soooo pop for stability on a desktop system??
for the most part, yes. Pop offers a pretty good overall user experience too! Honestly it has the only appstore that has enough apps for me to not have to use the terminal
Haha this is stunning - that someone will choose something so they are not forced to use a terminal.
Please tell us how you can install and use SearXNG, or Prowlarr, or Overseerr with your superb GUI tools?
Let’s face it. For anyone who ever used and is knowledgable about Windows, we must admit that the road to make Linux really useable from GUI alone is a very long one (and one that most of us just get bored with).
Well, my use case very much differs from yours, the appstore has enough apps to serve my needs, happy to hear a different opinion though!
Also, you said it right there, I do not want to be forced to use a terminal all the time, I’d like the option to tinker around when I want to, it’s about choice and general accessibility. I’d like to do 90% of my mundane tasks without touching a terminal, but hey that’s how I like it.
not really sure i want ubuntu as my DD
- You get comfortable in your old shoes.
- Even when things SNAP.
But when you put on a new pair of shoes, within a week or two, they become more comfortable than the old ones…
Such is my journey from Ubuntu to Mint, and then over to Manjaro/Arch.
I can’t say I tried Pop, because my initial aim was to hop from Debian and try out something new… and I just tossed a coin between Fedora and Manjaro at that time.
WELL ACKTCHUALLY…
But jokes aside: How do you people break your Arch system so often? I’m on Arch since 2012 or so and it never really broke for me. Also, anyone who can read will be able to fix the ~1 time a year required manual intervention.
Arch is DIY, so you’re supposed to know how to fix it.
It’s the trade off of having a mostly bleeding edge operating system. It’s part of the reason why I wouldn’t recommend Arch to beginners. While pretty rare, some update will eventually break part of your OS or cause other (often minor) issues and you should be knowledgeable enough/willing to look up the offending package and roll it back. It’s up to the user to decide whether Arch’s pros (massive software availability through official repos and the AUR, DIY approach, up-to-date packages) outweigh its cons.
As @TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca said (I can’t tell if jokingly or not - lol), it is somewhat expected that an Arch user checks the Latest News section on archlinux.org before updating their system. Though I might add, I usually don’t bother.
After two weeks on arch, nvidia driver updates have broken shit twice already.
But that’s the arch way and I chose the arch way.
In 5 years on arch I have never had an nvidia driver update break anything.
I had it screw my system so hard it didn’t boot and I had to use the installer to uninstall the driver and boot with the generic one. A couple days later it broke steam and the advice on the arch forums was to downgrade, which I did (to a version before the one that didn’t let me boot).
Now here I am, with an nvidia driver that’s intentionally outdated because the current version is broken. Just like on windows.
I always thought it might be hardware related. So far i have always bought AMD cards and had no issues.
well, you don’t complain when your hammer does a shit job at driving a screw. (well, maybe you do, but thats on you)
One is consumer focused,
the other is bleeding edge.
