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I built a new PC about a month ago, and installed it to dual-boot between Pop OS and Windows - this after almost a decade of OSX. I had intended to make Pop OS
by jlangenauer 6y ago
I built a new PC about a month ago, and installed it to dual-boot between Pop OS and Windows - this after almost a decade of OSX.
I had intended to make Pop OS my primary workspace, but it's now been 3 weeks since I've even loaded Linux, and have been working in Windows the entire time. The reasons for this:
1. Pop OS had issues with my graphics card. I even bought a AMD RX5600 rather than a Nvidia card due to the existence of open source drivers. Nah, no such luck. I'd get occasional crashes (which seemed to diminish once I'd updated the bios using the Windows software for the card). But that's not all: the GPU acceleration that Google Maps uses would consistently and quickly freeze the entire machine - not just Chrome, the entire machine, and only a hard reboot would get it back.
1.5 (Probably related to 1) Weird pauses of 30 seconds or more. They'd happen when opening alacritty, and also when opening Chrome. This is on a brand new, reasonably high spec desktop machine.
2. Inconsistent shortcuts drove me mad. Want to copy something from Chrome? Use Ctrl+C. But from the terminal? Then it's Ctrl+Shift+C.
3. I discovered WSL2 in Windows. It works pretty much flawlessly, is awesomely performant and tightly integrated with Windows. You get all the parts of Linux you need to develop, and none of the hassles of Linux.
I bought a Windows license for this new PC thinking I'd occasionally need it to run a game or some other software. Yet it's now my daily working system. Who would have thought?
- axaxs 6y agoYeah, you were in an unfortunate situation with your graphics card, which the problems stemmed from. Navi support was just added in Linux 5.3 iirc, and that was just the first draft of the drivers. Then for a while you had to use a specialized mesa build from git. A real headache to be sure, but my Navi is now running swimmingly. I'd probably give it another go after the next PopOS release.
- mdolah 6y agoI had similar issues with my web browser and found out it wasn’t the graphics card, but a bad WiFi driver I ran the following command that I got from the below support page and haven’t seen any issues since sudo apt remove backport-iwlwifi-dkms https://support.system76.com/articles/wireless/ https://support.system76.com/articles/wireless/