r/pop_os

Hey everyone! My specs are a Ryzen 5 5500 and an RTX 2060 Super. I'm a web dev student (HTML, CSS, JS, Node, React, PHP, Laravel/Symphony, UI, Server Management, DevOps...) and I need a solid Ubuntu-based distro that has the same package availability as Mint (which is what we use in class).

​Main priority is stability: I really need to focus on learning Linux basics and web programming without breaking my system and wasting time troubleshooting (already been there, done that xD).

​I also game on the side, and I'll probably switch to an AMD GPU in the future.

​What do you guys think?

Can someone help me understand why we are still not able to set a primary monitor for Cosmic? I am having so many issues with proton games opening where my cursor is, or if they do open on the right screen, they don't detect the right resolution and set themselves to 1080p or 1440p since I have a mix of both monitor resolutions.
Gaming for me is a primary use case and has lots of these edgecases for some reason. These aren't old games either.

Is this a Wayland problem or a cosmic problem? I see discussions from Wayland saying that compositors are responsible for this? This issue has been present in the ecosystem for years, so I am just wondering why this isn't solved fully.

I am on PopOS 24.04 LTS.

I’d like to know if there’s a setting to completely disable window title bars and borders in COSMIC. I enjoy the workflow of tiling window managers (like Sway or Hyprland) and want a 100% clean look, showing only the window content. Does anyone know if this is already possible natively?

So I'm dual booting between Windows at Pop_os. If I have a game installed with steam that I installed while in windows, but it's installed to a separate hard drive from my windows drive, is there a way that I'm able to access that in steam from linux, without installing a second instance of the game?

Edit: ok, the consensus is yes, but don't. Thank you

I've been noticing something strange. I dont know if it is related to popos at all. When I use VS Code Copilot Chat for a long time, I notice that it will eventually get extremely slow. In particular, i notice that the Swap is getting large even when there's plenty of RAM left available.

I know popos uses zram for swap, which does some sort of compression stuff.

When I close vscode, ram and swap drop considerably, and then when i re-open and continue where I left off, performance is normal again.

Anyone have any ideas?

Trying to trouble shoot this. I had no updates the last time my computer was on and when I used it today there is no audio. I've:

Edit 1: I also tried booting previous kernel

Edit 2:

Tried running wpctl reset --allwhich failed due to my older version

Manually renamed ~/.local/state/wireplumber too ~/.local/state/wireplumber.bak This did not immediately resolve the issue, but after rebooting the files recreated and the issue resolved! SOLVED

:End Edit 2

Rebooted the computer (multiple times)
Tested the headphones on my Steam Machine and they work just fine.
I booted into Windows and they worked just fine.
I verified the settings were correct in the audio control panel

https://preview.redd.it/ussbmdyw3yth1.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=b7c55b575199c3c701d34fe596a705d78c9266c4

I've used `pavucontrol` to ensure the settings were all correct:

https://preview.redd.it/4qetcr684yth1.png?width=490&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e304cafb8ce298b9c2ef05c3154fbe2024a0172

I've unplugged the USB and plugged it back in and tried multiple ports

I've tried the Analog AUX plug from the main part of the headphone
I've ran `systemctl --user restart pipewire`

After all these steps I have no idea where to check next or how to proceed with troubleshooting. It's obviously a software issue, but other than that I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?

So people have been having issues getting the Steam Frame WiFi dongle to work on Linux and it seems to be largely due to it being unsupported on kernels older than 7.2.

Pop OS appears to be on 7.1.5. So I guess my question is, is manually loading a newer kernel relatively easy and consequence free, or should I just wait for Pop OS to update? I'm not super technically adept so if it is very involved and risky, I'm inclined to just wait.