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.
Pop OS – System76
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#42I 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?…
The first thing I do on a fresh Ubuntu is to purge away everything related to snap.
I tried PopOS at one point, to see what it was about. And, I honestly don't understand what it adds to the table. It felt like many minor things were changed to be different, but overall it had the same things I wanted. After being annoyed for a couple of days, I installed Ubuntu, removed snap, and everything is pleasant again.
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#43Wow, I'm currently writing a USB drive with the 21.10 beta, considering switching from Ubuntu.
If I keep using it I'll support them. I want a company that cares about desktop Linux to succeed. For all the good they've done (and that Pop is building on), Canonical don't seem to give a stuff about consumer desktop Linux anymore.
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#44I switched from xubuntu to pop about two months ago and generally have a good time using it. I like the tiling wm and had to configure very little and except for the crappy WiFi stick everything worked out of the box.
Being the idiot that I am I thought I wouldn't need a swap file and now everytime my ram is full my system freezes entirely.
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#45I 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?…
I have started installing Fedora on computers I set up for my family, and it has been great! Everything works out of the box and every app is avaliable in the app store thanks to Flatpaks. Skype is just a click away, which used to require adding extra repos from Microsoft.
My father, who barely knows how to operate a computer, has been using it for years without the need for support. No forced updates/reboots. I only run a system upgrade every year or so, which also is a one button operation whitout any problems. It is a super stable experience for him as a user and me as an admin.
I tried PopOS for my SO, but it was to nerdy and the GNOME experience was to tweaked. I then went for Fedora and she likes it much better, comming from mac-land.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, but I think jeppester also hits on a wider, and valid, point: OS X has got it easier, only needing to provide very limited hardware support.
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#47it's like ubuntu but with little things changes here and there.
good thing is they are all the things that I wanted to change about ubuntu :D
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#48I've been a Windows user since the days you typed "win" to start it from DOS and I still manange a small Windows network for a manufacturer in Wisconsin. Last year I finally had enough from Microsoft and made the switch to Pop OS for my daily driver. I haven't looked back. It's a wonderful distro and I'm amazed at how far Linux has come since it's early days in the 90s. Kudos to the System 76 team.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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#50I switched from xubuntu to pop about two months ago and generally have a good time using it. I like the tiling wm and had to configure very little and except for the crappy WiFi stick everything worked out of the box. Being the idiot that I am I thought I wouldn't need a swap file and now everytime my ram is full my system freezes entirely.
earlyoom is your friend, if you don't care that the process with highest memory usage by default gets killed when shit hits the fan.
You can protect processes of your choice if you configure it beyond a apt install.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/earlyoom.1.h...