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I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one o

I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there.

spaetzleesser 5y ago
Is it helping their business though?
nicolaslem 5y ago
Without downplaying the work put on Pop_OS, anyone can start an Ubuntu derivative distro in a few hours. Writing a DE from scratch is something else entirely, Ubuntu famously tried and it went nowhere.
- BoysenberryPi 5y ago
  It is a completely different undertaking but my point is, I'm willing to give System76 credit here and wait and see how this plays out instead of jumping to cynical conclusions about how terrible this will be.
xkcd-sucks 5y ago
It seems Canonical can make even worse decisions - for me it was going all in on snap
Barrin92 5y ago
>Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there. among enthusiasts on the internet possibly, but in terms of real world usage it is ubuntu/debian/centos etc.. followed by a long list of nothing. there's always a new distro for tinkerers but five years later you never hear of it again, and when you invest into building an entire Desktop Environment that's supposed to compete with Gnome or KDE you're probably looking at that timescale before it's even competitive.
- AtlasBarfed 5y ago
  ubu/debian/centos: do you mean desktop, or are you adding in servers? those distos have undeniably won the server market. But they also don't really care about the desktop market as a result.
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  It's a gaming survey with mostly reddit users, so may be skewed. https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-2021-survey-results/ https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-20...

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I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one o

by BoysenberryPi 5y ago

spaetzleesser 5y ago
Is it helping their business though?
nicolaslem 5y ago
Without downplaying the work put on Pop_OS, anyone can start an Ubuntu derivative distro in a few hours. Writing a DE from scratch is something else entirely, Ubuntu famously tried and it went nowhere.
- BoysenberryPi 5y ago
  It is a completely different undertaking but my point is, I'm willing to give System76 credit here and wait and see how this plays out instead of jumping to cynical conclusions about how terrible this will be.
xkcd-sucks 5y ago
It seems Canonical can make even worse decisions - for me it was going all in on snap
Barrin92 5y ago
>Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there. among enthusiasts on the internet possibly, but in terms of real world usage it is ubuntu/debian/centos etc.. followed by a long list of nothing. there's always a new distro for tinkerers but five years later you never hear of it again, and when you invest into building an entire Desktop Environment that's supposed to compete with Gnome or KDE you're probably looking at that timescale before it's even competitive.
- AtlasBarfed 5y ago
  ubu/debian/centos: do you mean desktop, or are you adding in servers? those distos have undeniably won the server market. But they also don't really care about the desktop market as a result.
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  It's a gaming survey with mostly reddit users, so may be skewed. https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-2021-survey-results/ https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-20...