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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) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:03PM (3 children)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:03PM (#623092)

    My experience with KDE has consistently been that it's crash-happy. That's why I never stick with it. I have Kubuntu 16.04 on my wife's laptop, and it's rock solid and she likes it though I think they picked an awful color scheme. But otherwise, all the beauty in the world is irrelevant if stability is poor and I've had enough problems with non-LTS versions of Kubuntu and Fedora KDE spin that I gave up. It's a damn shame, because it's gorgeous.

    GNOME 3 is a huge adjustment for people accustomed to a user interface that follows the Windows 95 style. It may well be better. But for example all the PCs in my house have an account for each family member. I have a hard enough time convincing my wife and kids to use Linux, I'm not going to make them adjust to a radically different graphical interfaces.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:13PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:13PM (#623272)

    you should let them try it. my non tech family members were impressed with it's purdy and wanted it. they actually gasped and said, "what is that. i want that". you'd be surprised what a little eye candy will do.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:25PM (#624307)

      The term worried seems more fitting than surprised.

      That humanity can be that shallow should really worry us.

      But then Apple is hailed at the epitome of tech design, so...

    • (Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Friday January 19 2018, @02:36AM

      by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Friday January 19 2018, @02:36AM (#624527)

      I wouldn't be surprised at the effects of eye candy, because it draws my attention too. I keep trying GNOME 3 and KDE because they genuinely do look much prettier than most other Linux desktops. The Elementary Linux desktop comes close. But while Xfce, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and many others are quite functional I find them noticeably less beautiful than GNOME 3 or KDE.