Pop_OS 21.10 has landed

https://blog.system76.com/post/670564272872488960/popos-2110-has-landed

by dmytton • 5 years ago

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chrstphrknwtn2• 5 years ago

Would be nice if the blog post included screenshots big enough to actually see what it looks like.

Nicksil• 5 years ago

Would be nice if the blog post included screenshots big enough to actually see what it looks like.

There's pictures and video: https://pop.system76.com/

chrstphrknwtn2• 5 years ago

Well sure, pictures and video on another page.

I assume the point of that blog post is to generate interest in the OS, so being able to discern details in the screenshots seems like a reasonable expectation in that context.

xmunoz• 5 years ago

I have a system76 laptop and love using Pop_OS. Granted, I spend most of my day in the terminal, but the driver support for bluetooth and wifi are really good and work out of the box. Think Ubuntu, but less bloated.

moondev• 5 years ago

Disappointed the arm release is raspberry pi specific and not a standard uefi aarch64 iso installer. Upstream Ubuntu releases these and they work great for esxi arm edition.

MichaelRazum• 5 years ago

What is exactly the benefit of Pop_OS compared to Ubuntu? I mean installed drivers are great, but that was basically only one apt install command and a reboot.

xhevahir• 5 years ago

A lot of people like the Pop OS desktop, COSMIC; I myself haven't used it or regular GNOME enough to say which one I prefer. (System76 said they're making a new version in Rust that isn't based on GNOME, but that's probably a long way from completion.)

jeffwiederkehr• 5 years ago

I don’t daily drive pop os but i theirs a couple quality of life improvements like slimmed down default applications, improved App Store, default support for battery profiles. Also I don’t believe they install any Snaps and instead use flatpacks when necessary. People like the theme too.

galoisscobi• 5 years ago

It's been a while since I used Pop_OS but it played better with setting up Nvidia proprietary drivers from the get go and that helped with getting a quick local ML dev environment set up. Their new tiling window manager also looks neat (seems close to i3wm and I'm looking forward to trying it) and even though you can change colorschemes pretty easily, I like their default colorscheme.

xkcd-sucks• 5 years ago

Ubuntu without snapd

j4yav• 5 years ago

And Nvidia drivers already set up, which you can spend a lot of time fiddling with in other distros.

Shared4043• 5 years ago

Yep. I also really like their extensions to GNOME.

nauticacom2• 5 years ago

Drivers, customizations on top of Gnome (if you prefer them), App Store, flatpak instead of snap. Plus made by an indie company rather than some massive corp if you're into that sort of thing.

blacksmith_tb2• 5 years ago

Hmm, Canonical is not what I call 'massive' at ~600 employees[1]. Looks like Red Hat is almost twice that big[2], which still strikes me as pretty small?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat

flyingchipmann• 5 years ago

I started to use it a few years ago when it was the only distro runs flawlessly on my laptop. All other distros had various problems at the time. I think that's its killer feature, hassle free.

It's the only distro I would recommend to non tech people if they want to try out linux.

mikey_1• 5 years ago

I've been running this on my ThinkPad P1 for a couple of years now without fail. I like that I have the ability to be able to easily switch between discrete and integrated graphics and download and update ThinkPad firmware. I assume Ubuntu has these features now, but I'm not really sure as I haven't touched it in a long time.

Initially I had issues specific to my P1 regarding external monitors and switching between graphics modes, but I likely would've experienced these issues with whatever distro I used, and they've since been addressed.

The only thing that irritates me now is that the Pop Shop app occasionally blocks apt because it's running update in the background. And the app can become laggy if you're doing too much with it at once.

Overall PopOS just does what is says on the box and with minimal need to configure it. It's currently my preferred distro for modern laptops.

rPlayer6554• 5 years ago

We now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users.

Doesn't that eliminate a lot of software options? Just curious, I haven't used Linux or Ubuntu in a while so things could have changed or I might be misunderstanding something

Shared4043• 5 years ago

It's long been recommended by both Pop and upstream Ubuntu (iirc) to disable PPA's during upgrades, and purge them if possible, before doing a dist-upgrade.

Pop now just does the disabling for you, and you would re-enable the correct PPA afterwords.

indianboy42• 5 years ago

Is there a simple way to just reenable all the ppas at once?

nopenopenopeno2• 5 years ago

I stopped using Pop_OS because it breaks compatibility with nvidia-docker, which I use for tensorflow, and the devs say this doesn’t matter because they made their own project for running tensorflow in docker. Their project is called “tensorman” and it’s a complete joke.

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