r/pop_os

MIDDLE EARTH SHADOW OF WAR has been tested in Linux (Pop!_OS 24.04, COSMIC/Wayland) and Windows on my dual-boot machine:

RTX 5070 Ti

Ryzen 9 5900X,

RAM 32 GB

Each operating system has its own identical 1TB SSD drive.

The game was run at 1080p using the Ultra settings, DLSS OFF, VSYNC OFF, FRAME LIMIT OFF.

The battle was extremely close, according to the results. Linux produces stronger 1% lows by about 10 FPS, resulting in slightly superior stability during heavy sequences, although Windows leads by about 5 FPS on average. Both platforms work quite well, often reaching 200+ FPS, which results in incredibly responsive and fluid gameplay.

Neither system had any stutters, stability issues, or visual discrepancies. This benchmark, which shows sophisticated optimization where Linux and Windows now compete nearly head-to-head, is a great illustration of how well DX11 games perform with Proton.

I'm still looking forward to the next NVIDIA driver 595 update for POP_OS, which should boost Linux DX12 game performance.

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Disclaimer: Why I Test with Pop!_OS + NVIDIA

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1. Windows gamers

The whole point of these benchmarks is to show that Linux gaming exists, works well, and isn’t nearly as complicated as many Windows users think. I’m basically trying to show a realistic migration path from Windows to Linux, not build a perfect Linux-only lab.

2. NVIDIA dominates the gaming GPU market.

According to the Steam Hardware Survey, NVIDIA usually sits around ~75–80% of GPUs in gaming PCs. If I test on NVIDIA, I’m covering what most gamers actually use.

3. Pop!_OS is one of the easiest distros for NVIDIA users.

It ships with dedicated NVIDIA ISOs, drivers are integrated, and updates are straightforward. I run tests on official Pop!_OS drivers, so the setup reflects something an average user could realistically install.

4. If Linux gaming works on NVIDIA, it works for most gamers.

Yes, AMD often performs better on Linux. I’m aware of that. But testing only on AMD would shrink the scope from ~80% of the market to a much smaller slice. My goal is broader relevance, not best-case scenarios.

Hello fellow Linux enthusiasts :)

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I've recently said good-bye to Windows and fully switched to Pop!_os. I saw it was the best distro for my hardware specs (I have an MSI Creator 15 laptop from bought in 2020). I'm new on Linux so I'm sorry in advance for the possible mistakes I'll make while explaining:

Here come the two main issues I'm having:

1- Completely unable to use another res on my laptop screen that is not 4k -which is the native res- (1920x1080 for example non-existent in display options, no other options shown on wlr-randr). I tried with many commands, tried getting help from Gemini and Deepseek but I'm still not able to SET another res that is not the native 4k. Not even forcing it manually.

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I've also been playing around with desktop environments and found plasma with x11 DETECTS my resolution and I can change it even from the display options. Cosmic with Wayland doesn't seem to detect any more at all...

I feel like I have tried absolutely everything (unplugging my external monitor, rebooting and sudoing the hell out of everything hahah) for it to work on cosmic with wayland but I am just stuck.

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2-Thermal throttling with my CPU (probably partly caused by me not changing the thermal paste for several years lol but I didn't have big issues on Win10 before this, still planning to do that).

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Thanks so much in advance

(Please ask if needed, I'll provide as much info as I can)

Finally some good news. Although I am not certain if California bill will add similar exemption.

Used Pop_OS! for many years. When I upgraded from the Gnome version it was clear I had to leave. The LTT video was sad to see. Titus even sees the writing on the wall. I hope S76 can sort this out.

Just wanted to post this here to see what you guys think? I'm not currently on Pop OS but I have been thinking about switching back to it after being on Fedora for about a year and a half.

About 3 weeks ago, I made a pretty spontaneous decision to ditch Windows and install Pop!_OS in one big rush. At first I was honestly really impressed: it felt fast, looked great, and for the most part everything just worked.

I didn’t do a ton of research beforehand. I’m a pretty low-power user, mostly web apps, a bit of Steam gaming, and I basically wanted off Windows immediately. So the choice was more gut feeling than a carefully planned decision.

Now that I’ve settled in a bit and made things feel more “homey,” I’m starting to notice some rough edges, and I wanted to ask how people here would approach them:

1. Nvidia issues (RTX 3060 desktop)
The system was randomly freezing from time to time, or at least the UI was. The issue was very likely an unstable combination of NVIDIA + Pop!_OS + COSMIC + Wayland, together with my system’s PCIe link / power management. It kept throwing Xid 79: GPU has fallen off the bus.

Things got more stable after switching from the open NVIDIA driver to the proprietary one, disabling GSP, and most importantly changing the GFX lane speed in BIOS from GEN5 to GEN3. The main thing I learned is that the PCIe link does scale up properly under load, so it seems more like a problem with power / display / driver transitions than totally dead hardware. Right now it seems mostly stable.

2. Clipboard history
One Windows workflow I really miss is Win+Shift+S, then later pasting from Win+V. More generally, I miss the Windows clipboard history a lot, especially the little menu near the cursor where you can choose what to paste.

I solved the screenshot part with Flameshot, but what’s the best Linux equivalent for an actual Windows-style clipboard history with a popup menu?

3. Network drives / NAS workflow
On Windows, all my data lived on my NAS and I mounted the SMB shares as drives. My desktop was basically acting like a thin client, and I worked directly on the shares. That also made it really easy to wipe Windows and switch over quickly.

On Pop!_OS, I haven’t really found a good replacement for that workflow yet. Right now I can open my network shares through Gigolo, but they don’t really feel like they’re properly available to applications. I can’t even just double-click an MP3 and play it. I usually have to copy files to the desktop first.

What’s the “right” way on Linux if you want to work mostly or entirely off remote SMB shares?

4. Remote desktop
I haven’t dug into this yet, but I’d like to access my Pop!_OS desktop remotely from my Windows machine. On Windows, the built-in RDP client made that super easy.

Problem is: I can’t install software on the Windows machine because it’s a work laptop. So what would be the best option here?

5. MS Word / Excel
So far I’ve kind of ignored this issue. I still have an Office 365 subscription, and maybe I’ll move to open-source alternatives eventually, but for the transition period, and for compatibility reasons, I’d prefer to keep using the real Windows versions.

Since gaming works surprisingly well on Linux, is there also a decent way to run Word and Excel via Wine or something similar?

6. Reinstall / restoring my setup
What I liked about Windows was that my setup was easy to rebuild: install Windows, sign into my Microsoft account, sync OneDrive, reconnect my NAS shares, done.

Now that I’m customizing Pop!_OS more, I’m a bit worried about reinstalling later or moving to another machine. I don’t want to lose all my tweaks, apps, configs, etc. and spend ages rebuilding everything manually.

My ideal setup would be: once I have Pop!_OS configured the way I like it, I back that state up to my NAS and can restore it fairly quickly later. I’ve read that Flatpak has some kind of export option. Is there an established Linux workflow for this kind of thing?

7. COSMIC growing pains
Aside from the clipboard and network drive issues, I’m actually okay with the rest. I’m even looking forward to future updates and I’m fine waiting a few weeks or months for things to improve. I don’t feel like I need to distro-hop immediately.

That said, COSMIC definitely still feels like it has some way to go. But for where it is right now, I’d still say it’s been pretty okay for me overall.

Would appreciate any thoughts on how you’d approach these points. I’ve been glancing at other distros too, but I kind of suspect the grass won’t really be much greener there.

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This is and always will be my fav distro i love cosmic and me oersonally havent had much huge issues in cosmic other than once when they released kernel 6.17 and it nuked my entire system (that also during an exam season im a student) byt this is the OS i used to code , study and game on, winslop made it sooo hard to use my laptop this distro gave it just enough headroom to run basic games that all ran at 60fps except some but thst was due to my shitty hardware...

I hope this distro doesnt like die... or worse lose the LTS label or be irrelevant i hope the devs read this article and fix all of the issues happening in the OS, maybe add gaming optimizations or tools for gaming but overall make the system stable, there are a lot of people who are still looking upto this OS dont make people lose hope in it! 🙂

hi all, i’m curious about what the community thinks is still missing, so for those of you who’ve tried COSMIC

• What features do you feel are currently lacking compared to more mature DEs (GNOME, KDE, etc.)?
• Are there any “must-have” tools, workflows, or customization options you rely on that COSMIC doesn’t support yet?
• What would make you switch to it full-time (or keep you from doing so)?
• Any small quality-of-life improvements that would make a big difference?

Would love to hear your thoughts

Hello, I have a question. I have a Huawei D15 Intel Core i3 10th Generation i3-10110U, followed by a very finicky audio driver: Intel CometLake cAVS. I really need to know, why does the audio turn off after only 3 seconds of use, and then go to sleep and never wake up? So I turned to this group of great thinkers on Fedora, and maybe this mega-community can help me.

I would appreciate it if you could answer me, and if anyone knows why and if there is a quick solution through the terminal, I would be extremely grateful.

Kind regards.

Mateo

From Chile 🇨🇱

I messed up while trying to install Libre Writer icon set.

I stopped half way through when I realised.

Repoman won't open now.

This is what I did in the terminal:

curl -fsSL [url]https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:bgstack15/Debian_Unstable/Release.key[/url] | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_bgstack15.gpg > /dev/nul

and

echo 'deb [url]http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bgstack15/Debian_Unstable/[/url] /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:bgstack15.list

How do I undo this and get repoman working again?

I've been using Ubuntu for a year and I see that Pop OS 24 COSMIC desktop has really many productivty features like I love the tiling manager and its keyboard shortcuts. I wanted to swap the OS since last year October but I knew it wasn't ready to be a daily-driver yet. I have been waiting for half a year now. Guys, do you think Pop OS is now ready? If it's more stable than windows 11, I will definitely make a swap (lol)

Btw my hardware is:

ThinkPad T480 with i7 8550u, mx150 nvidia GPU, and enough ram

I click on the wifi menu in the top right corner, but it doesn’t show any wifi networks to connect to. I am dual booting with windows 11 and wifi works fine there. Any help you can offer me?

I'm planning on moving to Pop!_OS when I get my gaming pc. Could I have some helpfulhelpful info to know so I am all prepared when I install Pop!_OS? Maybe some  useful features and info? (The pc will be a pre-built)

(Sorry for some of the text glitches, Reddit was doing that 🥹)

i still have to recommend 22.04 LTS to normal users. hopefully they return to cosmic with the last year of support for 22.04 LTS or else i may be forced to distro hop when i really like Pop.

Like those are Microslop Winblows killer features.

EDIT: i have to offer phone support so what i ever i give them i must run my self as my daily.

Hello,

I got a problem where my terminal doesn't show anything, it opens but then the input box thing keeps blinking, but when I try writing a command it doesn't work.

I used terminal in vscode and it worked until:

I've installed an extension in vscode, and then updated vscode..

Terminal stopped working, i uninstalled vscode and it still doesn't work.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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