Pop!_OS (Linux)

All I want is to take my F5 key and assign it to the media key for volume down. BIOS will not do this. Gnome lets me do it.

When I try to hit F5 the key does nothing in the input field.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58665193

Hii to all linux users, hope you can help me.

I updated my system a couple of days ago, pop os 24.04 LTS and wifi stoped working. The problem is i dont have wire so wifi is only connection to the internet curently. And i managed to lose it.. So i tryed to fix the problem by switching to older kernel but it didnt fix the problem unfortinetly.

I gave up and reinstalled whole system thinking it will fix it. And since i do it i decided to try new cosmic alpha system. So i downloaded that and i like it despite its not finished and it has bugs and missing features. But that didnt fix my wifi problem! Its still not working.

I have two ssd-s, so on my main one 1TB i have linux and thats what im using, but on second one 500GB i have windows 10 for some games that doesnt work on linux. So i was using that to download latest pop os and my wifi card works so its obviusly not dead or anything.

I plan to get wire but i have some drilling to do for that and i would like to fix wifi card before that if possinble.

Almost forgot, my wifi card is Asus pcie card, with two antenas, its red and wery beautifull. Tryed to uploud picture of it but my acount is new so that wasnt possible. I dont know exact model number but this one looks exactly like mine so meabu its that one.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=asus+wifi+pcie+card&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fpisces.bbystatic.com%2Fimage2%2FBestBuy_US%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2F6267%2F6267000_sd.jpg&pn=1

How do I run another DE along with cosmic. I'm running alpha6 and would like to use some apps which don't yet run with cosmic (some steam games)

What is meta name for plasma for e.g. (will it overwrite greeter)

Do I just follow: https://support.system76.com/articles/desktop-environment/

Updated my @pop_os #linux … what could go wrong?
5 minutes later after a reboot: WiFi is broken. Dammit. 🤦‍♂️

What can I say, I fucking love POP OS so far. Linux Mint was my first distro, and I loved a ton about it. But after taking the leap and switching to POP I am blown away. Everything has worked amazingly so far.

What are your favorite things about POP OS, and any tips?

In Gnome, I was able to make my media keys work without hitting fn by reassigning them. I honestly don't even remember how I did it.

Is there a way to do this in Cosmic yet?

Hey folks.

Many moons ago when Lemmy was just getting started, I saw this community and started learning about Pop! OS. It seemed to offer a very strong set of positives:

• Major vendor support (System 76)
• Robust integration of Nvidia video drivers
• Gaming-friendly

Somewhat neutrally, it's based on Ubuntu, which seems to be almost univerally the most popular distribution to customize. There's a lot of software available through the Pop! OS shop, and through Ubuntu and various .deb packages, so that's probably a net positive.

I installed on my HP Omen (10th gen i7 and Nvidia 2060), and struggled almost from moment one, and it was all about video support. Supposedly, I had the System 76-packaged Nvidia driver for Pop! OS, but the Nvidia video was often not detected, even by games/tools that claimed to support it (various Ubuntu & Debian utilities dedicated to reading video specifics kept telling me I had no Nvidia card).

I downgraded the Nvidia drivers, it seemed to fix a lot of problems, except now I was running the 400-series drivers instead of the 500-series.

With both drivers, any kind of power saving mode -- video off, sleep -- would COMPLETELY crash the Nvidia video card. I mean, it required a cold shut down to bring it back; it stayed dead through both logout and OS restart. I eventually turned off the power save modes.

Lots of Googling suggested that Pop and the Nvidia drivers had issues with various specific power saving modes, but I had no idea what those modes were or how to tell the OS to stop using them.

I struggled along for about a year. Games were hit or miss. Old games like Armagetron froze the system solid more often than I'd like to admit. Steam Linux games seemed to work mostly OK, when the Nvidia card was behaving.

I was making USB sticks of various Linux distributions for a friend recently (Ubuntu main, Mint, Pop! OS) and got to thinking how much I used to like Mint. So I backed up my home directory and decided to wipe my machine and start over.

And folks... that was all she wrote. Mint pops a beautiful little video menu in the task bar that lets me select Intel graphics, Nvidia graphics, or dynamic switching. The Nvidia settings app was pre-installed and it actually works, not just sometimes. And my machine can wink the screen off or go into sleep mode without completely wedging the Nvidia card, and killing the external video.

I can't really explain why Pop! OS had so many problems for me. I'm sure System 76 regressions tests against their own hardware, and I'm sure they have it working right. But, not for my HP OMEN.

Thank you for making such a wonderful desktop environment! Wish you all the best and looking to see more developement soon!

I looked up specifically examples of this and didn't find answers, they're buried in general discussions about why compiling may be better than pre-built. The reasons I found were control of flags and features, and optimizations for specific chips (like Intel AVX or ARM Neon), but to what degree do those apply today?

The only software I can tell benefits greatly from building from source, is ffmpeg since there are many non-free encoders decoders and upscalers that can be bundled, and performance varies a lot between devices due to which of them is supported by the CPU or GPU. For instance, Nvidia hardware encoders typically produce higher quality video for similar file sizes than ones from Intel AMD or Apple. Software encoders like x265 has optimizations for AVX and NEON (SIMD extensions for CPUs).

Im installing lutris from .deb package And when im done,pop shop wants to downgrade it When im doin sudo apt upgrade its also want to downgrade it I have not this problem with other distros(ubuntu based) Whats it? How to fix it?

or no, due to holiday?

Every time I use Super + T to open a terminal window, it's much smaller than I prefer. It's also centered on screen but I prefer it to be slightly off center to the right a bit.

Is there a way I can make new windows open to my preferences every time?

now i cannot use virtio graphic for COSMIC vm.

hi there, hope this is okay to post. I also hope this isn't too complicated a fix. essentially I am having trouble updating through Pop!_Shop and I am getting the following error:

Failed to update "Operating System Updates" This may have been caused by sideloaded or manually compiled software, a third-party software source, or a package manager error. Manually refreshing updates may resolve the issue. Details: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

the good news is, I think I know exactly what manually compiled software this is in reference to. this issue first cropped up a few days ago after I manually installed the Mullvad Browser using the following commands outlined on their installation page

the commands listed on the link, which I followed exactly are: Download the Mullvad signing key sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc

Add the Mullvad repository server to apt echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list

Install the package sudo apt update sudo apt install mullvad-browser

I have since manually uninstalled the browser, but the problem remains, any help is greatly appreciated. apologies for my perpetual beginner status.

edit: I should add that when I run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' as the prompt suggests, the next line of the terminal appears immediately and the Pop!_Shop notification remains unchanged.

Is Cosmic Store supposed to work on Arch at this point? I can make it to list&search apps, but it doesn't install any app and gives different error message each time.

I even tried to follow the error message and install the missing packages manually but error message persists even after reboot.