I just switched to Pop OS, any tips on what I should do next?

Socks.

World domination, and if you can't achieve that... Well don't come back:)

Whatever the feck you want to do with your computer. Make it your own, do your stuff you regularly do.

And charge your battery!

Setup - checked

Troubleshoot - checked

Install apps - checked

Import data - checked

Customize - checked

Boast Tell people on social media - checked

I'd say Linux distro migration checklist completed.

Also that is a (mostly) good selection of apps right there.

Replace the Pop! Shop with the COSMIC Store.

sudo apt install cosmic-store cosmic-icons
sudo apt remove pop-shop

Pop Shop is kinda slow. COSMIC Store is part of Pop OS's new COSMIC Desktop Environment (DE). Everything is just a lot faster. It's an alpha so there are a couple of rough edges, but it's great overall.

Speaking of, get hyped for COSMIC. It's a DE written in Rust. It's not quite as complete as GNOME, but hopefully it will have better performance than the current GNOME mod that forms Pop's UI.

Install steam and whatever gaming things you have and give it a proper spin. I also added some gnome extensions for system usage. Besides that, pop is very simple.

Click the windowing mode icon (far left of the icons in the top right) and switch that bad boy to tiled windowing mode. Tiled windows will feel odd for a couple of days, but once you switch back to free-floating windows you’ll realize why I’m recommending tiled.

Look up the PopOS keyboard shortcuts for moving tiled windows around the desktop and workspaces. It’s a game-changing way to use your computer.

PopOS has been my daily driver for a year. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Your next step is to Arch

Post a screenshot on social media

Get a non-creepy wallpaper you wouldn't be embarrassed to show co-workers when screen sharing.

You should send me that sick ass wallpaper

enjoy

Get your keybinds the way you want and learn how to use the tiling extension that comes with pop. I found it super useful when I used to use pop

Based on my experience migrating from Mint to Pop!_OS, the next step is migrate back to Mint.

learn ed, the STANDARD EDITOR

You should use it :D

Start planning what your next OS should be.

Install KDE.

make a backup

h@cK ThE pL4neT

Yeah, now go crazy trying shit you probably should not be trying. From my perspective, that's the best perk of any Linux distro. Evidently, backup first.

install lolcat and make bash commands so that update and upgrade come out in rainbow.

I daily popos for work. It's a great workhorse distro and I've had very little problems with it.

I'd suggest to remove it and install Debian Stable as a tactical next move.

Buy Helldivers 2

Just enjoy buddy.

Figure out how to do snapshots before doing updates or upgrades.

Timeshift I think? Maybe more available.

Next, Install Debian.

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.

I really don't get some of these comments. I've been using popos on and off since it came out. I would check out gnome extensions to see if anything sticks out to you as being useful for your use case. I would also go into your settings and update your recovery partition. This is also the place to refresh your PC if you need in the future which has been a must-have for me.

In a serious tone:

Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

Why did you switch from mint?

Add extensions and customize gnome

There's a song by Gucci Mane called Pop Music

I would play that really loudly using Pop! OS, like noise violation loud, and then just spin in a chair until dizzy while listening

(also enable TimeShift)

Install gentoo /s

That wallpaper looks really cool! Can you upload it here?

Distrohop for a rolling release distro instead a LTS one

Link the wallpaper :)

Edit: never mind, I cannot read.

Edit2: https://lemmy.ml/comment/11532813

I'm pretty be to it too, and it's the first and only one I've used for more than a couple hours.

I dumped GNOME immediately, but haven't really felt a need to change anything else and don't really know what else I'd want to, at least not yet.

I got my stuff working, got colors and window decorations sorted out, and got gaming working.

Now I'm just vibing.