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Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by lproven »

marc_from_ibg wrote: post #7

I moved away from Windows at the beginning of the year. My first Distro was Linux Mint, then Ubuntu 22.04 and yesterday I installed Pop_OS 22.04. Fedora didn't fit my requirements as it doesn't support fractional scaling. All very, very solid. I gave Pop_OS a try because I wanted a simple tiling window manager. It does all I want. The only thing I don't like is the color theme. I know it's a matter of taste but Pop_O…

> Fedora didn't fit my requirements as it doesn't support fractional scaling.

This is desktop dependent, not distro dependent.

Only a few desktops support it so far: GNOME 3.x, KDE 5.x, and Cinnamon are the only ones I know of.

Saying that I could not get it working on Ubuntu Cinnamon $LATEST. It does work on Mint $LATEST with the same release of Cinnamon.

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by sph »

panick21_ wrote: post #15

They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it. They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.

A distro relying on an out of tree filesystem as default sounds like a really bad idea to me. I didn't know Ubuntu shipped with ZFS in the default kernel.

Also luks and btrfs are good enough, and in-tree. They might not be as fancy as ZFS, but it's a better choice to use as default as they're standard and widespread.

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by aaomidi »

4oo4 wrote: post #5

Does anyone else recommend this to people first trying out Linux? I have been mentioning this and Mint (though I use Debian PopOS! seems like the better of the two), and I'm curious which of them (or any other distro) helps convert more Windows users. I stopped recommending Ubuntu a few years ago because of snaps, they're such an Ubuntu specific thing in practice that I think it's harmful for people learning Linux.

I used to until I came across. Endeavour OS. The AUR is so damn convenient, anyone I show it to just immediately falls in love with it.

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by ladyanita22 »

panick21_ wrote: post #15

They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it. They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.

That and their (understandable, but annoying) reluctance to enable Wayland.

They could at least make it optional, but given that they sell computers, I understand why they wouldn't want to enable a feature which may still cause problems...

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by dimensionc132 »

ladyanita22 wrote: post #25
panick21_ wrote: post #15

They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it. They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.

That and their (understandable, but annoying) reluctance to enable Wayland. They could at least make it optional, but given that they sell computers, I understand why they wouldn't want to enable a feature which may still cause problems...

Wayland still has issues

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by dimensionc132 »

sph wrote: post #23
panick21_ wrote: post #15

They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it. They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.

A distro relying on an out of tree filesystem as default sounds like a really bad idea to me. I didn't know Ubuntu shipped with ZFS in the default kernel. Also luks and btrfs are good enough, and in-tree. They might not be as fancy as ZFS, but it's a better choice to use as default as they're standard and widespread.

You can choose the filesystem when you install. Generic install vs custom install.

Re: Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

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Post by panick21_ »

sph wrote: post #23
panick21_ wrote: post #15

They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it. They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.

A distro relying on an out of tree filesystem as default sounds like a really bad idea to me. I didn't know Ubuntu shipped with ZFS in the default kernel. Also luks and btrfs are good enough, and in-tree. They might not be as fancy as ZFS, but it's a better choice to use as default as they're standard and widespread.

Why is it a bad idea? ZFS sees tons of usage and gets shipped with multiple distros.

And I will simply never ever again use btrfs. Sorry, you can't claim to be stable and then lose my files to different times.

With ZFS I can use encrypted zfs send as a backup mechanism. Much preferable to alternatives.

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