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I'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 t
by fullstop 6y ago
I'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!