Trying out #PopOS#Linux today. I really appreciate the auto tiler window management, and the system seems to run pretty well out of the box on my RTX 3060M card (until I tried to use Pop Wayland and watched steam freak out all over my monitors), but it's painful to have to manually add and modify GRUB to dual boot from a separate drive and also I'm still really not a fan of how claustrophobic GNOME feels.
I would rather just get the auto-tiler, dGPU, and super key menu configurations in KDE.
I’ve been using #cosmic on #popos and off for two years. Verdict is in, I hate it. I’ve off to install another distro or try to make my gnome more vanilla.
Ran Linux Mint for a week, which is always my choice no. 1. However, it was painfully slow, some apps took 20 seconds to start. Video streaming was lagging and I could literally see the cursor trying to catch up with my typing. Not sure what was wrong, couldn't continue. And that with a Thinkpad X1, 4 cores and 16 GB of RAM.
Now jumped to PopOS and boy, does it make a difference. Did anyone have a similar experience?
I don't understand how #MicrosoftWindows start menu is so buggy. Click start, type in expecting it to search, nothing happens. Click away, click start, type, nothing happens. Click away, Click start, type away and it works. It is so regular across so many computers I can't imagine it's just me having that infuriating experience.
@proactiveservices not sure if I use that. Project codewords and the plethora of environments makes me lose track of what is used.
I'm on #PopOS and whatever it uses for the equivalent of the start menu search seems reliable though maybe once a week it doesn't take focus and I have to click into the search box.
> Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. […] it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome.
@czottmann one of my colleagues just told me this morning that the same thing happened to him with his Win machine. He also said that is the last straw and he is ditching it for #linux :) And he is strongly considering my favorite distro #PopOS
:linux: #MyFirstDistro was SuSE Linux 7.1 or 7?, it came with KDE, Staroffice, Netscape and the graphical installer YAST on a bunch of CD-ROMs with a thick manual in a retail box. While SuSE and KDE were already well supported and user-friendly, Linux really came a long way since then.
I'm now using POP!_OS daily for over a year and couldn't be happier, it's such a joy to use.
Since I've got a new laptop I've decided to set up my previous machine with Linux and I'm trying out some distros, or, "The agony of UX blindness in the Linux world"
#System76#PopOS Widescreens were a mistake. I can't even with how much screen space is wasted. You can hide the dock or move it to the right, but that bar at the top isn't even a global menu like Mac meaning you get a stack of bars if the window has its own toolbar -- here I've forced the toolbar on Firefox to demonstrate; VSCode does this but I can't install that on a live CD.
I'm trying to transition to Linux from Windows and starting by repurposing an old (2009) Toshiba Satellite M645 to start.
Pop!Os is the only distro (So far) that I dont have to start with nomodeset and correctly starts the gui in the laptop's native 1366x768 resolution. But I find #PopOS to be very resource intensive.
Is there another distro with great graphics card compatibility but lite on resource requirements?
Fully transitioned to being a full-time Linux user and it feels liberating! Goodbye to Windows & hello to unlimited possibilities. Using the @system76 laptop - powerhouse built for pros. Enhanced my workflow with my favorite @pop_os_official. Let the journey begin!
I got a notification on my laptop (running @pop_os_official ) that there's an update for my EFI. When I hit the update button it complained that there isn't enough free space on /boot/efi/EFI. There weren't any old EFI updates to delete, so here's the solution:
Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change the parameter of COMPRESS to xz (see attached screenshot). Save the changes and then run update-initramfs -c -k all
Once update-initramfs completes, you will gain a few dozen megabytes, hopefully enough to update your efi partition #linux#pop_os#popos#efi
ngl I just installed #PopOS because I finished Windows work and can use Linux but need to hit the ground running with Nvidia drivers ready to go, and tbh... this is pretty amazing, #Linux but easy is a good thing