I just recently migrated from Linux Mint to Pop OS, do you have any tips/extensions on what I should do with my desktop?

  • macniel@feddit.de
    35·
    5 months ago

    World domination, and if you can’t achieve that… Well don’t come back:)

    Whatever the feck you want to do with your computer. Make it your own, do your stuff you regularly do.

    And charge your battery!

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    31·
    5 months ago

    Setup - checked

    Troubleshoot - checked

    Install apps - checked

    Import data - checked

    Customize - checked

    Boast Tell people on social media - checked

    I’d say Linux distro migration checklist completed.

    Also that is a (mostly) good selection of apps right there.

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Replace the Pop! Shop with the COSMIC Store.

    sudo apt install cosmic-store cosmic-icons
sudo apt remove pop-shop

    Pop Shop is kinda slow. COSMIC Store is part of Pop OS’s new COSMIC Desktop Environment (DE). Everything is just a lot faster. It’s an alpha so there are a couple of rough edges, but it’s great overall.

    Speaking of, get hyped for COSMIC. It’s a DE written in Rust. It’s not quite as complete as GNOME, but hopefully it will have better performance than the current GNOME mod that forms Pop’s UI.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      get hyped for COSMIC

      Honestly I’m just excited for a non-gnome DE with an actual company backing it. I can’t wrap my head around gnome’s expectations for how you use it, so the fact that it’s the default on every enterprise-backed Linux project is annoying as heck

    • Crafted@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I tested the new Cosmic Desktop Environment on an experimental laptop, and it performs fairly well. I can’t wait to use it on my main machine. I actually already have Cosmic Shop, Pop Shop is far slower than Cosmic Shop, and it wasn’t even created by System. I’ll definitely uninstall Pop Shop.

  • mr_robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Click the windowing mode icon (far left of the icons in the top right) and switch that bad boy to tiled windowing mode. Tiled windows will feel odd for a couple of days, but once you switch back to free-floating windows you’ll realize why I’m recommending tiled.

    Look up the PopOS keyboard shortcuts for moving tiled windows around the desktop and workspaces. It’s a game-changing way to use your computer.

    PopOS has been my daily driver for a year. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Tiling is especially great for working with multiple monitors. It is far easier to move windows between monitors and workspaces, split screens between two windows, and so on with tiling.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    19·
    5 months ago

    Install steam and whatever gaming things you have and give it a proper spin. I also added some gnome extensions for system usage. Besides that, pop is very simple.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      22·
      5 months ago

      As I always say, as long as the wallpaper is family-friendly and not promoting anything bad like terrorism or racism, someone being not ok with it is solely their problem. People should pay attention on more important things instead of microbullying and judging meaningless stuff. You may want to temporarily adapt to a person that’s important to you in case you’re afraid of them being not ok with it or something like that but there’s no point in doing this with coworkers. It’s just ridiculous.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 months ago

        Hard disagree. I wouldn’t consider an image depicting a fetish of some sort “family friendly”.

        Same rules for being in public: you shouldn’t think it’s okay to subject non-willing participants into your sexual proclivities. A jizzed up sexualization, anime or not, is not cool to subject others to without their permission.

        • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
          7·
          5 months ago

          I don’t consider the image sexual. Maybe I don’t understand something idk. And anything sexual is not family friendly obviously

            • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
              10·
              5 months ago

              She looks like she’s under water (what with the fish and octopus) and they are on the same plane as the white outlines and other things in the image, like they’re reflections or clouds.

              Kinda looks like it should be turned clockwise 90 degrees as she’s falling into the water. (You can tell because the way the tips of her hair are further towards the left like she’s sinking)

              I mean, it’s a bit abstract, but there’s no evidence I see for them to be what you seem to be thinking they are.

              Edit: actually it might be that there’s glass on the left like she’s in an aquarium with the fish and such. Again, “white blobs” are reflections.

    • Crafted@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      The wallpaper isn’t “Fetish-like” or suggestive at all; it’s simply an anime girl with school clothes beneath water with fish circling around her. How dirty is your mind that everything you see is thought to be suggestive?

      This isn’t even useful advice; it’s just you being dirty-minded, and if you believe everything is suggestive, seek mental help

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
    14·
    5 months ago

    Get your keybinds the way you want and learn how to use the tiling extension that comes with pop. I found it super useful when I used to use pop

      • joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        5 months ago

        I used i3 for a couple of years, but I missed the ease of having a DE that just recognised USB sticks and external hard drives, and all the other little things that you have to set up manually

  • BOMBS@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 months ago

    install lolcat and make bash commands so that update and upgrade come out in rainbow.