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TL;DR: I love PopOS. I tried yet again to switch from Windows to Linux 2 days ago. I've tried before but have always ended up back at Windows (WSL is actually
by jazoom 8y ago
TL;DR: I love PopOS.
I tried yet again to switch from Windows to Linux 2 days ago. I've tried before but have always ended up back at Windows (WSL is actually pretty useful).
I tried and failed to get a few Linux distros (that I found interesting) working for me. The last was Ubuntu Budgie. I had heaps of trouble with Grub and I wasn't even trying to dual boot.
I was just about ready to give up for another couple of years and I found out about Pop!_OS while searching for info about Grub. You did a blog post about switching out Grub. That got my attention because I've never liked Grub.
For the first time in years the install of a Linux distro just worked. I instantly loved everything about Pop!_OS except for very few things (so far). Thank you for making Linux nice to use. My (non-techie) wife will probably be switching to it too. She'd probably consider buying one of your computers if you were in Australia.
In case you want to know, these are the things I don't like about Pop!_OS.
WARNING: personal opinions follow!
1. The special characters in Pop!_OS. It's ridiculous. I had a hard time remembering it to search for it. I feel dirty every time I type it. I feel dirty every time I type PopOS too because I know that's not the name. It makes it more intimidating to non-geeks. The simplest distro should not have the most complex name.
2. The default (as with most distros) mouse profile is not flat and I needed to install a program just to tweak it to be flat. Why does every OS not have that as default? Flat is the only intuitive mouse profile. And why do I always have to jump through hoops to change it?
3. The default terminal is inferior to Tilix and I have not yet found a way to make the right-click action in the file explorer open in anything other than the default terminal. Even if I make Tilix default and symlink the gnome-terminal binaries to Tilix, PopOS still opens the lame terminal.
4. The default desktop background. It's the first view of PopOS I got, and it was off-putting. I made sure to change it before showing PopOS to my wife.