[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
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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I have a Gazelle 16 laptop, and was in PopOS for a while too, even before this laptop, when I had a 17" Alienware. However, I've moved on to Fedora now, and can't go back to anything Ubuntu or Ubuntu based again. Fedora is just too great a balance between stable and cutting edge, Ubuntu feels old real quick, and so do all it's derivatives and downstreams.
I loved the Gnome based Cosmic, best Tweak of Gnome ever in my opinion, but other than that, I just can't leave Fedora behind anymore. Even Ublue distros are amazing.
Care to elaborate on what really sold you on fedora?
Also, the new cosmic DE will be available for all distros
Not OP, but my reasons for choosing Fedora is, it just works. I use the Atomic version of it which is an image based operating system. Installing packages or updates does not leave the system unstable. I can simply rollback to previous version. Also Fedora pushes entire Linux community forward by adopting potential technologies like Flatpak, PipeWire, Wayland etc earlier compared to other distros.
(I also run NixOS which I believe has more potential and solves many problems than Fedora).
Having said that there are two downsides to Fedora.
- Fedora is closely associated with Red Hat. I wish it is purely community driven.
- Fedora does not offer LTS kernels (Maybe it would threaten Red Hat, if Fedora is too stable).
First, an integral distaste for everything remotely associated with Ubuntu, on a principle as well as on a stability and usability front. As I mentioned, the best balance between stability and cutting edge tech is on Fedora and other Fedora based distros. No other come close to that balance. See some people mention DNF, but for me that's just another packager, could not care less.
As for the atomic versions that I see many mention regularly, I'm giving them a try, even have bazzite running on my laptop right now trying to see if I can actually like it, but it's not looking promising. Atomic versions I've tried seem to be slower than regular distros for boot an apps launch (work fast enough after, though). Then there's the fact that, while they are great for "fire and forget", that same feature makes them very convoluted to achieve some system level stuff,reqyiring morework and tinkering than with a regular distro.
First, an integral distaste for everything remotely associated with Ubuntu, on a principle as well as on a stability and usability front. As I mentioned, the best balance between stability and cutting edge tech is on Fedora and other Fedora based distros. No other come close to that balance. See some people mention DNF, but for me that's just another packager, could not care less.
As for the atomic versions that I see many mention regularly, I'm giving them a try, even have bazzite running on my laptop right now trying to see if I can actually like it, but it's not looking promising. Atomic versions I've tried seem to be slower than regular distros for boot an apps launch (work fast enough after, though). Then there's the fact that, while they are great for "fire and forget", that same feature makes them very convoluted to achieve some system level stuff,reqyiring morework and tinkering than with a regular distro.