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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:22PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:22PM (#623238)

    What happened was a group of people that thought mobile/touch was the future (largely inspired by experiences working on the software side of the Nokia Maemo device platform), followed by a drive to chase after Microsoft as the latter unveiled their GPU powered Vista desktop.

    All this lead to a frenzy of UI/UX experimentation (KDE4, Gnome3), and a pile of new sub-systems and middleware/plumbing (Wayland, Systemd).

    Funny thing is that this coincided with Gnome and KDE holding joint developer gatherings.

    Sadly some very vocal senior userspace programmers have convinced themselves that the status quo of Linux userspace was fundamentally broken and required a complete rebuild. And they have sold this idea to the masses with a lot of bling and bluster.

  • (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    menu driven nav is outdated.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      Menu driven nav *is* outdated, and it was outdated before it was invented.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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