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:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timeshift

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Ok great. I pulled latest-node and it appears to be working again. Thanks for the quick fix!

I am not getting any visible errors on either the client or server… the client just spins. Someone else has filed a bug report here:

https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/issues/408

Is there any flags or environmental variables we can enable to get more debugging output?

With the latest-node or v1.31.2 docker images, I cannot get photon to load (infinite spinner). However, v1.31.2-rc.8-node works just fine for me (loads and behaves normally).

This is also a lemmy community: !privacyguides@lemmy.one

Yes, you can install the cosmic-session package on 22.04 to try out COSMIC:

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-on-pop_os

You will also need to edit gdm to enable Wayland.

Once this is installed, you can switch between the current Pop-shell and COSMIC.

Similarly, there’s been talk of a Fedora COSMIC spin, which is showing promising signs.

Yep!

According to the video posted by Brodie, HDR is still a work in progress… unfortunately.

From my personal experience, I would say that COSMIC is very much an alpha, meaning it is missing a lot of little things and requires a bit more polish for the average user. That is not to take away what they have done so far or where they are going, but it’s not really ready to be daily driven (depending on your needs of course).

I’m not sure if it is a known issue, but in general, Pop does not support NVIDIA with Wayland. In fact, that is one of the primary reasons why Pop still uses Xorg by default.

It might be inconvenient, but perhaps try to switch to Xorg whenever you do an upgrade that involves GPU drivers and see if that avoids the freeze. Not an ideal workaround, but it could tell you if the issue is Wayland specific or not.