, russian, german etc. Well after the update there is not much of a difference.
Yes, as long as you are running CORE, that means gnome. And gnome means, lots of memory usage. This is the reason why some people can't wait for the Zorin team to release OS 16 LITE.
DUDE, that is one sweet machine you got there, I am actually impressed, good solid specs. But why your CPU speed is unknown to Stacer is beyond me, perhaps a sensor is offline.
If you go to your resources tab, which is the icon bellow the gear icon, then click on the memory filter a couple of times, you should see the biggest offender on RAM usage at the top of the list.
Glad to hear that GOG is going well, even though you still have issues with languages.
As far as what Zorin did, I don't think Zorin did anything, other then include the Windows Program Loader, which is a component of WINE.
I forget which WINE version it was that I installed, but one of them comes with the Windows Program Loader. I just did a Google search, learned how to install it.
But hey, if it works in Terminal, that can't be all bad. AT least with terminal you can see if there are any errors. Only problem with launching GUI, is that GUI's don't usually provide error information unless an APP crashes lol.
Transfer games over from zorin os lutris to pop os was also very easy. I just mount the ssd where zorin and the games are installed on and just add those in lutris and they run out of the box. I had to reinstall vredist from mass effect legendary edition to get it the game to work.
My stacer:
Gnome lockscreen when unlocking is the same as Zorin OS -> GNOME lockscreen
See, I like it when things are easy, makes life happy. I see your rocking that beautiful background of the tropics, very nice. Also, if you had widened the window on your Stacer in the last screenshot, you would have been able to see what process was running.
But the memory usage is the bare minimum that I have seen my POP OS use as well. But its not so much POP OS itself, its really mostly Gnome. Well that and, Chrome, and yes freaking CLAMTK virus deffinitions of the CLAMD style. LOL
And yes you are right it is the same, cause they are both using the same one from Gnome isn't it? And since they are both using the same Gnome shell 3.38, that kind of makes both OS's the same in certain areas.
@StarTreker, i managed to get the nvidia driver installed from the nvidia website. Didn't find a good tutorial because there where things missing. So i created my own tutorial for now. Need it ? because you can update nvidia without uninstalling the previous one + it signs dkms module so if pop os does a kernel upgrade you dont have to reinstall the driver again.
HEHE, Michel you are a tricky one you are. Look at you, upgraded to the latest version. POP OS was like, "Yawn....I will upgrade to 470.74 when I am ready" And then you were like, "No you will upgrade it now, fine, I will do it myself"
Also what i really like in pop os is the dkms function that is pre installed. When i now swap to a different kernel i don't have to reinstall my nvidia driver anymore like i have to do in zorin os. Why is this not added by default ? Linux mint used this function already back in 2014.
Today i manually installed wine and winetricks, now i get the option to install .exe files from gog. Also my mass effect games didn't boot in lutris because it lacked of directx, i managed to bypass this to add directx 11 as native in lutris. But i didn't like it and installed directx from the game it self, removed the native option and it's working great
Pop OS! is getting my interest now haha, i have everything running like i have on zorin os now.
@StarTreker, do you know why i can't create new text documents on the desktop in Pop OS! ? Fixed, create new txt document and save it in templates
Awesome, looks like your getting things configured quite nicely. Once you get it all setup how you want it, its really an awesome gaming OS. And there is nothing wrong in rocking two Linux distro's at one time, as long as the other OS your rocking, is not Windows lol.
I just told my wife today that i am not going to use windows anymore because i can do everything on linux (with games now) what i used to do in windows. Steam did a fantastic job there with proton. Lutris is much easier to use than in the past.
Yeah i do have windows on a nvme drive sitting there. But i don't think windows 10 will last long there . Maybe i will install pop! os on it so i don't need to use the external drive.
@StarTreker, I have 2 drives in ntfs and if i run linux i have to manually mount them in zorin and pop. If i format those to a linux partition i dont have to mount them anymore right ???
I want to format them to ext4 ? or whatever linux is using these days.
Wanna wipe everything on the laptop in the future so windows 10 is removed from my nvme. I want to use the nvme drive for Pop! OS (fresh install), i want to use the other M2 drive for zorin os and the third drive (2tb ssd) for games to install on.