Pop!OS is becoming more and more out of date and problematic. Honestly Fedora is the only version of Linux worth using these days (there’s some gamer variant of it I can never remember that’s probably fine too).
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the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Download Rufus.
Download Pop! OS
Create USB installer.
Install Pop! OS
There you go.
stephenc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
kogasa@programming.dev 9 months ago
Honestly, there’s a half dozen that are just as good as Fedora out of the box, and dozens that are just as capable once broken in.
stephenc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have yet to find a distro besides Fedora that is actually reliable and works well with everything with minimal tweaking. Ubuntu and its derivatives are horribly unstable and finicky and everything else has its own issues. Fedora just works.
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Dude what are you talking about? Are you running something super specialized or old, wacky hardware? Trying to use Wayland with an Nvidia GPU? I’d gladly put my Pop system up against any Fedora system and I wouldn’t have a hiccup.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The gamer variant you’re talking about is Nobara.
Which is pretty good.
I switched to it about a month ago, reminds me of what Ubuntu used to be with its easy to use-ness
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It is? Hmm I’ve not had a single issue with it in years. It gets regular updates, granted it’s not on the current Ubuntu version, but out of date it is not. What problems does it have?
Use what you want, but making the declaration that Fedora is the distro to go with is a stretch.
HafizMuhammad@mastodon.social 9 months ago
stephenc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, that.
Case@unilem.org 9 months ago
I had an issue switching away from Pop!, and it may have been a one off, but when I tried to install a different distro, and it wound up screwing up my boot partition to the point the easiest thing was just to run a live distro, pop open parted, and wipe from there before I could install a different distro.
Mostly mentioning it because it was annoying to figure out and remedy - the remedy was annoying because I only had one flash drive so I had to wipe what I wanted to install, and just wasting time regarding that.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Couldnt even shut down my pc with popos
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That sounds like a you problem then.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wow you must really struggle with basic day to day stuff then
What a bizarre flex. You may as well be saying I don’t know how to flush my toilet 😎
13617@lemmy.world 9 months ago
insert specific versions of missing dependencies here for whatever program you try to run
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean sure I guess? I don’t know what you’re running where that happens a lot, but everything I have on my system has been as easy or easier to install as Windows.
Joking and snark aside, Linux can be as difficult or as easy to use as you want it to be.
vsh@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Downloading apps games and software should not be difficult, yet Linux proves it otherwise
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Installing Steam on Windows: Microsoft has a store but it sucks, I don’t think Steam is even in there, so you have to open up your browser and remember that the URL is steampowered.com or maybe valvesoftware.com, or google it, somehow make visually sure you’ve found the right webpage and that you’re not being scammed, find the download page, click Download, now it downloads a small installer .exe to your Downloads folder, open up your file manager, go to you Downloads folder, find the .exe that just came down, click that, there’s a several step process that asks you several questions that amount to “do you want to install this in a non-standard place that will break shit later?” then it downloads and installs the actual app.
Installing Steam on Linux (I’m using Mint Cinnamon here, but the process is pretty similar for most popular distros): Open the software manager, type “steam” in the search box, click on the first result to come up, click install, key in your password, it downloads and installs the app.
TL;DR: Everyone. Android, iOS, MacOS, every single Linux distro. Everyone. Has a functioning app store system that users actually use. Except Windows.
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are you serious? I can install nearly any software just by typing ‘sudo apt install’ and that’s it. How is that difficult?