Just installed Pop!_OS, and even though I've only used it for two hours so far I'm already liking it better than windows. ~1 year later update: been going great, kinda It got pretty unstable, and apt stopped working after a little under a year. I switched to OpenSUSE a couple weeks ago, and ngl I think it sucks in comparison. I should have just installed Pop!_Os again, or at least another debian dirstro.
I want to move to a linux kernel and have watched a few videos/read some material. Most of it is full of jargon. It is refreshing to watch a tips video that is clear and easy to understand for a brand new user. Well done sir.
Great video...also, great instructions as I DID GET STUCK onto the Terms and Conditions...your instruction to deal with this helped me so much...thanks once more!
I did the same UI tweaks on Pop OS. I have to think this flies in the face of the what the designers had in mind. Specifically, they support tiled windows and many of the windows commands are available as hot keys using "Super Key" plus some combination of keys. I personally found vanilla PopOS UI a little too cumbersome so I switch to the dock and other stuff you did too.
The first thing I did was install KDE Plasma. It's a MUCH more customizable, better looking and intuitive desktop environment. It has so many options and tweaks, so many useful tools.
Salam from Malaysia. Very helpful tips for new Pop OS users like me. I recently switched from Windows to Linux. Great stuff, keep it up! Hope to see more video clips for both Windows and Linux.
Just installed a fresh copy of Pop OS. I am new to Linux. I have no internet connection after install?? I can get a Wi-Fi connection if I go through the steps but why is my hardwired ethernet cable not working?
I mapped my mouse to Middle click -> Minimize Double click -> Maximize Right Click -> Menu I kinda like the simplicity of the title bar without the minimize and maximize button I also downloaded Snap Store to get more updated apps
Dash to dock is okay but after couple days of using Pop!_OS i got very into clicking windows button finding there dock. But I'll probably one day will install it with auto hide option like I used to in mac.
I understand the main focus is to stay productive and keep your hands on the keyboard. However Linux is about to get more and more popular and many ppl without much knowledge about computer or whatever are switching over. They are used to windows and don't want to or even can't adapt too much. Giving the option to minimize and maximize windows with a mouse click should be natural, to reach all the userbase, not just the hardcore Linux-vets. I mean it doesn't have to be activated by default. But it should be there to activate.
Today is the first time I looked at any Linux distro besides manjaro and with pop I prefer just using the super key keeps your desktop looking so god dam clean just a bar up top and that’s it I love it
Great job. Thanks! i was new to Pop OS and tried it out briefly and gave up and went back to Linux Mint. This video explains what I needed to do to make it more like Linux mint and usable.
2:05.People DON'T do this unless you've already ( via terminal command btw) put wayland "on hold". Wayland STILL is not built right yet and might cause some tearing issues with movies and/or watching youtube videos. Just looking out for your sanity.
@@zayck5841 don't know but here a good forum: pop-planet.info/forums/ and I think a guy has the same problem as you it was on this discord server, If I'm not mistaken: discord.gg/VXVQHQ7
Hi man. Recently installed POP OS 20.04 and followed everything here except the dash-to-dock; learning how to maneuver with minimal mouse movements in GNOME DE. Thanks.
@@TechHut I'm enjoying the tiling windows feature (the increased RAM consumption compared to XFCE is a bit jarring though). Now I can read PDFs and write reports based on said PDFs at the same time.
Thank you for your time! I customized my pop as i please now...i believe Linux in the future will Boom! We would see gaming and commercial software and that's amazing! Of course some distro are open source philosophy etc and i respect that too! I am skeptical about systemd ...i would like to hear your thoughts on that ..thanks again!
I built a new computer 6 months ago, and installed Pop_OS, and at first I liked it, but then I tried to use my computer for something besides browsing the web... and I've had nothing but problems. I can't get my video card driver to install, or even find a compatible driver for a gaming headset, or my controller. Playing games on steam is choppy as hell, probably because the video driver won't install.(RTX 3060) Simple things like creating a text file, requires clicking in wired fields, and it's not intuitive at all... I ended up making a skeleton text file on my desktop, and I copy that to my documents folder... it's clunky as hell, but it's the only way I can create a new document... I can't create a new text document in the actual documents folder, it makes no sense why that's even difficult to do in Linux. I installed two M.2, 1 TB SSD drives, however only one of the drives is accessible, and I can't save anything on my second drive, even if I take possession of the drive. The only programs I can run, are the programs that I install thru the "POP_SHOP" app store... And half of the programs in POP_SHOP don't install, It just crashes with no warning, and it doesn't say why the install failed, it just crashes, and brings me back to the desktop. Pop_OS feels like some 5th grade science fair project... I guess it's okay if your just going to surf the web, but If your actually going to do something productive like make a spread sheet, or edit video, or Blender, or stuff that should be easy, it's just an absolute nightmare with Linux. I wanted so bad to learn and use Linux, so I could finally dump Windows... But unless your a programmer, and you can code, Linux will just frustrate the hell out of you. I still don't get why you can't click on an executable to install a program in Linux, why do I need to go into the Terminal, spend 6 hours searching Linux forums, for code to Copy/Paste into Terminal, and in the end, the program still won't install. I ended up dual booting a Windows 10 OS, simply because Linux is just way to clunky to use in my opinion. I use Linux just for web surfing, and Email now. If someone could code a Linux Distro that actually works more like windows, you would see a ton of people move to Linux, because nobody want's to be spied on by Microsoft. Or maybe the Linux community want's it to be difficult to use, just to weed out the non-programmers?
thanks for the vid. for the life of me I don't understand why seeing the minimize button, having a dock of apps that is a mouse slide away or having hot corners is not a default behavior. I guess linux folks are just too smart for the rest of us.
Uh, about the minimize buttons, are you sure it didn't *already* toggle minimized/maximized when you just double-click anywhere on the [gui element that I *think* is called the] titlebar? (I can't check atm cuz I'm in kde on ubuntu right now, but that's what *it* does.) And like, sure, you need to double-click rather than single, but your mouse target is a bit taller and *WAY* wider, so it's arguably strictly better UI design that way? ( Uh, better from the usage side, anyway -- obviously not better from the communicating-to-you-that-it-*CAN*-be-used-that-way side ( obvious solution to *that* would be to have it display something when you moused over it I guess... in which case you could make that display a generalized "did you know?"-tooltip that could *also* tell you the *keyboard* hotkeys for the action... and direct you to a centralized list of all the bindings to check/modify them.... ... and you might think having mouseover tooltips like that everywhere would get annoying, but if you had a generalized system for it built-in to the desktop-environment, then each tooltip could just have a "ok, don't show me this again"-button built into it ( and also have the centralized list include a field in each entry for whether the associated tooltip has/hasn't been hidden away by the user, so the user can easily find it again if they go "oh damn, I knew it told me what the binding for that was, but I forgot it" ... and also have that list underlyingly read/write to a simple text dotfile, so that experienced users setting up a new system can just copy it over to get both their hidden/unhidden preferences and their custom bindings back at the same time (and have the list *tell* the user bout all that...) ) ... considering that all that stuff is obvious to *me*, and *I'm* generally uselessly ignorant and incompetent, it makes me wonder: why the heck is it not even *more* obvious to the people who *are* actually competent and knowledgeable enough to actually *make* desktop-environments??? (... I dunno, maybe I'm wrong about the fact that it *should* be obvious, but I'm *so* incompetent I can't even see how...) ) )
Re: maximize and minimize buttons - They're using the default Gnome setup for that as vanilla gnome disabled/hid those buttons on the titlebars. Shouldn't be a knock against the distro :-) You can also use the Pop Shop for upgrades rather than the terminal - this is super newbie friendly without throwing them into the terminal right off the bat as not all first time Linux users are tech savvy.
I see you heavily rely on a mouse. It's my understanding that a main differentiator between pop and ubuntu is that pop works to keep your hands on the keyboard. That appeals to me. YMMV.
My keyboard doesn't work with my new Lenovo Slim Pro X and need to install the Linux Kernel Mainline 6.0-rc5. This is the first time I install and use Pop Os! I have an external keyboard and want to install the Mainline Linux Kernel 6.0-rc5 since it should resolve my keyboard issue. I need to know how to do this... It's been awhile I haven't compiled , make and install a Linux Kernel. Any help is appreciated.
i have a problem where my internet is very slow on the terminal while downloading update but works fine on the browser... is there any solutiun for that ? thanks
yea pop os has changed drastically over the year. now all those apps arent needed and pop os is so much more user friendly. i have pop os on my potato laptop but i will also install it on my workstation after i build it. if not the fact that windows has all the games then id go for linux on my gaming pc too
bro i used your tutorial but my wifi network doesnt work, it says that it's connected but it has a question mark in it and no connection to the internet
I am a POP newbie myself, I used the tweaks command and it doesn't give me any way to adjust anything but the general which only has 2 options. No window adjustments. Any suggestions?
Pop have followed some legal formalities not to exactly copy the ubuntu UI...so they intentionally missed some ui,and they released the commands in the internet to enable them...
I have changed to pop os after seeing your vid. Btw, i am on intel hd 5500, intel i7 5600u (5th gen), 8gb ddr3l ram. I want to do gaming and daily works. Is it ok to use pop-os. Or should i go for any other distro. Or just go back to windows?
Even after installing gnome tweaks and enabling window titlebars, I'm getting them only on system apps. They are not showing on installed apps VScode and Codeblocks. Can anyone help?
I installed Pop os but it was slow and looked like the graphic cards were not installed though the system recognized them and the hybrid mode could work! there was a problem with frame rate and there was a glitch time to time on some parts of the display! the fan was also working all the time so it felt like the graphic cards are not installed properly. What should I do?? Thank you. p.s. I have a laptop with two graphic cards, one Intel and an Nvidia
I have a problem you may be able to help with.... when i hit the windows(super key) to bring up the dock i would like to resize those icons smaller im running the flat remix theme and have tried editing the .css on all themes listed in the folder and i can not get the icons on the dock smaller (i am editing with nano in sudo) and they changed are shown in the .css file but nothing changed, have tried looking in dconf and changing everything relatable nothing worked and im alt+f2+r after every change to check im out of ideas i havent installed dash to dock because i didnt want a dock on desktop but it looked like you could change size in your video by doing that?
Linux is the only thing that got me to understand people's passion for working with computers. I remember really liking the way MacOS handled Workspaces so I just changed Linux on my own to work like that lol even better actually.
hi , your youtube video is not 1080p. Because linux doesn't support 1080p, I think. Due to you captured a low-resolution video. right ?? I did your advice completely. but I can't play video (h.264 codec error). How Can I fix it and how can I fix the OBS studio record. Because My recorded videos are too blurry. by the way My configuration amd ryzen 7 and radeon rx580 graphic card 8 gb. the same of yours.
If anyone could help it would be great, I cant find a single video/site that's helpful, I just installed pop os and I cant use wifi, there is no option nothing (Can only use wireless networks)
I hah a strange problem with pop os that made me reinstall windows :( . It seemed like the graphic drivers were not not working properly! I have an Intel and an Nvidia. The system was slow and there was screen tearing and some glitch time to time. The fan was also working all the time. What can I do to fix this problem?
Why is "Dash to Dock" a browser add-on and not installed as a standalone? I'm kind of wary of browser extensions these days. Is there a way to install it another way, maybe from the terminal?
I have a Intel Pentium G630 and Pop os, ubuntu and some other distros just randomly decide to freeze and completely halt my work. I have to completely restart the pc sacrificing whatever I was doing is this a known bug with a solution? I got Kubuntu and it's working super smoothly and never freezes. Any help wud be appreciated
I used the same configuration amd ryzen 7 and radeon rx580 8gb. I did the same things. but I have an error that (h.264 codec error) and my obs studio record is blurry I tried kazam / peek recoreder. but the same result. blurry and sound noise. (I used all of them in Windows and ubuntu, there wasnt any problem).
after installing gnome-tweaks I still had no options for the buttons. had to do it manually: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-restricted-extras Am I missing a ppa? This command does nothing in my Pop OS
Hi Tech, I am using POP! OS in the latest version 20.10 but I want to move my repositories and ppa from my elementary OS 5.1.7. I can not find the app that controls (the program that you launched in Ubuntu to configure the repos and ppa) that if I can install in elementary and be able to install the software that I use in elementary to POP. Thanks !!!
hi, maybe you have solution about pop os, i work with a lot of picture, when i want to upload my picture to twitter or facebook or else, the "files" program cannot showing Thumbnail, so i must choose one by one, how to solve that problem? very thanks if you reply my case.. tx
Still using it overall positive experience. I even reverted it how it was and removed the minimize and maximize buttons to use it as intended. It's working very well as somebody else mentioned I made it so you right click to minimize and double click to maximize. Full review still coming soon.
Also, mister, for the 5th part, I faced this error when i cut pasted the terminal command, error: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 6081 (packagekitd) N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system. Plz help me with the same, thanks :/
I have just dual booted pop os with win 10 but i am getting very slow wifi speed in pop os ( firefox just works fine but the pop store is toooooo slow) PS: I'm a newbie to linux 😑
Great video, thank you so much! As I am just tipping my toe to Linux, I have managed to install PoP! into Virtualbox onto my ThinkPad, allocated it 4096 RAM (the laptop has 8GB of RAM) and allocated 15GB onto this virtual machine. It runs VERY slow onto my machine (whereas on your video, also on a virtual machine, runs very fast).. so, and I wonder whether I've set up the virtual machine in a wrong way...Checking system monitor of PoP!, shows that it's using nearly 1.5GB of RAM (1.9GB Cache) out of the 4GB RAM I allocated...is this normal? Could I have done something wrong? Should for example disable 3D graphics acceleration into virtualbox? Thanks a lot !!!!
@@TechHut Thank YOU for answering...the CPU on the laptop is an Intel i5 for laptops; as it was running very slow as virtual machine, I decided to experiment installing it on a USB Flash (as I am not ready to completely lose Windows), so I can boot either directly onto PoPOS from the flash, or always revert back to Windows that is still installed onto my SSD drive. It runs better from the USB 3.0 Flash, not stellar though, but still better (and makes use of the full 8 GB Ram of the laptop). The issues I've had though from running on a USB Flash are: a) bootloader was destroyed at some point so I couldn't log-in to Linux no matter what I've tried to recover, and b) when I re-installed onto the same USB, long boot time, despite asking during installation to "delete everything on the USB flash".. -I can order an espresso from my local, pay it, go back on my table and it has still not booted up, needs a few more mins. I like it a lot though as a system, though I am finding connect problems with Wi-Fi drivers -loses connection every few mins. Thank you!!
It looks like it would be easy to implement Budgie Desktop Settings into Gnome. This would give it enough customization to make most people happy. Gnome needs to implement some basic customization. Gnome 3.38 is a step in the right direction. I've tried but i don't know where to start.
Some good tips here. But a permanent dock is a stupid waste of screenspace. Better to only have it show up when you press the Super key as gnome does by default.
