It looks like you are running XFCE instead of GNOME (the normal Ubuntu desktop). I’m not sure how that happened… but you an always just install another desktop.
For instance, you can try to make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop
or ubuntu-desktop-minimal
metapackage installed:
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal
After that, the login manager should allow you to select the Ubuntu session rather than the XFCE one.
Yes, based on the diagrams on their blog, it looks like this only impacts Snaps.
From the Discourse Blog:
The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.
Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.
So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.
From what I can tell, Pop!_OS does not ship their own version of timeshift. Instead, it comes directly from Ubuntu. So if there is a change in maintainers, it should be reported to Ubuntu:
All my servers moved to 24.04 and I wanted my desktop to keep in line with them (so they all had the same packages). Likewise, I’ve been following the development of GNOME and I really liked what they have done with versions 45 and 46, so I wanted to try a more modern version of that desktop environment (Pop 22.04 is still on GNOME 42 and is now missing out on some cool features like the quick settings menu).
Finally, I wanted to try out Wayland and the experience on Pop 22.04 is not great with Wayland, especially since it is missing out on the more recent fixes and updates in Ubuntu 24.04.
If you are happy with Pop 22.04 and willing to wait for COSMIC to stabilize and become feature complete, then that is what you should do. For me, I used this delay in releasing Pop 24.04 as an opportunity to try out something different and for the most part, I’m pretty happy with the experience.
Unfortunately, there will not be a release of Pop 24.04 with GNOME before COSMIC is released. In fact, System76 has stopped development of Pop-shell as referenced here:
https://reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1eo59wj/will_xorg_still_be_an_option_in_2404/
Once, Pop 24.04 is released, you will be able to install gnome-session to get GNOME, but it will be the version from Ubuntu and not Pop-shell (though you can install the unsupported extension yourself).
Basically, the development of COSMIC is delaying the release of Pop 24.04… which means the whole distro update probably won’t come until 2025 as the desktop matures.
For this reason, among others, I’ve decided to switch to Ubuntu until COSMIC matures and Pop 24.04 is released.
I think you meant Pop!_OS (is developed by System76). TuxedoOS is developed by Tuxedo Computers, which is a European Linux focused hardware company.
That said, the point stands… there are hardware companies making Linux supported devices.
If you are using Pop!_OS 22.04, then you are using gdm. You can just create the file if it doesn’t exist.
If you are using gdm
as your login manager, you can put the command in ~/.xprofile
… which is sourced by gdm3
.
Hi! Did you read my reply in the other post you made in !system76@lemmy.ml?
Was is this article How to install the Rust Cosmic Desktop environment on Pop!_OS?
Either way, if you want to use the new COSMIC login screen, you can install the cosmic-greeter package:
sudo apt install cosmic-greeter
Once that is installed, you should be able to switch back and forth between cosmic-greeter and gdm3 with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
and selecting whichever login manager you wish to use.
Oh. I’m sorry if this was discussed previously… I only returned to lemmy a few weeks ago and didn’t see the story covered yet.
Hmm. Why is that?
I’m not 100% sold on sailing… then again I’ve played OSRS < a year, so I still have a lot of other content left to explore.
Coincidentally, I received a firmware (EFI) update from Dell today via LVFS. Really nice that it works so smoothly on native Linux (no more manually downloading firmware to USB drives, or relying on Windows).
+1 For xournal++. That is what I usually use for annotating slides and drawing with my wacom tablet.
According to this post on reddit from about 5 days ago:
There is not one yet. – ahoneybun (s76 happiness architect)
If you mean for the COSMIC alpha, then no. DPMS support is still an open issue for Alpha 2.
I’m a masochist, so I usually do “New”. Lemmy is small enough that I can usually get through most of the new posts in a reasonable amount of time.
That said, if I want to a bit chiller experience, I will use “Scaled” which sometimes bubbles up something I might have missed.
Finally, I will use “Active” if I’m really bored and what to see what most people are engaged with… but that is pretty rare.
I currently use Ubuntu for all my machines (desktops, laptops, and servers), but I used to use Void Linux on my machines for about 6 years, including on a couple of VPSes. Since you are familiar with Void Linux, you could stick with that and just use Docker/Podman for the individual services such as Matrix, Mastodon, etc.
In regards to Debian, while the packages are somewhat frozen, they do get security updates and backports by the Debian security team:
https://www.debian.org/security/
There is even a LTS version of Debian that will continue backporting security updates:
Good luck!
This is a great summary. Thanks!