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5 Years of Pop _OS

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Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

I tried Pop!_OS a few years ago and I really like their marketing and how they push Pop!_OS as a big name in the distro game.

The only thing I dislike is their shell, the ugly pastel colors are really off putting along with some weird design choices and it wasn't very stable the last time I tried it a few years ago.

Makes me wonder why ZorinOS isn't as popular even though it has existed for twice as long. Maybe because of a lacking hardware company behind it? I think ZorinOS is a more consumer friendly distro than Pop!_OS (which I consider a nerd distro) and might have a better chance at being accepted as a mainstream distro than the others I've tried.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by ugh123 »

myself248 wrote: post #27

I'm a Linux idiot, just got sick of Windows, and took the plunge in 2016. (After some ill-fated tinkering in 1996 with Slackware, but we don't speak of that.) I started with Ubuntu and had a pretty good time for a year or two, until a dist-upgrade broke everything. Luckily /home/ was easy to restore from backup. So I was fine for another two years on Ubuntu until another dist-upgrade broke everything again. Sensing a…

Hah, I ran into that same upgrade breakage a few weeks ago too! I'm still cleaning up some of the mess but was mostly back within half a day.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by Daegalus »

kccqzy wrote: post #32

I am quite a fan of their Pop!_Shell. I wanted to improve my desktop efficiency by using a tiling window manager; I tried i3wm and XMonad, but none of them really clicked with me. Finally, I decided to try the Pop!_Shell tiling mode and it was awesome. (Hardcore tiling window manager fans might not agree but Pop!_Shell is a lot more newbie-friendly.) Furthermore, you don't even have to install Pop!_OS to get Pop!_She…

it's the same on Fedora. I use Fedora Gnome with Pop Shell. works great.

hopefully they keep maintaining it for gnome after they release cosmic.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by gaganyaan »

smoldesu wrote: post #48
gaganyaan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just had NixOS break in a weird way for me. Ok, it was more that Gnome 42.4 broke the wsmatrix extension, which caused Gnome to shit itself[1] on login. It's a little bit of a double edged sword. NixOS lets me use pretty much straight upstream packages, which sometimes break due to not having thorough integration testing like a traditional distro would. On the other hand, I was able to just boot up an older configu…

To be fair, this would also happen on any other OS that's tracking upstream changes. It sounds like you might be using nixos-unstable, which is unfortunately susceptible to those problems. Like colordrops said though, rolling back your OS is a thankfully a cinch. Even if someone managed to rm -rf / your box, a fresh reinstall with your complete dev environment is less than 10 minutes away, if your internet connection…

I'm using 22.05 actually. I blame Gnome, as it seems to be in a perpetual state of instability.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by pjmlp »

And this is why the Linux desktop is domed to be a VM inside other OSes, or filled with Electron apps.

Gtk, Qt, XFCE, GNOME and KDE applications will look out of place in the new desktop, and most likely they will never create a Rust based set of frameworks that can match the above ones on features, development tooling, and extensibility points for desktop developers.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by darthrupert »

colordrops wrote: post #36
myself248 wrote: post #27

I'm a Linux idiot, just got sick of Windows, and took the plunge in 2016. (After some ill-fated tinkering in 1996 with Slackware, but we don't speak of that.) I started with Ubuntu and had a pretty good time for a year or two, until a dist-upgrade broke everything. Luckily /home/ was easy to restore from backup. So I was fine for another two years on Ubuntu until another dist-upgrade broke everything again. Sensing a…

If you look at my comment history, you'll see I'm a bit of a broken record, but my records don't break anymore after switching to NixOS. It was precisely the breakage after every upgrade that got me to try it. With declarative config-based reproduceable deployment that can be rolled-back, the broken OS doesn't need to be a thing anymore.

I got there by just using Arch Linux. Funnily enough, when I tried NixOS, I managed to brick my system by running a system-wide upgrade and rebooting.

Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS

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Post by colordrops »

darthrupert wrote: post #69
colordrops wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you look at my comment history, you'll see I'm a bit of a broken record, but my records don't break anymore after switching to NixOS. It was precisely the breakage after every upgrade that got me to try it. With declarative config-based reproduceable deployment that can be rolled-back, the broken OS doesn't need to be a thing anymore.

I got there by just using Arch Linux. Funnily enough, when I tried NixOS, I managed to brick my system by running a system-wide upgrade and rebooting.

I definitely appreciate the documentation with Arch - I've used it as a reference countless times. Now imagine having this all codified! We should join forces. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to Linux!
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