Hey All, I've hear lots of people talk positively about Flatpaks, but every app I've installed through Flatpaks simply won't work. They'll install and initially run ok, but the second you use the app either it just doesn't do what it is supposed to do or I get weird permission issues. Uninstalling then using the deb package or other direct installs gives me apps that actually work. And it seems the Pop Shop no longer gives me any identification of whether the app is a deb or flat pack.

Anything I can look into on the system to see if there is something on my end that needs changed? The more I hear Pop is heading down the Flatpak road, the more I'm thinking of hopping off the train.

I've just switched from Win11 to Pop!_OS. The only issue that I have and can't seem to resolve is the behaviour of external monitor with closed lid. I'm running 22.04 LTS Pop!_OS with nVidia GTX 3050. What I've tried so far to make it work:

1. Simply closing the lid - external monitor remains on and displays DE, I can move cursor there but the computer remains unresponsive to any keyboard/mouse input.

2. Using Single display through Display option in settings with lid open. Same result as in 1. System remains unresponsive to any input, closing and reopening lid allows me to regain control.

3. Changes in the configuration file. I've changed value of following parameters to ignore:

HandleLidSwitch HandleLidSwitchExternalPower

Then, I tried doing same thing as in 1. and 2. but I got the same negative results.

Is it possible to get the monitor set that I want to work? If not, would other newb friendly distros handle this issue better? Thanks for any advice.

This is a followup of my previous post where I struggled to use wayland on 22.04 with nvidia.

After a few more reading and tinkering, I found out that I needed to actively install the more recent nvidia-driver version 570 to have better wayland support, so that's what I did. It was kind of janky as my screen just went black as I apt installed the driver, I had to reset the computer. The next boot, I was running no nvidia driver at all, so I re-did the apt install and it actually completed this time. After a second reboot, I was now running nvidia driver version 570.153.02, yay!

With that out of the way, I proceeded to test those wayland sessions again, starting with KDE Plasma, but I found it is completely broken for me. Most mouse clicks don't even register, and there is a several seconds lag on everything, it's very weird and unusable.

Now for gnome wayland. Well, to my surprise, this works about OK. The desktop is relatively smooth at 144hz. I can't help but feel some extra latency on the mouse cursor but it's still usable. So much so that I actually have been trying it out for a few days now, with mixed results I'm afraid.

While it does work for the most part, it's still not as good an experience as X11 for me, for a few reasons that I found out with daily use :

• I use mumble extensively, and keyboard shortcuts don't work on wayland (https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/5257). I had to set a global gnome shortcut that sends rcp commands to mumble to mute/unmute which was kind of a pain to figure out. I've also lost the "push-to-mute" feature in the process, which is my prefered way to operate the muting/unmuting.
• I like RustDesk for remote desktop, but it doesn't work well on wayland yet either. (it says it has experimental support, but I just get no image at all so it's just broken for me)
• The extra latency is not a lot but I do notice it. I've played some Rocket League, it's decent, but not as snappy as on x11.
• I've had a complete freeze of the desktop yesterday out of the blue, I've had to ssh in to loginctl session-kill my gnome session. This kind of thing never happens on X11, and I can't have that happen too often during work.

For these reasons, I'm back on x11 for now, but it was fun experimenting. I'll give wayland another go later, with better application support I'm hoping.

When I set up Grub with dual-boot, I already had the issue of booting to a terminal instead of the selection of OS, but I brushed it off, since I could just type "exit" (sometimes I'd have to type it again in another Grub terminal that appeared shortly after) and it would show me the OS selections.

However, ever since I updated my computer to a new version of popOS, typing "exit" just puts me in a black screen. I tried running a grub fixer app, and resetting my grub configurations, but the issue is still there.

For now, I have to type a bunch of commands in order to boot my computer, which isn't that bad, but the problem is that I'm not the only one using it, so I was wondering if anyone went through something similar and/or has a fix for this issue.

For some background, my system runs a ryzen7 3770x and RTX 4080 and has be working very nicely on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS for work and games for more than a year now. I use KDE plasma (x11) and when the display it set at 144hz, the desktop experience is suuuper smooth, both in terms of cursor latency and how moving windows around feels. This is something I quickly got used to running a high refresh-rate display on Windows, and I never managed to have the same experience on a linux desktop before installing Pop on this PC. How smooth 22.04 felt on this system blew my mind and was the main reason I finally switched to linux for good at the time.

Now back to today. After the subject of the next release got mentioned recently on this community, I wanted to five it a go. I tried running Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha 7 from a flash drive, featuring the new cosmic desktop and the wayland compositor. I'm sorry to report didn't run that well. I do have the option the set the display to 144hz, and I do see an improvement switching from 60hz for sure, but the mouse cursor still has noticeable input lag and moving windows around is not very smooth. Not unusable to be fair, but definitely not as smooth as I'm used to on x11.

I tried running some video content also, and VRR made the screen flicker during playback, which looked quite bad. Disabling VRR entirely made videos play OK though.

Someone had better success running 24.04 on nvidia? Is it even supposed to be performing well already?

I'm still on Pop!_OS 22.04, the last release version. My applications are getting very out of date from being tied to the jammy package repo.

It looks like Pop.next is still in alpha, which suggests it could be 2026 before it's RC. I don't actually like any other distro — I built a new laptop on Mint, which I only tolerate. But I'm getting nervous, and the UIs for enough apps have evolved sufficiently that it's creating some cognitive load to remember how to use both versions (LibreOffice and Evolution stand out).

What have people chosen to do?

Been trying to update my drivers to nvidia 570, but no matter what I try, it never actually installs. I've tried through the pop shop, through sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall in the terminal, through the system76 driver install command in the terminal, but nothing; it looks like it starts, but all that results in no DP output from my PC, even after waiting 15+ minutes. Force rebooting after this happens results in the PC booting with no GUI, only a terminal. I'm at my wit's end here; nothing I do seems to work, and the only driver that actually functions is nvidia 470. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?

edit: for reference, when I run sudo apt install nvidia-570 in the terminal, the process runs, then I get a wall of libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-config.c:772 conf_files_filter_out: Directories inside directories are not supported: /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf until the process finally resumes, ending with the statement "errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-dkms-570, nvidia-driver-570, system76-driver-nvidia" and the error E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned with error code (1).

From there, I try running `sudo dpkg --configure -a', but that runs into the same issue: wall of the libkmod error, then errors while processing those three drivers. Then I try 'sudo apt install -f' which results in the exact same errors.

I have a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card if that helps. sudo ububtu-drivers devices returns nvidia 570 as the recommended one.

You can see VM specs at start, the error loop starts at last 20 seconds of the video...

I used the iso given here https://system76.com/cosmic/ (AMD/Intel) one.

I am booting for the first time

I have usbs encrypted with LUKS, and whenever they are connected, I am prompted immediateely to enter my password.

is there a way to disable this across the board so I will only do so when I want to

@pop_os
I am currently on Cosmic Alpha 6 and run updates regularly. When the LTS version becomes available, do I need to reinstall it? I'm wondering if there might be issues if I reach the LTS version through cumulative updates, as I am doing now. #pop_os

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. 🤦‍♂️