> In a now-viral TikTok video, Dr. Daniel McKeown, a professor at UCLA, claims low pay has left him homeless, shocking many of his followers.
> “Hi everyone, my name is Daniel, and I’m an astrophysics professor at UCLA. I’m only being paid $70,000 for this academic year,” McKeown says in the video.
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> McKeown, listed as a lecturer on UCLA’s website, says he had to move out of his apartment because he could no longer afford the rent.
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> When asked why he doesn’t teach elsewhere, McKeown said, “I refuse to stop teaching. Teaching my students is my absolute passion. UCLA is a top university for physics.”
> McKeown holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics.
> “I teach full-time. I teach six classes a year, yet I’m being paid about half of what the average physics professor in California makes. It’s not fair,” he told KTLA.
Google is developing a Terminal app for Android that'll let you run Linux apps. It'll download and run Debian in a VM for you.
> Google is developing a Terminal app for Android that'll let you run Linux apps. It'll download and run Debian in a VM for you.
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> Engineers at Google started work on a new Terminal app for Android a couple of weeks ago. This Terminal app is part of the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and contains a WebView that connects to a Linux virtual machine via a local IP address, allowing you to run Linux commands from the Android host. Initially, you had to manually enable this Terminal app using a shell command and then configure the Linux VM yourself. However, in recent days, Google began work on integrating the Terminal app into Android as well as turning it into an all-in-one app for running a Linux distro in a VM.
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> Google is still working on improving the Terminal app as well as AVF before shipping this feature. AVF already supports graphics and some input options, but it’s preparing to add support for backing up and restoring snapshots, nested virtualization, and devices with an x86_64 architecture. It’s also preparing to add some settings pages to the Terminal app, which is pretty barebones right now apart from a menu to copy the IP address and stop the existing VM instance. The settings pages will let you resize the disk, configure port forwarding, and potentially recover partitions.
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> If you’re wondering why you’d want to run Linux apps on Android, then this feature is probably not for you. Google added Linux support to Chrome OS so developers with Chromebooks can run Linux apps that are useful for development. For example, Linux support on Chrome OS allows developers to run the Linux version of Android Studio, the recommended IDE for Android app development, on Chromebooks. It also lets them run Linux command line tools safely and securely in a container.
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and other changes.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1225458 > Powered by the latest Linux 6.11 kernel series, Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest and greatest GNOME 47 desktop environment for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor with additional patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to enhance stability and performance. In addition, the Ubuntu Dock now visualizes Snap refreshes and includes better handling for PWAs installed via the Chromium Snap.
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> Under the hood, Ubuntu 24.10 comes with an updated toolchain that includes GCC 14.2, GNU Binutils 2.43.1, GNU C Library 2.40, LLVM 19, Rust 1.80, Go 1.23, OpenSSL 3.3, systemd 256.5, Netplan 1.1, and .NET 8. The Ubuntu Desktop installer was also updated with support for local file paths for autoinstall import.
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> Ubuntu 24.10 will be supported for only nine months, until July 2025. If you’re looking for long-term support, you should download and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), which is supported until at least 2029.
Official Website: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and other changes.
> Powered by the latest Linux 6.11 kernel series, Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest and greatest GNOME 47 desktop environment for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor with additional patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to enhance stability and performance. In addition, the Ubuntu Dock now visualizes Snap refreshes and includes better handling for PWAs installed via the Chromium Snap.
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> Under the hood, Ubuntu 24.10 comes with an updated toolchain that includes GCC 14.2, GNU Binutils 2.43.1, GNU C Library 2.40, LLVM 19, Rust 1.80, Go 1.23, OpenSSL 3.3, systemd 256.5, Netplan 1.1, and .NET 8. The Ubuntu Desktop installer was also updated with support for local file paths for autoinstall import.
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> Ubuntu 24.10 will be supported for only nine months, until July 2025. If you’re looking for long-term support, you should download and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), which is supported until at least 2029.
Official Website: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)
If you're using Canonical's Steam snap to game on Ubuntu you may be pleased to hear that a number appreciable performance improvements have begun to
> The latest release of snapd, the engine that installs, manages, and configures snap apps, includes a couple of changes that improve the performance of the Steam snap specifically.
> Snapd 2.65 sees the removal of “all AppArmor and seccomp restrictions to improve user experience”.
> This doesn’t mean the Steam runs un-sandboxed, rather the Steam snap is more in control of its own containers (Steam is really more of a framework than app, with multiple components, parts, and so on).
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> Anecdotally, the latest Steam snap release paired with snapd 2.65 is also reported to open faster than before, with launch times on-par with those of the DEB version. They’re also reported to be a couple seconds faster1 than the Steam Flatpak.
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> Not strictly Steam related, but perhaps relevant from a gaming POV, snapd 2.65 also ships with improved snap-confine and OpenGL interface compatibility with NVIDIA drivers.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 - October 5, 2024. In this Issue Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open! Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports LXD...
> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 - October 5, 2024.
> - Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open! > - Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze > - Welcome New Members and Developers > - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - LXD: Weekly news #365 > - Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-03 > - Ubuntu Summit 2024 > - LoCo Events > - The 2024.09.30 SRU Cycle started > - Event Report - KDE Akademy 2024 > - ... > - And much more!
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 859 for the week of September 22 - 28, 2024. In this Issue Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports Rocks Public Journal LXD: Weekly news #364 LoCo Events Oracular Oriole (24.10) Release Status Tracking CUPS Remote Code Execution Vu...
> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 859 for the week of September 22 - 28, 2024.
> - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - Rocks Public Journal > - LXD: Weekly news #364 > - LoCo Events > - Oracular Oriole (24.10) Release Status Tracking > - CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available > - ... > - And much more!
> Here’s what Hoosiers need to know ahead of the voter registration deadline, which is the end of the day on Oct. 7.
> The easiest way to register or ensure your registration is still active is online at IndianaVoters.com. There, you can also request an absentee ballot, find your polling place and see who’s on your ballot.
> You can also register by mail or in person at your local election administrator’s office.
> If you need to register or update your registration, you have to provide some proof of residence. The quickest way to do that is by submitting your driver’s license or state ID number, or the last four digits of your Social Security number.
> You can also provide proof of residence via a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or government document that shows your name and address.
The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management.
> The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management.
> Slated for release in December 2024, near the Christmas holidays, Linux Mint 22.1 will ship with the soon-to-be-released Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment featuring a revamped theme that’s much darker and contrasted than before, rounded elements, redesigned dialogs, and a gap between the applets and the panel.
More from the Mint Monthly News: September 2024
> The transition towards Aptkit and Captain is now finished. Starting with Linux Mint 22.1, set to be released this December, none of our projects will depend on aptdaemon, synaptic, gdebi or apturl anymore.
I think the "Ubuntu Core 22" means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.
If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22
as its base.
> Exploit of a combination of several bugs - Overhyped but not that severe - Fixes already available
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> Canonical’s security team has acted immediately to quickly apply the patches which Michael Sweet (author and maintainer of CUPS) had already prepared for CUPS, cups-browsed, libcups-filters, libppd, and cups-filters (in the time from the first report until then I was some days off and I was also on the Open Source Summit Europe, thanks, Michael Sweet, for stepping in, also thanks to Zdenek Dohnal from Red Hat) to the appropriate in all supported Ubuntu versions, so that at the time of disclosure most fixes were already in place. They also reported in an Ubuntu blog. They tell users what to do, from turning off cups-browsed or at least its legacy CUPS browsing support to updating their systems as the fixes were already available. Thanks a lot to Seth Arnold, Marc Deslauriers, Diogo Sousa, Mark Esler, Luci Stanescu, and more.
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> The X post really overhyped the vulnerability. Attacks from the internet are not very probable due to the fact that servers on the internet do not have cups-browsed and CUPS installed and CUPS/cups-browsed setups are there usually only in NAT-protected local networks with desktop machines and print servers. And the remote code execution is also rather restricted, as CUPS filters are not running as root, but as the system user “lp” which cannot even read user’s home directories. In addition, the remote code execution only happens when a user actually prints a job on the fake printer. Actually assigned scores ended up between 8.4 and 9.1.
Four CVE IDs have been assigned that together form an high-impact exploit chain surrounding CUPS: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177. Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, libcupsfilters and libppd packages for all supported...
> Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, libcupsfilters and libppd packages for all Ubuntu LTS releases under standard support. The updates remediate CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, while CVE-2024-47177 is addressed by the other 3 vulnerabilities being patched. Information on the affected versions can be found in the CVE pages linked above. If you have any of these installed, our recommendation is to update as soon as possible. Read on to learn more about the details. Security updates for ESM releases will be released shortly.
Looks like a number of patches are landing in Ubuntu to address this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/2082335
Update: CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
> There's been talk of this unauthenticated RCE vulnerability coming with a CVSS 9.9 rating but none of the technical details were publicly known until it was made public just now at the top of the hour. Simone Margaritelli discovered this vulnerability and has shared a write-up around this potentially very impactful Linux vulnerability.
> This vulnerability, fortunately, doesn't affect the Linux kernel but rather CUPS... The print server commonly used on Linux systems and other platforms.
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From Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I:
> "A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer)."
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> This remote code execution issue can be exploited across the public Internet via a UDP packet to port 631 without needing any authentication, assuming the CUPS port is open through your router/firewall. LAN attacks are also possible via spoofing zeroconf / mDNS / DNS-SD advertisements.
> Besides CUPS being used on Linux distributions, it also affects some BSDs, Oracle Solaris, Google Chrome OS, and others.
> As of writing there is no Linux fix available for this high profile security issue. In the meantime it's recommended to disable and remove the "cups-browsed" service, updating CUPS, or at least blocking all traffic to UDP port 631.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1167059 > COSMIC’s Alpha 2 release builds upon that work with functionality built out for Files, additional Settings pages, considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support+, and some highly requested window management features. System76 is ecstatic at the level of excitement and collaboration so far with alpha testers and early app & applet developers, and we look forward to seeing what comes from these new additions.
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> The second COSMIC alpha will be released on September 26th. Those participating in Alpha 1 on Pop!_OS can simply update through the COSMIC App Store to transition. This alpha will be followed by monthly alpha releases until all core features have been built out.
More coverage:
> COSMIC’s Alpha 2 release builds upon that work with functionality built out for Files, additional Settings pages, considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support+, and some highly requested window management features. System76 is ecstatic at the level of excitement and collaboration so far with alpha testers and early app & applet developers, and we look forward to seeing what comes from these new additions.
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> The second COSMIC alpha will be released on September 26th. Those participating in Alpha 1 on Pop!_OS can simply update through the COSMIC App Store to transition. This alpha will be followed by monthly alpha releases until all core features have been built out.
More coverage:
The new flag logo transforms into a roaring, retro dinosaur.
> Mozilla has overhauled its branding to pay homage to its Netscape roots and better distinguish the wider organization from its Firefox web browser. The most notable change is to the company’s logo: what was previously a sans-serif wordmark styled as “Moz://a” has been updated to correctly spell out the Mozilla name, featuring a new customized typeface and an M-shaped flag.
> According to Mozilla, the flag symbolizes the brand’s “activist spirit.” That fits with the image that the Mozilla Foundation, which is leading the company, is attempting to build: describing itself as “a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation, and participation on the Internet” and regularly releasing privacy reports that investigate tech companies’ policy and security practices.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 858 for the week of September 15 - 21, 2024. In this Issue Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Beta released Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats Hot in Support Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports Ubuntu Flavor sync meeting notes: 9 September 2024 U...
> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 858 for the week of September 15 - 21, 2024.
> - Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Beta released > - Welcome New Members and Developers > - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - Ubuntu Flavor sync meeting notes: 9 September 2024 > - UbuCon Asia 2024 Team meeting 2024-09-15 12:00 UTC > - Ubuntu Home Server Workshop 2024 @Busan > - Ubucon Portugal 2024 needs you! > - LoCo Events > - Mir release 2.18.0 > - Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools on the 22 track (Mir 2.17.2 update) > - Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 6: September Update > - ... > - And much more!
In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1153465 > In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects.
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> In the previous finding, we reported that 60% of maintainers describe themselves as unpaid hobbyists, and 36% of maintainers describe themselves as paid (professional or semi-professional) maintainers, earning some or all of their income from their open source work.
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> When you break down the paid maintainers into professional (earning most or all of their income from their maintenance work) and semi-professional (earning some of their income from maintaining projects), it becomes clear that the amount of money a maintainer is making for their work has a large impact on the types of improvements they are able to make. Across nearly all major categories, professional maintainers are on average over 20 percentage points more likely to make key improvements to their projects than semi-professional maintainers.
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> In the previous study, 81% percent of professional maintainers earning most or all of their income from maintaining projects spend more than 20 hours a week maintaining their projects. This year, the percentage was nearly identical (82%).
> Conversely, in last year’s survey, we found that the vast majority of unpaid hobbyists spend ten hours or less per week on their maintenance work (81%). This percentage also stayed consistent in this year’s survey, with 78% of unpaid hobbyist maintainers working ten hours or less per week.
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> We’ve heard from many maintainers that how they are paid for their work also matters. For many maintainers there is a huge difference between getting a one-time “airdrop” of money, perhaps right after a high profile incident where people are paying attention to their projects, compared to ongoing recurring income that they can count on. So this year for the first time we asked maintainers to tell us whether they would prefer to get predictable monthly income or a one-time lump payment.
> An overwhelming majority of maintainers prefer to receive predictable monthly income, with 81% choosing that option.
In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects.
> In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects.
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> In the previous finding, we reported that 60% of maintainers describe themselves as unpaid hobbyists, and 36% of maintainers describe themselves as paid (professional or semi-professional) maintainers, earning some or all of their income from their open source work.
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> When you break down the paid maintainers into professional (earning most or all of their income from their maintenance work) and semi-professional (earning some of their income from maintaining projects), it becomes clear that the amount of money a maintainer is making for their work has a large impact on the types of improvements they are able to make. Across nearly all major categories, professional maintainers are on average over 20 percentage points more likely to make key improvements to their projects than semi-professional maintainers.
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> In the previous study, 81% percent of professional maintainers earning most or all of their income from maintaining projects spend more than 20 hours a week maintaining their projects. This year, the percentage was nearly identical (82%).
> Conversely, in last year’s survey, we found that the vast majority of unpaid hobbyists spend ten hours or less per week on their maintenance work (81%). This percentage also stayed consistent in this year’s survey, with 78% of unpaid hobbyist maintainers working ten hours or less per week.
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> We’ve heard from many maintainers that how they are paid for their work also matters. For many maintainers there is a huge difference between getting a one-time “airdrop” of money, perhaps right after a high profile incident where people are paying attention to their projects, compared to ongoing recurring income that they can count on. So this year for the first time we asked maintainers to tell us whether they would prefer to get predictable monthly income or a one-time lump payment.
> An overwhelming majority of maintainers prefer to receive predictable monthly income, with 81% choosing that option.
Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives...
> Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives - across a decentralised system that enables self-hosting and end-to-end encryption - as well as open standard interoperability to revolutionise real time communication between large organisations.
> Built on Matrix 2.0, Element X now rivals the performance of centralised consumer messaging apps, empowering organisations to address the shadow IT issues caused by consumer-grade messaging apps in the workplace.
> The new Element communications solution consists:
> - Element X, our next-gen app with an array of new features > - Element Call fully integrated into Element X, for native Matrix-encrypted voice and video > - Element Server Suite, our backend hosting solution for powerful admin control and Matrix 2.0 performance
GNOME 46.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.
> GNOME 46.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.
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> GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted users, fixes the showing of pending PAM messages on the login screen, and fixes the “Locate Pointer” accessibility option when the “Reduce Animation” option is turned on.
> It also fixes several issues in the Mutter window and composite manager, including drag and drop between X11 and Wayland clients, drag and drop from grabbing pop-ups, EGLDevice support, frozen cursor on some hybrid machines, tablet input in maximized windows, frozen cursor after suspend, using modifiers on multi-GPU setups, propagating tablet device removals to clients, and touch window dragging with pointer lock enabled.
This is a great summary. Thanks!
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:
As a moderator, you should see a "shield" on a post and from that sub-menu, you can choose to feature or unfeature a post:
I used to use VLC for music, but these days I use Symphony to play local files on my phone. VLC tended to struggle when scanning or indexing large folders (which it did all the time...), while Symphony is a bit better at that. That said, I still use VLC for video and for casting things from my DLNA server (VLC supports Chromecast).
For ebooks, I've used Librera FD and that has been mostly OK. I'll checkout the two you mentioned though. Thanks!
Holy hurdle! TY J-LOVE!
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
.
For a simple IRC web client, I would also add Gamja, which I self-host along side with the Lounge (mentioned in the article) for a few users.
That said, my primary client is WeeChat and WeeChat-Android.
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.
Looks like Bison > Buffalo... for now.
I've been using Weechat-Android to connect to my self-hosted Weechat for over a decade. This is one of the killer mobile apps that keeps me on Android and I love it.
I also have a couple instances of thelounge that people use on mobile via the PWA (progressive web app).