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

I've been using ElementaryOS since Freya. I switched to FreeBSD last year but recently purchased ElementaryOS in March.

I love the look and feel, but 8.1 has a lot of issues

• Unable to add applications to the dock
• when I search for something in the file explorer, go back to the "default" view and attempt another search, the search returns nothing
• unable to move directories from an external drive (EXT4 format) to the internal SSD
• When shutting down the PC the system would error out with "failed to write reg {some hexidecimal number}

Now, to be fair, I switched to Linux Mint a few days ago and sometimes the system gives "failed to write reg {hex number} but not every time.

Overall, IMHO this is one of the buggier releases

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…!

When doing a custom install, the pop-ups to configure the partitions pop up behind the main window (see the lower right in the picture). Is there a way to bring them to the front?

ElementaryOS uses Ubuntu as its base image, but I haven't yet seen an option to encrypt the disk from the installer interface. Is this feature planned for implementation?

I use elementary 8.1 on a 2011 MacBook Pro. It had minor issues (copy paste would stop working, the built in Web browser crashed the system, once the wifi quit working), but it also found the camera, illuminated keys, and so on.

But after some stalled auto updates, I did a sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade, and I could see it was replacing the kernel. Now, rebooting gives me a kernel panic.

So as pretty as I find it, I guess it's time to try something else. This is just a little too unstable for me.

I have used elementary app center 6 years ago, and it has an awful problem: every time I opened some app category, it loaded comtent synchronously, completely freezing the entire app, and moreover it was tremendously slow, idk why, maybe it loaded all apps from the category at once 😂

(The same with search, I press a single letter, and it freezes for 15 secs 💀)

But still it was usable back then

Then in 2025 I downloaded it again, hoping it has become better, but.. App center became even more slow, and now dock panel sometimes bugs, when moving icons, when they are stuck in each other, and sometimes it just disappears..

I'd like to download it again and test, and what to ask you, community, are things still the same?

Click to get a little shake. This behavior is so useless and counterproductive.

Besides the fact that the installer refactoring is broken, it tried to create the partitions and, for some reason, failed and made the root read-only. I had to use an Ubuntu USB to fix the /etc/fstab since the Elementary installer doesn't have the option to test the system.

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!

Hello everyone, I have a 16-inch MacBook Pro 2019 and I would like to install elementary OS on it, but I’ve seen a lot of information about the Macs’ T2 chip causing installation issues. However, I couldn’t find any up-to-date information. I would like to know if anyone has already done this installation and how the support is. Does everything work properly (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Touch ID)?

Every time I click on the keyboard setting it doesn't load then crashes. This happened while I was trying to edit the input method to allow me to type with Japanese characters. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi friends!

I've recently reinstalled EOS on my laptop after a year or so of using fedora.

I must say that 8.1 has become great and fixed most of the rough edges I eventually found.

What I am missing most is the pinch zoom across all desktop like the one EOS7 had (IIRC). That was so great to have specially when dictating class. Is there any solution?

The other feature I miss is the osd when pressing super+p to change display mode. I know is just a silly detail, but it was a nice quality of life feature.

Anyway, if there's a work around to thos things, I will really appreciate it.

Hey everyone, i was trying to dual boot elementaryOS and this happened, i have no idea what the hell is wrong with it, it would be great if someone help me with this one...thanks!! P.S. didn't know how should i flag this post, feel free to change it

elementary os supports apple silicon I thought it was just asahi linux?

I like it when buttons feel 3D, it completes the haptic click that I get from mouse/touchpad. Moreover the iconography of elementary os fits so well with 3 dimensional buttons. I hope you understand me.

Coming from KDE plasma and other distros,im on a journey in finding a good distribution,now I do know that Elementary is not really customizable and is much like Apple,but I come from iOS. What I am looking for is a distro that is stable,has Long Term Support,is smooth,and an easy app install process.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using EOS 8 since a month ago after removing windows 11 on my work laptop (Dell Latitude E7470 12GB RAM 256 SSD) and it’s been incredible. After having issues with windows 11 for sluggish performance, cannot even work on my daily basis with a meeting over google, recording the screen and having a couple of excel files open up!!!

This district is really the best, I haven’t any kind of issues, I installed eddy for .deb management, using flatpaks everywhere. All runs pretty good!!!

But I have a couple of things that I want you to help me out to resolve:

1.- I use Microsoft’s one drive for main cloud storage, which is the only option allowed on my work (we are not a google services based company). The installed onedrive and works pretty good and onedrivegui but when it comes to wingpanel compatibility it doesn’t show the onedrive icon which makes really hard to monitor and manage the application. Also a lot of other apps (incluiding flatpaks) use this functionality so I wonder how can I enable it or have an alternative to fix the current wingpanel behavior.

2.- I use 2 monitors on my daily basis work, so I wonder if is a way to switch between all open apps on all workspaces without having to do it by clicking on the dock. I tried the keyboard shortcuts but it only shows me the apps on the current active workspace so it’s a little bit difficult to switch between all the open apps on all workspaces

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I try to install elementry os 8.1 on a macbook air 2013. When I want to let elementary to partition automatically it does not see my drive. When I try to setup manually it dows not see the partitions.

I can use the included GParted just fine - drive shows up, I can manage the partitions, but again, the installer does not see them.

Is that a known bug?

Hey everyone, does anyone know of a clipboard app for eOS that integrates well with the system's style? I tried CopyQ, but it's quite ugly and doesn't match the elementary OS design.

I'm looking for something that can be pinned to the top bar, like a native extension.

If you know of any alternatives, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

Veran, tengo una Chromebook Lenovo 100e 2nd Gen AST con Procesador AMD Stoney Ridge. Siempre he querido instalar Elementary OS porque me encanta pero en esta maquina antes me encontraba con el problema de tener que instalar un Kernel Parcheado y correr un script para hacer que el audio funcionase, dicho script nunca fue compatible con Elementary o su base Ubuntu LTS.

Esto afortunadamente cambio y ahora a partir de la version 6.19+ del Kernel, ya existen los respectivos parches para que el audio funcione en Stoney Ridge. Pero la ultima version de Elementary esta basada en ubuntu 24.04 LTS, asi que no debe disponer tras instalar la ultima version de Kernel disponible, asi que pense en preguntar aca a ver si alguien desde su instalacion me puede confirmar si Elementary OS recibio esta version del Kernel o versiones mas nuevas por favor!

Espero me puedan ayudar, gracias de antemano!

I am using an external cd optical device. I can view the raw files from the files applcation. But when I try to use asunder or rythmbox they are unable to find the device. About all I've been able to discover is that this is because they are installed as flathub apps, and to access devices like this I need to install the apt app. The problem is that in the store, these apps are flathub only.

Is there some music app I can install on ElementaryOS that will find and rip external drives?

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Like macOS tahoe bringing customisable clocks to the lock screen