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Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by Shared404 »

hsn915 wrote: post #17
johannes_ne wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021? I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago. Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

Not to minimize the other commenters issues, but I've never seen an issue like this, and I've run Pop on a wide variety of hardware.

And as the sibling to this comment points out, Pop only officially support their own hardware, where this would never happen.

Edit: It also seems worth pointing out that the reasons these conversations are had is that it can be fixed. Mac and Windows? Not so much in my experience. Working in a repair shop I have seen some things out of both of those that make bug's like this one look minor (remember when Windows updates decided user data didn't matter?), and there's nothing/not much you can do about it.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by hakube »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

This tiling feature looks just like i3 or Sway.. pretty sure it is using it under the hood. Not sure why they changed the default shortcuts though, nor why they want to rename everything under the Pop OS brand.. rather than just give credit to the real contributors.

It's using GNOME extensions. GNOME has it's own window manager called Mutter. You should Google stuff first before leaving comments like this

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by nsonha »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

This tiling feature looks just like i3 or Sway.. pretty sure it is using it under the hood. Not sure why they changed the default shortcuts though, nor why they want to rename everything under the Pop OS brand.. rather than just give credit to the real contributors.

Don't all tilling VMs look alike (they have no look)? This is much more mouse friendly than i3 default.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#24

Post by k1rcher »

hsn915 wrote: post #17
johannes_ne wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021? I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago. Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

> gold standard for Linux

OS X is great for specific use cases and specific users. If you want Linux, OP is saying PopOS is the gold standard. OS X isn’t exactly in the same vein.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#25

Post by jeppester »

hsn915 wrote: post #17
johannes_ne wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021? I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago. Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

This comment seems rather disingenuous. PopOs is meant to run on System 76 machines, and this person installed it on a Dell XPS.

Do you expect to run OS X on just about any machine and not have any issues?

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by nsonha »

perihelions wrote: post #5

If you're interested in the tiling features of Pop OS, they're also available as a standalone extension for GNOME Shell. Very little friction to test them out (if you're already running GNOME). https://github.com/pop-os/shell https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/

I just want to open all windows floating and being able to manually snap windows in to a 3 columns grid, can this do it?

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by sudhirj »

jeppester wrote: post #25
hsn915 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021? I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago. Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

This comment seems rather disingenuous. PopOs is meant to run on System 76 machines, and this person installed it on a Dell XPS. Do you expect to run OS X on just about any machine and not have any issues?

PopOS is marketed as a general purpose distro, same as Ubuntu. Made by System76, but don't think they're claiming it doesn't work anywhere else.

They're under no obligation to test it on Dell machines, of course. The community should be doing that.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by Darmody »

I love Pop OS, sadly I had to replace it with Ubuntu on my main laptop with an Nvidia graphics card because of some random crashes where it would close my session and the screen would turn gray with no way to get back from that without rebooting.

I've tried everything and I couldn't fix it. Now I'm on Ubuntu missing it every day.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#29

Post by eitland »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #11
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…

ive been wondering. if a new user is switching from windows, don't you think something like kde neon would have "less friction" UX wise ? i somewhat understand the appeal of pop os but gnome is wildly different from windows and i have seen people turn off.

Long time KDE fan here.

IIRC last time I tried Pop OS it seemed very usable and the only thing that stopped me from using it was some hardware issues on my rig (a faulty drive, not the fault of Pop OS).

I especially liked that they try to clean up keyboard shortcuts in a smart way.

(For reference my issues with Gnome 3 that they built (built?) on is the we-know-best attitude combined with what I perceive as agressive copying of certain Mac OS features and also not trusting its users.)

Re: Pop OS – System76

#30

Post by anaganisk »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

This tiling feature looks just like i3 or Sway.. pretty sure it is using it under the hood. Not sure why they changed the default shortcuts though, nor why they want to rename everything under the Pop OS brand.. rather than just give credit to the real contributors.

May be you should check your case before making accusations? You can you be so sure yet so wrong.
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