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Was excited AF until I read this: "Perfect with Pop!_OS Pop!_OS by System76 and Thelio together form the perfect platform to create and discover. Thelio is op

Was excited AF until I read this: "Perfect with Pop!_OS Pop!_OS by System76 and Thelio together form the perfect platform to create and discover. Thelio is optimized for maximum performance. Pop!_OS provides tools and development platforms that are always up-to-date and just a single click or command away. " Forgive me but I'm just not interested in running an obscure custom Linux. I feel the same about Amazon's AWS Linux distro. Give me one of the following, in order of preference, and we'll talk: - Arch - Ubuntu - Debian - Fedora - RHEL

undoware 8y ago
Oh wait they offer Ubuntu 18 as an option. OK excited again
- shrewduser 8y ago
  pop_os is pretty good, you might be out of the loop on that one it's gaining a decent amount of traction
- faissaloo 8y ago
  Trust me you want Pop, it saves you alot of setup.
smacktoward 8y ago
You can get it with Ubuntu 18.04 at no extra charge. Check the configurator.
yogeshgirdhar 8y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by Pop!_OS. It's basically Ubuntu + nice theme + drivers specifically tested and configured for the System76 hardware. No more pain and suffering because of nvidia drivers.
- mmirate 8y ago
  Does this mean that anyone wanting to run anything non-Ubuntu-based on a System 76 product, gets to take upon themselves the joyous tasks of extricating these drivers from Pop!_OS, monitoring Pop!_OS for driver changes, and re-extricating new versions of drivers when they arrive?
  - sitzkrieg 8y ago
    I have ran fedora on a system76 machine with zero issues, but the machine is almost 2 years old now , and a pretty no frills intel laptop so who knows
- sliken 8y ago
  I regularly install the current ubuntu LTS on about 5 desktops, all with nvidia. Generally it just works you either have to click on (settings -> drivers -> nvidia) or just do an apt-get install nvidia-<current version>. When there's a kernel upgrade it "just works", presumably with DKMS or similar. What pain are you seeing with nvidia?
- Koshkin 8y ago
  Yeah, but the name... Ugh.
  - briandear 8y ago
    Ubuntu isn’t exactly a catchy name either. Sounds like the name of a miscreant troll.
- thinkloop 8y ago
  On windows and mac, because there's no choice, things like this are offered as software to install. Would doing the same on linux more likely cause "pain and suffering"?
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undoware 8y ago

Oh wait they offer Ubuntu 18 as an option. OK excited again

shrewduser 8y ago
pop_os is pretty good, you might be out of the loop on that one it's gaining a decent amount of traction
faissaloo 8y ago
Trust me you want Pop, it saves you alot of setup.

smacktoward 8y ago

You can get it with Ubuntu 18.04 at no extra charge. Check the configurator.

yogeshgirdhar 8y ago

I was pleasantly surprised by Pop!_OS. It's basically Ubuntu + nice theme + drivers specifically tested and configured for the System76 hardware. No more pain and suffering because of nvidia drivers.

mmirate 8y ago
Does this mean that anyone wanting to run anything non-Ubuntu-based on a System 76 product, gets to take upon themselves the joyous tasks of extricating these drivers from Pop!_OS, monitoring Pop!_OS for driver changes, and re-extricating new versions of drivers when they arrive?
- sitzkrieg 8y ago
  I have ran fedora on a system76 machine with zero issues, but the machine is almost 2 years old now , and a pretty no frills intel laptop so who knows
sliken 8y ago
I regularly install the current ubuntu LTS on about 5 desktops, all with nvidia. Generally it just works you either have to click on (settings -> drivers -> nvidia) or just do an apt-get install nvidia-<current version>. When there's a kernel upgrade it "just works", presumably with DKMS or similar. What pain are you seeing with nvidia?
Koshkin 8y ago
Yeah, but the name... Ugh.
- briandear 8y ago
  Ubuntu isn’t exactly a catchy name either. Sounds like the name of a miscreant troll.
thinkloop 8y ago
On windows and mac, because there's no choice, things like this are offered as software to install. Would doing the same on linux more likely cause "pain and suffering"?

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