Pop!_OS is a Linux distro designed by System76. It’s built on Ubuntu, but with some pretty great user experience improvements. More info here: https://pop.system76.com/

I used it awhile back and loved it, though not for very long. I was thinking recently of switching to it. I haven’t seen it mentioned here much, so I wanted to see if anyone here uses it regularly and what your thoughts on it are.

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't understand the appeal over Ubuntu. You get basically ubuntu with some tweaks that you have to hope are maintained, but with a smaller community to help you if those tweaks break.

    If I'm going to be making my life easy i'll choose something with support and a community. If i'm making my life hard I'll go with Arch because I know if it does break, there will be a post on the front page of arch.org explaining why it broke and how to fix it.

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      But plz don't install Arch if this is your first time using Linux. Arch is a cutting edge distro

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Like I said it makes your life hard. If you have a spare computer, by all means DO install arch and by your fifth reinstall you'll understand linux very well.

        If you're committed to learning, its a great way to learn. If you just want a working machine, then install ubuntu.

  • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    uses GNOME as its desktop environment so i hate it. other then that its basically just debian

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      IMO Gnome is the best desktop environment when it comes to its keyboard driven interface. The activities overlay let's you launch nearly any program with 3-5 keystrokes. KDE Plasma is very nice too though (and more customizable). They've come a long way since I started 17 years ago.

      • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I dont like GNOMEv3 because i do not like my desktop looking like a tablet. if other people like it thats fine but i do not

  • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Pop has a nice user experience, but most of its neat tricks are just it's Gnome Shell extensions, so you can slap them onto any other Gnome environment and get most of the goodies on whatever distro you're using.

  • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I like it. It's nice. Just like every other distro. I've personally been trying to deviate as less as possible from whatever comes out of the box and Pop has mostly sane defaults. I change some shortcuts and a couple of settings and I am mostly ready to go.

    I didn't like GNOME for a long time but it's fine now. They're all fine. Even the weird ones.