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I installed PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) on my 5 year old MacBook Pro and it feels like a

I installed PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) on my 5 year old MacBook Pro and it feels like a brand new machine. The UX feels better to me than MacOS which is starting to feel more and more like Windows imo.

JoeQuery 4y ago
PopOS is wonderful. I highly recommend.
delta1 4y ago
Pop!_OS Very annoying to type
- CoolGuySteve 4y ago
thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
>> PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) It is: Pop!_OS https://pop.system76.com/ https://pop.system76.com/ It basically a customized Ubuntu with perfect driver support for System76 hardware. I use it on a 2015 Meerkat (https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat) and it works great.
- brightball 4y ago
  I just bought a Meerkat and it’s incredible. I love this thing.
smoldesu 4y ago
You should look into enabling Wayland, which PopOS! disables by default. That should give you silky-smooth 60fps desktop transitions like MacOS, as well as 1:1 trackpad gestures. Happy hacking!
- brightball 4y ago
  Really?
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    Yep. I'm not a huge fan of Wayland personally, but if you simply want "more Mac-feel" then it's probably perfect. Enabling it in your config allows you to switch between x11/Wayland without a real risk of borking your desktop.
lioeters 4y ago
I specifically searched for "Pop" in this thread, because I wanted to give them a thumbs up. In recent years I've been moving on from macOS to Linux, and I'm so pleased with my new Thinkpad running PopOS (and Nordic theme). It just works - quiet technology.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Nordic is lovely. One of the few stylesheets that really solves default usability issues while looking gorgeous at the same time. Props to the maintainers, whoever they are!

JoeQuery 4y ago

PopOS is wonderful. I highly recommend.

delta1 4y ago

Pop!_OS Very annoying to type

CoolGuySteve 4y ago

thesuperbigfrog 4y ago

>> PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) It is: Pop!_OS https://pop.system76.com/ https://pop.system76.com/ It basically a customized Ubuntu with perfect driver support for System76 hardware. I use it on a 2015 Meerkat (https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat) and it works great.

brightball 4y ago
I just bought a Meerkat and it’s incredible. I love this thing.

smoldesu 4y ago

You should look into enabling Wayland, which PopOS! disables by default. That should give you silky-smooth 60fps desktop transitions like MacOS, as well as 1:1 trackpad gestures. Happy hacking!

brightball 4y ago
Really?
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Yep. I'm not a huge fan of Wayland personally, but if you simply want "more Mac-feel" then it's probably perfect. Enabling it in your config allows you to switch between x11/Wayland without a real risk of borking your desktop.

lioeters 4y ago

I specifically searched for "Pop" in this thread, because I wanted to give them a thumbs up. In recent years I've been moving on from macOS to Linux, and I'm so pleased with my new Thinkpad running PopOS (and Nordic theme). It just works - quiet technology.

smoldesu 4y ago
Nordic is lovely. One of the few stylesheets that really solves default usability issues while looking gorgeous at the same time. Props to the maintainers, whoever they are!