I was initially waiting for Windows 10 to be officially unsupported before I switched to Pop_OS, but today, I just got sick of looking at the Windows 10 UI and decided to jump the gun.
As a complete normie, I am so glad I didn’t fuck up my computer because my laptops settings to get into the BIOS was completely different than how most videos instructed.
I’ve been playing around with it for a bit, and I most say that using this distro is a lot easier than I expected! The Pop Store is a lifesaver! I’m not sure if I could’ve made it if I had to manually install my browser and all that.
I feel like my laptop is now a bit slower and the graphics look a bit lower? Maybe I missed something when reading the rec specs. Oh well…
Fedora or Ubuntu is best distro for newbies in my opinion. They are the most like windows, and in my opinion the most stable.
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Congrats!
As a quality of life upgrade, I’d recommended downloading the COSMIC app store. It’s still made by the developers of Pop!, but is significantly better than the Pop Shop.
One of us! One of us!
Different desktop environments have different speeds for graphics.
Pop-os is currently making one in-progress so you might be essentally using an unreleased DE for developers to test and optimize?
You can install some other ones and switch to them from login-screen to test their speed. Tiling window managers blew my mind when I first saw them.
Check out unixporn they have lots of WM/DE setups over there. i3/sway for instant and efficient work or hyperland for lots of animations etc. KDE is practically windows but improved.
Tho might also be pop-os being made for new computers.
Love to see you have Pixelorama down there.
Can you link that wallpaper? It’s amazing!
Closest to original:
https://moegirl.uk/File:What's_up_Pop!曲绘.jpg
Closest to OP’s pic:
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1938004#osu/4071504
Look for “What’s up? Pop!”.
I’m glad someone got the reference for my wallpaper -
For newbie i would KDE neon or LinuxMint cinnamon. PopOS environment is still not stable
KDE Neon? Why would you recommend that to a newbie?
I think you might enjoy the company over at unixporn
doesnt my link work?
In my client, it opens as a page in an embedded browser instead of just opening the community
The link does work, but it isn’t the preferred way to link to communities in lemmy.
Instance agnostic links look like this:
!<comm name>@<instance.tld>For users:
@<user name>@<instance.tld>The problem with linking to comms like the way you did is that it won’t be opened in the user’s instance (unless they use some client that does support resolving it).
oh okay, didnt know, thanks
One of us! One of us!
Sorry to break it to you, but going off your wallpaper, you’re in fact not ‘a complete normie’
You do you tho
Lmao
I was referring to how I have never used anything out of Windows and have only seem a BIOS screen when I called HP for tech support. I guess having a Miku wallpaper made nobody think that was the case lol.
a complete normie
a total non-entity
(somebody with that wallpaper might get the reference)
I also just switched last weekend! My city was hosting an install fest, made it very easy
I heard about this on Lemmy a couple weeks ago. I’m so jealous, I wish my city would host something similar.
if by lower graphics, do you mean fonts and such are larger or your resolution is off?
if so you might have window scaling at 150% or 200%. this has happened to me with GNOME in the past. it might be worth checking your display settings.
I use KDE at 150% and it looks great. I’m glad Wayland and KDE have gotten fractional scaling to the point where it’s working well. The last major bug I was following was https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479891 but that was fixed in KDE Frameworks 6.9.
sure. i’m not saying fractional scaling looks bad but if they came from no scaling, suddenly having scaling can be a little jarring and can feel like a “lower” resolution. i regularly run fractional scaling in GNOME and it looks just fine. it’s a pretty solved problem at this point for the major desktop environments.
Have fun!
Waow (Based Based Based)
Welcome to your new life! It’s nice having such a lightweight OS that isn’t constantly trying to send your data to every advertiser on earth. I love the peace of mind. Pop_OS is a good choice too! Even as someone that has been using Linux for years, I still go for the it-just-works-out-of-the-box distros.
Thanks! I’m so happy I’m free of seeing Copilot, Cortana, or Bing results each time I try to search for something on my computer its very refreshing.
AI should be an add-on, not built in. Microsoft is constantly bulldozing their AI product into Windows. I always hated that.
Gnome is introducing embedded AI but that is an actual add-on despite the AI hate. So there’s nothing to hate about gnome giving features to the users who do want to embed AI.
