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Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. Unleash your potential on secure, reliable open source software. Based on your exceptional curiosity, we sense you have a lot of it.

Requirements: At the time of this writing Pop!_OS only runs on 64-bit x86 architecture, 2 GB of RAM is required, 4 GB of RAM is recommended and 20 GB of storage is recommended.

Download the Pop!_OS.iso image​

From You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., choose DOWNLOAD, and then choose from the current release (default), or the Long Term Support (LTS) image. The download dialog includes the current Requirements, and download Filesize, as well as the image checksums used to verify the file once downloaded.

Make Bootable Drive​

Please see our instructions for making and booting from a live disk of Pop!_OS You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

Installing Pop!_OS​

The first step after booting from your new live disk is to select your language:

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Next we will select the keyboard layout for our setup and region:

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Now we can choose to install Pop!_OS or to try Demo Mode to learn your new desktop before installing:

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We can select to erase the currently installed operating system and install Pop!_OS on the selected drive. To the left we can choose Custom Partitioning if you need to Dual Boot or want to have a separate Home partition or place the /tmp partition on a different drive:

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Full Disk Encryption​

You can choose to encrypt your drive or to not encrypt your drive. If you would like to encrypt the drive then push the Choose Password button, if you don’t want to encrypt click the Don’t Encrypt button:

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At this step you choose the password that will be used to encrypt your drive and it will be requested every time the system boots:

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Now Pop!_OS will begin installing!

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Pop!_OS has been successfully installed on your computer! Awesome work! You can choose to reboot your computer to create your new user for the OS or you can shut down and setup the new user later:

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NVIDIA Graphics​

If you installed from the Intel/AMD ISO and your system has discrete NVIDIA graphics card or if you added one later on, you will need to manually install the drivers for your card to get the optimum performance. Please run the following command in a command terminal to install the driver:

sudo apt install system76-driver-nvidia
 

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