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[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community.

How does the community here feel about this distribution and the company that has brought it to us? How do you feel about the projects that they’re working on, and their goals for the distribution moving forward?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Visuals were striking, but on non-System 76 hardware the thing as a whole broke several times cuz updates. Would love to try out some System76 hardware one of these days though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Ive had good success across three non system 76 machines. It is Ubuntu under the covers. I'd expect most of it to work as well as ubuntu does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I’ve installed it on at least a couple of dozen machines that definitely weren’t from system 76, and not one of them them had a problem.

I’m curious, what sort of issues did you have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Simple updates brought the system down, it was long enough ago that I do not remember the exact cause but I remember the frustration lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Funny. I‘m using it on an asus a15 and its rocksolid so far. Sorry you made that experience though.