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My main issue with PopOS is that it's very problematic to upgrade. The situation that really annoyed me is that their gnome widgets have their own special styl

My main issue with PopOS is that it's very problematic to upgrade. The situation that really annoyed me is that their gnome widgets have their own special style classes that are not supported by most universal themes, so the only way to get a good consistent experience is to use their default theme or spend hours tracking down the specific custom styles that need updating. If you decide to go off the rails and replace some or most of the PopOS stuff (which I eventually did), it will work, but probably break on running the next major update. This happened to me twice and ultimately had me move on to other things. If this new approach can solve that problem, then I think PopOS! will be a much more attractive option. I will probably not go back to using PopOS! (using tiling wms now), but I would have no issue recommending it.

pkulak 4y ago
PopOS has a pretty decent tiling plugin, but it really only is decent. You can absolutely tell that it's bolted on. Windows open, then move and resize, etc. I can't move to it from a real tiler just yet. I get the feeling that they have gotten a bit tired of trying to beat Gnome into submission and decided that going their own way will be better for everyone. I think this _is_ one solution to your problem.
- bstar77 4y ago
  I definitely think they are going in the right direction... it's going to be better for them to have their own thing rather than tacking on a ton of Gnome plugins and calling it "Cosmic".
brundolf 4y ago
Subjectively to me it feels like a distro that's intentionally opinionated, which sounds like the root of most of your problems. If you're wanting to customize a bunch of GUI stuff, why use Pop_OS to begin with?
- mmstick76 4y ago
  Yeah COSMIC will resolve this kind of issue once and for all. The current setup is very dependent on a person not tampering with expected features and packages.

pkulak 4y ago

PopOS has a pretty decent tiling plugin, but it really only is decent. You can absolutely tell that it's bolted on. Windows open, then move and resize, etc. I can't move to it from a real tiler just yet. I get the feeling that they have gotten a bit tired of trying to beat Gnome into submission and decided that going their own way will be better for everyone. I think this _is_ one solution to your problem.

bstar77 4y ago
I definitely think they are going in the right direction... it's going to be better for them to have their own thing rather than tacking on a ton of Gnome plugins and calling it "Cosmic".

brundolf 4y ago

Subjectively to me it feels like a distro that's intentionally opinionated, which sounds like the root of most of your problems. If you're wanting to customize a bunch of GUI stuff, why use Pop_OS to begin with?

mmstick76 4y ago
Yeah COSMIC will resolve this kind of issue once and for all. The current setup is very dependent on a person not tampering with expected features and packages.