Fwiw I started out with PopOS as I had a 1080ti and am still with it having moved to a 7900XTX. No issues with it apart from the Pop Shop being slow which should be remedied by the new Cosmic version

Thanks for the post, just sent $30 through

I’ve not had UI issues but agree on the Pop Shop. The next iteration with Cosmic looks to be significantly improved at least

PopOS has an ISO with Nvidia drivers included, no issues gaming straight away on my old 1080ti. As I’m a simpleton who just likes their system to with I’ve stuck with it even after upgrading to an AMD card

Edit: ignore comment, didn’t realise it was about the Deck initially!

I’ve got a SP8 which I’ve been running PopOS on since the start of the year. The cameras don’t work but this isn’t a deal-breaker for me, it runs smoothly and is perfect for my needs as a media consumption device (music, movies, comics) with some browsing. There were some issues I had on installation but nothing that couldn’t be resolved. Many thanks to the Linux surface team!

I use it on my Surface Pro 8 with PopOS as Xorg doesn’t work properly

It’s not fanless but I was also thinking of the Lemur Pro. Apparently System76 will be bringing out a new design though next month

I’m on Pop too, mainly looking forward to Cosmic because… It’s got a cool name. The actual features are gravy to me

They all look to be 123.0, though bizarrely the version advertised as flatpak in About Firefox doesn’t pause/delay before opening but the other version does. No messages come through on dmesg -w unfortunately, I’m pretty stumped. The only clue I have is that the version of Librewolf I have on my desktop installed through the Pop Shop doesn’t delay opening but the same version on my SP8 installed through deb does.

Ultimately it does point towards FF in show way?

I’m also having this issue on my desktop with Firefox flatpak connected via Ethernet and Librewolf deb on my Surface Pro 8 via WiFi. On the SP8 it opens immediately on disabling WiFi or switching off my VPN which seems bizarre but at least partially lines up with your experience.

I’m an uninformed casual on Linux but if I can help diagnose/resolve this lmk

Happy running Linux on my SP8 but this actually makes M1/2 Apple hardware appealing

Can confirm, love my SP8 which I got recently and promptly put Linux on it

I personally haven’t but just from reading the Pop OS help page on BT I expect issues at some point

Yup, I was aware of that when I bought it. Annoying but I got a good deal on the 8, and want to upgrade the storage

Getting a surface pro 8 soon, looking forward to getting Linux on it!

Edit: installed Pop OS on my SP8, had to switch to Wayland and also needed to do some tweaks to get the keyboard to work to decrypt but it’s running well so far. I believe you can get the camera working with the proprietary camera stack but it’s not a priority for me right now

If I had to get a replacement for my current laptop that’d definitely be it

My fave too as it’s closest to foobar, critically with the tagging interface I prefer. Have you added any additional plugins to your install? I tried adding a few (music library, Discord Rich Presence) but must be the right sort of stupid not to understand the instructions. facepalm

I feel fortunate that I don’t rely on software that’s not on Linux, unfortunately very much not the case for all

Very interested in this, my refurb Dell laptop with Pop has been perfect but I’d love to support Linux first hardware