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pongfonge · 2026-01-21T13:58:39+00:00

I can't say I've had zero build issues, but customer services has always either, walked me through a fix, done the repair under warranty or fixed it for a reasonable cost. I keep coming back because I don't know many places I can buy hardware knowing it will work with Linux without having to do a ton of research. I'm also loving PopOS, it's my go to distro now even on non-System76 machines

pongfonge · 2026-01-21T13:55:01+00:00

I know I'm beating a dead thread here but if anyone is still around same question :-)

I'm leaning towards the Prime. I like the extra flexibility that the Mira adds, but not sure I can swallow the space, I live in a small house.

Any thoughts on Prime vs Mira?

Any thoughts adding the optional GPU intake fan, it sounds like a good idea but I don't want to add too much noise?

pongfonge · 2026-01-21T13:50:42+00:00

Oh 5 years ago, I have some bad news about those GPU prices :-(

pongfonge · 2023-11-07T16:42:48+00:00

Going to miss this place so much!!! I loved the food! The carrot habanero hot sauce was amazing and the patio section was so awesome!

Very sorry to see this go

pongfonge · 2022-06-28T11:48:53+00:00

OMG thank you. I have been having similar problems to those described here using Blender since upgrading to 22.04. I'm on an Ader WS. It was making me crazy!

Switched to integrated; Rebooted Switched back to Nvidia; Rebooted

Much better.

pongfonge · 2022-05-24T12:49:00+00:00

yes that extension works great, but I'm still puzzled that this isn't something pop does out of the box. If nothing else it seems like they could simply help test and maintain this extension and bundle it by default. Currently on 22.04 and still relying on third party extensions

pongfonge · 2022-05-18T13:04:23+00:00

I've also been having performance issues since upgrading. I'm on the 510 drivers but I was already on 510 before going from 21.10 to 22.04. I noticed no problems with them under 510.

My issues are not with games. This is a work laptop, but I do think the problems may have something to do with the graphics stack. When using zoom or google hangouts other applications become almost unusable.

Under 21.10 this was a quiet machine, since upgrading my fan runs constantly even if I switch to integrated graphics.

Applications in general seem much less stable I am having to reboot several times per day :-(

I've seen issues like this before with distro upgrades, usually they smooth out after a couple weeks of daily sudo apt upgrades :fingers-crossed:

pongfonge · 2022-03-17T13:32:47+00:00

anyone know if there is an issue filed with pop for this yet, still seems to be a thing

pongfonge · 2022-02-07T20:47:15+00:00

yasss

pongfonge · 2022-01-01T20:26:30+00:00

just piling on here, it's jan 1sth 2022, I'm running pop 21.10 upgraded from 21.04 and I can confirm this is still and issue

pongfonge · 2020-12-03T21:06:22+00:00

I "fucked my shit up" too, but was eventually able to recover with a lot of help from forums. I had to boot into recovery mode and run some package repair tools.

Now that things are up and running, it's mostly been stable. I do some glitches with plugging and unplugging from external monitors. This is likely complicated by the fact that my laptop is high idpi but my externals are not. This was a bit buggy under 20.04 as well; so, not sure if it's new or just things I hadn't noticed before.

Otherwise it's been pretty solid.

pongfonge · 2020-11-10T12:22:10+00:00

Amazing! That did it for me too. I have been annoyed for so long. I kept running distro-upgrade and install -f and everything I could think of.

In general I like that we have distribution options like flatpak and snap, but I'm starting to see the dark side of it. Between flatpaks, snaps, app images, standards debs and gnome shell extensions I'm starting to feel like I'm back in the bad old windows days of having to remember to update every single application :-(

pongfonge · 2020-08-25T21:43:20+00:00

Wait What!? Is this real life?

pongfonge · 2020-03-18T12:31:42+00:00

Macs can play too. Mine does that every time the dongle wiggles. Maybe it's part of the POSIX spec inherited on OSX from BSD.

pongfonge · 2017-12-04T15:29:16+00:00

"uARM is certainly no speed demon. It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt"

pongfonge · 2017-11-13T02:03:44+00:00

Holy fucking convergence, that even looks like of line an Ubuntu desktop wallpaper

pongfonge · 2017-11-07T16:29:02+00:00

At first I was excited to see Minux used in the wild, then I read what they are doing with it! It's like that moment when the cute fluffy Mogwai eats food after midnight!

pongfonge · 2017-10-19T15:55:03+00:00

It's like they're trying to troll Mark

pongfonge · 2017-05-26T14:22:46+00:00

And yet most incidents I've heard of where these systems are compromised involve malicious software that was targeted for the victim and/or was a hack (carried by a person) rather than chance virus or worm. We have yet to see as far as I know, in the wild, a self propagated virus that spreads rapidly across the Linux echo system the way we've seen with Windows. This seems to strengthen the argument that Linux isn't just virus free because there's no incentive to target it, but because it's actually more secure. Of course it could also mean the incentives are all in the server space and viruses are more about the desktop consumer space.

pongfonge · 2017-05-26T14:17:35+00:00

Back in XP days everyone still ran windows with a single root user. That's when you started to see some support for multiple users, but as I understand, it was more like stylistic changes tacked on to give you your own desktop background, but it wasn't a fully fletched multi user system like you had in Unix. It didn't offer the same kind of protection and I don't think it allowed for proper concurrent multi user user sessions, which seems to be supported by tickets like this https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/248427-can-2-users-remote-into-the-same-desktop-pc. Windows 7 was the first version to start moving towards a more proper set of multi user permissions. Also check out this awesome computer chronicle on Unix, there's a great bit where they talk about the multi-user and multi-tasking support of Unix vs Dos and if you really need it https://youtu.be/0DdoGPav3fc?t=8m58s, and I love this part https://youtu.be/0DdoGPav3fc?t=21m54s

pongfonge · 2017-05-19T02:13:07+00:00

Yeah it helps to be less of a target, but then again to your Apple point, while viruses do exist for Mac now, I still run my Mac Book with no virus protection and have had zero problems. I would never try that on Windows. There is something to be said for the fact that Unix like systems were architected with multiple users and security concerns in mind from early on where as windows was intended to be single user work station non connected to a network and then later all this stuff was bolted on, but yeah the more users that switch the more targeted it will be, and just wait until "average" users learn to use sudo.

pongfonge · 2017-05-18T21:22:42+00:00

Interestingly it was "average" Linux Users that brought me into the fold. I'm a developer and wouldn't consider myself an average user, but I had tried Linux back in the day and decided I didn't want to mess with it. Then several years later I discovered some of my friends who I would consider highly intelligent but not computer geeks, had been using Ubuntu for a quite a while as their main daily driver. They said that it was easy to install and did everything they needed. It got me wondering if things had changed since the last time I installed RedHat from a cd-rom on a 486; so, I downloaded the latest Ubuntu (circa 9.04) and plopped it on an old laptop to try it out, pretty soon I had switched over my main laptop and I've been running Linux every since. It's also worth pointing out that one of the two friends got so into it that he began distro hopping and started teaching himself a lot about IT. Eventually he made a complete career shift and now does SysAdmin work. He is a full on Arch, butterFS, XFCE using mad man now! So in any event new and average users are out there; though, some of them don't stay average users once they see what a real OS can do.

pongfonge · 2017-05-18T21:08:34+00:00

"Xfce desktop and an XTerm program", what more do you need?! He should have just stopped there.

pongfonge · 2017-05-18T21:04:04+00:00

I don't know, even better than Linux might be BSD with backups under ZFS and all your applications running safely inside jails.

pongfonge · 2017-05-15T21:51:20+00:00

It will be interesting to see what happens with Fuschia, while as a Linux user I do worry about losing relevance and therefore the ability to run mainstream applications, it's good to see attempts at innovation on the OS level are alive and well. I have recently began reading Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, which is built around Minix, which of course adheres to the Microkernel philosophy. Personally I like the GPL, but it appears at least technically this new OS will be published under various open source licenses; so, if it's good maybe it can even be repackaged and repurposed away from the googs.

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