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> I don't know what Popos does to make it more "gaming focused" than vanilla Ubuntu. They have a few changes, chief among them being the PopOS scheduler which

> I don't know what Popos does to make it more "gaming focused" than vanilla Ubuntu. They have a few changes, chief among them being the PopOS scheduler which I find to be quite effective: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler The desktop itself is a weird custom-baked x11/GNOME customization you won't really get on Ubuntu. Not many distributions can claim the title of being truly "unique", but PopOS does deserve the title in my opinion. Even still it wouldn't be my choice for gaming, but I'll defend it's identity as something more than another GNOME/Debian spin.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
> Not many distributions can claim the title of being truly "unique" Sir, I think you've just insulted like dozens of distros out there. IMHO there are a lot of more "truly unique" distros out there than just spins of Ubuntu with a different DE and scheduler: Nobara(from the benchmark), Q4OS, Antix, Mabox, Linux Lite, Gecko Linux, Spiral Linux, in no particular order, not that they're better than Popos, but they're definitely more unique.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  Probably so. Relative to PopOS, not many of them are quite as pre-customized (not that it's an inherently good or bad thing).
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    Depends. Personally I don't consider Popos's DE to be a feature but more of a bug. I think the two competing giants, KDE and Gnome, are more solid and see more dev time and effort put into them, and will do just fine to satisfy all users, preferences and use cases, I don't see the need for the Nth+1 DE that fixes problems Gnome & KDE don't have. But that's just my opinion.
    - ianlevesque 3y ago
      From using PopOS, mostly for other reasons like out of the box drive encryption and nvidia support, the DE's purpose as far as I can tell is mostly to provide a reasonably user-friendly tiling window manager without replacing all of Gnome. Though now they are also replacing all of gnome in the next major release, so who knows.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

> Not many distributions can claim the title of being truly "unique" Sir, I think you've just insulted like dozens of distros out there. IMHO there are a lot of more "truly unique" distros out there than just spins of Ubuntu with a different DE and scheduler: Nobara(from the benchmark), Q4OS, Antix, Mabox, Linux Lite, Gecko Linux, Spiral Linux, in no particular order, not that they're better than Popos, but they're definitely more unique.

smoldesu 3y ago
Probably so. Relative to PopOS, not many of them are quite as pre-customized (not that it's an inherently good or bad thing).
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Depends. Personally I don't consider Popos's DE to be a feature but more of a bug. I think the two competing giants, KDE and Gnome, are more solid and see more dev time and effort put into them, and will do just fine to satisfy all users, preferences and use cases, I don't see the need for the Nth+1 DE that fixes problems Gnome & KDE don't have. But that's just my opinion.
  - ianlevesque 3y ago
    From using PopOS, mostly for other reasons like out of the box drive encryption and nvidia support, the DE's purpose as far as I can tell is mostly to provide a reasonably user-friendly tiling window manager without replacing all of Gnome. Though now they are also replacing all of gnome in the next major release, so who knows.