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I love elementary, although I couldn't make 6.0 work on my Nvidia-based machine (something has changed about the driver installation?). What annoys me is that

I love elementary, although I couldn't make 6.0 work on my Nvidia-based machine (something has changed about the driver installation?). What annoys me is that AppCenter takes up so much space in their blog posts and sponsoring campaigns, because I feel it's the worst of their apps. The navigation model never made sense to me (why is search disabled when I'm on "Installed"?). It also doesn't look good, because there are way more tiny utility apps than there are good icon designers, and often the icons are just shown on a giant, colored rectangle because apps have no banner images. I wish they'd do it more "magazine-like" as Apple does, just with more unsplash images instead of Apple's terrible Corporate Memphis illustrations.

kodah 5y ago
Pop OS's store also disables search when you're on "Installed". It's never made sense to me either.
- opencl 5y ago
  The Pop OS shop is a fork of Elementary's Appcenter.
jszymborski 5y ago
I love elementary a lot, so it hurts for me to admit that I agree. I'm stuck on an older kernel because the nvidia drivers are borked, but worst of all the AppCenter is truly horrid. For a distro that does such a good job at making sure that there is a GUI alternative in addition to all the normal things you'd do in a CLI, the AppCenter is really crummy. Ubuntu actually does a better job of making sure you can sort out your drivers through the GUI.
divbzero 5y ago
I haven’t experienced issues with Nvidia drivers, but I did face this with AMD drivers which can be oddly specific in terms of Linux distro support [1]. I was forced to abandon Elementary and instead tried Ubuntu Budgie [2]. [1]: https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/radeon-pro/radeon-pro-vii/radeon-pro-vii https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/radeon-... [2]: https://ubuntubudgie.org/ https://ubuntubudgie.org/
quassy 5y ago
Same with the System Settings: Here search is disabled as well when you are not on the index page. So quickly going from display to drivers or similar is not possible.

kodah 5y ago

Pop OS's store also disables search when you're on "Installed". It's never made sense to me either.

opencl 5y ago
The Pop OS shop is a fork of Elementary's Appcenter.

jszymborski 5y ago

I love elementary a lot, so it hurts for me to admit that I agree. I'm stuck on an older kernel because the nvidia drivers are borked, but worst of all the AppCenter is truly horrid. For a distro that does such a good job at making sure that there is a GUI alternative in addition to all the normal things you'd do in a CLI, the AppCenter is really crummy. Ubuntu actually does a better job of making sure you can sort out your drivers through the GUI.

divbzero 5y ago

I haven’t experienced issues with Nvidia drivers, but I did face this with AMD drivers which can be oddly specific in terms of Linux distro support [1]. I was forced to abandon Elementary and instead tried Ubuntu Budgie [2]. [1]: https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/radeon-pro/radeon-pro-vii/radeon-pro-vii https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/radeon-... [2]: https://ubuntubudgie.org/ https://ubuntubudgie.org/

quassy 5y ago

Same with the System Settings: Here search is disabled as well when you are not on the index page. So quickly going from display to drivers or similar is not possible.