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

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, @11:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @11:19PM (#622837)

    You might look at this as a win-win.

    On the one hand, System76 gets to do the branding via their Linux spin for n00bs.

    On the other hand, folks who don't cotton to that particular distro and were going to pave over what shipped with the hardware anyway and install their preferred distro will be certain that all the hardware has Linux support.

    Yeah, this is kinda an old meme; stuff that doesn't have Linux device drivers these days is getting to be like hen's teeth.
    AMD fumbled a quarter-billion-dollar RFQ some years back when they didn't have a Linux driver for their kit and the industry took notice of that.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:49PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:49PM (#623356) Journal

    On the one hand, System76 gets to do the branding via their Linux spin for n00bs.

    On the other hand, folks who don't cotton to that particular distro and were going to pave over what shipped with the hardware anyway and install their preferred distro will be certain that all the hardware has Linux support.

    If that's what they were doing, it might make sense...but Pop!_OS really doesn't look like it's made for newbies, it's specifically advertised to power users, and it's a pretty minimal system -- basically nothing but a browser pre-installed. A new user would probably find plain Ubuntu to be easier, which is what System76 was previously shipping. So if they wanted to make things easier for newbies, they probably shouldn't have bothered.

    So I've come to the opinion that this is pretty much solely about branding. Pop is based on Ubuntu with Gnome, so if you like that, you might like Pop...but they were shipping plain Ubuntu for years already! So creating Pop doesn't give those users much benefit, except perhaps a bit less bloat. Anyone else is just gonna wipe it and install what they want anyway. And new users would probably be more comfortable with Ubuntu, where they can make use of the extensive community support and have some basic software pre-installed so they don't have to go hunting through the software center.

    But when they're demoing systems, or when you boot it up to get a good look at that screen before you wipe the thing...whose logo do you see? Ubuntu's, or System76's? That seems to be the biggest change they've made here.