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Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-FOSS dept.

Phillip writes:

Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.

More at : https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @08:50PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @08:50PM (#622723)

    A garbage article, verbal diarrhea with no actual content.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday January 15 2018, @09:12PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday January 15 2018, @09:12PM (#622734) Journal
    Yeah, pretty much. He avoids actually reviewing anything meaningful, and explicitly points out that he's focusing only on the trivialities and gloss, as if that was something to be proud of.

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    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:50AM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:50AM (#623087)

      ...He avoids actually reviewing anything meaningful, and explicitly points out that he's focusing only on the trivialities and gloss, as if that was something to be proud of.

      A total waste of recycled electrons, in fact; typical advertisement. But, it's a better read than the system76 page (are they trying to make themselves cooler than Kali in younglings' eyes?).

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:05AM (4 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:05AM (#622901) Journal

    Quote Article:

    After some time passed, after I tested it out, and as System 76 release more and more information about their new OS I happily found that I was wrong. What is great about Pop!_OS is not what it is. At this point, it is just another distribution that honestly fragments the world of Linux just a little bit more. And I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way.

    Anybody who writes about fragmentation with regard to Linux needs to be taken behind the barn and put down immediately.

    Look, people, its just Gnome with lipstick.

    The fact that Pop!_OS makes you read their entire intro page before mentioning Linux speaks to a certain dishonesty. Perhaps a little better than Solus [solus-project.com], who never mention it on their home page, but still dishonest.

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    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday January 16 2018, @02:21AM (1 child)

      by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @02:21AM (#622942)

      Agree, there is something a bit too Barnum T. Bailey and Burning Man gee whizz about both the article and Pop!_OS's own site for my taste.
      The killer was this quote: “Apple of the Linux world.” Pradoed again we are.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:06PM (#623229)

      Fragmentation is basically the spiel used to turn every distro into a Fedora clone, with Systemd and Gnome as the "headline attractions".

      Fragmentation has not been and never will be the problem. The problem has always been with mayfly programmers that think they can rewrite decade-plus battle hardened code with something they whipped up over the weekend while learning some new language or other. This while giving the middle finger to any notion of API stability.

      The reason Linux the kernel so used everywhere is that Torvalds comes down like an angry Finn on anyone that screwed up the userspace facing APIs.

      The only reason the likes of Debian and RHEL has maintained some success is because they basically freeze the version of the software offered, much to the chagrin to previously mentioned mayfly programmers (to the point that they have now latched on to containerization as way to have their cake and eat it to, by replicating the kind of software installs that was done back in the DOS days) that always wants to see people use their latest and "greatest" creations.

      Damn it, one big reason that Windows is still around is that you are likely to be able to run software initially written back in the Win95 era. This because Microsoft has been adamant about maintaining API stability across Windows releases. You may even be able to run Win16 based software on Windows 10, if you install the 32-bit form of the OS (and the problem there is hardware rather than software related).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:01AM (#623507)

      The fact that Pop!_OS makes you read their entire intro page before mentioning Linux speaks to a certain dishonesty.

      Are we looking at the same page? The distro is targetted specifically at developers and lists as its primary selling point the fact that it is Linux and due to the ubiquity of Linux in the server environment the same platform developers typically deploy to