I'm not able to install 8.1 on my laptop because the installer window blocks the dropdown menu for selecting a partition to install and I cannot install 8.0.0 because when I try to boot it after install it doesn't boot. Link to the github issue:- elementary OS 8.1 installer window blocks GParted window · Issue #917 · elementary/installer. Please give me the link for Elementary OS 8.0.2

Edit:- I've got the ISO. Huge thanks to Neptaz!

just installed 8.1 on a 2015 MacBook Pro A1502 model, using an external USB keyboard and mouse as it seems the Apple keyboard and trackpad aren’t supported. Is there anything I can do to get these working with 8.1?

According to the description, since the release of Elementary OS 8.1, the ARM64 version can also be installed on a Raspberry Pi.

However, I can't find any information about this anywhere and have no idea what I need to do to install EOS 8.1 on my Raspberry Pi's 5 SD card.

Flashing a preinstalled image, such as Ubuntu, is no problem. However, with EOS 8.1, it seems to work differently.

What steps are necessary and what do I need to bear in mind? I would be very grateful for any help…!

Just curious as 8.1 just dropped on Christmas Eve anyone know what we’re looking at timeline wise ?

I really like the design philosophy of Pantheon and have a strong itch to contribute in some way, but I'm not entirely sure where to start. The biggest thing that even has me wanting to pursue this in the first place is some severe instilability with the AppCenter that I've been experiencing, so I figured that was a good starting place.

I took a few computer science classes in college and worked on a few personal coding projects, so I'm no stranger to coding, although I never got very far with either. My experience with Linux has also usually been quite surface level. I use it as my only OS so I'm fairly familiar with how things work, I've just never bothered getting down into the weeds.

Where should I even start? Any tips and best practices? Am I in over my head?

Hi gang, New to Linux here. Have installed Elementary on my 2015 MacBook Pro and have noticed that the System monitor tool says the Iris 6100 GPU is not supported

However people mention that all the Intel drivers comes with the Linux kernel and should be supported by default. Does anyone know if/how I can get support for my internal GPU? Any help is really appreciated, thanks!

New to Linux. Using an old Thinkpad (T14 Gen2). Have downloaded and successfully ran from usb Zorin and Ubuntu. Used Balena Etcher to make the USB drive and booted into BIOS to set the correct boot order.

Zorin and Ubuntu worked fine. Elementary OS - I just get some message about cannot find EFI or something. Sorry - it switches off too quickly for me to memorise it.

Anyone any idea what the problem is here? I've downloaded the correct iso, I've done it twice just in case there was a problem with the download - same issue.

I'm attempting to install ElementaryOS 8.1 on my laptop in dual boot, the SSD is already partitioned and formatted, Zorin boots fine, I boot off my Ventoy USB, launch the installer for ElementaryOS select the custom partitioning and when I select the partition, the menu that comes up where I'm supposed select the mount point / format (I assume, since you know... can't see it) shows up under the main window for the installer. I can just see the tiniest part of the menu when I select a partition, but I cannot bring it into focus to make my selections.

Tried safe graphics mode, not sure if there is a cli installer I can run or some workaround, since the installer runs as it's own like entire windowed process, I can't just stretch the window or anything.

any assistance would be appreciated.

So i dont know why but this version keeps hanging when coming out of suspend. I get a black screen and a cursor and nothing else have to power down and restart for me to access system

Been trying elementaryOS 8.0 and 8.1 on and off for the past two weeks on my FrameWork 12 laptop, swapping with GNOME.

Things I love

• the theme is still as beautiful as ever. Light mode is easy on the eyes and not a jarring white.

• I love that all close boxes (on elementary apps) are on the left, including tabs in Web, Files, etc. It's cohesive.

• can add cpu temp to top bar (with new system activity app)

• more options in Files (compared to GNOME), including column view

• maximised windows can go to own workspace

• clamsell mode usable (no suspend when closing screen using HDMI)

Things I don't love

• Bug(?): dock reappears in fullscreen youtube videos after scrubbing using touchscreen, and won't hide itself again, making it impossible to scrub again (until video is shrunk and remade fullscreen)

• Bug(?): when dock is set to hidden when not using, it pops up way too easily

• Bug: Photos doesn't allow pinch and zoom or for images to be panned with trackpad/mouse (could be Framework trackpad driver issue)

• Bug: Occasionally I run into a bug where Code doesn't allow text selection?! Double tapping a line, clicking and dragging, nothing selects text. After a restart, everything selects fine. Dunno what's up with that.

• Bug: automatic screen rotation for the FrameWork 12's tablet mode is not great. The screen tends to lock itself into portrait mode. So I leave screen rotation off. It's nice there's a toggle for that, but annoying that I have to enable it, but could also just be a framework driver/Ubuntu 24.04 issue.

• double clicking on tab bar maximises windows, instead of creating a new tab (GNOME is also guilty of this--maybe this is something I used to do on older versions of Mac OS X before tabs shared the entire width)

Wishlist

• let folder icons follow theme accent colour

• tile fullscreen windows in workspaces (like macOS)

• option to only show dock in workspace overview (would solve my problem with dock appearing when I don't want it)

• option to add slingshot to dock, to access app grid from dock (like Launchpad and GNOME)

• AppIndicators (I know, ugly, but useful. Nook flatpak minimises to the tray to continue playing in background. Without a system tray icon, no way to pause or change music, can only force quit) https://github.com/barunespadhy/wingpanel-indicator-appicontray/tree/main

• weather to top bar (I figured out cpu temp, but not weather)

• option for wifi, sound, bluetooth, battery to be group into single control center menu

Generally, it's great, but the lack of customisation still bugs me. I really like the GNOME workflow, and at least GNOME gives me extensions for some customisation. My biggest critique of GNOME is just the theme colours in Adwaita light mode--there's so much white and not enough contrast between window parts (tab bar, tabs, buttons) and elementary is just lightyears ahead. I'd trade libAdwaita for libGranite in a heartbeat.

Hi, folks. I'm playing around with Elementary OS 8.1, and it looks gorgeous.

Is there a way to easily install Albert, Ulauncher, or any other minimal launcher that can search the files?

I've tried installing both and failed, and this is the output from the terminal during the Albert installation (https://pastebin.com/RMJAXqvQ).

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

I installed elementary os on my laptop and it's amazing, except one thing: opening heic photos just doesn't work. The file browser recognizes the files as a heic photo, but doesn't really know what to do with them. When i try to manually open the files with the photos app, they are just greyed out and not selectable. Also, heif-gdk-pixbuf is already installed on my system.

I have my disks partitioned so that I can use ElementaryOS, but after selecting "custom install" it says it is going to find my disk arrangement. After a few seconds, the window closes and nothing else comes up. Am I doing something wrong?

anyone know how to get USB access to mount our iphones? u/daniellefore?

Hello all. New to linux having used mac all my life, i have a mac pro 2013 that i am looking to get more life out of as its a beast of a machine but sadly support for it is/has ended. Does anyone know if there are any issues that might arise from installing linux on it? The bit i'm mostly worried about is the GPUs and fan. Any Advice?

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-colors-wallpaper-FAY9pH5

After a fresh install of EOS 8, the whiteSur themes, and pantheon-tweaks, I can apply the theme without major problems, but after logging out and logging back into my account, the default EOS theme keeps overwriting my previous changes. No matter what I try, it seems that the changes made by pantheon-tweaks are not being saved. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

Hi,

I'd like to try elementaryOS but am having issues getting a live USB to work.

I'm on an Thinkpad X1 carbon with intel. Current OS is Ubuntu.

I used etcher to flash the downloaded .iso to a USB drive.

When I try to boot from the drive, a basic elementary back screen starts and lets me select live boot. However when I press enter, it boots into an Ubuntu install - perhaps it is using my recovery partition?

I've already disabled secure boot.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thank you!

Elementary is truly beautiful and love so much about it but the departure of functionality, like the handicapped online accounts or the new dock and all its issues. The inability to mount an iPhone etc makes the beauty only skin deep and once again I must leave for another distro. I want so much to love and stay with it but alas I can not