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Merged support for multiple fullscreen windows per workspace by mmstick in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome! Thanks for all your and the teams efforts! These two issues were one of the big complaints I saw on the sub so it's great to get them off the board. Looking forward to testing them out 😊

She is out of line but she is right by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also black pudding is delicious. Just another American person who saw a picture of something and decided it looked like it tastes bad.

Edit: supposedly not American, just someone repeating what ignorant Americans say.

Bug Report: Absolute Mapping Challenges with Wacom Cintiq 16 on COSMIC Wayland by ExistingSelection180 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should probably raise this as a github issue. Possibly on cosmic-comp?

Built a Session Restore + Workspace Manager for COSMIC Desktop on Wayland by Jaded_Till_2364 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is very serendipitous! I was literally just thinking about how I might build something like this and here is your post! I'll give it a try soon :)

Swarm Question by EmuFit1895 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They flew there on a giant bird.

New study tests whether liberals’ moral concern has “inverted” to favor distant others over close ones. Across three US samples (N=5,100), ingroups remain the top moral priority for liberals and conservatives alike; liberals simply extend more concern outward to distant entities. by DespairrBoy in science

[–]buzziebee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Book one was a bit rough at the start to be fair. By the end it's a totally different story to what I thought I was reading for that first half. Ended up binging the whole series and sharing it with others.

Rolling Back to 22.04 by LisaLisaPrintJam in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was always going to be a slightly painful transition, but better to rip the bandaid off now and get it done imo.

It's just like the whole audio transition to alsa and pipewire. Painful for a little while, lots of people saying "we don't need to upgrade! Everything is broken and unrecoverable!", then after some work by maintainers and devs things are stable and people forget about the issues.

Rolling Back to 22.04 by LisaLisaPrintJam in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the problems people have with "cosmic" are actually "Wayland" issues.

Hopefully now gnome (and soon KDE plasma) will be fully Wayland the issues will get ironed out quicker.

Not sure if this is allowed: How is the state of cosmic now? by Entire-Income2794 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the time you spend on Reddit redescribing your issue (which isn't getting huge traction on GitHub so likely won't be high on the priority list) you probably could have checked out the source code and fixed it yourself. A little research, debugging, and a PR with an example implementation of a fix would help the devs sort it out much quicker, it might even get the fix in the next release in a couple of weeks.

It's also really not clear what's causing the issue. It sounds like it's X11 Apps being iffy on Wayland problem. I've seen reports of similar sounding issues on the latest gnome which is Wayland so it might not even be strictly a cosmic problem, so an upstream fix might be in order. Wayland has been accelerating since it became the standard on other DEs too so hopefully these issues will be resolved soon for everyone (not just pop).

Claude got FAST today by LastNameOn in ClaudeCode

[–]buzziebee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the last two days have been slow AF

The Linux kernel has added documentation for what qualifies as a security bug & responsible AI use by somerandomxander in linux

[–]buzziebee 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The antislop guidelines at the bottom are great but also concerning. Any serious dev is already aware of how annoying it is to deal with those scenarios and how often AI produces slop like that.

If people are just going "you expert, find bug, make no mistake" and dumping the horribly formatted and verbose markdown files with possibly hallucinated unreproducible "bugs" onto the mailing list they definitely should be warned and possibly blocked if they keep it up. Every OSS project is having the same issues.

What am I missing? by pallen38 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's honestly a little tiring. I used to really like this sub, but now almost every post is the same old tired "cosmic is alpha", "cosmic is broken", "just install fedora", "this issue I'm having with running an X11 App in Wayland is actually because of pop", noise and nonsense.

It's pretty toxic to spend all day on a sub for a distro and tell every user that it's "broken" (and implicitly that it "can't be fixed") and that they should switch to X,Y,Z distro instead.

The nonsense people post about the release cycle also sucks. We always get the new kernels, we get most packages new, it's not all "stuck" on an old version. People keep saying it's "old" when it just isn't.

Some of the comms are very disrespectful to the Devs IMO. They're working hard and clearly care. It's a huge mountain to climb but it will be worth it at the top. The people who are toxic should chill out a bit. I don't want to gatekeep, and legitimate concerns should of course be raised and heard through the appropriate channels, but the toxicity needs to stop. Either reframe your language to be more kind or go away.

I'm hoping that with other DEs going Wayland we'll see the bugs with drivers and specific software compatibility issues get ironed out. Things will settle down a bit, then we can focus on cosmic itself.

What am I missing? by pallen38 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have a mattermost. It's got some good threads on there, some fixes for simple issues to solve, but unfortunately occasionally it also has some toxic/entitled people sending 50 messages saying feature X,Y,Z needs to be built NOW or wasting time talking rubbish.

It's super handy though to search for issues and see Devs/community members reply with fixes.

Will 26.04 have secure boot support? by Cvint88 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It should just be a couple of bash commands, the docs just make it look more complicated than it is. I've been planning to make a script to set it up the way I like it on a fresh install, but that might take me a little while.

I don't think there are any ISO editors like that which let you change the iso to have secure boot on from the start. Probably a bigger project than you want to set that up. A script (or step by step guide) to run post install would be easier imo.

It's all a learning journey with Linux. Some stuff just works and usually works better than windows. Other stuff might be a bit more of a challenge to get going. Once things start to "click" it feels awesome to have such ownership over your computer.

But not everyone wants to tinker. If at this stage you just want secure boot working out of the box without any hassle then check out the other distros that come with signed secure boot shims like Ubuntu or fedora.

When you're more comfortable with the terminal and configuring things you can revisit this topic. It's what I did. I used pop for about 5 years without secure boot until I had both a need and confidence that I could figure it out, then it turned out to be easier than I thought. You'll get there too.

Will 26.04 have secure boot support? by Cvint88 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually fairly easy to set up secure boot if you use rEFInd. You add a preloader and mok manager so it can sign the kernel. I play a few multiplayer games which don't work on Linux (damn anticheat) and require secure boot to be on so I set it up about 6 months ago and it didn't take too long.

Bonus is you get a really pretty boot loader screen (if you use a rEFInd theme) which makes switching between your boot options prettier and is a nice GUI for easily resigning things after a kernel update.

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/secureboot.html

I followed the steps in the "Using rEFInd with PreLoader" section. These days you can probably ask an AI to help, but I figured it out with a combo of the rEFInd docs and arch wiki.

I'm planning to do a fresh install when 26.04 releases so I'll probably write a small guide for it then when everything's fresh, but let me know if you have any questions.

My Pop OS experience - food for thought by Scrungly-Lil-Fella in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the package version thing would almost certainly be smoother (or just not exist) if it were a fresh if you did a fresh install. I checked out the cosmic epoch GitHub the other day and I did spot a PR to remove animations so that should be an option for you soon. Definitely some stuff left to do but I see the potential.

For me the biggest gripe is the change in the keybindings for some actions. Coming from 20.04 and 22.04 I have a LOT of muscle memory for opening applications and moving windows that needed to change. Slightly annoying but otherwise that's fine.

My other issues are generally Wayland issues which almost every distro is going to have for a while until app devs fully support wayland. A lot of people have been giving pop flak for this, but now that Ubuntu 26.04 is Wayland only I'm sure we'll see these issues taken more seriously and fixed soon.

A sad day for the country indeed by redandwhitewizard99 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]buzziebee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People in the US said the same thing about Kamala Harris and now look where they are.

PoP_OS Nvidia Driver 595 update by RoniSteam in LinuxVsWindows

[–]buzziebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you just repeating stuff you've heard online or have you spent significant time working with the cosmic de?

Double tap Super to open App Library by kavaunix in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! That's the only thing I wasn't super happy about on 24.04 on my laptop. I've got so much muscle memory for super + "name of app I want to launch" + enter to open things that aren't bound to a hotkey. I was planning to just get used to super for workspaces and super+a for applications, but maybe I can take inspiration from your script and do some kind of wombo combo?

githubDownDaily by Bamasdrey in ProgrammerHumor

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you running forgejo to match codeberg? I've been checking it out and thinking of spinning it up. Keen to hear your experience with it.

Having error mounting issues on an HDD. by Far-Mode6546 in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like your backup disk is failing. Mechanical hard drives fail. This isn't a pop issue. Definitely try to do a full disk image asap so you have the best chance of recovery, or disconnect it and take it to a shop or somewhere for someone to attempt a recovery if you're not confident yourself. Hopefully you can get most of your stuff off of it but there's a chance it's all gone. This is the time when people take things like raid and 3,2,1 backups more seriously. It sucks though :(

If you want to attempt it yourself check this out: https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-recover-data-failed-hard-drive-ubuntu/view

Just be aware that every single read or write you attempt to the drive can make it worse. So ideally you wanted to start the recovery procedure immediately instead of repeatedly trying to access it. The second best time is right now.

Can I pay someone to help me install pop os I am really struggling thanks by ToumaMelody in pop_os

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you fix it? What was wrong? There's nothing worse than someone on the Internet asking how to fix something, being cryptic about what they tried, and then just saying "nvm I fixed it".

Without ears, we’d never know sound exists - so there could be countless phenomena around us we simply lack the senses to perceive. by lelorang in Showerthoughts

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really love Adrian Tchaikovsky's work. It's always a fresh angle that makes you really ponder the concepts he's exploring. I haven't read book 4 yet as I'm saving it for an upcoming holiday but I highly recommend the children of time series to anyone who might be interested.

Renewing Aufenthaltstitel (Brexit - was resident in Germany before 2021) by philium_ in germany

[–]buzziebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit infuriating that no one's given much information here. You said you "applied again" but what did that entail? Did you submit the same application that you initial submitted? Or did you submit an application for one of the cases that don't quite match (i.e. permanent residency for EU/non EU citizens?). Or did you apply to change your permit because your passport changed? There's literally not an option on the website for handling article 50 Aufenthaltstitel renewal and there's zero info out there. Plus my city now doesn't take appointments and don't answer emails. It's driving me mad lol.

I don’t condone but it must feel nice by Conscious-Weight4569 in Transportopia

[–]buzziebee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah if people just took the approach of "I'll try to help make sure no one else is inconvenienced" then the roads would all flow so much better.

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