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Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by ourdramadotnet »

super_linear wrote: post #6
88913527 wrote: post #3

I find the branding of the gigantic P and the exclamation point, when used as a backdrop, to be excessively distracting from the content in the foreground.

Also find it hard to read the article since I see "Pop!_OS" and think they're trying to emphasize something

"PopOS" with no punctuation seems a lot cleaner.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by alanwreath »

Gotta give my love here! Pop OS works well. Coming a severely mixed household with Windows 11/10 (for vr and gaming), Max OS X (for work), and Linux when not gaming. I recently switched my non gaming os on my household computers from Ubuntu to PopOS. I love the auto-tiling feature, and it’s in support for nvidia cards is a very nice touch. I’m also excited to see they are investing in Rust development of the frontend. Gonna be an interesting year for sure!

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by lumost »

Absolutely love the work system76 is doing. My only regret is that I run pop on a Razer rather than one of their machines. Hopefully they get their in-house laptops up and running soon :)

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by coldtea »

multiplegeorges wrote: post #2

Is it finally the year of Linux on the desktop? But seriously, the work System76 is doing is really great. PopOS is really nice to use. The attention it is getting is well deserved.

>Is it finally the year of Linux on the desktop?

Considering that the hope behind this term was about winning the desktop user share from Windows, and not just "being usable" on the desktop, or "being used" on the desktop, no.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by upbeat_general »

flatiron wrote: post #10
upbeat_general wrote: post #8

Having switched from macOS to PopOS very recently, it’s been pretty smooth. My only real issue is that Remote Desktop support is worse than macOS which is itself far worse than Windows RDP. I know it’s a Linux/Debian wide problem, but I’d really like someone to step up and bundle something polished out of the box.

Vnc? I think most people use ssh for remote for Linux which is why it probably doesn’t get much love

Vnc works for the basic use case of viewing a remote screen. It’s a mess for interactive use, especially with the default implementations you can find on Linux imo. macOS’s built in screen sharing is the only vnc server/client combo that has acceptable latency but even it fails to support basic features like dynamic resolution for different clients.

And I agree that SSH is definitely far more common; I of course use SSH but there are lots of reasons why an interactive desktop is either required, or just far more convenient.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by allenu »

super_linear wrote: post #6
88913527 wrote: post #3

I find the branding of the gigantic P and the exclamation point, when used as a backdrop, to be excessively distracting from the content in the foreground.

Also find it hard to read the article since I see "Pop!_OS" and think they're trying to emphasize something

This is my first time reading about this OS and the naming is very strange to me. I don't understand why they decided to go with "!_" in the middle. It feels a little too techy for a mainstream user. Why not PopOS or Pop OS?

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by Normille »

All very pretty I'm sure. But, at the end of the day, much though I enjoy twiddling with Linux and poking around different distros, I'm stuck with MacOS because [like a lot of folks who use MacOS for work reasons and not to be 'hipster cool'] I work in the design industry and that means the Adobe suite is a must.

Linux has nothing that comes close. And the customary recommendations; The Gimp and Inkscape are so pitifully awful compared to Photoshop and Illustrator that I seriously doubt the people who suggest them are professional designers, who have to work with these packages, day in and day out. So, yeah, I'm all for Linux distros which try and lift some of the elegant design cues from MacOS. But, at the end of the day, the OS is just something I use to open / edit / save and move files around. It's not where I actually get my work done.

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