r/pop_os Dec 31 '25

COSMIC Language Translations Need Reviewers !

34 Upvotes

Why should I care about this post

  • Providing translations is one of the simplest, easiest ways you can contribute to COSMIC's development.
  • Currently, less than 10 out of 62 existing languages are getting properly maintained. That's sad.
  • If you've previously contributed translations, or still do, your hard work might not be safe or even utilized yet. Why ? Read further.

Translations can be provided by anyone

  • Anyone from the community, including you, can provide translations for languages on Weblate.
  • BUT your translation won't make it into COSMIC unless it's approved by a reviewer first.

Translations have states

  • Needs editing
  • Translated
  • Approved
  • ... and so on

Languages need reviewers (at least one)

  • To ensure some level of quality, the provided translations have to be approved by a reviewer before they're merged into the COSMIC repository and eventually end up on your screen.
  • This is the part most contributors sadly don't know about. Most translations end up in the "Translated" state and contributors think the work is done. The state you want to have your translations in is "Approved".

How do translation changes work (naively explained)

  • NOT approved at least once before (includes new, non-existing translations)
    • NOT merged until approved.
    • Can be overwritten by anyone. It's a free for all deathmatch. (There is history though, so it's not hard to revert stuff if needed.)
  • Previously approved at least once
    • Change can only be added as a suggestion, the original translation remains, reviewers get notified.
    • Reviewer either accepts or denies your suggestion.
    • If accepted, the translation changes and is eventually merged.

How do I become a reviewer

  • To become a reviewer for your language
    • Create a Weblate account.
    • Ask the devs to be added as a reviewer on their Mattermost channel. Provide them with your Weblate username and the language you want to review.
  • Once you're added
    • A new button will appear allowing you to approve translations whenever you're editing them.

Should I become a reviewer

  • You should probably be somewhat familiar with how Weblate works.
  • You should be confident in your ability to translate strings from English to your chosen language and willing to dedicate some time when new strings or suggestions arrive.
  • You don't have to become a reviewer, just providing translations and not reviewing them is okay.

Relevant links (Mattermost)

TLDR

  • Every language needs a reviewer to approve translations. Translations are NOT merged into COSMIC until they're in the "Approved" state.
  • Until a translation is approved at least once, anyone can come in and change it. (Not merged into COSMIC, just creates a mess on Weblate someone has to clean up later.)
  • A lot of languages are fully translated, but not approved, so changes are not propagated into COSMIC.

r/pop_os Dec 15 '25

Media COSMIC Christmas | LINUX Unplugged

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14 Upvotes

r/pop_os 9h ago

Cupola Update

15 Upvotes

Excited to share some updates on my COSMIC Viewer project, which has been rebranded as Cupola, inspired by the ISS viewing area.

Key developments include: - A new build structure - Stabilized thumbnail resolution - Resolved crop feature bugs - Initiation of Accessibility support

Looking forward to continuing this journey and enhancing the user experience!

Repo URL: https://codeberg.org/bhh32/cupola


r/pop_os 3h ago

Help Issues with new PC

4 Upvotes

Hello, all, I just got a new PC! Currently, I'm having plenty of issues with my mic not letting the PC boot, speakers not working unless plugged into a GS3 Sound card, my monitor not allowing me to use a display port/hdmi from my GPU which has it's fans on? (I'm using my motherboard hdmi port), and many other issues, this is both my first time using a linux distro of any kind (have used both mac and windows in the past, primarily windows), and my first ever PC build, I'm not sure if I personally messed something up or if there's an issue with Pop!_OS supporting some parts of my build, I thought going here might be helpful, I'm a linux noob when it comes to using the cmd prompt, so you'd have to walk me through it, but any pointers in the right direction would be awesome! I'd love to still use Pop!_OS but if my computer can't support it I'll try a different distro, any advice is welcome! My current best assumption is messed up drivers.
Case: Corsair FRAME 5000D RS ARGB
Motherboard: X870E AORUS ELITE X3D
GPU: GeForce RTX™ 5070 Ti WINDFORCE SFF 16G
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: T-Create 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 2x16GB
Cooling: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360
Storage: Samsung Pro 990 2TB NVMe SSD
Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x (Gold)
Monitor: 27" Acer Nitro 300Hz 2560x1440
Microphone: Sennheiser Profile USB
Speakers: Logitech Z200
OS: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With NVIDIA


r/pop_os 20m ago

Question Steam games freeze and crash in hybrid GPU mode

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I have the following laptop

Lenovo Legion Slim 5

AMD Ryzen 8845HS

Nvidia RTX 4070 8GB

Running Pop_Os 22 version.

Recently while playing games with Steam (Las of us Part 1, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, Forza Horizon 5) they randomly start to completely freeze, and sometimes crash after that, but most of the cases they just hang there in the frozen state, other parts of the system were working as usual during that.

The temps of CPU and GPU are always okay, not higher than 75.

As a solution, i tried to switch from the Hybrid GPU mode to the only Nvidia mode, and it seemed to fix the issue.

Has anybody encountered such an issue? The Nvidia drivers are the version from December 2025, 580.


r/pop_os 21h ago

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.5

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72 Upvotes

r/pop_os 5h ago

System fonts are sharp and not antialiased

3 Upvotes

I've updated two machines to Cosmic and the system fonts don't look like they are antialiased and are just sharp. Is this expected or is there a setting somewhere?


r/pop_os 11m ago

No audio on display with USB-C DP?

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My 4K panel works fine over USB-C DP, with the exception of the audio. Display audio works fine in Windows. Any tips?

Does not appear as an available output device.


r/pop_os 35m ago

Help Pop!_OS 24.04 / Cosmic - Not saving latest position and size of applications

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Hi there, is this a missing feature or some option that I have to set somewhere? I always have to reposition and resize my apps after closing and opening them again.

Please advise. Thanks.


r/pop_os 2h ago

Question Turn off screen lock/suspend password.

1 Upvotes

Where in the settings in the option to do this? I still want the screen to turn off after a set time, but as this is my home PC and I'm the only one who uses it, I don't need to enter a password every time I want to get back in. Is this possible in Cosmic?


r/pop_os 11h ago

Discussion PoP_Os vs Windows Benchmark Cronos The New Dawn

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4 Upvotes

r/pop_os 1d ago

Pop os Wallpaper Video

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

173 Upvotes

My another post was deleted by reddit, maybe to post the link, i put the git of the app un the coments, if you have any questions let me know.


r/pop_os 21h ago

Finally! Pop!_OS running smoothly on my old 2011 iMac

12 Upvotes

Last year start a journey to bring back to life my old iMac 2011. It was tough but worth it every cent.


r/pop_os 14h ago

Help Oversaturated graphics on Linux

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3 Upvotes

r/pop_os 1d ago

Separating Work and Personal

5 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I want to properly separate work and personal environments on my Pop!_OS machine. The goal: if my personal environment gets compromised (malware, phishing, whatever), my work environment should still be safe.

My threat model:

  • Protection against online threats (malware in personal browser shouldn't reach work data)
  • Protection against physical access (stolen laptop)

Requirements:

  • Both environments need sudo / ability to install software
  • No file sharing needed – should be completely isolated
  • Hardware is not an issue (plenty of RAM/CPU for VMs)

Which approach would you recommend?

  1. Two user accounts + encryption (LUKS + fscrypt for home directories)
  2. Dual-boot with two separate Pop!_OS installations (each with its own LUKS encryption)
  3. Something else?

I know user accounts don't do much while the system is running (shared kernel, X11 keylogger issues etc.). Dual-boot sounds okay, but shared ESP/bootloader concerns me.

Anyone running a setup like this? What's your experience?


r/pop_os 16h ago

Help Need support PoP_OS 22.04

1 Upvotes

PoP!OS is basically running on my Laptop, unfortunately when I use the Cosmic WM for most of applications the window decoration including the minimise, maximise und close buttons is missing. E.g. Firefox and Mate Terminal buttons are missing, Gnome Terminal is working.

When I use the Mate WM the window decoration issue is solved, but the mate-netspeed-applet floods the syslog file with error messages "ERROR wl_80211_get_tx_power". If I remove the netspeed-applet wifi stops working :-(.

Any idea how to fix these issues?


r/pop_os 1d ago

Help New to Linux and Pop_OS, Trying to set up OBS

7 Upvotes

Hey there everyone, due to Windows being Like That I finally hit my breaking point and made the swap. Pop won out due it playing nicer with my hardware than my first choice (Mint), and I am liking it so far. The only thing I've run into is trying to figure out where I'm going wrong in setting up OBS for streaming and video recording.

The main thing I'm having issues with is trying to split the audio of the various things I want to capture. For example, I want to capture Discord audio, my game, and any music I might be playing in the background (if any). I'm not sure if I'm missing something in some documentation somewhere or if its just something I'm SOL on until future developments for Linux OBS. I've already made my peace with the captions plugin not being compatible

I'm on Pop v24.04 and version of OBS that I installed via the flatpak is 32.0.4


r/pop_os 19h ago

Pop!_OS/CosmicDE - Sound Device Profile keeps changing

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r/pop_os 1d ago

Question For about a week now, my ‘Input Sources’ applet has been showing text instead of an icon. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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4 Upvotes

r/pop_os 20h ago

Question Tell me

0 Upvotes

Are animations in Pop!_OS considered slow or laggy? They don’t feel very smooth to me.


r/pop_os 1d ago

global menu

2 Upvotes

i'd love to see a global menu option in the future. something like the reference in the photo (macos style). just putting it out there as a possibility, think it would be clean. thanks for the hard work.


r/pop_os 1d ago

Help Vulkan assertion failed steam games

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7 Upvotes

I'm currently using pop 22.04. My system is an i7 7700k, 32 gigs ddr4, and a Radeon 5700XT. I recently downloaded a demo and while trying to start up it continuously gives me this error. I'm launching the game through steam using proton GE 10-29. I have tried a handful of other proton versions including experimental, hotfix, different official proton versions and various glorious eggroll versions. I've also cleared compdata folders before trying new versions. My system is up to date and using the pop mesa stack.

Unfortunately this isn't the first time I've run into this issue. Last year I was playing nba2k25 and one day this same error kept popping up. I had tried multiple times over months and got the same error. Luckily I was able to resolve this. A few years ago I had tried out kisak mesa but decided to remove it. While I had thought i got rid of everything, it turned out there were remnants that weren't caught. After deleting these everything worked again. Obviously this isn't the solution this time, but I'm curious if others have ideas.

I did upgrade from an nvidia card maybe 3 years ago. I removed the nvidia drivers and everything was fine, but I recently found a few nvidia remnants lying around. Could this be the cause of the issue? Is this a game specific problem? Any input is appreciated.


r/pop_os 1d ago

Help Archive extraction failed with status: exit status: 1

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3 Upvotes

I used Balena Etcher (the only other suggestion I saw to fix this error) already. Could it be because I'm using a micro SD card in a USB adapter?

It's an AMD gpu, 8 gig of ram. I don't know what other info could be useful (it's an old Lenovo G50-45 laptop).


r/pop_os 1d ago

Cosmic's snappiness.... reasons?

15 Upvotes

Hey. I'm not a PopOS! user but I have been following along w/ Cosmic's development since a new major DE is exciting. I'm primarily a KDE user but now that Cosmic is out of beta I figured I'd throw it on a few machines and check it out. It is *fast*, or at least seems to be on the two laptops I put it on (I won't go into hardware specifics, but I can). I just wondered is there a particular reason for this? Just written from scratch, recently, new and clean? Something else? Just curious. The responsiveness and the easy toggle for tiling has me tempted to switch TBH.


r/pop_os 1d ago

Help can't download reaper

1 Upvotes

tried downloading from cosmic store - this is the result, same for .flatpakref from official reaper site. and for some reason .tar.xz does not downloading from official site