I bought a new laptop with windows 10 home edition pre-installed. Hence I went with WSL and it was not so good.Hence I spun an aws EC2 instance and working on it. But it aint free and doesn't feel like working on a local machine. So I thought of installing Linux and I had previously used ubuntu a couple of years back. Now I stumbled upon Pop OS. Can I go with it rather than ubuntu or install Ubuntu ?
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Yeah, Pop OS is a much better and stable Linux distro. The beautiful thing about it is, It's an extended version of ubuntu.
Hey mates, I installed and customized pop for my needs. I absolutely love it <3. Thanksss!
Just give it a shot!
You'll Love it!
Sure bro! ❤️
I was a long term user of Pop_OS. I strongly recommend it not only for work but also for gaming. The performance it gave me was far from average and I was able to play Doom and Deus Ex (the last game, I don't remember the full name).
But some months ago I switched to Manjaro and I can tell you that the difference is BIG. In performance, Gnome Shell works better (at least for me) than Pop_OS and the rolling release model is very interesting.
But if you want to stay with a Debian/Ubuntu based distro, Pop_OS! is the best one you can choose right now (IMO).
Thanks mates. I'll go with Pop OS 😎
I'll add, as a long-time Ubuntu user, I switched to Pop_OS! last year, and I'm loving it: especially the improved driver support and bundling. It's even possible to install all the desktop environments that you know and love on it. Personally, I installed the
ubuntu-mate-desktopmetapackage on it, so I have Ubuntu MATE running on a Pop_OS! foundation. Seamless!Yes, you can definitely go with Pop!_OS as it is an Ubuntu-based distribution. This means that it uses the same structure and packaging (and even desktop environment) as Ubuntu and should feel very familiar. System76 (the company behind Pop!_OS) has also added some really cool functionality like built-in tiling, better hardware support, unique theming, and a host of their own tools.
You will be able to follow along with any guides that reference Ubuntu because Pop!_OS uses the same structure and repositories as Ubuntu.
I used Ubuntu for nearly 10 years until 2018. When they moved to GNOME, I couldn't get comfortable with the desktop environment, so I explored lots of other distributions. With the massive performance improvements to GNOME over the past two years, I'm back to using the desktop environment. However, I do use Pop!_OS on both System76 machines and other OEM machines and it really is a great distribution that gives you everything that comes with Ubuntu along with some nice extras provided by System76.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions!
I would go with Pop!_OS over Ubuntu any day. It's based on Ubuntu as well so you get all the advantages of Ubuntu and some extra goodies.
I also recommend Manjaro if you want to get adventureous - gateway drug to Arch.
Yes you can, Infact Pop_os is based on Ubuntu, so there won't be any difference in package management. But Pop_os does include some goodies that aren't present in ubuntu. I short Pop_os is a good choice.