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My Personal Tier list of Linux Distros (media.kbin.social)
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Why's pop so low? I haven't used Linux for a while, but I recall liking it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Most likely personal preference; some people really dislike heavily customized DEs out of the box, and some prefer faster releases than PopOS has.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Somewhat correct. For other reasons refer to this comment.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    A lot of Distros could just be scripts run on other mainstream distros, but PopOS, as you have mentioned, has a different release cycle. So it needs different repos, and that could be a little bit hard to maintain as a script.

    They also have a separate installer that has features for a better Nvidia experience, which is very hard to pull off as a script (also very hard to pull off in general; because Nvidia).

    With the new Cosmic DE and the new tools they've written using a different toolkit, it will be a lot harder to maintain that script, and they may need to make a new flavour of Ubuntu; "Cobuntu", that will not be an official flavour, because it doesn't use snaps.

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