Trying out #PopOS#Linux today. I really appreciate the auto tiler window management, and the system seems to run pretty well out of the box on my RTX 3060M card (until I tried to use Pop Wayland and watched steam freak out all over my monitors), but it's painful to have to manually add and modify GRUB to dual boot from a separate drive and also I'm still really not a fan of how claustrophobic GNOME feels.
I would rather just get the auto-tiler, dGPU, and super key menu configurations in KDE.
Additionally, it would be nice if apt get actually saw distrobox in its default repos on PopOS, and if nala was installed by default since it is much prettier than apt get, though granted, I recognize that pop is not really made for terminal users coming from arch like myself.
I'll stick on this distro for a while since it's gone better than OpenSUSE, but I feel like the search for a stable "Just works out of the box (and also suits my needs)" distro is still ongoing.
@WMan22 If PopOS had KDE Plasma desktop I would probably like it more. It's solid but I feel you on the claustrophobia thing, I keep it around because it plays nice driver-wise with my laptop
@rootcompute See the thing is, you can put KDE plasma on it, I've already done this, but I think that there are features innate to Pop Desktop's modified GNOME that I don't want to trash entirely, it's not an all or nothing thing for me, the super key menu that's similar to (or probably is just literally) Rofi is something I like a lot, I like the auto tiler, I like all the sane defaults, it's just minor tweaks I'd want and Pop would reach "Ideal distro" territory.
@WMan22 Hopefully the COSMIC upgrade will give it some more oomph, I'll be curious to see how it handles.
Pop has some great tweaks to the GNOME desktop to be sure, but I'm just personally bored with the environment (had Ubuntu years prior). I'll have to see if I can get KDE working on there properly, I think something broke last time I tried it
@rootcompute I recognize what the GNOME developers are doing and respect it, they want a unified design language, an efficient workflow, and a small list of anomalies to track. I hate to use GNOME, but I "get it"; Like an opinion you can see the pragmatism behind but simply don't agree with. I just want my desktop to not look like a cross between a mac and a smartphone, and I want DRM leasing for VR.
Anyway, if you install KDE, expect some (fixable) things to happen to Pop-Desktop.
@WMan22 Bingo, yeah it's Linux for more casual users (like myself, though trying to not be that). My girlfriend doesn't know the first thing about the terminal but she can use the OS just fine, updating apps manually is easy.
But the rudimentary minimalist UI does hold the experience back for more advanced users. It feels less like a powerful computer in that state, hard to put into words but I think you summed it up well.
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