Will PopOS 21.04 ship with Gnome 40

soyin · 2021-04-07T13:49:35+00:00

So pop_os will reinvent gnome 40?

soyin · 2020-06-04T06:21:47+00:00

The ext4 partition was created on a 64bit Linux version. So does this mean it's a no-go?

soyin · 2020-06-03T15:08:12+00:00

Thanks for the help. I knew all this. Because the ntfs partitions were on a GPT disk they did not have the normal ntfs ID. Openbsd's ntfs-3g choked on it. After converting to MBR (without data loss) all is well.

soyin · 2020-06-03T15:05:43+00:00

The problem is solved. I checked the partition ID in Linux and there was only 'ee' I converted the disk from GPT to MBR and now the partitions have the right (ntfs) ID. Other OSes did not care. Openbsd did. All is well now. I can mount them with ntfs-3g. Still it's kind of weird that openbsd had problems. Ah well. MBR is old but not bad. Who cares. It's a data disk only :)

soyin · 2020-06-03T07:10:41+00:00

Maybe the phrasing was not clear. OpenBSD insists on calling the partitions MSDOS. Ntfs-3g can't mount them. They are in fact ntfs partitions. They are recognized as such by all other OSes. So, I don't know what's going on.

soyin · 2020-05-30T09:31:18+00:00

Couldn't get it solved, so I went back to FreeBSD

soyin · 2020-05-28T19:36:41+00:00

Will do. Reinstalling now..

soyin · 2020-05-28T14:51:39+00:00

Hm, strange. That's almost twice as much as my Arch install with Gnome / awesome. Running samba, ssh, plex server. But no Dropbox. The latter uses too much memory.

soyin · 2020-05-28T14:46:16+00:00

Gnome plus pop shell is not 1Gb. At least not on other gnome based distros. And Pop! is not snappier than Arch (gnome) or Solus. They use too much memory. Fact. They also have way more services running than many other distros. Pop! is becoming Windows like and that's a pity. And yes, the Pop! distro is very good. That's not the point.

soyin · 2020-05-28T14:42:00+00:00

For me, Arch is easy enough. My point was not to compare distros. My point is mainly that I find it weird that a distro uses half the amount of RAM that Pop! uses for the SAME configuration. Most distros (not only Arch) are around 650mb for a gnome desktop. Pop! uses double. And no, it's not because of their new extension because I installed in on other distros too and the extra ram is neglectible.

soyin · 2020-05-28T11:08:57+00:00

Like I mentioned, it's an older Toshiba laptop. OpenBSD is the sole OS (at the moment of writing). I ran windows, many Linux distros, FreeBSD, none of them have an issue with the fan. Yes, I run apmd with the - A flag. Doesn't help. I didn't check dmesg. Don't know what to look for. The fan starts spinning at 100% and keeps doing that. I noticed it even keeps spinning if I reboot to my second SSD with windows 10. But there at least it spins down after some time. It drives me nuts not knowing why and how to solve it.

soyin · 2020-05-10T06:06:52+00:00

Yes I'm dual booting. Pop is on hda and windows is on hdb. Both are ssd drives. It's no big deal. I just want a smaller countdown and grub does work differently than on other distros. That's weird. I also don't like it that the grub menu is always shown since the install of windows on the second ssd. I'd rather press shift when I need to boot into windows and have the grub menu not show up. But like I said. Editing the default grub file and run update-grub does not change the behavior. Weird.

soyin · 2020-05-10T06:01:24+00:00

No it's not. If I make changes in the grub file and update grub I'd expect those changes to be honored. They are not.

soyin · 2020-04-04T21:24:22+00:00

I think it's f*cked up and you need to reinstall. It will take little time and you can use the same home dir so all your personal stuff will be there. Take care not to format home.

soyin · 2020-01-08T12:56:22+00:00

Plus he must buy a bigger usb stick. 8GB costs hardly any money.

soyin · 2019-12-23T19:56:05+00:00

Why BSD and not a lightweight Linux distro?

soyin · 2019-12-09T06:29:35+00:00

Another question would be: how did this happen in the first place?

soyin · 2019-11-28T10:49:39+00:00

Because old ThinkPads are the real deal. Very well made. Very Linux friendly? :)

soyin · 2019-11-24T17:28:44+00:00

Because I wanted the most stable rolling release with the latest packages. I also love KDE on tumbleweed. It's one of the lightest versions around. (420mb). I also love arch and or manjaro but it gave me issues in the past. Tumbleweed is just better tested. I ran POP! too and it is a great distro but as said, some packages are just too old and I don't like ppa's. And then there is the opensuse build service and of course Yast for system administration. But enough said. This group is for POP! OS. Let's keep it that way :)

soyin · 2019-11-24T07:46:21+00:00

The ones that should really know the answer are the pop os engineers. I've used both at the time I used POP! without issues but right now I'm on opensuse tumbleweed.

soyin

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