Pop!_OS (Linux)

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Pop!_OS is an operating system developed by System76 for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. Unleash your potential on secure, reliable open source software. Based on your exceptional curiosity, we sense you have a lot of it.

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Whether this is your first experience with Linux, or your latest adventure, all are welcome to discuss and ask questions about Pop!_OS and COSMIC. Keep the discussions friendly though, and remember to assume good intentions whenever you reply. We're all here because we have a shared love for Linux and open source software.

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Support us by buying System76 hardware for you or your company! Or by donating on the Pop!_OS website through the "Support Pop" button. Pop!_OS and COSMIC are fully funded by System76 hardware sales. All systems are assembled in the USA. With your support, we'll work to push the Linux desktop forward with COSMIC.

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Follow the Code of Conduct

All posts on pop_os must adhere to the Pop!_OS community Code of Conduct. https://github.com/pop-os/code-of-conduct

Be helpful

Posts to pop_os must be helpful. When responding to a user asking for help, do not provide tongue-in-cheek responses like "RTM" or links to LMGTFY. Linking to direct sources that answer the asker's question is fine, but it's advised to provide some explanation as to how you got to that source.

Critique should be constructive

We within the Pop!_OS community welcome helpful criticism or ideas on ways to improve. However, basic "It's bad" or other simple negative comments don't help anyone fix anything. When voicing a complaint about something, try to point out ways the complaint could be improved or worked around, so that we can make a better product for it.

This rule applies to both Pop!_OS and its projects as well as other products available from third-parties.

Don't post malicious "advice"

It can be funny to joke about malicious commands, however this is not the venue for it. Do not advise users to run commands which will lock up their systems, steal their data, or erase their drive. Examples of this include (but are not limited to) fork bombs, rm, etc.

Posts violating this rule will be removed, even if the post is clearly in jest. Repeated offences may lead to a ban. You may understand that the command isn't serious, but a new user might not.

No personal attacks

Posts making a personal attack on any user will not be tolerated.

No hate speech

Hate speech of any kind will not be tolerated. Any violations will be removed, and are grounds for a ban.

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Community themes for the COSMIC™ desktop by System76.

GitHub Repository: cosmic-themes-org-py

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I created a GitHub repository to showcase COSMIC projects.

I included the projects I could find but if you have an project and want to include it, please open a pull request with your project added to the applications.ron or applets.ron file.

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I did as the title says. After the update, I landed on a loading screen for 22.04. I thought it was part of the update process, but it seemed strange that the version wasn't correct. Is this normal?

The loading screen is all gray, with pop os version 22.04 written on it. There are 4 small dots underneeth the text that change colours from time to time.

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I recently made the jump on installing Linux/Pop OS on my main streaming and gaming laptop for the first time.

The laptop has two hard drives, with linux being installed on the smaller SSD. I've backed up all of my data before the install, so that's not a worry. I'm just interested in having access to the 1TB HD.

Thank you in advance!

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A speck more original?

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Simple wallpaper

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So I am moving into cosmic and liking it so far. In the terminal I see that there is a way to save passwords, but how do I then use them?

Like if i was going to ssh somewhere how do i tell ssh to get the password from the terminal?

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Found the Ryzen wallpaper years ago, added the Radeon logo.

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Aargh. My @pop_os_official saga takes a different turn...

I use a legacy #Java desktop app called #JMRI to control my model railway. It's clunky and the UI is awful but it's the only tool that does the job.

Unfortunately it won't play nice with high density displays and won't display properly on #popos. So I have to revert to #KDE #Plasma 6 because of its fractional scaling abilities. Bye @pop_os , hello #Fedora.

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I have used popos for many years on my desktop and laptop and I'm a little worried about upgrading to the 24.04 version and was planning to wait until mid Jan. when hopefully the upgrade will be officially "stable", i.e. with a nice little upgrade-notification. But now Spotify has released a version that requires a newer version of glibc so currently the apt-version of Spotify won't run on my machines. So, how has it been for you? Have you upgraded without problems or did you do a fresh install ?

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Does anyone here has experience with #slimbook #linux notebooks?
In particular I would want to run #popos on my notebook.
I once installed popos on a huawei notebook and ran into two problems: Hibernation did not really work and in sleep the battery drained like crazy and with the encryption of popos it sometimes didn’t boot anymore because it could not find a bootable drive. Without encryption it worked.
@slimbook
@pop_os
@pop_os_official

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i have auto updates on and yesterday, pop shop told me to restart. in hindsight it was a bit weird, i just had another restart to update a few days ago, and i think the restart message on the window was in orange, but this last time it was black. since this restart, the system goes to busybox, and while the keyboard lights up, it doesn't react to any input, not evem caps lock switching
with a live usb, i checked the efi and the root partition, via disks, both seems to check out
i also have a mint install on the same ssd, and that works just fine
also windows on a different ssd, i haven't tried it
i have tried the guide on system76's page, to repair the bootloader, didn't seem to have any effect
what could be causing this and how can fix this?
edit: typos

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Loving the customization with Pop. My only real gripe so far is the dock not playing nice with themes. It seems to be stuck in default dark mode. Thanks to The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world for telling me about Open Bar. Awesome extension.

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No real point to this other than to say I really Like this distro. I had had it with Windows, and in a fit of inspired rage, did a clean install of Pop. Besides a few hiccups (extensions loading properly and picking the wrong Nvidia drivers) its been smooth sailing.

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@channel The COSMIC and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta will be release Thursday, September 25th. @noirzilla ;-)

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EDIT 2: Solved. I was sending uppercase characters when I would do the connection from MS RDP. My Pop OS login username has uppercase characters so I was just matching that. I got confused because the username defined in the Pop remote desktop settings is the same username, but spelled all lowercase. Once I altered the username I was sending from MS RDP to match exactly including casing, it worked.

As a side note, the default MS RDP app doesn't handle the resolution properly. I switched to using RDCMan from the Sysinternals Suite and it handles the resolution perfectly and you can set scaling on it so you don't have to worry about that. I'd recommend RDCMan if anyone else is running into the same issue.

EDIT: Error code image attached and extended details pasted here.

[Window Title]
Remote Desktop Connection

[Content]
An authentication error has occurred.
The token supplied to the function is invalid

Remote computer: [Redacted]

[^] Hide details  [OK]

[Expanded Information]
Error code: 0x0
Extended error code: 0x0
Timestamp (UTC): 08/05/25 01:32:11 PM
Activity ID: 2473cbfb-5b74-4229-8644-1cf6b0bb0100

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone can help troubleshoot an issue I'm having trying to RDP from my Windows 11 box to my Pop!_OS box.

I have Remote Desktop enabled in Pop and I've set the username and password.

When I try to connect from Windows using Microsoft's RDP application, I get an invalid token error.

Is anyone able to tell me what I'm missing in the setup?

Thanks

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Hi,

The README for the clipboard manager applet says :

Use the flatpak version in the cosmic store.

But, when navigating to Applets in the COSMIC Store, or when searching "clipboard", I can't find it.

Where is it ?

Thanks

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