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The Gnome-ish shell on Pop 21.04 running on my full AMD laptop (5900hx cpu/apu, 6800m gpu) works smooth as butter. It games great and I'm using with 2 monitors one being 165Hz 1440p and the other 60Hz 4k. I had to enable Wayland on the login manager config files.

No driver installation required. I have no regrets for ditching my Nvidia RTX 3060 hardware.

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Fedora 36 releasing next month will ship with Wayland enabled by default for NVIDIA as well.

Beware if you depend on the tiling window management and keyboard shortcuts from the Pop shell. Gnome developers apparently randomly decided to change just enough about how they handle workspaces and shortcuts that it breaks/changes Pop shell. This occurred on the Gnome3 version that ships with 21.10.

I ended up switching to i3 after that. Currently on Ubuntu 21.10 with i3wm.

Ubuntu 21.10 (and therefore presumably Pop!_OS) ships with GNOME 40, not GNOME 3.

Thank you, that is a meaningful distinction I should've paid more attention to.

This reddit thread sums up my issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/o27q4z/gnome_3_vs_gn...

Forcing horizontal workspaces, and requiring an extension to go back to vertical, seems like a regression.

It's kind of a coincidence that the big Shell UI changes happened at the same time as the big version number jump, but it is a convenient coincidence.

You probably mean Hertz instead of Megahertz

Fixed. Thanks.

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