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Some time ago I had to switch distros because for some reason it wouldn't wake up from locking. It happened randomly. Even after several reinstalls the problem persisted. It was related to the nvidia drivers and I wasn't the only one with that issue.

Anyway, now that's not a problem anymore but many other things are not working as expected.

- Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces

- The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something

- When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.

These things make me want to throw the computer out of the window. I'll have to look for an alternative once I finish the things I'm working on.

> When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.

Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.

> Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces

Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.

> - The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something

Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.

  > Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.

That's stupid. Why would I use suspend if I want to lock the screen? Anyway, suspend is broken in linux so if I suspend there a high chance that I'll have to reboot to bring it back.

  > Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.

It's GNOME so horizontal workspaces are there. I'm using them but shortcuts are broken.

  > Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.

It's an important piece of software so it is a big deal.

I use MATE (Ubuntu MATE and Garuda MATE) and I don't have these problems.

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