A rundown of why Pop OD is a great Linux distro.
Just started using it last week, and pretty happy with it so far. Can definitely recommend based on my experience.
Ubuntu gets a lot of hate in the Linux community but it really works well. I love what System76 has done with it.
Agreed, I don’t really get why there’s such hate for Ubuntu. System76 selling Linux based hardware and making a polished OS on top of Ubuntu is one of the most exciting things to happen with Linux in a while. I find Linux on the desktop is kind of 80% there, most stuff works, and you can get by with it, but there are still a lot of little quirks that can get frustrating. If System76 can add that last bit of polish, that would really propel Linux usability in my opinion.
That describes it perfectly. I tried openSUSE TW last year as a short project. It was death by a thousand papercuts. I spent teo or three months trying to iron out issues. I ultimately decided to ditch it because I wanted to actually use my computer.
I have had much better success with Fedora and Pop but occasionally I still find it a little lacking. Unfortunately, that’s not a popular opinion in the Linux community.
I find running Linux is a bit like having a zen garden. I used to enjoy tweaking every part of the system at one point, but nowadays I just want to get things done, and the system to work. So far, Pop has been the closest to just working for me. I find elitism tends to be prevalent in communities around niche technologies. People tend to feel like they’ve earned their place by doing a trial by fire, and then expect everybody to have to do the same. Linux is still fairly small on the desktop, and I suspect that’s the reason we see this opinion being prevalent. Good news is that Windows appears to have gotten so bad that it’s actually driving people Linux now. So, hopefully if there’s a big new user boost, we’ll start seeing more push towards usability along with it.
Reminded me of Alan Watts quote about how people feel they must attain enlightenment:
So you can suffer for it. There are all kinds of ways invented for you to do this. You can discipline yourself and gain control of your mind and do all sorts of extraordinary things—like drink water in through your rectum and push a peanut up a mountain with your nose. There are all sorts of accomplishments you can engage in. But they have absolutely nothing to do with the realization of the self. The realization of the self fundamentally depends on coming off it, just as when someone is putting on some kind of act and we say, “Oh, come off it.” And some people can come off it—they laugh, because they suddenly realize they’ve been making a fool of themselves (How to Reach Where You Already Are By Alan Watts)
That’s a great quote, thanks for sharing. :)
Also PopShop and the installer.
Yes, Pop is awesome. It works almost perfectly out of the box, no fussing required. Looks good too. Very satisfied after moving from Manjaro XFCE.
