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I've been putting off my next OS reinstallation, but I think I'll be moving away from Ubuntu and over to Mint this time.
by ColanR 6y ago
I've been putting off my next OS reinstallation, but I think I'll be moving away from Ubuntu and over to Mint this time.
- rocky1138 6y agoPop!_OS is another choice to consider. Apparently they are sticking with Ubuntu but are stripping the Snap stuff before pushing any updates.
- gavinray 6y agoSeconding Pop!_OS, utterly fantastic distro. Based on Ubuntu but with a bunch of manual patches + tweaks and driver support additions (particularly Nvidia). Really solid stock UI, and it even comes with a tiling WM built in. https://github.com/pop-os/shell https://github.com/pop-os/shell
- fullstop 6y agoI've been using Pop!_OS on a System76 laptop since February, and like it quite a bit. I use plasma desktop on all of my other systems, but left this one with the defaults.. so far I really like it, but I have a problem with gnome-shell leaking memory over time, since I tend to not shut down or log out over long periods of time. If I don't restart / log out, /usr/bin/gnome-shell eats up more and more memory (as the gdm user). I let it get up to about 7GB before I updated some firmware and rebooted the laptop. I mean, I put 32GB of RAM in the thing in an attempt to future-proof it, but this is kind of bonkers.
- philliphaydon 6y agoGoing to fire this up in a VM now and give it a go, maybe replace Ubuntu 20.04 with it. I just tried out Mint but it installs SO much rubbish. It installs mysql?!? I don't mind it installing some useful software but Mint goes overboard. With 20.04 I'm constantly sitting at 20-27gb of used memory when doing dev work.
- fullstop 6y agoOne thing which I very much liked about it is that the installer takes care of luks / cryptsetup.
- philliphaydon 6y agoI fired it up in a VM and it’s pretty awesome. Just trying to backup this dying hard drive before I reformat and put pop as my main.
- philliphaydon 6y agoOH. Pop!_OS is awesome. Thanks a lot!
- fullstop 6y agoI'm glad to hear that you're liking it!
- bityard 6y agoMost notably, Pop OS (I'm doing the damn silly punctuation) takes all of the stuff that Ubuntu has made snap-only and builds them as debs. So it's basically Ubuntu de-snapified.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoAny reason to use Pop!_OS over Mint, or vice versa?
- graton 6y agoI've been happily using Fedora for years. Just another option to consider.
- DrAwdeOccarim 6y agoI just switched from MacOS to Mint Xfce on a Razer Blade Stealth 13. Really wonderful OS. Donated $50!