I just recently migrated from Linux Mint to Pop OS, do you have any tips/extensions on what I should do with my desktop?

  • @[email protected]
    5•11 months ago

    I daily popos for work. It’s a great workhorse distro and I’ve had very little problems with it.

  • haui
    19•11 months ago

    Install steam and whatever gaming things you have and give it a proper spin. I also added some gnome extensions for system usage. Besides that, pop is very simple.

  • @[email protected]
    17•11 months ago

    Get a non-creepy wallpaper you wouldn’t be embarrassed to show co-workers when screen sharing.

    • CraftedOPEnglish
      9•10 months ago

      The wallpaper isn’t “Fetish-like” or suggestive at all; it’s simply an anime girl with school clothes beneath water with fish circling around her. How dirty is your mind that everything you see is thought to be suggestive?

      This isn’t even useful advice; it’s just you being dirty-minded, and if you believe everything is suggestive, seek mental help

      • @[email protected]
        6•11 months ago

        Hard disagree. I wouldn’t consider an image depicting a fetish of some sort “family friendly”.

        Same rules for being in public: you shouldn’t think it’s okay to subject non-willing participants into your sexual proclivities. A jizzed up sexualization, anime or not, is not cool to subject others to without their permission.

          • BizzleEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            Always has been 🙍‍♂️🔫🌎

            • @[email protected]
              7•10 months ago

              I guess a girl wearing a skirt is sexual now, you sound like the mfs that say girls get r*ped cause of what they wear 💀 edit: op edit there comment to gibber jabbish for whatever reason

            • @[email protected]English
              10•11 months ago

              She looks like she’s under water (what with the fish and octopus) and they are on the same plane as the white outlines and other things in the image, like they’re reflections or clouds.

              Kinda looks like it should be turned clockwise 90 degrees as she’s falling into the water. (You can tell because the way the tips of her hair are further towards the left like she’s sinking)

              I mean, it’s a bit abstract, but there’s no evidence I see for them to be what you seem to be thinking they are.

              Edit: actually it might be that there’s glass on the left like she’s in an aquarium with the fish and such. Again, “white blobs” are reflections.

  • boredsquirrel
    5•10 months ago

    Figure out how to do snapshots before doing updates or upgrades.

    Timeshift I think? Maybe more available.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•11 months ago

    In a serious tone:

    Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

  • youmaynotknow
    9•11 months ago

    Yeah, now go crazy trying shit you probably should not be trying. From my perspective, that’s the best perk of any Linux distro. Evidently, backup first.

  • @[email protected]
    5•10 months ago

    That’s really cool! I put my wife on Pop_OS recently and it’s been a little bumpy, but she’s also got a bit of a specialty laptop. Glad it’s been smooth for you :).

    I really like your aesthetic, btw, how the wallpaper fits with your launch bar. Really pleasant!

    Wish I had some advice for you, but heck, thanks for starting the thread because (after sifting highly opinionated goofposts) I’m learning a lot too. :)

    • CraftedOPEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      Thank you! It’s okay if you don’t have any advice

  • EleventhHour
    5•10 months ago

    I’ve installed Pop!_OS on many machines over the years, and my standard process is:

    • Install PopOS
      • rare for PopOS, but, depending on specialized hardware (some legacy Nvidia cards), a little driver rejiggering might be called for. Or a weird network printer setup that CUPS doesn’t like.
    • sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y apt-fast && sudo apt -y upgrade
      • pee, smoke weed, feed kitty…
    • set up my custom zsh/bash profile for the terminal
    • enable firewall
    • configure SSH and whichever remote management tools I need (I happen to deploy remote machines frequently)
    • sudo apt install gnome-tweaks & a few other UI tweaking tools (obviously, this step will no longer exist soon)
    • tweak UI/UX
    • search through gnome extensions website for extension I want to install. There’s usually a Top 10 or Top 20 gnome extensions list you can google (eg: “best gnome extensions 2024”)
    • make sure I have all appropriate media codecs installed and updated.
    • set up pip-/pip3-installer.

    After that, it’s setting up/configuring whatever software that particular machine needs.

    Edit: there’s probably a lot that I’ve skipped/missed, and a lot that others will do along their way through these steps. This is just a basic outline of some of my post-install processes (developed over time), and I hope this answers your question.

    Also, you can google for post-install guides for Ubuntu and they’ll largely be applicable to PopOS since it’s based on Ubuntu.

    • @[email protected]
      2•10 months ago

      So I’ve been planning to install pop on my home computer for my parents to use. They don’t know their way around a terminal, so will updating on the GUI store be enough. Or do they occasionally need to run apt update as well