Hmm i thought to make use of DLSS i'd need to go down to a lower resolution (so it has somewhere to scale up to?), but doing that causes the client to become a strange window where where you click isn't where you click in the client. It took me ages to go down-and-right enough pixels to click where the cursor really believes it is to even get back to 3440x1440, and then my FPS was dang terrible with a 3080 card.

pressing Alt-X i did manage to turn a few things down, but apparently the effects weren't going to be fully apparent until a restart, and i really don't have time before I'm about to do some gaming with someone else.

Looking forwards to when people have come up with a few launch options and other tips on protonDB and such to get some sort of middle ground between looking nice and playable.

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Quoting: jensHuh? Having a firewall turned off these days on any machine would be very irresponsible. I strongly advise in setting it at least to the default settings of your distro.
That said, I really cannot imagine that Pop has it turned off by default.

It seems to be true, google results for "Pop_os firewall"

Pop!_OS' lack of Firewall by default : r/pop_os - Reddit 1 Nov 2019
Pop!_OS' lack of Firewall by default (since 2 years, and still no change) 7 Sept 2021
7 things to do after installing Pop!_OS - AddictiveTips 28 Jan 2022
Issue/Bug Description: Pop!_OS comes with the ufw firewall installed, but inactive. There is no GUI application to manage the firewal; - Github - 15 Mar 2020
15 Things You MUST DO After Installing Pop!_OS 20.04 - Youtube 14 May 2021
20 Things to do After Installing Pop!_OS 22.04 averagelinuxuser.com 10 Jul 2022

Pop really has it turned off by default, and is the default setting of the distro, it's not me honest! :whistle:

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Quoting: GuestDon't worry about these vulnerabilities too much, if they are exploited on your system, it means that attacker has already penetrated your firewall, logged in, uploaded malware and executed it, or you installed and malware and running it. This is just the icing of security cake.

I think Pop_os comes with something called ufw as a firewall but it's off by default, and i havent looked into turning it on. I also kind of wanted to know how to be on the latest Nvidia drivers too for a gaming reason, something about the latest version being able to use the shaders shipped with the game instead of needing to rebuild them, I'm not completely sure

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Quoting: MohandevirFor the record, Nvidia 525.60.11 is already available on Pop_OS! It just doesn't show in the Pop!_Shop, but you'll find it in the terminal.

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525

Should do the trick.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-driver-525

Is what I end up i'm afraid, not sure how or why, i'm still very uninformed about Linux, just quietly thanking god to be away from the last few hundred patches of Windows 10 for the last few months.

Edit for Sat 3rd Dec 11:33am GMT: Looks like i needed "sudo apt update" then 525.60.11 was found, huzzah! Thank you for the help!

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The Pop_os guys update the Nvidia drivers very slowly, whats the best way to manually update one time to a version that has these fixes and then let Pop_os go back to updating once they surpass this version?

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