7:28 "I don't have any of these..." Google account used in KZfaq: 😐

Pop actually got me to stop distrohopping. And it made me actually LIKE Gnome because of the shortcuts and out the box tweaks. It's not perfect but I can tell you I haven't ran into a dealbreaker in the six months I've had it on my system.

0:55 "If the UNIX philosophy was a religion, Ubuntu would be one of the biggest infidel out there. " Mental Outlaw 2021

IMO Pop OS is the best implementation of Gnome and makes it so much better and cooler looking.

"What is NVIDIA? What is a BIOS? How do I use it? Disabling secure boot? That sounds dangerous, they must be trying to hack me. I give up." -normalFRIENDS

It’s also meant to be more of a keyboard shortcut driven GUI.

Everybody gangster until Mental Outlaw switches to gnome

You can use the super key instead of the activities button.

POP OS is really good and work out of the box. I never had problem with GPU drivers (nvidia and AMD): install the correct one and VOILA, you are good to go.

5:22 im glad im not the only one that clears any screen even if it doesnt matter lol

With Nvidia GPUs, this is the only distro ive tried that has no issues at all. They've already done all the tweaking. Whereas with vanilla Ubuntu I am having pretty major issues trying to get the proprietary drivers to work correctly. And ones like Linux Mint, though I love it, have had major screen-tearing issues with everything except the open source Nvidia driver. I dont remember having many issues with Manjaro, but I hate Arch-based distros and how unnecessarily difficult and annoying they make everything be IMO. Hopefully it wont be too long before I have a 6800xt and I can ditch Nvidia and their bullshit.

I use Pop_Os for a year now, (came from windows) Gaming is possible, (steam, blizzard, playstation emulator etc) works right out of the box with Nvidia. I even learned to use the terminal and some basic commands. I love it more every day as I learn ;)

I distro hopped a lot, passing by even tiling WMs and Arch. As I just want something stable, beautiful and functional, I can say that I haven't looked back in this 1 year I've been using Pop. Great video!

I chose POP! OS for my custom build, and was overall very content with it. The one issue I had with it (which I still have now on ArcoLinux) is my second monitor being black on startup.

Pop OS actually has a guide to install different desktop environments, such as XFCE and KDE. As a beginner I always preferred KDE when testing out different distros

I would like to try a KDE Plasma version tweaked by System 76 team. Pop_os is decent, but Gnome is a pain in the ass even with all the work they put in it.

I actually just switched to pop os last week and it's pretty amazing . I mainly use my laptop for school and coding random crap and so far getting used to Linux wasn't as hard as I thought. My laptop has really shit specs and I feel like it doesn't sound like a jet engine anymore.

(2:19) As an engineer who uses trigonometry and calculus on a daily basis, I can confirm that NVIDIA drivers are in a whole new level

Kinda strange to call it a review when you just load it for the first time to check in a VM.

I'm very impressed by the updates on pop os! The recent sudo vulnerability was patched on my oryx pro (system 76 laptop) before i even heard about it

I've been using Ubuntu for like a month and it's better than Windows but I feeling switching to Mint will make me get less criticism from the Linux community

I've been using linux for my daily driver since like 2008, I run manjaro as my main work PC and for my living room media center type PC I use Pop OS. I'm generally really impressed with what they've done with the desktop environment, the tiling windows are really nice and it's just generally a pleasure to use. Kind of a nice midway point between something like i3 and gnome.

Been using Pop as my daily for close to a year(came from Windows). I've been playing around with Linux for close to 20 years but Pop is the distro to convince me to make the leap permanently.

There's this 28yr old bug found on Linux kernel. Very important. Do a video about it

This Nvidia version is just awesome. It's literally the only distro that worked (almost) out of the box on my Lenovo Legion5. Other distros spammed with graphics related errors or didn't boot at all.

Thank you for the video. You did a good job of showing the basics of pop-shell's tiling and so on.

im a linux beginner, your videos actually got me into Linux, and i got my friend to help me to install Pop, and after a month of using it its really good!

LETS GOOOO HE LISTENED TO US THANK YOU SO MUCH

The tabbing thing is pretty neat. I was thinking about doing that myself.

Tbh u deserve more subs bro

"i think our desktop's taking a little while to load" "this looks an awful lot like GNOME" "isn't there supposed to be a side panel over here?" man uses only his preferred window manager for so long, he reveals he doesn't know how to use the most popular GNU/Linux desktop environment in existence

Thank you for this review. I'm getting one of the Pangolins when they come out and I haven't found any reasonable reviews of PopOS aside from yours yet.

Always had Macs in the house and at school as a kid, got my first PC in 8th and switching to Win10 was outstanding so much better for a light tinkerer like myself. Recently got a new pc and got it with Win10 by default. Ran for about 6mo on win before I started getting into Linux. Now I run Pop! on her and it’s like the same feeling all over again!

I put this on my tech boomer dad's old E Machines tower, upgraded with a dual core Phenom II, Radeon 7470 & 4GB of RAM for his gaming/emulating & pirate ship PC. He's never touched anything other than commodore, DOS & windows but loves POP OS & specifically said he liked the GNOME desktop. It runs fabulously on this hardware & is only limited by the old hard drive it's installed on.

Switched my primary laptop over to Pop, whilst dual booting Windows solely for the Visual Studio and C#/.NET work that I need to do. Took me a short few days, but I actually finished yesterday customizing Gnome to suite my preferences and functionality. Been happy with it so far, and it's kept me from going to a hackintosh, as well as distro-hopping for the past few months.

It just works when i want to and I can dig when I want to, tiling window manager is a plus too

I was looking into Pop Os just yesterday, what the hell lol, thanks for the vid man

Been waiting for this distro review for a hot minute

It's also great for laptops that use nvidia optimus switchable graphics, because it supports it OOB, and it's great for laptops in general, because has a lot of power management oriented features and optimizations. Sure, you can do these things in other distros, but the fact that Pop! comes with everything already set up for you is simply great!

You shall do helloSystem OS review. Maybe time to look out for BSD?

Hey Mr. MentalOutlaw, it's been a while for me since I've used Linux (played with Ubuntu mostly when I was younger) and to cut a long story short - My laptop has the Intel ax200 wireless card, which was posing problems for me on Ubuntu Mate, ElementaryOS and can't remember the 3rd one I've tried. Have you perhaps encountered this problem, and if so, could you point me in the right direction to try and get this working properly as my speeds are abhorrent by default? I did find some guides which sped things up a bit, but still, much slower WiFI than on WIndows which made me use abandon the Linux idea even though I'd like to use this machine with Linux. Many thanks for the consideration and for the quality and interesting content, cheers! P.S. another issue was that this laptop is passively cooled (no fans at all) and was getting quite hot during use, which was even more concerning than the WiFi issue.

Been using Pop!_OS since I switched from Windows 10. I really like the built in tiling feature and keyboard shortcuts. Perfect for Normies like me.

pop os is the only distro that fixed some annoying bugs with my lenovo laptop (mainly backlight issues)

i think i'd be really into pop os if they offered it with different desktop environments out of the box.

Also, the system76-power rust cli application is a nice perk to have. Seamless hybrid graphics administration. Oh, and the Pop! Shop lets you chose between deb and flatpak when the former is available. Easy flatpak support OOTB.

Gnome added a half decent tiling WM? I would have loved that before I jumped off the tiling WM deep end, that's pretty neat.

Love your videos...always watch them What do you think of manjaro gnome? Our school kinda forcing us to use it

What are you doing your doctorate from? Installing Nvidia drivers on linux.

Hey look, it's the distro i'm using! how fun.

I like to install OS's....makes me feel like a geek when needed.

for you windows folk (or people who just don't like the taskbar in popos) I've personally enjoyed using the gnome extension dash to panel.

Unix isn't a religion, but Linux sure is btw i use arch

Cambridge eh? Can't wait to see you on the T. Mental Outlaw meetup when?

Good content. Liked and I will definitely be checking out what else you have made.

Love pop from boot to installed within 20 mins, only extension I need for gnome is a transparent top bar. If they could do a fedora style btrfs setup with grub sync I'd be set. If your coming from Windows slap dash to panel through gnome extensions or just embrace the dark side

Dude, did you record the audio inside a wind tunnel?

Yeah, the set up prompts for PopOS looks dope.

Also good for more experienced users too. I switched from Deb 11 to Pop 22.04 due to constant issues with kernel and Nvidia driver modules since my rig is 50/50 work game device.. Also love the tile mode. Basically use that 24/7

Early gang

Pop OS is awesome. Unlike other GNU/Linux distro is very stable, reliable and very polished Linux distro. 20.04 version has 5 years support. After install POP OS is just working out of the box if you are beginner, or you can change it as you want. In my opinion Pop OS for beginners is little hard in use than Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is also a great GNU/Linux.

Will it work well on a dual core laptop with 2Gb or RAM? Could you switch to MATE for the D.E.?

I switched to Linux a few months ago. Pop was what I close because of prompted drive encryption and because it worked with Nvidia, Steam, and flathub (plus the guides at the time). I still you use, miss being a more advanced user just because if goes nice it is and I’m planning on buying one of their laptops.

Love your videos man

The nividia driver option is pretty good, considering that it even handles hybrid graphics (on laptops for example)

hey, could you do a more in-depth technical review of this OS? i'm interested in your opinion!

I have the System76 Gazelle 15, came with POP_OS and it's solid laptop too.

I use Pop just because it feels like it's made for my Notebook, my Intel and NVIDIA Cards work at the same time, the Dell Firmware is automaticly installed, everything is very smooth and I also like Gnome I am not really a Noob, I do many things in the Terminal but I also prefer a GUI for many things and I was comming from Windows to Gnome and for me it wasn't too confusing

I wonder if he'll go back to it when Cosmic is done

It's pretty good. It comes with a dock with cosmic now, has better tiling, so now there's no reason to use ubuntu, popOS is better in almost every way. I think the coolest thing about it is no snaps, simple packages that are curated in the popshop. It's designed to be the easiest experience possible. The drivers and gaming experience has always been great, good drivers otb. The setup without making a user is really cool for normies when you give them a USB stick.

I have a system76 laptop and run popos on it and on my desktop when I’m not on windows. It is by far my favorite distro with a ui, it really just works. So easy to setup, run and install things. It’s also what I would recommend to Linux noobs for the same reason.

When are you trying Tromjaro?

The coolest feature is actually hybrid gpu mode for intel+discrete laptops

More Gentoo videos. Tweaking, securing etc. Also qubes?

Why is there no minimize / maximize button by default? Window management seems terrible without such basic options. Far from a beginner distro if you expect people to remember key combinations to switch windows and terminal commands to get a task manager that too without a GUI.

I recently installed Pop on my laptop in dual-boot with Windows 10. Decided to try it when I saw it has support for dual GPUs and fractional scaling (actually a Gnome feature I believe?) I came from Elementary OS, and while the UI is good (Gnome too IIRC), it makes my laptop run hot and videos are a stutterfest. It might be using the dedicated GPU by default. And the display on my laptop screen is either too small or too big. I might be staying on Pop for a while.

Yeah, I used pop os for about 3months, it is very nice and friendly, I like it .

Absolutely fell in love with the customization and included software/gestures. Unfortunately, the installer immediately closes after selecting my language and install disk. Maybe when I upgrade laptops, I'll try again

I've heard so much about Ubuntu being not that private and free etc What is there exactly like that? May be there's a paper or some compilation of information about this?

Missed out on the mouse tiling feature released last week

Recently started binging alot of your videos. I'll be installing arch soon. My NAS is running TrueNAS and I was wondering if you could help me find a way to run MineOS in a jail

What are the advantages of using more not so beginner friendly distros

i installed this yesterday its messing up my computer with those "advanced recovery" things (and they give me heart attack thinking my computer is screwed) but i love this os, its really fast, and it works really well. the interface is different, but i got used to it really quickly i hope i will be able to get used to linux soon and one day remove windows tbh the only reason why i still use windows is because of windows only software id like to imagine an alternate universe where everything can be used in linux

@Mental Outlaw What do i have to do to be part of the cool kids?

I don't use PopOS but do use the gnome shell extension which is really nice. In my opinion the best way to get tiling in gnome

what is his distro mint? and if yes what de do you use?

I never had problems installing nvidia drivers in linux, neither in Ubuntu, Pop OS or Arch

Linux noob here, fooled about with PopOS via a thumb drive demo, but it and all linux distros refuse to connect to my router, kinda curious how to do it from the command line in case that works any better.

the window tilling feature is what makes me their loyal client

Pop really is the best for Nviida, especially if you have a new laptop or something. Out of the box: -Proprietary drivers installed right away on live boot so you can see if it's all working -Steam games have no screen tearing on first launch (provided you install Proton, Gamemode, Wine, etc all in the Pop Shop). . -Pop forces a composition pipeline for the GPU (helpful for switchable GPUs). *provided you're in the Pop DE* -Even if the above isn't working for some reason, Nvidia XServerSettings is installed by default -A bunch more under the hood things i'm not smart enough to explain

how did you record the screen when installing pop os?

16:15 I never knew I could do that. Omfg I missed this feature so much on windows (not native ofc) . Can we do this on KDE?

thank you for the video!

Is there no dock at the bottom cuz of a scaling issue?

since when did you begin to use linux mint?

Can you please review Garuda Linux from the perspectives of usability, sustainability and security? Would love to hear from you.

Maybe do a first impressions/review video for Manjaro or Qubes OS if you haven't already

The lag you had I have experienced many times installing on the VMs I think the install dialog next button is of the screen, you need to expand the resolution which it looks like you did, I think its a bug with the installer and Virtual Box.

I feel Gnome is not for new users. Weird why everyone is dumping Evolution as the default mail client. Is there any security risk or major bug or something with evolution? Just curious.

dont you need a google account to upload video to youtube?

How could you choose the default keyboard layout over Cherokee? It was right there!