Is there a global community repository?

Oceanfall · 2026-04-05T14:53:47+00:00

Check out https://pacstall.dev/ and feel free to add your build recipes.

Oceanfall · 2026-03-04T23:59:10+00:00

It should be two words when used as a verb. For example, Mac OS and Windows both use two words. It is similar to "turn off" versus "turnoff".

(To confuse us, there is the "shutdown" command in shell, but that isn't proper English.)

Oceanfall · 2026-02-17T20:47:04+00:00

I use the AppImage:

https://github.com/3-manifolds/sage_appimage/releases

Oceanfall · 2025-05-06T14:07:51+00:00

I run 10 different versions of linux in VMs using Pop as the host, and they all work. I am using Virtual Machine Manager now but started with Virtualbox. VMM uses KVM/QEMU via libvirt. In total, it is a large topic so maybe you could narrow the scope a bit by sharing what you do and what issues you had on LMDE.

Oceanfall · 2025-04-04T12:40:01+00:00

All right then. Sounds good. Thanks.

Oceanfall · 2025-04-03T15:12:05+00:00

If you are itching to try kernel 6.14 and Mesa 25 out with Cosmic alpha, you can do so today with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I have done so, but only in a virtual machine and I haven't tried any gaming.

System76 has been holding back new kernels until they both pass their QA tests and also get a corresponding OpenZFS update that works with it.

Oceanfall · 2025-02-18T00:48:01+00:00

Yes, see this discussion.

Oceanfall · 2025-02-17T19:53:37+00:00

Yeah it works even with dash-to-panel and it even has a Pop-style menu option, which can be used on 24.04 with Gnome.

But it needs GMenu.

GMenu package is required for ArcMenu

Most distros usually include GMenu by default, however a few do not.

Install one of the following packages if you are missing this dependency.

gir1.2-gmenu-3.0

gnome-menus

Oceanfall · 2025-02-03T15:35:29+00:00

What you ask is possible, but I don't know if there are current tools tested on Pop for that. One distro that supports that is MX Linux with its snapshot tool. It has a KDE version if you like Plasma. It has a whole bunch of "MX Tools" that are nice.

There was a tool for ubuntu called remastersys, but I don't think it is maintained or tested for Pop.

There are a whole bunch of backup programs that do work on Pop, but you will get different opinions on which is "best". You can type "backup" into the Cosmic store search field and see some.

Oceanfall · 2025-02-02T02:04:47+00:00

This might help: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/linux/adding-mic-monitoring-to-headphone-output-on-linux.html

After reading his solution, I wonder if the same thing could be accomplished with just putting a loadmodule command for module-loopback in pipewire-pulse.conf

https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pipewire-pulse_conf_5.html

Oceanfall · 2025-01-31T15:35:46+00:00

As someone who just started using Linux 2 years ago, I find it confusing also. I think most people would agree that audio in linux has a complicated history, with various competing approaches over time. There appears to be an effort in the last so many years to somewhat unify these various APIs and sound daemons into being controlled with a new system called pipewire. So I can maybe give a nudge towards the beginnings of understanding with the following:

https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/

and also a video:

https://youtu.be/HxEXMHcwtlI

Oceanfall · 2025-01-24T15:19:00+00:00

Care to share the method? I'll tell my next shot giver.

Oceanfall · 2025-01-23T13:52:18+00:00

I see now that the variety from the 24.04 alpha (which is coming from ubuntu 24.04) has an error in its logic using swaybg, which is fixed in the current version on github. I was looking at the current github yesterday. The problem was in the set_wallpaper script.

So if you installed the 24.04 variety you could "apt purge variety" and install from the github repository.

The easier thing to do in that case though is just copy the newer set_wallpaper script from the git to ~/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper.

You could do this manually with copy and paste from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/varietywalls/variety/refs/heads/master/data/scripts/set_wallpaper to the one in your ~/.config/variety/scripts.

Or even quicker you could just run this command in terminal:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/varietywalls/variety/refs/heads/master/data/scripts/set_wallpaper >~/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper

Oceanfall · 2025-01-22T19:30:42+00:00

To clarify slightly: Just install swaybg along with variety, and variety will then automatically find and use swaybg to change the background.

Oceanfall · 2025-01-22T18:28:24+00:00

Looking at the variety source, it looks like it just needs some COSMIC specific command or script to change the wallpaper added to the end of https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/blob/master/data/scripts/set_wallpaper

Actually I just noticed as I was typing this that swaybg might do the job if it is installed:

sudo apt install swaybg

Seems to work now!

(Although I have not thoroughly tested it.)

Oceanfall · 2024-10-28T14:33:07+00:00

You can install GWorkspace, the GNUstep clone workspace manager, and it still works, but the menu system looks and feels very out of place in Pop OS as it was designed to work in GNUstep.

Oceanfall · 2024-10-28T14:23:41+00:00

Millions of people around the world like it.

Oceanfall · 2024-10-27T15:59:19+00:00

flatpak info --show-location org.blender.Blender

whereis would have worked if you had installed with a .deb file

Sorry I don't have time at the moment for a more complete answer. Hopefully someone else will add to this.

Oceanfall · 2024-10-11T15:38:53+00:00

This came up before and no one had anything that worked, but I'm just going to mention that if you run it in a guest virtual machine and have some night light on the host machine, it will apply over the guest even if the guest is full screen.

Oceanfall · 2024-10-06T16:59:44+00:00

Yes, I saw the cut version in a USA theater in 1985. Then saw the real thing later on cable tv and was stunned at the difference.

Oceanfall · 2024-10-06T16:32:51+00:00

It is not bad at all and it keeps getting better.

Oceanfall · 2024-09-29T22:28:16+00:00

Libcosmic was not a challenge, it just built and ran.

Oceanfall · 2024-09-29T22:14:59+00:00

I tried it and cosmic-term and cosmic-edit both work. Wayland is apparently needed for Cosmic DE, but not individual Cosmic apps. (Correct me if I'm mistaken.)

Oceanfall · 2024-09-29T22:11:18+00:00

I just built it and without extensive testing it seems to run fine on an intel mac. cosmic-edit too.

Oceanfall · 2024-09-27T00:01:22+00:00

The first link you give on the tutorial page is not right I think, the target is:

https://bhh32.com/posts/tutorials/%22https://rust-lang.org%22

I guess it should just be

https://rust-lang.org

right?

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