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Why shouldn't we use popos? Just curious…
You can realistically use whatever you want. But if you want a stable out of the box experience, choosing an OS that is in a beta testing phase of a new desktop environment, might lead to a less than optimal experience.
The LTS releases should not have that DE just yet, right?
Yes but he didn't choose that.
He did grab the lts
You are right. I assumed they wouldn't test a new DE in an LTS version, but they, in fact, do that.
Yeah I was pretty shocked they were shipping it LTS with no warning or disclaimer
Yeah, I agree. Popos` new DE is bad…
Isn't popos just Ubuntu with more eyecandy?
And preinstalled nvidea drivers (if you get that version)
It used to be, and is still based on Ubuntu the same way as Mint is. Their Cosmic DE used to be a tweaked Gnome, but the current Cosmic iteration is a ground up developed DE done in Rust. It has a lot of promise, but their v1 is basically still beta quality with lots of bugs.
Not as i'm aware of it. It's clearly an Ubuntu branch, but they did other things to it. I don't an expert 😅
And imo popos is still better than Microslop.
Well that ain't hard to achieve :)
absolutely :)