Refugee from another, less-friendly instance. Please forgive the youth of my account— I’ve actually been around here for a while. Still, glad to be here!

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Cake day: June 3rd, 2024

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  • 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.







  • As others have said, the only option available currently is to leave the instance and re-create your beloved communities elsewhere. The Lemmy.ml Admins also happen to be the ones actively developing the Lemmy code base, and they’re not gonna change because they feel entitled to do whatever they want, and technically, they can because they run the instance.

    My best advice is to move on from the instance.