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Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by sergiosgc »

zozbot234 wrote: post #71
JeremyMorgan wrote: post #8

Pop is my new favorite. I started using it at the urging of friends, and love it. I've written a couple reviews of it on my blog, as it's been my "daily driver" for my laptop for nearly a year. I've been a Linux user since 1995/96, and a die hard Arch user for about 10 years. So why would I want a Linux distro that's super hands-off and easy to use? It's incredibly stable. "Set it and forget it". If I want a bleeding…

Nothing wrong with PopOS, but I'd pick plain Debian over Ubuntu. Just make sure to install from the "unofficial non-free media" if you're on modern hardware. Also the 'testing' channel of Debian makes for a great semi-rolling distribution.

My choice too, but with Pop Shell added. Coming from i3, then sway, the transition to Pop Shell was seamless. The natural integration with Gnome, which is always a pain with i3/sway, is a great selling point.

I second the recommendation for using Debian as a rolling distro, under testing or unstable.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by elesbao »

[edit] Pop OS made my macbook air 2012 usable and it became a delight to hack on Rust even given the hw limitations. Their attention to detail on top of a distro that I already respect for that is awesome. Long live Pop OS.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by thinkpadx1g4tw »

cpuguy83 wrote: post #138
KronisLV wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think for many some of the appeal of Ubuntu is in Ubuntu LTS, which gets more attention than the Debian alternative. Have a look at the Ubuntu LTS page: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop And then look at the Debian equivalent: https://www.debian.org/lts/ (though the differences are perhaps because the latter is comparatively more unofficial) But hey, many people prefer more stable distros with somewhat long life…

Better marketing doesn't make it better. If you compare the actual releases I think you will find Debian to be more stable overall.

I would prefer to use Debian if it was more stable. It worked fine on my workstation but if I try to use it on my laptop it would not ever resume from suspend making it unusable.

I think Ubuntu has the benefit of the large user base making it more likely that your problem is solved.

My laptop is also a 5 year old thinkpad x1 gen 4 so it should be supported, and Debian is the only linux that gave me this problem.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by rg111 »

Filligree wrote: post #124
rg111 wrote: post #122

It was all shiny and nice until I started using it. I stopped using Pop OS. I am using Linux Mint and I am very happy with it. The main problem of the OS was its very poor power management. With Kubuntu/Mint, I get about 5.5 hours of battery backup from my laptop and when using Pop, I barely got 3. Yes, I get more than two hours more from using Kubuntu/Mint rather than Pop. The wifi was problematic. I tried common fi…

> The main problem of the OS was its very poor power management. With Kubuntu/Mint, I get about 5.5 hours of battery backup from my laptop and when using Pop, I barely got 3. Yes, I get more than two hours more from using Kubuntu/Mint rather than Pop. I had the same experience. However, is your laptop a dual-GPU model? System76 enables hybrid graphics by default; most other distributions don't, and that can account f…

The laptop in discussion does not have even a single GPU.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#146

Post by Vrondi »

solarkraft wrote: post #97
usr1106 wrote: post #36

I am still searching for a replacement of Ubuntu. snap store not being open source made was enough for me after nearly 10 years. Well, not so much for myself. I can handle Arch and whatnot. I am a distro hopper, although a somewhat slow one. Used i3 for years and should probably go back (or to sway). But for family members and relatives whose machines I install and support. Is Pop OS a reasonable candidate for that?…

If you just want Ubuntu without Snap, Pop is your perfect candidate.

Mint

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by rg111 »

lugged wrote: post #128
rg111 wrote: post #122

It was all shiny and nice until I started using it. I stopped using Pop OS. I am using Linux Mint and I am very happy with it. The main problem of the OS was its very poor power management. With Kubuntu/Mint, I get about 5.5 hours of battery backup from my laptop and when using Pop, I barely got 3. Yes, I get more than two hours more from using Kubuntu/Mint rather than Pop. The wifi was problematic. I tried common fi…

You seem to be confused, Linux doesn't have the problems you think it does. Im a daily Linux user and don't have these problems you're suggesting. Have you made a bug report?

Sometimes I do.

With the previous Kubuntu installation, the VLC wouldn't fully close.

It would show up in the list of processes and also in the tray.

Turned out it was a common bug and I had to manually kill the process using flag -9.

It got fixed in the current version.

There are small problems rampant with desktop Linux distros that get in your way.

I have been using Linux as my daily driver since four years ago.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

unixhero wrote: post #51
JeremyMorgan wrote: post #8

Pop is my new favorite. I started using it at the urging of friends, and love it. I've written a couple reviews of it on my blog, as it's been my "daily driver" for my laptop for nearly a year. I've been a Linux user since 1995/96, and a die hard Arch user for about 10 years. So why would I want a Linux distro that's super hands-off and easy to use? It's incredibly stable. "Set it and forget it". If I want a bleeding…

Reminds me of the first rule of Arch Linux. Always tell other people you use Arch Linux.

Obligatory: https://github.com/overmighty/i-use-arch-btw

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by misterpopo »

thastings wrote: post #63
qwerty456127 wrote: post #41

I have tried installing Pop!_OS 21.04 on 2 distinct models of computers - it would fail silently (the installation process sort of ends suspiciously quickly, then it won't boot) so I had to use Ubuntu instead (it still installs and boots without any problems). Pop!_OS 20.10 worked fine.

What sort of error did you see, if any? I had a similar issue, but a wiping the disk and setting up partitions again fixed it.

Not OP. The usb will add two boot options to the bios menu and grub installation failed with an error if you choose the wrong one. Everything else will work fine, but the installation will fail right at the end. The installation program will tell you to retry installation when that happens, which is kinda weird, because that suggests that they were encountering non deterministic errors when developing the installation program, and it wouldn't have helped in my case anyways. I would've gotten the exact same error message again.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#150

Post by shrike »

helmholtz wrote: post #105
badRNG wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a few: - Great initial repo list - Togglable tiling manager - Excellent shortcuts for everything that improve my workflow Sure, I could get all of this stuff and more working on any other distro, but this stuff works out of the box, and is stable.

Is there any way to use Pop without the gnome backend? Gnome and Pop both ship with Nautilus, and apparently don't work well without it, but Nautilus doesn't have type-ahead navigation. This is when you are in a directory and start typing the first few letters of the file you want to get to. In Windows Explorer, that will just lead to the cursor skipping ahead, whereas in Gnome, this starts a search for the file. It'…

Yes. I use Pop!_OS with Plasma, it's great. The documentation includes details on switching to 8 different desktops.

https://support.system76.com/articles/desktop-environment/

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