Alright, I think I may have found my solution.

• The crash only occurs on desktop environments that use x11, it does not occur on DEs that use Wayland.
• The only DE that uses Wayland that Pop officially supports (that I can tell at least) is "Pop (on Wayland)," which is GNOME.
• GNOME doesn't look or feel familiar to me, Cinnamon does. I really like Cinnamon. But today I realized GNOME extensions can be used to make GNOME feel different, and are (at least so far) remarkably stable.
• By installing the extension manager, and then adding the extensions "Dash to Panel" and "ArcMenu" and tweaking them I've been able to achieve the look and feel that I was going for with Cinnamon, on a DE that doesn't crash on suspend. (Note for anyone else that tries this: I had to disable the "Cosmic Dock" and "Pop COSMIC" extensions so things would play nice with the new extensions.)

So it's a workaround. It's essentially finding a way to make the "new" stuff feel like the old stuff, but as an added benefit, I get all the functionality that the new stuff offers.

So after installing it I see: nvidia-driver-550 is already the newest version (560.35.03-1pop0~1729800494~22.04~4a3cad6)

So 550 is there, but it's using 560. I assume that means I need to purge all traces of 560 and 550 and then reinstall 550, unless I can specify somewhere to use 550.

However in software and updates there is no 550, only 560.

This is getting deep and complicated.

So I tried using the command in the snippet, and made sure that CC was capitalized, but the error log still says "You are using: cc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0"

Going to the post that talks about changing your version of GCC it looks like my gcc might be pointing to the "11.4.0 cc"?

But when I run: sudo apt-get install gcc-4.3 gcc-4.4 g++-4.3 g++-4.4

I can't find those packages. And when I run:

sudo update-alternatives --remove-all gcc sudo update-alternatives --remove-all g++

I find no alternatives. Sheesh. When I go this many layers deep I get worried that I'm going to potentially break something that will make bugtesting for other future things harder.

Finally got around to this. I tried installing while logged in, then realized I should Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or something) and stop gdm before installing.

I got an error message, there was an error while building kernel modules. Checking /var/log/nvidia-installer.log I think this is the culprit:

warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel The kernel was built by: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 12.3.0 You are using: cc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0

Warning: Compiler version check failed:

The major and minor number of the compiler used to compile the kernel:

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38

does not match the compiler used here:

cc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. It is recommended to set the CC environment variable to the compiler that was used to compile the kernel.

To skip the test and silence this warning message, set the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH environment variable to "1". However, mixing compiler versions between the kernel and kernel modules can result in subtle bugs that are difficult to diagnose.

So I'm using 11.4.0 instead of 12.3.0? Not sure what that number is. Both kernels are based on Ubuntu 22.04. I'm starting to think if I really want cinnamon I should use a distro that was made for cinnamon, like Mint.

"Stomach rolls" That's just a stomach.

Stomachs can buckle like that when you bend, it's normal. If you're worried about that then society has got you paranoid.

If you're obese you're obese, but "stomach rolls" don't mean you're obese.

This reminds me of when I sent someone a program in a zip folder. Windows now opens zip folders by default, and it looks just like any other folder.

So of course they opened the zip and double clicked the exe, but everyone knows you can't open an exe inside a zip folder (at least, if the exe depends on the folders and files around it). If you try to, windows will extract the exe into a temp space, but leave all the dependencies behind. So the exe promptly crashes.

I didn't think I needed to specify "you need to extract the contents of the zip folder first, then run the exe." It feels like saying "you need to take the blender out of the box before you can use it. And not just the _base _ of the blender, you have to take out all the parts."

Some things just feel so much like second nature that we forget.

For those brave enough, this year I finally took the plunge and went with Linux on my desktop.

I went with Pop OS, and after a few days decided to try the cinnamon desktop env. since it's a little more familiar. Some things took about a week to get figured out, but now I don't ever want to go back.

This looks like "dropping an egg into boiling water" and not "bringing the water to a boil with the egg in it," which is an important distinction.

41?

Yeah, I mean, yeah. Sounds about right, yeah.

What?

Web results only? As compared to what? AI results? What's in the first tab? You're... searching the web for results. What else would be in the first tab??

Edit: I haven't used Google in a while. I just searched "who is Dr dre" on mobile. That's a lot of boxes. Wikipedia box, albums box, songs box, people also search for box, videos box, you really gotta scroll down before you get to the results. Google doesn't really link you to the answer anymore, it just answers you. Wow.

Good guy Mozilla.