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For anyone who has used Pop OS how does it compare to Mint?

xrd 7y ago
I'm not a power user. But I've been using Linux as my main desktop UI, usually Ubuntu, for the past dozen years or more. And I absolutely love PopOS on my system76 machine. It works flawlessly.
alexis_fr 7y ago
Pop OS uses Gnome 3.
dguaraglia 7y ago
In my experience it was slightly better, but then most of my problems with Mint were because of Cinnamon. Not sure if drivers or just Cinnamon’s compositor, but Cinnamon would become really choppy at times. Pop is smooth and painless to install. I ended up moving to Manjaro and Plasma eventually, but I’d recommend.
- jammygit 7y ago
  Ever try Manjaro for games?
- proverbialbunny 7y ago
  It's cpu vsync. It sucks. It's the only thing I change on Mint. I install my graphics drivers (nvidia), go to the nvidia settings control panel, turn on full composition (run the desktop through the gpu) which enables vsync on the graphics card. I then go into general (settings) and set vsync to none, disabling cpu vsync. This makes Mint as smooth as butter. It also improves youtube playback quite a bit.
  - dguaraglia 7y ago
    Oh, that makes sense. It definitely affects Plasma to a certain extent too. The default compositor uses OpenGL 2.0 and I could feel some amount of subperceptual lag that annoyed the crap of me after a bit. Switched to XRender and things have been great since.
appleiigs 7y ago
Mint feels more like Windows (but better) with task bar and start menu. Pop is more like Mac with dock and app launcher, but a little less polish. I had to use some Gnome extensions on Pop make it how I like it (for example, to have the dock locked on screen). On a newer hardware, I'd go with Pop because it's more up-to-date with drivers (esp. nvidia) and linux kernel. In my case, linux kernel version did matter for me because I had a weird start-up issue that was fixed in latest kernels.
- scns 7y ago
  You can easily install newer kernels on Mint. Open Upgrade Manager -> View (Third Menu) -> Linux Kernels You can choose from the backported kernels from 18.10 and 19.04 ATM, guess the kernel from 19.10 will be availlable soon. That way i got to undervolt my AMD GPU without a fuzz.

xrd 7y ago

I'm not a power user. But I've been using Linux as my main desktop UI, usually Ubuntu, for the past dozen years or more. And I absolutely love PopOS on my system76 machine. It works flawlessly.

alexis_fr 7y ago

Pop OS uses Gnome 3.

dguaraglia 7y ago

In my experience it was slightly better, but then most of my problems with Mint were because of Cinnamon. Not sure if drivers or just Cinnamon’s compositor, but Cinnamon would become really choppy at times. Pop is smooth and painless to install. I ended up moving to Manjaro and Plasma eventually, but I’d recommend.

jammygit 7y ago
Ever try Manjaro for games?
proverbialbunny 7y ago
It's cpu vsync. It sucks. It's the only thing I change on Mint. I install my graphics drivers (nvidia), go to the nvidia settings control panel, turn on full composition (run the desktop through the gpu) which enables vsync on the graphics card. I then go into general (settings) and set vsync to none, disabling cpu vsync. This makes Mint as smooth as butter. It also improves youtube playback quite a bit.
- dguaraglia 7y ago
  Oh, that makes sense. It definitely affects Plasma to a certain extent too. The default compositor uses OpenGL 2.0 and I could feel some amount of subperceptual lag that annoyed the crap of me after a bit. Switched to XRender and things have been great since.

appleiigs 7y ago

Mint feels more like Windows (but better) with task bar and start menu. Pop is more like Mac with dock and app launcher, but a little less polish. I had to use some Gnome extensions on Pop make it how I like it (for example, to have the dock locked on screen). On a newer hardware, I'd go with Pop because it's more up-to-date with drivers (esp. nvidia) and linux kernel. In my case, linux kernel version did matter for me because I had a weird start-up issue that was fixed in latest kernels.

scns 7y ago
You can easily install newer kernels on Mint. Open Upgrade Manager -> View (Third Menu) -> Linux Kernels You can choose from the backported kernels from 18.10 and 19.04 ATM, guess the kernel from 19.10 will be availlable soon. That way i got to undervolt my AMD GPU without a fuzz.