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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:10PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:10PM (#623268)

    menu driven nav is outdated. gnome was right about how to handle workspaces. it's not even close once you get used to gnome3.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:50PM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:50PM (#623344) Journal

    Menu driven nav *is* outdated, and it was outdated before it was invented. Know the proper replacement? Keyboard shortcuts. Which I can set up in just about any WM or DE. I'm mostly in Plasma now and have the same small set of shortcuts for Plasma, Fluxbox, and Xfce.

    In a roundabout way, one that reminds me of that quote about Americans being trustworthy to do the right thing after trying everything else, Gnome (mimicking OS X long before) has a sort of interactive real-time program search; hit the right button, type a couple of letters, and get a dynamic list of matching programs. But...we don't need Gnome for this. Such a thing can theoretically be implemented standalone; just query /usr/share/applications, draw a grid of what you find inside, and make them activate when clicked as if from inside a file manager.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:24PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:24PM (#623697)

      Except that with Wayland you will need the compositors permission to set up a keyboard shortcut...

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:49AM (2 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:49AM (#624029) Journal

        Good grief, really? I have five words for THAT proposal and they ain't "Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up."

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        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:06PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:06PM (#624159)

          Yep. The compositor is the only party of the desktop stack that can read all keystrokes.

          There is perhaps some yakking about getting a protocol in place to allow other programs to petition the compositor to register a shortcut, but expect Gnome to come up with one variant, KDE another, and then Gnome strongarming the rest into adopting their solution before promptly scrapping it as "imperfect".

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:08PM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:08PM (#624338) Journal

            Fuck that noise. If I have to I'll move onto a BSD variant that stays with vanilla X.org rather than let this buggy, user-hostile Wayland trash eat my desktop. I've already cut out systemd from my life, and if anything Wayland is even easier to get rid of.

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