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I really love the company and use Pop OS. The only thing I would really love for them to do is focus on ZFS out of box experience. Having the default encryption go Native ZFS encryption would be really great.
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?
Pop OS is essentially Ubuntu with a few enhancements. It is not a very different experience. I like the zero-effort, zero-config window tiling, and the 1-click disk encryption. But it's mainly like Ubuntu with a couple hours saved by delegating configuring some stuff and making a few choices to System76.
(I'm running it on a pretty standard Intel+NVIDIA+ASRock PC assembled by a local builder.)
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.
Have you tried the installer that contains nvidia drivers already installed?
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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?
Try a gnome extension called gtile
In the past, I used an extension called Put Windows that was perfect for my need, but that stopped working on Gnome 40.
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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'…
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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.
If you’re on an Intel CPU Linux loves screen tearing. Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf And add this: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection Might fix your issues.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
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Try a gnome extension called gtile
It's not keyboard-driven, that's a bummer. In the past, I used an extension called Put Windows that was perfect for my need, but that stopped working on Gnome 40.
I guess it would still work with 40 because of how simple it was, but even if not, it would most probably be trivial to update, so you might want to consider this route.
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?
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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.
I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. Only if you install it on a very short list of approved hardware. Try to install OS X on a random Dell laptop and you will have far greater challenges than what most Linux distros will give you.
Also, WiFi support is a nightmare. Worse than I've ever had it on Linux.
Even vanilla Windows installs don't always work that well.