Yh they really do, I mean why would git affect anything. In looking for solutions I came across these links to. based on this like here, I don't think removing pop-desktop would be a good idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/elcqdo/how_to_remove_pop_desktop_environment/ thanks so much for your extended help. Unfortunately, I can't wait on System76 developers to solve this. I may have to jump on a vm in the mean time. I don't wanna go back to windows and I'm used to debian based systems. Can anyone suggest a debian based OS that will for sure work with GStreamer and all the plugins. I would really appreciate that. <hr align="left" width="300" /> Sent from the <a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/">GStreamer-devel mailing list archive</a> at Nabble.com.