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this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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I would suggest pop os instead. I can't remember all the specifics but when I used elementary, they ended up changing a lot of stuff in an upgrade that didn't float my boat.
What I do remember is that there is no system tray and the creators are philosophically very against having one (despite that still being a somewhat common design pattern that apps rely on), theming support got janky with the upgrade, and Nvidia support was not great.
Of course, Nvidia on Linux has a lot of issues all around but at the time I had one of those cards and pop os worked mostly fine despite that. I'm still on pop os due to what I perceived as a bad direction that elementary took back then. That was around 2021 iirc.
On the plus side, pop os is wonderful! It's like Ubuntu minus all the bad parts and plus a lot of good ones. It feels very fast and I don't really recall the last time I felt like I was fighting against it as a distro.
See, you kinda painted my mindset of why I made this post. Sometimes I felt like I was playing with eOS more than I was just using my computer apps. I was fighting to make sure they worked all the time.
Yeah I felt that way too sometimes. I've been using pop os for a couple years now and I'm quite happy with it
Yea seems to be a big go to for some. I'll be using my distro with an 1135g7 and 32gb ram. So anything I use shouldnt chug. I'm just concerned about performance on integrated graphics for proton purposes.