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

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @08:26PM   
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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Original Submission

• or Apple or Apple (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:08AM (2 children)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:08AM (#622861) Journal

  As a customer, I want standardization. I don't want almost standardization. Windows guys, try this: Buy brand X laptop with a customized version of Microsoft Windows! It works mostly like Windows, and all the apps we've installed so far seem to work!

  Apple does this to us with almost every release of OS X. Instead of just fixing it (which, sadly, it always has fairly serious need of), they fix it a little (never enough) and then they break it, sometimes quite thoroughly. App nap. Broken cron. "Buffered" program settings. Failure to reboot properly with a magic mouse attached. Regularly (every few days) dropped network connections (I'm talking ethernet here... by comparison, my Ubuntu servers haven't lost an ethernet connection in a year of 100% uptime.) UDP broadcasts that only work with one client. Booting broken if your HDMI / DVI monitors were connected A then B instead of B then A. Broken UTF-8 printing. Miserable (by which I mean, almost no) management of multiple ethernet ports. Etc. They're very happy to leave machines out in the cold, too - things that are outright broken, but can't be fixed with an OS upgrade, because they don't make an OS upgrade for that machine.

  It's immensely irritating.

  And that's besides what that ignorant cowflop has done, he who imposed the angry interior designer's defecation of flat iconography upon us, cursed be his name for ever and ever and ever, may his life be always as flat and lifeless as his "art."

  But there's only one OS X, and for all the pain, there's the rest, which I value highly. I also run Windows and linux each and every day, and it's OS X that always draws me back with, for me, the best balance of GUI and console power. And app ecosystem.

  Sigh.

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• Re:or Apple (Score: 2) by damnbunni on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:04AM

  by damnbunni (704) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:04AM (#622900) Journal

  This is pretty much why I use all sorts of OSes, but my main desktop is a Mac.

  All OSes suck, but the ways macOS sucks annoy me less than the ways Windows or Linux or *BSD or AmigaOS or Android suck.

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• Re:or Apple (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:49AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:49AM (#623017)

  I now see why you need those shades.

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