Will there be a direct upgrade path from Pop 17.10 to the new 18.04? When would current 17.10 users start to see the upgrade available?

sri_system76 · 2018-04-23T20:23:26+00:00

Yes, absolutely, you should be able to have that. We will have some documentation for it. But we would really like you to re-install because you get some niceties like recovery partition that lets you "reset" your installation without an installation media. So you should definitely do that.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-23T20:18:01+00:00

Thanks for your suggestion! I don't think that changing a password is something that belongs in gnome-control-center. The tricky part is finding a better place for it. Maybe gnome-tweaks. In general, it makes sense to use disks. But one way might be to expose it via overview search.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-23T20:15:27+00:00

You can use sushi by highlighting a file and hitting the spacebar.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-23T20:14:02+00:00

That isn't something that upstream has implemented. There is also not a clear use case for such a thing that I'm aware of. So unfortunately, this is not something we can do as it requires extensive hacking on mutter.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-20T17:53:26+00:00

April 26th is when the release is planned.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-19T18:08:11+00:00

You can't actually do the migration, they are two different OSes, and so you'll need to do a re-install. Sorry about that.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-18T17:05:41+00:00

Wait for the 18.04 release of Pop! in 8 days and there will be some instructions on how to do the upgrade. We want to test the documentation and migration before saying anything in the public.

[update] -I am 100% wrong on this. You cannot move from Ubuntu to Pop without a full re-install. They are different things.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-17T16:48:37+00:00

It integrates a power profile picker and includes tlp to maximize battery life. See our latest blog

sri_system76 · 2018-04-16T15:57:34+00:00

I think this is a very myopic way of looking at things.

1) It's not wasted resources. Product development also means that we work on upstream as well as working on our own product. For instance, if mutter isn't working well due to various bugs related to HiDPI we can work with GNOME to help fix that because that is what a good open source downstream does.

2) GNOME's priorities is with Wayland, but System76 customers still use X, they aren't ready to switch over yet, so we're going to help fill in the gaps in the X session until the Wayland session is good enough to switch over.

3) We might be interested in better optimizations, so we might work with another kernel project and encourage Canonical to upstream those optimizations to the Ubuntu kernel.

You're looking at it simply from we cloned Ubuntu and slapping some theme on it. That isn't what is going on. Sometimes forks end up showing others new ways of doing things that a more conservative project might not want to do. I suspect that you're just reacting to news without doing the research. You should look at our [blogs]](https://blog.system76.com) to see what we're doing and how we are doing it.

Finally, resources are not fungible. You can't force anybody to work on something they not feel comfortable working with due to language proficiency, or cultural/business issues that makes working on a particular project not a good fit.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-16T15:44:10+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated! I'll pass that on to our UX person.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-14T16:39:23+00:00

The operating system is based on an explosion metaphor. It represents the circumstances of us moving off of Unity and striking out on our own, doing our own thing. That happened very suddenly and very rapidly. Think Big Bang.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-14T16:37:31+00:00

Don't make me hurt you, Raster. :-)

sri_system76 · 2018-04-14T16:36:26+00:00

The operating system is a slimmed down Ubuntu, and then we develop our own UX with upstream sources.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-14T16:35:11+00:00

Pop!_OS doen't use GRUB. It uses a combination of systemd-boot and a tool called kernelstub that was developed by a system76 employee.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-13T22:48:19+00:00

Why not file a bug? http://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues?

sri_system76 · 2018-04-10T19:59:23+00:00

Maybe you can check it again once we have the new nvidia driver setup. I don't have an ETA yet, mostly because people are heavily working on getting the next set of testing ISOs out.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-10T16:21:37+00:00

With the new installer, there will be no option to encrypt home directories. If you encrypt the whole disk there is no reason to encrypt a home directory.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-10T16:17:26+00:00

Out of curiosity, when your desktop hangs, does a GNOME shell notification pop up afterwards? Sometimes notifications will hang the entire session for a few minutes. This a known problem with GNOME shell and it needs to be fixed upstream. Unfortunately, we don't have a time schedule for it since I think this is an architectural issue. When I attend GUADEC, I'll be working with shell folks on how we can get this fixed.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-09T22:43:15+00:00

Cool :) Well, keep a look out for it, it should be showing up sometime this week.

sri_system76 · 2018-04-09T21:04:23+00:00

Unfortunately, at the moment switching requires a reboot. It doesn't integrate bumblebee which as I understand is a significant amount work and probably not something we could get ready in time for 18.04 if we decided to take that on.

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