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Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by rcxdude »

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…

Power management on a laptop is a careful dance between a bunch of hardware, firmware, 'BIOS', and the purported OS running the device (more like running in a small part of the device). It doesn't take much going wrong to completely wreck the battery life of a laptop.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by lawl »

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'm a long time linux user.

One of the things I don't like about ubuntu is their updater stuff. I want to apt-get something, but can't because apparently ubuntu is updating stuff in the background...

Or sometimes these a dumb "system has detected a problem, send report?" dialog that pops up all the time.

PopOS experience is much better. I get an OS notification about available updates, and with two clicks I can decide to install them and so far, it hasn't harassed me with dumb pop-ups.

It's things like these where I find ubuntu very unpolished at times. And as I get older, I just want things to work and get out of my way.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by nix23 »

unixhero wrote: post #51
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.

I use Arch (again) since 4 month...but just because of archinstall ;)

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by globular-toast »

hsn915 wrote: post #17
johannes_ne wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

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.

If I wanted to run MacOS I would. Sometimes there are tradeoffs. You win some, you lose some.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by solarkraft »

k1rcher wrote: post #20
toastercat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Woah woah woah woah.

Why would anyone without an Nvidia card be using X? You have to go out of your way to use this antiquated and deprecated technology with Gnome nowadays and screen tearing is specifically one of its problems.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by solarkraft »

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?

There is one very significant philosophical issue with Ubuntu and it’s Canonical’s pushing of snap. The technology isn’t even necessarily bad, but how they’re tricking unsuspecting people into using it and entirely restricting you to their repositories absolutely is.

Pop OS removes that. They also round some other UX corners and customize the desktop a bit.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by solarkraft »

usr1106 wrote: post #36

I 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?…

If you just want Ubuntu without Snap, Pop is your perfect candidate.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by solarkraft »

okamiueru wrote: post #42
usr1106 wrote: post #36

I 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.

What were you annoyed by?

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by solarkraft »

michelledepeil wrote: post #40
usr1106 wrote: post #36

I 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?…

Linux mint might be a good candidate. The distro also took a stand against snap(-store), and chrome/chromium works fine afaik.

Linux Mint is another great user friendly distro. I mostly see older people using it, presumably due to the traditional UX concept.

I originally considered it outdated, but after having a closer look I concluded it’s really not.

Re: Pop OS – System76

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Post by sgtnasty »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #86
Keyframe wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nvidia out of the box.

Ubuntu has had the proprietary nvidia driver on the iso and selected out of the box for a few releases now.

NVIDIA Optimus support - out of the box with a UI to switch graphics cards. The only other bistro I have seen to support it is Ubuntu MATE. All other distros require installation outside of the default package managers.
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