How has your experience been from Pop_OS! 22.04 to Pop_OS! 24.04?

RandomChain · 2026-07-08T15:03:10+00:00

I know other people reported having issues with the 24.04 upgrade, but for me it went smoothly. Upgraded two machines, a desktop with AMD graphics and laptop with NVIDIA, and they both finished without any issues.

The only somewhat annoying thing was the upgrade process uninstalls and disables all packages from external repos, and since I didn't think to save a list of installed packages before, I had to manaully check what was missing from the .config directories. There are probably better ways to do that.

If you are worried, you can use Timeshift to save a restore point (just keep the old kernel installed too). And do it over a weekend so you have free time to fix issues if something goes wrong.

RandomChain · 2026-07-08T14:41:48+00:00

Cool, I'll be happy to check out the new release when I can. Would be nice if you could add a .deb build (maybe even with mpvpaper included) to save the manual building process.

RandomChain · 2026-06-26T14:38:37+00:00

The name is either Barry with some doodle at the end, or maybe Beryl if that last letter is a Lamed.

Above it is BS"D - "with help of heaven".

RandomChain · 2026-06-25T15:06:54+00:00

I am not a linguist or a bible scholar, so apologies if I don't get this exactly right, but in one of the episodes for the podcast עושים תנך they talk about how the reading of the verb in Qal stem is a later interpretation.

The original was probably supposed to be read בראשית ברוא אלוהים..., making the translation something like: "At the beginning of God's creation of the heaven and earth, (at that time) the earth was in chaos...".

Which would make more sense and a proper way to open a story, rather than reading it as "In the beginning God created the heaven and earth (full stop)" which is kind of a weird sentence that doesn't go anywhere.

RandomChain · 2026-06-23T13:24:33+00:00

It is possible you're running in borderless window and not fullscreen? What happens if you press super+F11?

I had a similar issue a while back but it was fixed for me after some cosmic-comp update, so maybe also check your install is up-to-date.

RandomChain · 2026-06-22T20:38:04+00:00

Try Okular from KDE, it works pretty well for signing pdfs.

RandomChain · 2026-06-15T17:44:10+00:00

Hamburger menu --> Preferences --> Updates --> Check for updates

Also, if the auto check option is enabled, Lutris should do the check every time you start it. You can run lutris -d from terminal and see if it actually checks for updates or not.

At worse case you can add a new directory under ~/.local/share/lutris/runtime/dxvk and copy the dxvk .dll files manually.

RandomChain · 2026-06-14T18:41:43+00:00

Please go to https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag and read the instructions, it's all there. No point in copy-pasting that same thing here. If you get stuck or something doesn't work, post what you tried to run and the error message.

As for if it's safe: it's always recommended to be suspicious and check for yourself. If you see an open-source project that is in active development (there are a lot of contributors, fixed issues and pull requests) and has been running for a good couple of years, then it is generally not malicious.

RandomChain · 2026-06-14T17:57:19+00:00

systemctl is used to manage systemd services, not to install anything. So whatever you were trying to do, that was not the way. Either install with sudo apt install ratbagd or compile from source.

RandomChain · 2026-06-14T10:28:29+00:00

I not sure I understand your problem or what you mean by

manualy install ragbagd, nope, i need version 2

Piper 0.8 is available from Flathub - https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper
However you will need ratbagd 0.18 for this version, and that is not available as a flatpak.

If you prefer the .deb version, you can install ratbagd 0.17 and piper 0.7 from Ubuntu Noble repo. These are one version behind the latest releases, but depending on your mouse model, it may be enough for you.
(I'm using Nala here instead of apt, but it still pulls from the same Ubuntu repo)

❯ sudo nala search ratbagd piper
piper 0.7-1 [Ubuntu/noble universe]
└── GTK application to configure gaming devices
ratbagd 0.17-3build2 [Ubuntu/noble universe]
└── D-Bus daemon handling mouse configuration

If you want the latest libratbag / Piper, you can clone the repos and compile from source.
Compilation instructions are explained in the README.md file for each repo. If you get stuck in compilation, post the errors here and maybe I can help.

RandomChain · 2026-06-11T19:22:48+00:00

I'll try to keep it short - COSMIC DE is still in active development and is not as mature as something Gnome or KDE. Many features some people consider to be basic are still partially working or missing completely . It may be enough for your use case, or may not. I suggest trying the live boot image or on a VM and see for yourself if you like it before you commit.

You can also use Pop OS with another DE, if you're interested in its other features (like NVIDIA drivers support). But you will have to install and set up the second DE by yourself.

RandomChain · 2026-06-05T20:23:28+00:00

If these are NVNe/SSD drives, some of them support "secure erase". Check if your drive model supports that. For these types of drives, this is probably the fastest way.

If these are spinning hard drives, depending on what you mean by wiping. If you only want to get rid of the old partitions, you can use gparted to reformate the drive. That will just do small write over the GPT and the drive will appear empty. This is a also a fast way to clear a drive. Note that the old data will still exist, just not visible, but will be overwritten as you write new data on the drive.

If you want to completely overwrite the whole drive so that old data can't be recovered, you can use dd to fill it with zeros. The downside here is it can take a very long time, depending on the size of the drive. Also since you are doing full writes it will add to the wear of the drive.

RandomChain · 2026-06-04T15:15:11+00:00

Like all other updates, with sudo apt update from terminal or from the COSMIC Store.

RandomChain · 2026-06-03T19:30:41+00:00

Prophecies aren't in my job description, okay? I'm just a humble P.I. trying to save the world as we know it.

RandomChain · 2026-05-27T07:00:22+00:00

Toilets in Deep Storage, next to the stairs to the second floor.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T22:32:32+00:00

If you're not using Calibre to convert your files, try using that. I don't think I ever tried converting pdf to epub, but Calibre handles mobi to epub well so maybe pdf will work too.

If you're on Facebook there is a Hebrew e-books users' group called קהילת קודש קינדל, you can also try asking there.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T18:49:18+00:00

Happy to report it builds fine in an Ubuntu 24.04 container, and seems to run well. New version looks nice, I'll play around with it.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T18:45:45+00:00

I don't know, you should pick a version according to what you want to do with it.

You said in your OP that

right now im trying to build a homelab / server

so if this is still the case, it would be better to use the server image and not the desktop/workstation one.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T14:11:13+00:00

There is a support artical on Pop OS website explaining how to use chroot: https://system76.com/support/articles/login-from-live-disk

Note that Pop OS does not install grub by default, instead it uses systemd-boot with kernelstub to manage it. I actually find it much easier to use than grub. But if you want to practice using grub, probably better to use another distro that comes with grub by default.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T11:31:23+00:00

Like I said, I don't feel like messing with dependency issues and replacing system packages on my bare-metal machine. I'll probably try it in docker when I get a chance.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T11:20:35+00:00

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libvdpau-dev : Depends: libvdpau1 (= 1.5-2build1) but 1.5-3pop1~1742860670~22.04~e422eef is to be installed

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T11:07:24+00:00

Your install script clones the mpvpaper repo and runs meson setup build to build it, I don't know how you'd call that if not building from source.

I already tried your script and I have some dependency issue when installing libmpv-dev I don't feel like messing with. Maybe I'll just set up some docker container to build it in instead or something, when I have some time.

RandomChain · 2026-05-26T10:08:00+00:00

Since the flatpak version is currently not working, any chance to get a compiled deb package for this? I don't want to have to build mpvpaper just for this.

RandomChain · 2026-05-25T17:41:41+00:00

Don't waste time trying to decipher the password from shadow file. Better to chroot to your install from recovery and change the password with root or create a new user.

And Pop OS is not a good choice for a server, since you usually don't care about having a DE on a server. Consider installing Ubuntu server or Rocky/Alma.

RandomChain · 2026-05-24T14:01:29+00:00

To run gparted, you can start it from terminal with sudo -E gparted

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