Hey my dearest followers. I need your help. I finished my last project today. As soon as I am getting home, I am downloading #linux and installing it before I am even greeting my mom or wife. I am so over windows and will never return back to it again. I am currently looking at #PopOs#Manjaro#Ubuntu. Shill yours to me and give me your best recommendations!
#PopOS has a great reputation due to #System76, and I always wanted a laptop from them. I also like the UI, how its system requirements are. I have a beefy system, but I still want something lighteight.
First issue using PopOS as my daily driver. Dual monitor support is weird. It supports my 2 monitors, but games will randomly not use the right resolution. E.g. Skyrim, set to use 4k resolution will resize to about 75% of the screen. Is this because I have Fractional Scaling enabled so that text is readable on the 4k monitor?
The issue with it resizing is that if I go full screen, my 1080p second monitor goes all weird - and I lose half of the window open on it off the screen #LinuxGaming#PopOS
Just tried Fallout 4 on just the 4k monitor. It gave me the option of a 5120x2880 resolution for some reason. Booted into the game, looked fine for 1 second, went blip and resized itself so it then only took up 75% of the screen.
Changing it to 4k resolution, the image is suddenly WAY too large, and overlaps the screen, so I only see about the 60% of the top right corner instead.
@cloudguy@doctormo You know, I think I've really fallen for #PopOS too after using it on Martin's #System76 desktop. My own laptop and the shared desktop are #Ubuntu, which is fine, but there is something just cleaner about PoP OS "out of the box" as it were, than having so customize Ubuntu.
As a macOS user, my #Linux journey began with trying to make my DE look & work like #macOS, but with the added features a Linux DE provides - first #GNOME, then #KDE, finally settling on #Cinnamon as my favorite.
Then @thelinuxEXP released his video about bad UX design where he trashed the concept of a menu to launch apps & demonstrated how GNOME’s approach is superior… 🤔
@matzipan@pn3uma@thelinuxEXP I wasn’t specifically excluding other DE’s but #PopOS and operating systems that use GNOME as a base achieve their looks and functionality via EXTENSIONS that are susceptible to breakage when GNOME pushes an update. It’s one of the reasons why System 76 is creating their own COSMIC desktop environment from scratch.
#Pantheon is the way it is straight from the developers who coded it that way on purpose. The same goes for #Budgie.
No need to worry. My suggestion is to begin with a straightforward and user-friendly Linux distribution. Once you become comfortable with the command-line interface and other functions, you can switch to a more advanced distribution. Personally, I utilize the Ubuntu LTS desktop as my primary operating system for completing my tasks. As I am occupied with work, I don't have much time to experiment with the latest technologies. However, your experience may differ.
@nixCraft#Ubuntu was my first intro into using Linux based distros years ago. Used #LinuxMint for a bit (good for transition away from Windows), tried to like #Fedora, went to #Debian for a long while, and now I use #PopOS on a #System76 machine. Recently starting use #OPNsense (a #FreeBSD based router OS). Lots of flavors to fit your needs and tolerances!
@gamingonlinux
after using #popos for just a few months now, I really like it. It doesn't annoy me, it supports so much ootb and it runs quite smoothly so far
> Last week System76 released System76-Scheduler 2.0 as their Rust-written Linux desktop scheduler that serves as a user-space daemon to dynamically manage process priorities to favor performance and responsiveness. That's now been succeeded by a v2.0.1 update with a few more features and improvements.
So, I finally got around to installing #windows11 Professional Edition in a virtual machine and chose the lightest options possible throughout the install process. It still forces 7 apps into the pinned apps portion of the start menu which were completely unsolicited. They can be uninstalled, but still...
Did I mention this was the Professional Edition?
On a good note, the UI strikes the perfect balance between #kde and #cinnamon. We could use a desktop environment like this in #linux.
@e33io I primarily use laptops, but I do find the idea of a tiling window manager intriguing. I do like the optional tiling feature on #PopOS, but I’m not sure if I’d want to operate in that mode ALL of the time since I don’t code or spend hours at a time in a terminal.
The new #Steam client they are going to release soon, is going to be a big problem for many #Linux users, or at least those of us with non-high-end computers.
It is too heavy, slow, and hogging system resources.
You can try it today by enabling the Steam beta in your settings.
I wish there's a way to stay in the old Steam client. T_T