Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?

  • Carunga@feddit.deOP
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    1 year ago

    Turns out she needs a bit of proprietary software (pixum for photo books) that I could not install on EndlessOS. So I had to change course and installed pop os. So far I am pleasantly suprised. Even though I thought I would not like it, their take on GNOME makes sense to me. Tiling is fun.

    • Chewy
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      1 year ago

      PopOS is currently developing their own spin on a immutable OS, but that’s still a long way from shipping to users. I’m curious, if other distros broke, why would it be different with current PopOS?

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        1 year ago

        Did not know this. Immutable Ubuntu plus flatpack sounds awesome. Not sure what to think about their plans to fork cosmic from GNOME.

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          1 year ago

          I’m really looking forward to their implementation of tiling. If they manage to design a desktop which stays mostly out of the way while delivering 1st class tiling I’ll give it a shot. Gnome does have extensions, but they just don’t feel right to me (buggy etc), unlike what the likes of sway and hyprland deliver.

          It would’ve been great if they contributed to Gnome instead, but there was some bad blood between them iirc. And it’s open whether it’ll be another Unity and how well other distros implement it.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Pop is great, my only complaint is their posterized stylized default backgrounds. It is their look, but might be a turnoff for some wanting a more polished pro look like ElementaryOS default.