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What is exactly the benefit of Pop_OS compared to Ubuntu? I mean installed drivers are great, but that was basically only one apt install command and a reboot.

xhevahir 5y ago
A lot of people like the Pop OS desktop, COSMIC; I myself haven't used it or regular GNOME enough to say which one I prefer. (System76 said they're making a new version in Rust that isn't based on GNOME, but that's probably a long way from completion.)
jeffwiederkehr 5y ago
I don’t daily drive pop os but i theirs a couple quality of life improvements like slimmed down default applications, improved App Store, default support for battery profiles. Also I don’t believe they install any Snaps and instead use flatpacks when necessary. People like the theme too.
galoisscobi 5y ago
It's been a while since I used Pop_OS but it played better with setting up Nvidia proprietary drivers from the get go and that helped with getting a quick local ML dev environment set up. Their new tiling window manager also looks neat (seems close to i3wm and I'm looking forward to trying it) and even though you can change colorschemes pretty easily, I like their default colorscheme.
xkcd-sucks 5y ago
Ubuntu without snapd
- j4yav 5y ago
  And Nvidia drivers already set up, which you can spend a lot of time fiddling with in other distros.
  - nopenopenopeno 5y ago
    and they are setup in a way which breaks compatibility with nvidia-docker, so beware of that.
    - bobthebuilders 5y ago
      Use tensorman. It's way cleaner than nvidia-docker, and isn't made by a company hostile to Linux to boot.
      - nopenopenopeno 5y ago
        Tensorman is trash. It’s an equivalent of an afterschool project that supports one person’s specific workflow and can’t possibly support any of the ways that we use nvidia-docker. This all just goes to show your distro cannot be trusted by developers.
- Shared404 5y ago
  Yep. I also really like their extensions to GNOME.
nauticacom 5y ago
Drivers, customizations on top of Gnome (if you prefer them), App Store, flatpak instead of snap. Plus made by an indie company rather than some massive corp if you're into that sort of thing.
- blacksmith_tb 5y ago
  Hmm, Canonical is not what I call 'massive' at ~600 employees[1]. Looks like Red Hat is almost twice that big[2], which still strikes me as pretty small? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
  - dralley 5y ago
    I think you misread the page, as it says that Red Hat has 13,400 employees, which is 22x more than 600, not "almost twice" :) But also, both numbers are also outdated. The Canonical employee count is apparently around 500 in 2020 [0] and the Red Hat employee count is no longer public post-acquisition, but it's higher than it was in 2019. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-2020-Filing https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonica...
    - blacksmith_tb 5y ago
      Oops, you're right, that's just the Czech subsidiary - so they are massive-ish, at least compared to Canonical!
  - nauticacom 5y ago
    True, I was being a bit hyperbolic with "massive corp" :). Employee size isn't everything in determining how "big" an organization is, though. I really just meant that it, personally, makes me feel better to use something created by a small, scrappy team than something maintained by a multinational enterprise.
flyingchipmann 5y ago
I started to use it a few years ago when it was the only distro runs flawlessly on my laptop. All other distros had various problems at the time. I think that's its killer feature, hassle free. It's the only distro I would recommend to non tech people if they want to try out linux.

xhevahir 5y ago

A lot of people like the Pop OS desktop, COSMIC; I myself haven't used it or regular GNOME enough to say which one I prefer. (System76 said they're making a new version in Rust that isn't based on GNOME, but that's probably a long way from completion.)

jeffwiederkehr 5y ago

I don’t daily drive pop os but i theirs a couple quality of life improvements like slimmed down default applications, improved App Store, default support for battery profiles. Also I don’t believe they install any Snaps and instead use flatpacks when necessary. People like the theme too.

galoisscobi 5y ago

It's been a while since I used Pop_OS but it played better with setting up Nvidia proprietary drivers from the get go and that helped with getting a quick local ML dev environment set up. Their new tiling window manager also looks neat (seems close to i3wm and I'm looking forward to trying it) and even though you can change colorschemes pretty easily, I like their default colorscheme.

xkcd-sucks 5y ago

Ubuntu without snapd

j4yav 5y ago
And Nvidia drivers already set up, which you can spend a lot of time fiddling with in other distros.
- nopenopenopeno 5y ago
  and they are setup in a way which breaks compatibility with nvidia-docker, so beware of that.
  - bobthebuilders 5y ago
    Use tensorman. It's way cleaner than nvidia-docker, and isn't made by a company hostile to Linux to boot.
    - nopenopenopeno 5y ago
      Tensorman is trash. It’s an equivalent of an afterschool project that supports one person’s specific workflow and can’t possibly support any of the ways that we use nvidia-docker. This all just goes to show your distro cannot be trusted by developers.
Shared404 5y ago
Yep. I also really like their extensions to GNOME.

nauticacom 5y ago

Drivers, customizations on top of Gnome (if you prefer them), App Store, flatpak instead of snap. Plus made by an indie company rather than some massive corp if you're into that sort of thing.

blacksmith_tb 5y ago
Hmm, Canonical is not what I call 'massive' at ~600 employees[1]. Looks like Red Hat is almost twice that big[2], which still strikes me as pretty small? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
- dralley 5y ago
  I think you misread the page, as it says that Red Hat has 13,400 employees, which is 22x more than 600, not "almost twice" :) But also, both numbers are also outdated. The Canonical employee count is apparently around 500 in 2020 [0] and the Red Hat employee count is no longer public post-acquisition, but it's higher than it was in 2019. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-2020-Filing https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonica...
  - blacksmith_tb 5y ago
    Oops, you're right, that's just the Czech subsidiary - so they are massive-ish, at least compared to Canonical!
- nauticacom 5y ago
  True, I was being a bit hyperbolic with "massive corp" :). Employee size isn't everything in determining how "big" an organization is, though. I really just meant that it, personally, makes me feel better to use something created by a small, scrappy team than something maintained by a multinational enterprise.

flyingchipmann 5y ago

I started to use it a few years ago when it was the only distro runs flawlessly on my laptop. All other distros had various problems at the time. I think that's its killer feature, hassle free. It's the only distro I would recommend to non tech people if they want to try out linux.