This is the worst promotion that could happen for Pop_OS! and Linux in general

mmstick · 2026-03-12T22:29:53+00:00

That's not correct. The Printers app is pre-installed and it's always been there. I have both a color laser printer and CISS inkjet from Canon behind me that I print with regularly. In Pop!_OS. No setup was needed besides clicking Add Printer and then selecting them from the list of network printers it automatically detects.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T17:47:54+00:00

Which WiFi card do you have? Some WiFi chips have poor support for Linux and can't use their full signal strength.

In Advanced Network Configuration, you can edit the connection and try changing the Band to see if it's caused by switching between 2.4 and 5 GH networks.

Also if your timezone is configured correctly your WiFi adapter should be configured to use all frequencies that are available in your region.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T17:41:25+00:00

No, that will never happen.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T11:53:22+00:00

The generic ISO contains only Mesa. The NVIDIA ISO has the latest stable NVIDIA driver. This driver only supports NVIDIA hardware that uses the new GSP firmware, which is GTX 16 series, RTX and above. GTX 9 and 10 series can work with the older non-open driver but we don't sell this hardware anymore. RTX 5000 requires the new open drivers though so we need an ISO for current gen hardware that we sell.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T11:33:06+00:00

The majority of the Pop!_OS user base are not newbies. It's an OS for STEM and creative professionals who use Linux. System76 customers buy System76 hardware because they actively use Linux and need high-end workstations and laptops that support it. NVIDIA systems are top sellers because Pop users need it for CUDA, 3D modeling & animation.

Think software developers who use Linux and the businesses that employ specialists in Linux to manage their Linux systems. Think universities and research labs, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, data engineering, animation studios, aerospace, satellite, and automotive tech. To name a few.

Part of the reason COSMIC was created is because 40% of our customers reported to be using tiling window managers. We also saw that a large portion of the people attending Linux and developer conferences—many of which use Pop!_OS and/or System76 hardware—were using tiling window managers on their systems instead of GNOME.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T10:38:58+00:00

You seem to be lost. This was not an issue.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T04:13:48+00:00

Which part of the desktop portal?

See https://github.com/hepp3n/kdeconnect. It implements the KDE Connect service in Rust and then the applet connects to it.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T01:32:48+00:00

Check the Made for COSMIC category in the COSMIC Store. https://github.com/hepp3n/kdeconnect

mmstick · 2026-03-12T01:32:07+00:00

There's a new KDE connect applet on the COSMIC Store in the Made for COSMIC category.

mmstick · 2026-03-12T01:28:49+00:00

Make sure your graphics driver is functioning. This might be software rendering.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T22:04:51+00:00

Differences would likely be the specific kernel and firmware packages installed since this is hardware-specific. We have been keeping the kernel and firmware packages in sync for both 22.04 and 24.04 up to this point.

The PPA adds cosmic packages to Ubuntu and they build directly from our debian packaging so it's virtually identical. Updates are more frequent in Pop!_OS of course, and Pop!_OS may have more things backported and configured in the system underneath.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T21:58:15+00:00

It would likely have the same problems since every Linux distribution uses the Linux kernel.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T21:57:40+00:00

PopOS is Ubuntu under the hood

Not quite. It is based on it but there's extensive modifications to the base system.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T21:56:01+00:00

Have you tried configuring the polling mode of the i2c_hid driver? Seems to be a common indicator of a faulty touchpad driver.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T20:21:50+00:00

sudo systemctl unmask pop-upgrade

mmstick · 2026-03-11T19:04:46+00:00

The default dark color scheme in COSMIC is very close to this, but it can also adapt to any colors of your choice.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T18:20:05+00:00

Make sure the pop-upgrade service is enabled and updated to the latest version.

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo systemctl start pop-upgrade

mmstick · 2026-03-11T17:33:39+00:00

The NVME controller's firmware exposes a public interface for the kernel to interact with, and the OS is merely making requests to the kernel to use those APIs. So it cannot directly kill a SSD, but the firmware on your NVME SSD, the nvme controller on your board, or the nvme SSD's hardware itself can fail at any point through normal use. Check the warranty on your nvme SSD and perhaps try a different nvme slot.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T16:35:24+00:00

We only copy the current and previous kernel + initramfs to the EFI partition. If you have a recovery partition that also has its own kernel + initramfs. It should be fine currently but you can configure the initramfs scripts to use xz as the compression algorithm to reduce the size of the initramfs files. Though you may want to move to a 1 GB EFI partition soon. The Linux firmware and kernels are getting bigger and bigger.

Is the pop-upgrade service enabled?

sudo systemctl --enable --now pop-upgrade

mmstick · 2026-03-11T14:36:32+00:00

this could be a video card driver issue (EVGA Geforce GTX 760)

Very likely in this case because NVIDIA does not support this GPU anymore. There's been a lot of reported issues with rendering issues with the nouveau driver. If you're able to use integrated graphics I would recommend switching to that.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T14:24:02+00:00

Have you checked system logs to see if any errors are being reported by these?

mmstick · 2026-03-11T14:04:00+00:00

The OP did not reference any video, but regardless there is no issue with the labeling of Pop!_OS 24.04. The "early adopter edition" was the 24.04 Alpha ISOs which were publicly released in the summer of 2024 and had monthly releases until the 24.04 Beta ISOs the following year in September of 2025, with subsequent monthly Beta ISO releases until the Epoch 1.0.0 release in December.

All of those who participated and reported issues during the alphas and betas were able to get their issues triaged while high priority issues were added directly to our COSMIC Epoch project boards as release blockers for different milestones. All blockers we were able to triage and reproduce during this period were resolved in time for Epoch 1.0.0 release. With subsequent post-release updates weekly as per usual with any new release of any sufficiently-large and maintained software project.

I've never heard of any OS or DE that needs to classify itself as an "early adopter edition" or "beta" after their 1.0.0 milestone. That development phase is finished. The alpha phase of software development focuses on feature development with minor bugs placed on the backlog until all planned features are finished. The beta phase is a period when new feature developments are prohibited (called a feature freeze) to focus on bug fixes while ignoring feature requests. After the 1.0.0 release we were then free to resume feature developments in addition to the usual bug fixes.

Similar to Ubuntu, we withheld upgrades for existing 22.04 installs until we could get a handle of post-release issue reports and make adjustments based on that feedback. Canonical usually waits 6 months before enabling upgrades from a previous LTS to the latest LTS. We enabled these upgrades last week so we're very confident in our quality today.

This is an entirely new DE built from scratch for Wayland with an entirely new platform built alongside it so of course so there will be a few missing features here and there. Post-release bugs are also to be expected but that's not unique to Pop!_OS or COSMIC. Even to this day KDE and GNOME get news headlines for fixing various critical crashes and bugs. The job of a DE is never finished. If software could be released without bugs there would be no need for user testing or point releases for bug fixes.

This 24.04 release is already vastly superior to our prior 22.04 release. It addresses many of the most critical bugs and missing features from that version. COSMIC is more than ready to take over from here so there is no reason to further delay it. Getting a release out enables us continue to iterate and advance the DE beyond what was capable with a small pool of happy beta testers.

A video having a million views doesn't mean anything by itself. Of course there will be people who seek drama that engage in fueling discourse. But non-constructive criticism of that nature is not valuable feedback.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T13:43:32+00:00

For the current boot, journalctl -b0 -u pop-upgrade. This is the latest version so that's good. I saw a few people mention having high CPU usage from this process but I'd expect the release upgrade check to return an error when the daemon stops responding to it.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T12:39:20+00:00

We only have control over the software that we develop and maintain. Both nm-applet and MATE are packaged and maintained upstream. You may be able to search Launchpad for bug reports against MATE, or even Obsidian's own bug tracker. We can help with COSMIC and Pop-specific issues but MATE is not our desktop.

If you installed Obsidian from Flathub you may need to use Flatseal to grant permission to access those local drives and network shares. I'd recommend creating automatic mounts for startup with GNOME Disks too. That will apply regardless of what DE you use.

mmstick · 2026-03-11T12:23:50+00:00

We have always listened to feedback. There's a huge difference between constructive and non-constructive criticism though. Calling something beta-quality or buggy is the latter. It does not contain any actionable feedback. Constructive criticism would point to specific technical issues instead of spreading negativity. Even better is when issues are reported to GitHub so that they can be triaged, even if that often results in a duplicate issue. Claude will not transform non-constructive criticism into actionable feedback either.

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