The VM guide is built on GNOME. Can someone update it to reflect COSMIC since there’s no going back, or at least offer a COSMIC version of this guide.

https://system76.com/support/articles/virtualization/?srsltid=AfmBOoqCVFfnlYxMWNzjkXqa6ssHbCLMaR8NFvxjm3z1JIkU63G8KD2V

Hello, just a potential linux user here. I have considered moving to Pop OS from Windows after what I have seen Microsoft do to Windows over the years and Pop OS really seems like the Linux distro for me, but can I use hyprland with it, or rather, should I use it?

Hi everyone, OS user since few month only. I used Ubuntu during on year on my laptop, and as a friend taught me about this OS, I installed Pop_OS from scratch.

The first thing that came to my mind was that Pop_OS is now not on GNOME anymore, it changed to COSMIC recently. I had a lot of gestures that were a pleasure to use on Ubuntu, and some key ones were not natively on Pop_OS since COSMIC (for example "windows+1" putting the focus on the 1st app in my desktop tab, "windows+2" to the second, etc.)

I read in few posts that the change to COSMIC was recent, and you have to be patient to get the stabliest version of the OS. And I agree, with time passing features would come. So I found some by-passing methods to be able to get these shortcuts while waiting if some day they come.

But recently I wanted to install some precise packages, like caffeine or touchegg, and I really struggle to get them working. When I was using Ubuntu with GNOME, I feel that I had way less proplems while installing packages (most knonw distro, so a lot of help and documentation).

Here is my point : does the fact that Pop_OS created COSMIC to leave GNOME does them a disservice ? Or am I just not installing properlly my packages, and this has nothing to do with GNOME/COSMIC ?

Sorry if some of what I said was totally wrong, I could be not understanding what are my real issues

Unfortunately after using pop_os exclusively for the last 2+ years, the cosmic update has ruined it for me. Constant freezes, apps force close themselves, stuff will minimise then not be accessible again, memory leaks, everything runs slower. 2 years of completely problem free daily use before the cosmic update. Who thought pushing a beta version of a desktop manager in an LTS distro was a good idea?

I know a lot of people are having the same issues since the cosmic push. What are you all migrating to?

│ 󰍛 cpu │ Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M (4) @ 3.10 GHz

RAM: 4GB STORAGE: HDD

Switchable GPU: ATI Sun PRO [Radeon HD 8570A/8570M]// Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller

Resident Evil 2 has been tested in Linux (Pop!_OS 24.04, COSMIC/Wayland) and Windows on my dual-boot machine:

RTX 5070 Ti
Ryzen 9 5900X,
RAM 32 GB
Each operating system has its own identical 1TB SSD drive.

The game was run at 1080p using the MAX settings, VSYNC OFF, FRAME LIMIT -OFF.
Game Mode -ON
NTsync - ON
Both systems Windows and Linux were set on Max Performance power plans available via OS GUI

Linux lags behind by about 30 - 40 FPS on average in this test, despite the fact that both platforms provide excellent performance, well above 200 FPS, with exceptional overall consistency.
The 1% LOWs shows opposite picture, with Linux winning by 10–15 FPS.
Linux GPU utilization is 3–5% lower than Windows.
On the Windows end, CPU utilization clearly shows greater and steady frequencies.
On the Linux end, GPU VMem use is greater for 1 GB, which can be explained by usage of Proton (compatibility layer).

Both systems are still perfectly playable and fluid over the whole benchmark.

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Disclaimer: Why I Test with Pop!_OS + NVIDIA
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1. Windows gamers
   The whole point of these benchmarks is to show that Linux gaming exists, works well, and isn’t nearly as complicated as many Windows users think. I’m basically trying to show a realistic migration path from Windows to Linux, not build a perfect Linux-only lab.

2. NVIDIA dominates the gaming GPU market.
   According to the Steam Hardware Survey, NVIDIA usually sits around ~75–80% of GPUs in gaming PCs. If I test on NVIDIA, I’m covering what most gamers actually use.

3. Pop!_OS is one of the easiest distros for NVIDIA users.
   It ships with dedicated NVIDIA ISOs, drivers are integrated, and updates are straightforward. I run tests on official Pop!_OS drivers, so the setup reflects something an average user could realistically install.

4. If Linux gaming works on NVIDIA, it works for most gamers.
   Yes, AMD often performs better on Linux. I’m aware of that. But testing only on AMD would shrink the scope from ~80% of the market to a much smaller slice. My goal is broader relevance, not best-case scenarios.

I honestly doubt this will reach the doorstep of the devs, but I wanted to throw my voice out there. If I'm wrong about this, I'm sure someone will let me know quickly: there doesn't seem to be an option to leave Pop 22.04 without adopting Cosmic.

Edit: Just in case there's some misunderstanding, I'm not saying "stop shipping with Cosmic", I'm saying provide the option to not have to deal with it.

I want to start by saying that I have loved and recommended Pop ever since 2021. It was the first Ubuntu based distro that I found to work excellently out of the box for coding, streaming, gaming and other general office purposes. Snappy and responsive, though certainly wanting for customization options out of the box.

I get "the dream" for Cosmic, and I think that from a purely visual standpoint, it is fantastic... But that's about it. The Cosmic replacements for the tried and true GNOME apps are needless and often frustrating. They work adequately, but there's little changes here and there that make them infuriating to use.

The desktop environment does not seem to have a way to allow the user to move the icons on the desktop, in dual (and presumably more) monitor setups, the contents of the desktop are copied on both screens even when the display style is "extend", and there are various other gripes and complaints that pop up every now and again that make it feel as if Cosmic is absolutely not out of beta. I'll also include that the update to 24.04 also failed at some indeterminate point, forcing me to install from scratch - I didn't suffer much data loss from this, but its worth pointing out. To mention a few other issues: file transfer between mounted discs is slow and often reports a failure (even if there is no sign of that failure in the copy) and some apps, especially flatpaks do not play nicely with the taskbar (clicking the open, minimized app will open a cloned instance of the app, closing the clone closes both)

I'm sure there's a level of pride that comes with having made Cosmic and indeed it's worth being proud of, but as it stands in my honest opinion, it weighs Pop down. If having to replace the desktop environment with Cosmic is the only way to continue getting distro releases with Pop, I doubt I'm the only person who will decide to pick a different distro. It doesn't seem like it would be a tremendous burden to offer Pop with different desktop environments like Mint and Fedora offer.

Anyone els having unresponsive issues with pop os for the last week ? iv been using pop os for years and its been fine even a new installation from 2025 jan has been fine, but the last update or something last week every machine i have weather parts, date of installation have had issues such as it works fine then after it idles for an hour or 2 and i go back to the system the browser still works fine but anything such as folders new apps terminal or anything refuses to open until a restart. is there a way to fix this like kernel revert or something or is this a different issue.

I'm trying to set a default application for STLs for 3d printing, but it seems to just not be an option anywhere.

:) Hi, it has probably already been asked, but I would like to know how you customized your Cosmic (which often receives too much criticism). I am looking both for inspiration and to learn, I am not very experienced yet :)

systemd-analyze blame o/p===

37.117s networkd-dispatcher.service

32.887s snapd.seeded.service

29.091s snapd.service

28.692s udisks2.service

24.202s logrotate.service

20.625s plymouth-quit-wait.service

14.760s dev-loop3.device

14.631s lightdm.service

13.935s dev-loop4.device

13.030s com.system76.Scheduler.service

12.399s dev-loop6.device

10.756s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

10.383s dev-loop7.device

10.166s rsyslog.service

10.127s dev-loop5.device

So I was on 22.04 and wanted to upgrade. 24.04 still seemed a little unpolished for my liking, so I decided to give Fedora a try.

After a couple minutes of using and playing around, I just felt this weird delay in everything. Be it opening apps, navigation, anything. Pop had really built my muscle memory for a much snappier experience.

Why is this the case? If anything, Fedora should seem more faster because latest kernel, drivers and packages? Is btrfs that slow compared to ext4 that it's just dragging everything down despite having a more up to date system?

PS - Im on an Intel system with no NVDIA card.

i saw Wine-dev 11.9 was offered in the Pop Shop yesterday and installed it. I usually don't have a problem with wine-dev but 11.9 deleted several runners, files and winecfg. Wine and winecfg could not be found via the terminal.

I temporarily changed my simlink to my games folder and installed/reinstalled wine 11 stable. i reset my simlink and my games work fine.

The version I use is the WineHQ one. There is mention of the problem in the forums.https://forum.winehq.org/

I made a mistake in the title — the version I’m using is 1.0.13.

After the latest COSMIC Epoch 1.0.13 update, OrcaSlicer stopped working for me.

The app only works under X11, but now something very strange happens: when I launch it, a window appears, but everything is completely invisible. I can tell the application is running and there is a window there, but nothing is rendered.

I’m using the Flatpak version, and this is the command output:

flatpak run com.orcaslicer.OrcaSlicer

New Flatpak data dir: "/home/natsu/.var/app/com.orcaslicer.OrcaSlicer/config/OrcaSlicer"
Inconsistent value (1) for DRI_PRIME. Should be < 1 (GPU devices count). Using: 0
Inconsistent value (1) for DRI_PRIME. Should be < 1 (GPU devices count). Using: 0

I’m not sure where this issue should be reported or what information I should include in the report. Has anyone else experienced this after the COSMIC update?

Hey guys, i have nvidia 4050 mobile and popos, when i t

put my pc to sleep mode it doesnt want to wake up, only reboot helps. Is there a way to fix it?

I am on 24.04 LTS with cosmic and, after I have been working for a little while on fairly simple things, something happens which caused the focus to always be taken away from whatever I am doing. That means I can't open menus, I can't open context menus, I can't type in any window (including terminal) since it seems like something takes over focus. It essentially is forcing me to reboot the computer by pressing the power button on my tower (thankfully the shutdown popup works).

Today all I did was launch docker from terminal, then I was in Firefox for about an hour.

Has anyone else experienced this?