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#270431 9-May-2020 16:53
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I have installed the latest POP!  OS release on one of my lap tops and I am very impressed. It is a clean install and is working very well indeed with no glitches to date. I like the packages included and the overall theme is very pleasing to the eye. There is a good dark mode available. Even the cartoon wallpapers are pleasing to the eye and the install animations are great and a very cool break from the typical boring OS install graphics.

 

I am getting excellent battery life, no thermal issues and the overall speed of the OS is very good. The operating system does its job as it should and in not all up in ones face and that is precisely how an OS should be.

 

When I first tried Pop! OS about three years ago I was not very impressed and frankly I found it annoying, odd I know but it just did not work for me, however, this new release is streets ahead and is in my opinion one of the best distributions I have tried.





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  #2479827 9-May-2020 16:58
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Essentially a +1 to all that you say.

 

I feel they have actually improved Ubuntu 20.04 which itself is a great release.




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  #2479829 9-May-2020 16:59
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nzkc:

 

Essentially a +1 to all that you say.

 

I feel they have actually improved Ubuntu 20.04 which itself is a great release.

 

 

I agree even the Software Store is a huge improvement





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  #2479834 9-May-2020 17:06
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A couple of screen shots from my install. Still working on the final look

 

 

 

 





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  #2479843 9-May-2020 17:38
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You mentioned excellent battery life, what laptop model did you install it on?

 

 


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  #2479855 9-May-2020 17:52
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I installed on one of two Dell Inspirons laptops I have kicking around. This install is on a aging Dell 15"  laptop with an mediocre Intel® Core™ i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4. From memory its a 7000 series. Has a 250GB SSD and 16 GB Ram. I am getting around six and half hours which is not bad from a four year plus unit.





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  #2479967 9-May-2020 21:29
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From screenshots the same buggy appindicator extention like in Ubuntu 20.04.

Battery life was greatly improved since kernel 4.17 regardless of distro, about 10-15% boost. It was great even on Ubuntu 18.04.

 
 
 
 

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  #2481697 12-May-2020 09:34
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Any ideas how to fix the App naming overflow e.g libreoffice.....

A small thing but irritating like that annoy nose itch when ever one starts carrying something with both hands




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  #2482829 13-May-2020 15:14
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No way to fix. There was a gnome-shell extension to show tooltips with full app names. Also there was a patch to gnome-shell, but I doubt you'd like to build gnome-shell from sources.


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  #2482833 13-May-2020 15:30
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@qwerty123 thanks for that. It is not that irritating that I would want to go to those lengths. I will just live with irritation my life is to busy to sweat the little things.





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  #2483728 14-May-2020 13:05
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Unfortunately Pop!_OS does not allow you to use ZFS on root.

 

 

 

Ubuntu 20.04 does, but then it doesn't give you the encryption option.


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