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LTT does another Linux Challenge
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ChatGPT advice here is basically regurgitating the Pop OS circlejerk. Pop OS is a horrible distro and it shows.
Linus also made a great point showing how all top articles recommend different things. Everyone is shouting to use their distro and when it doesn't work some other Linux zealot says "no you should have used the distro I use"
PopOS is a great distro! It's pretty stable, comes with easy full disk encryption and backup partition out of the box, and just works. I agree with the criticism of calling cosmic v1 already, but I disagree that it's that bad. I daily drive it and rarely have issues, it's missing some features I expect in a mature DE though.
It's fast, it's stable, it's beginner friendly, and it's a perfectly fine distro.
My wife is my barometer for how beginner friendly any tech is. She had zero issues adapting to popOS. She had many issues when I tried to force Slackware on her.
Bro is trying to bait Linus for a third time
Linus (of tech tips) is a hopeless certified moron, there's no Linux distro that'll work for him.
Really? All the linux vet YouTubers have run into countless really really bad bugs when using cosmic. I dont think its anywhere near stable. I have nothing against pop, my only issue is them shipping cosmic to early with no disclaimer or warning.
I don't watch any "Linux vet YouTubers" so I have no clue what they may be experiencing and running into, but I've been running it daily since alpha, and it's been rock solid. I've had a couple times where the Nvidia driver crashed that could have been caused by cosmic, but I didn't verify. Though both times I was messing with OBS and a virtual second display.
I don't like the file manager, the dock/panel are not as customizable as I wish, it'll glitch after running updates sometimes but a restart of cosmic fixes that. I was never a fan of tiling windows but with cosmic I use it daily on some workspaces.
There aren't a lot of applets yet, but I like these: package updater, privacy indicator, nitrate, minimon.
I wish I could have expanded ungrouped tabs in the app tray instead of a grouped icon, definitely my biggest annoyance. Otherwise I absolutely love cosmic. I've stopped using gnome after gnome shell, and it's never won me back, kde always felt like a side project just to get it to look how I wanted. Cinnamon is my second choice if Cosmic isn't available, but I really like Cosmic.