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First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Drops on August 8 - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How far is it to be daily drivable, in your opinion? Like, crazy far or just far?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have a few machines running Pop. It’s exceptionally good IMO. It’s like an extremely refined Ubuntu. It’s one of my fav distros.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is that your experience with the OS or cosmic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I use Pop!_OS on 2 machines daily with KDE Plasma and am happy with it. I use KDE Plasma because COSMIC is too GNOME-y for me. The only thing I liked better in COSMIC was the fractional scaling- that was way better than the options I have in KDE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I agree. Pop!_OS gets a lot of hate for some reason, but it's actually a really, really good distro.

I was asking about COSMIC though, since I'm really looking forward to try it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have not yet done any extensive reading on what exactly distinguishes cosmic from the general Gnome DE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has no relation with GNOME

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ok so I need to learn more about it. Thanks.