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Pop!_OS

Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. Unleash your potential on secure, reliable open source software. Based on your exceptional curiosity, we sense you have a lot of it.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Linux  Disable Secure Boot to install.
4.2
Very Good18 reviews
94likes
12comments

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Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  User friendly
  3.  Configurable
  4.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Based on Ubuntu
  2.  Automatic window tiling
  3.  Linux-based
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  No Tracking
  7.  Content creators
  8.  Support for Nvidia drivers
  9.  No registration required
  10.  Works Offline

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  • PierreLocus liked Pop!_OS
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  • olexiykutsenko reviewed Pop!_OS  

    Tested on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 Intel Core i9-12900H, 64GB, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti. Unfortunately, I experienced a couple of bugs with Bluetooth (the system tries to re-acquire the device every couple of minutes, so I can't connect my headphones to my smartphone - Pop!_OS just keeps re-acquiring them back). I also had issues with system apps often crashes, overall app speed is slow despite super huge amount of resources. Firstly, I installed 22.04, when I experienced those bugs I...

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Comment summary: Pop!_OS, developed by System76, has garnered positive feedback for its stability, minimalistic design, and user-friendliness, especially beneficial for gamers and creators. However, some users faced issues with software installation, hardware compatibility, and system bloat. It has been described as a promising Ubuntu-based distro with customization options and user-friendly features, though some find basic tasks challenging and report technical issues.
Top Positive Comment
Jonathan Brier
4

Developed by System76 this Ubuntu based fork provides a very clean experience. It just works with a modern minimalist design and as a Information Science person this has been huge for my productivity.

Top Negative Comment
olexiykutsenko
0

Tested on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 Intel Core i9-12900H, 64GB, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti. Unfortunately, I experienced a couple of bugs with Bluetooth (the system tries to re-acquire the device every couple of minutes, so I can't connect my headphones to my smartphone - Pop!_OS just keeps re-acquiring them back). I also had issues with system apps often crashes, overall app speed is slow despite super huge amount of resources. Firstly, I installed 22.04, when I experienced those bugs I think maybe upgrade will fix them, I upgraded to 24.04-beta, but the experience with system apps became worse. As I understand problem lies in new DE, slow system apps become slower, but less crashes to be honest. List of things I was frustrated with:

  1. Software sources could be managed from the Pop Shop in 22.04, but in 24.04 only Flathub sources can be managed.
  2. COSMIC Files app performance is super poor; I had to switch back to the Files app from the previous version.
  3. The Bluetooth bug is still there.
  4. The sound bar doesn't display when I change volume from the keyboard.
  5. Telegram application stops working entirely after upgrade. On the positive side, Alacritty works perfectly well with Neovim; I can program and run my Docker apps comfortably. The Nvidia card works great — from my experience, training models is actually faster now. Also, LM Studio works well with GPT OSS 20B; no bugs spotted there.
anarchy1923
0

Pop!_OS is a stable, customizable, and reliable Ubuntu-based distribution that aims to cater to professionals from all fields - STEM, Media Production, or the average home user. I switched over to it from Windows as my first Linux distribution, and I love it. Plus, they have their own COSMIC DE in the builds, which is exciting as well!

DzmitryLahoda
-1

I wanted to like it. I believed they tuned for hardware and fixed Linux. I updated to latest PopOs!. But Linux delight not happened.

Touchpad issue, sound issues, power saving issues, monitor issues, sleep issues, UI lags issues.

And what is bad. I cannot fix that using some well known guides or known desktop of Plasma/Gnome 4. Because they modified it.

I plan to erase PopOs! on weekend.

Bernard Monsun
0

I was trying some distros before, but PopOS was the one I decided to go full single-boot with my daily experience. I never had problems with drivers - everything worked for me out of the box, but of course it depends of ones hardware specs. I am also very pleased by customization options - and good for learning, because of nice documentation and friendly community. Oh, and simple window tiling - very handy, great option!

Anipe
-1

I dislike pop os, it's somewhat bloated and despite being called user friendly basic functions like deleting an app are very hard.

Bernard Monsun

What you mean by "deleting an app is very hard"? I have never encountered any problems with deleting an app on that OS, but maybe I was doing something wrong ;)

RemovedUser
1

Superb. Minimalist friendly.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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