r/pop_os

I'm looking for a distro for my old PC, when I only launch PC, open steam and play the game.

Is it possible to launch apps/navigate to steam only via xbox controller? If no - how can you configure that?

am new to Linux and I chose Pop!_OS as my main operating system. I did a complete installation and am not dual-booting with Windows, so Pop!_OS is my primary system. I was really happy after the installation, but not for long. My Wi-Fi started glitching; it suddenly turns off while I am trying to do work in the terminal. For example, when I tried to download Brave, the Wi-Fi automatically shut down. I have tried using various sudo commands, but nothing has worked. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3535 running Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS. Can anyone help me with this? I have so many things to do, and I have already tried every method suggested by Gemini and ChatGPT, but none of them worked.

Help me out please.

Hi, I really need your help. I have a Core 7 Ultra 258v, and I want to use the ARC 140v graphics card with it for various things, but I can't. I'm using AI, Blender, video rendering, etc., and I can't get it to work. Can anyone help me? I've already updated all the packages, Intel Level Zero GPU, and nothing works. Please help.

Hi, hoping someone here might have an idea of how to troubleshoot my admittedly minor sound problem. I have external speakers that connect via usb c. The speakers are working fine when connected direct to the laptop, but I get no output when I connect them via a usb hub. This setup via the hub works fine with a windows machine I have. It was also working fine on 22.04. If I look at the playback on PulseAudio everything seems normal and I should be hearing something. AlsaMixer shows meter at 100 for the speaker sound card.

Since there isnt any native night light feature for PopOS and Redshift doesnt work with Wayland, I had created the following for those that need to save their eyes for those late night coding binges.

as title says. Ran updates for 24.04 that were offered, system no longer boots.

After the Cosmic update, the recovery settings etc. have disappeared and there's basically no support available from HP (or Sys76). Now enjoying troubleshooting when I should be working, sigh

Im still somewhat new to Linux and Pop so apologies if this is a dumb question/problem.

I have been attempting to run Appimage files on my machine, and none of them will open. I have them marked as executable, and have tried to run them from every mounted drive on my system to no avail. There isnt even an error message, clicking run simply does nothing at all. Any advice would be appreciated.

Many modern laptops (especially high-end gaming ones) are being released with OLED displays (worst decision ever, but its what we have) that have a bad time dealing with high-contrast static elements of the screen, and require display protection features to avoid premature demisal (burnt pixels).

Stuff like pixel-shifting, reduced contrast options, dynamic panels, etc.

Can these be added into Cosmic in the future?

Ryzen 7 4800h rtx 3050 4gb mobile 16gb ram.

Fix:- install liquorix kernel

I recently purchased a hyperx cloud stinger core 2 headset. for some reason the input doesnt work but output does. I use acer nitro v15-41 laptop. I tried somethings for alsamixer but i dont know much and it didnt work. It works on android

It would great to have a companion app like kde connect

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