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Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by unixhero »

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.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by skrebbel »

toastercat wrote: post #12
Shared404 wrote: post #7

As far as I'm concerned, this is the current gold standard for out-of-box experience desktop Linux. There are things I would do differently if I were building a system myself, but PopOS "Just Works", and is more polished than Win10 imho.

Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.

Given that you're on an XPS you likely know this: is the touch screen support & UX as good as on Windows?

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by ligerzer0 »

A bit of a sidenote:

PopOS came installed on my system76 laptop. But that's not important here.

What intrigues me more is that the laptop had terrible battery life. And I mean terrible by even 2010 standards. And I bought it in 2018. It would last less than an hour on average, and less than 40 minutes if I was doing something demanding.

I use past term "had" as although I am still using this laptop today, somehow after 3 years, it's battery life has just increased dramatically and completely out of the blue.

Somehow I can now use it for over three hours while running off battery life. I've been pretty confused as to how this has happened, and am now wondering if anyone with a system76 might have experienced something similar.

I'm really hoping it will go up to nine hours by 2024. It's a great laptop.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by GordonS »

ligerzer0 wrote: post #53

A bit of a sidenote: PopOS came installed on my system76 laptop. But that's not important here. What intrigues me more is that the laptop had terrible battery life. And I mean terrible by even 2010 standards. And I bought it in 2018. It would last less than an hour on average, and less than 40 minutes if I was doing something demanding. I use past term "had" as although I am still using this laptop today, somehow aft…

At a guess, perhaps PopOS updated something to do with power management.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by ahmedfromtunis »

I'm confused.

A lot of people here coming from Windows and other Linux distros seem to appreciate how easy to use and out of the way is Pop OS.

And that's exactly how I'd describe my experience with Ubuntu proper.

Can someone who made the transition from Ubuntu to Pop OS tell us how big a difference there are between the two flavors?

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by ligerzer0 »

GordonS wrote: post #54
ligerzer0 wrote: post #53

A bit of a sidenote: PopOS came installed on my system76 laptop. But that's not important here. What intrigues me more is that the laptop had terrible battery life. And I mean terrible by even 2010 standards. And I bought it in 2018. It would last less than an hour on average, and less than 40 minutes if I was doing something demanding. I use past term "had" as although I am still using this laptop today, somehow aft…

At a guess, perhaps PopOS updated something to do with power management.

I tried multiple distros in the first couple months--without notable effect on the battery life, which I should mention for this particular machine, has been subjected to much slander on internet forums--including Ubuntu, Mint, and then Manjaro, which I eventually settled on and it has been running on there to this day.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by mindwok »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #55

I'm confused. A lot of people here coming from Windows and other Linux distros seem to appreciate how easy to use and out of the way is Pop OS. And that's exactly how I'd describe my experience with Ubuntu proper. Can someone who made the transition from Ubuntu to Pop OS tell us how big a difference there are between the two flavors?

I've used them both pretty extensively as well as Red Hat based distros. For me there's a few minor, but important enough to make me stay on pop, differences:

1. It uses systemd-boot as the boot loader. I like not having a grub menu, just turn on my computer and I'm basically on the login screen. It's seamless.

2. Flathub enabled out of the box. I find Flatpaks the best experience for lots of common apps like Slack, Teams, etc. It's a nice feature.

3. Nvidia support in the ISO/out of the box. Nice experience for Nvidia GPU users.

The rest of their stuff, like the windowing features etc, I don't really get much value out of. I like Gnome so I disable most of their stuff.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by ahmedfromtunis »

mindwok wrote: post #57
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #55

I'm confused. A lot of people here coming from Windows and other Linux distros seem to appreciate how easy to use and out of the way is Pop OS. And that's exactly how I'd describe my experience with Ubuntu proper. Can someone who made the transition from Ubuntu to Pop OS tell us how big a difference there are between the two flavors?

I've used them both pretty extensively as well as Red Hat based distros. For me there's a few minor, but important enough to make me stay on pop, differences: 1. It uses systemd-boot as the boot loader. I like not having a grub menu, just turn on my computer and I'm basically on the login screen. It's seamless. 2. Flathub enabled out of the box. I find Flatpaks the best experience for lots of common apps like Slack,…

I really apologize, but this answer only made me even more confused:

1. I don't get the grub menu on any of my Ubuntu machines (except for the one I use to test stuff where many distros co-exist); I "just turn on my computer and I'm basically on the login screen. It's seamless."

2. Same. But with Snap. (I know that many people here don't like snaps for many reasons, and I do too, sometimes. But experience-wise, they're fine and comparable to Flutpaks. It's even possible to add Flathub if one's into that);

3. Installing Nvidia drivers is easy. And they're in the Ubuntu ISO since 19.10;

I like Gnome too, but I sure miss Unity so much!

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by fleaaaa »

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.

From my experience, people who want to try linux is yearning for somewhat different UI, but not too different from familiar win/macos UI. Pop OS hits the sweet spot imo, refreshing but comfortable enough while usability is still there.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by secondaryacct »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #55

I'm confused. A lot of people here coming from Windows and other Linux distros seem to appreciate how easy to use and out of the way is Pop OS. And that's exactly how I'd describe my experience with Ubuntu proper. Can someone who made the transition from Ubuntu to Pop OS tell us how big a difference there are between the two flavors?

The design is aligned with my preferences, its truly the only diff for me.

Ubuntu I cant stand the color and icon style each time I try, pop os it feels beautiful. Almost like a macos interface.

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