I made the leap and ditched Windows and made the switch. I’m not married to Pop! OS, it just happened to be the first distro I tried and has been mostly a breeze setting up and getting used to but I do have a couple issues I wasn’t able to resolve this weekend. Hoping someone else has seen similar.

  • Cannot add library in Steam: this is likely due to me misconfiguring the drive, mount, or fstab. When I try to add a drive in Steam it allows me to browse the drive and select a folder but then nothing is actually added to Steam. The drive was newly formatted with 2 partitions, both ext4. Unfortunately I am at work and cannot get blkid, df, fdisk, fstab, etc. but my hope was someone had found a better guide than the ones I have tried thus far.

  • Helldivers 2 audio issue: crackling and audio cutting out.; from what I’ve read it sounds like a throughput issue with the sound server (POP OS default is pulse audio). I came across a couple guides for troubleshooting audio issues with HD2 in Linux that sought to address this with pulse audio and others for pipewire but none of those ended up being helpful. Again, the hope is someone here has had a similar experience and can share what helped them or get me pointed in a good direction for troubleshooting.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    13 hours ago

    I also switched to Pop!OS recently!

    Cannot add library in Steam

    I had the same issue. You likely installed Steam from the Pop! Shop by selecting “flathub (flatpak)” which I believe is the default option. You won’t be able to access other drives because of the way flatpaks are containerized (or something along those lines). Go back to the Pop! Shop, uninstall Steam, and then reinstall ofter selecting “Pop!_OS (deb)” from the drop-down menu just below the name of the program. This version isn’t containerized and can access your other drive. Edit: Another thing! When you reboot your system you might need to remind Steam to have another drive. For whatever reason I need to go back to “add drive” and select the drive before Steam remembers that’s where all my games are installed.

    crackling and audio cutting out

    I haven’t had this exact issue but I did need to play around with PulseAudio/PipeWire to get my microphone to work. I remember uninstalling and reinstalling stuff related to PipeWire and then rebooting the system and my microphone worked.

    • stringereOPEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      I definitely have the flatpak install; last night when I was mucking about I saw the deb package available to install in the Pop Shop. It was late so I didn’t bother with it but tonight I’ll be removing the flatpak and replacing with deb. Will check back in with results. Appreciate the reply!

    • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Do you have your second drive set to mount on boot? I had that issue initially, but setting it to automount fixed it.