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I just switched to Pop OS, any tips on what I should do next? (lemmy.ml)

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I just recently migrated from Linux Mint to Pop OS, do you have any tips/extensions on what I should do with my desktop?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I’ve installed Pop!_OS on many machines over the years, and my standard process is:

Install PopOS
- rare for PopOS, but, depending on specialized hardware (some legacy Nvidia cards), a little driver rejiggering might be called for. Or a weird network printer setup that CUPS doesn’t like.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y apt-fast && sudo apt -y upgrade
- pee, smoke weed, feed kitty…
set up my custom zsh/bash profile for the terminal
enable firewall
configure SSH and whichever remote management tools I need (I happen to deploy remote machines frequently)
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks & a few other UI tweaking tools (obviously, this step will no longer exist soon)
tweak UI/UX
search through gnome extensions website for extension I want to install. There’s usually a Top 10 or Top 20 gnome extensions list you can google (eg: “best gnome extensions 2024”)
make sure I have all appropriate media codecs installed and updated.
set up pip-/pip3-installer.

After that, it’s setting up/configuring whatever software that particular machine needs.

Edit: there’s probably a lot that I’ve skipped/missed, and a lot that others will do along their way through these steps. This is just a basic outline of some of my post-install processes (developed over time), and I hope this answers your question.

Also, you can google for post-install guides for Ubuntu and they’ll largely be applicable to PopOS since it’s based on Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I've been planning to install pop on my home computer for my parents to use. They don't know their way around a terminal, so will updating on the GUI store be enough. Or do they occasionally need to run apt update as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There are GUI update facilities. They won’t need to use apt