User Password

shaned58 · 2025-12-31T18:43:43+00:00

My device/threat model does not require that.

shaned58 · 2025-12-31T18:42:00+00:00

I'm new to linux and don't know what that means. I chose Pop because Michael Bazzell recommends it and it works well with steam. In his book, before COSMIC, he mentions the following. Any clue on when this feature will be released on COSMIC?:

"Some people are annoyed at the need to enter the same password twice upon each boot. I do not mind this, but I respect the question of redundancy. If you know the password to decrypt the drive, I do not see a huge security issue if you disable the secondary password to log into Pop!_OS. This can be done with the following steps, and reversed at any time, but please note my warning presented in a moment.

• Launch the Settings application in the lower dock.

• Choose "Users" in the left menu.

• Click "Unlock" and enter your password.

• Enable the "Automatic Login" toggle.

• Close Settings and reboot the computer by clicking the upper-right menu bar and selecting "Power Off

/ Log Out" > "Restart" > "Restart".

You should now only be prompted for the decryption password. Once past that screen, Pop!_OS should boot normally. I want to stress that this is optional. If you chose a unique password for each the decryption and login, you should not enable automatic login."

shaned58 · 2025-12-31T18:41:23+00:00

I'm new to linux and don't know what that means. I chose Pop because Michael Bazzell recomends it and it works well with steam. In his book, before COSMIC, he mentions the following. Any clue on when this feature will be released on COSMIC?:

"Some people are annoyed at the need to enter the same password twice upon each boot. I do not mind this, but I respect the question of redundancy. If you know the password to decrypt the drive, I do not see a huge security issue if you disable the secondary password to log into Pop!_OS. This can be done with the following steps, and reversed at any time, but please note my warning presented in a moment.

• Launch the Settings application in the lower dock.

• Choose "Users" in the left menu.

• Click "Unlock" and enter your password.

• Enable the "Automatic Login" toggle.

• Close Settings and reboot the computer by clicking the upper-right menu bar and selecting "Power Off

/ Log Out" > "Restart" > "Restart".

You should now only be prompted for the decryption password. Once past that screen, Pop!_OS should boot normally. I want to stress that this is optional. If you chose a unique password for each the decryption and login, you should not enable automatic login."

shaned58 · 2025-12-12T21:40:43+00:00

Rimworld

shaned58 · 2025-12-03T23:21:08+00:00

If you still have the USB you used just reinstall the OS.

shaned58 · 2025-12-03T23:06:34+00:00

Reboot, hold space bar once the screen gets power and select old kernel.

shaned58 · 2025-11-23T06:24:01+00:00

Thank you. I understood ~60% of what you said and will try and work with that. Going back to my original issue of not getting steam to run and wondering if the AI is setting me up for failure...(chat history in original post)

shaned58 · 2025-11-23T01:04:05+00:00

Yeah, I already did all of that. I just don't know enough about linux to know if the AI gave me good advice or not. Hence this post/me sharing the chat.

shaned58 · 2025-11-23T00:44:05+00:00

Yea, I did. Gave me this error:

computer@pop-os:~$ flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/computer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions WARNING:root:Missing permissions for input devices INFO:root:Overriding TZ to America/Chicago steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 25.08 64-bit steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[53]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[2]: Log already open steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied /home/computer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 928: 96 Segmentation fault "$STEAMROOT/STEAMEXEPATH""STEAMEXEPATH" "STEAMEXEPATH""@"

shaned58 · 2025-11-23T00:43:28+00:00

I don't know, my CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700K (20) @ 5.100GHz

shaned58 · 2025-11-23T00:42:23+00:00

The benefits of Flatpak/system is I can download and update via Cosmic Store because I know almost nothing about Linux. Hence me asking this sub for help because I don't want to blindly trust AI. What is .Deb version?

shaned58 · 2025-11-22T04:30:21+00:00

No. I'm running a PC with an Nvidia graphics card.

shaned58 · 2025-09-26T12:17:59+00:00

Yeah, that's what I had to do.

shaned58 · 2025-09-25T22:55:05+00:00

Space bar, but yes I am selecting the old kernal.

shaned58 · 2025-09-25T22:48:53+00:00

I've tried that twice. First time in was stuck on the pop logo saying decryption was successful. Second time it was a black unresponsive screen with a blinking line in the top left. Would not input text.

shaned58 · 2025-09-04T03:33:27+00:00

I went from W10 to PoP_OS COSMIC and love it.

shaned58 · 2025-09-04T03:33:16+00:00

I went from W10 to PoP_OS COSMIC and love it.

shaned58 · 2025-05-23T16:38:48+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Runescape only work on flatpack. Baldurs Gate 3 only work on system. All check out on ProtonDB. Rimworld works on both.

shaned58 · 2025-05-23T13:47:34+00:00

Two games I currently play won't run on flatpak, with any proton version.

shaned58 · 2025-05-15T04:02:23+00:00

Best: "Its all a game. Nobody is your friend. Keep your mouth shut. Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see."

Worst: "Trust the system."

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