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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux by hollyhoppet

Ya! My only arguments for pop os ("Pop! OS") is that i love the defaults, so i'll just list the defaults i like

it's based on ubuntu, which is based on debian, has no "snaps" (bad package manager system that has caused my a lot of problems), and it's custom GNOME-based desktop environment has builtin window tiling and stacking.

i like tiling a lot because i dislike the other tiling WMs which all expect you to memorize shortcuts.

i have an nvidia GPU so the ISO that comes with the appropriate drivers builtin is very very nice

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hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )

yeah pop os looks pretty damn snazzy. might give it a try. how long have you been using it for?

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twovests wrote (edited )

I want to say at least two years now. I used Ubuntu for >10 years before that, but I kept running into issues with snaps which drove me to Pop.

On the side, System76 (popos people) is making a new Rust-based "Cosmic" desktop to eventually replace the GNOME based one. If you've used cosmic-text in a Rust project, that is what it's from!

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