Switched To Linux

Minstadave · 10 Apr 2019 at 19:24

wiiija said:
I can't recommend PopOS enough if you like gnome, it's the first distro that has stopped me hopping constantly, totally solid and visually lovely.

Nice review of PopOS briefly on Linus Tech Tips today. Looks good!

wiiija · 10 Apr 2019 at 20:26

Cool, you got a link to that @Minstadave just out of interest

Minstadave · 10 Apr 2019 at 20:42

wiiija said:
Cool, you got a link to that @Minstadave just out of interest

https://youtu.be/Co6FePZoNgE

wiiija · 10 Apr 2019 at 21:06

Minstadave said:
https://youtu.be/Co6FePZoNgE

Thanks a lot

stuie · 11 Apr 2019 at 08:22

I'd probbly got to suse leap. Its what we use at work so would be logical to play with that

alexakasloth · 11 Apr 2019 at 13:27

Minstadave said:
Nice review of PopOS briefly on Linus Tech Tips today. Looks good!

The one for linux gaming? It's made me want to try PopOS, wasn't a huge fan of Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome, and Mint has been nicer to run on my laptop.

[edit] Just saw what you posted a few replies up...

Minstadave · 11 Apr 2019 at 13:39

alexakasloth said:
The one for linux gaming? It's made me want to try PopOS, wasn't a huge fan of Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome, and Mint has been nicer to run on my laptop.

[edit] Just saw what you posted a few replies up...

Yup that's the one. Looks pretty slick. Think I'll try a live image and give it a spin.

SupraWez · 11 Apr 2019 at 19:26

For those that spend a lot of time in consoles I recommend Tilix, been using on Ubuntu Mate and it's great

For documents and coding Sublime

Double07 · 13 Apr 2019 at 04:24

Minstadave said:
Nice review of PopOS briefly on Linus Tech Tips today. Looks good!

Yeah that was a pretty nice little video. Nice to see an accessible video on linux answering the most common question an average windows gamer might ask.

Narj · 13 Apr 2019 at 11:18

I've jumped ship to Ubuntu on my laptop. Much less hassle.

Double07 · 13 Apr 2019 at 18:01

wiiija said:
I can't recommend PopOS enough if you like gnome, it's the first distro that has stopped me hopping constantly, totally solid and visually lovely.

I downloaded the PopOS ISO to give it a bash, and made a bootable USB with it in Rufus. Disconnected my windows drive for ease. Rebooted and choose the USB, it starts a load of command line stuff and looks like its booting the installer but then the screen just goes black and nothing. Ill fart about with it more later on once Ive finished the stuff I need to get done before I can have another go.

Narj · 13 Apr 2019 at 22:33

wiiija said:
I can't recommend PopOS enough if you like gnome, it's the first distro that has stopped me hopping constantly, totally solid and visually lovely.

I've managed to get everything looking pretty and as I want it in Ubuntu but may give this a try as well.

emu · 15 Apr 2019 at 16:15

wiiija said:
I can't recommend PopOS enough if you like gnome, it's the first distro that has stopped me hopping constantly, totally solid and visually lovely.

another vote here for pop os its fantastic

Steveocee · 28 Apr 2019 at 11:38

Just stick pop on my work laptop. Feels so much better than Ubuntu. My only issue we fixed by turning off the hidpi daemon.

Love the full drive encryption as standard.

Rainmaker · 28 Apr 2019 at 23:07

Double07 said:
I downloaded the PopOS ISO to give it a bash, and made a bootable USB with it in Rufus. Disconnected my windows drive for ease. Rebooted and choose the USB, it starts a load of command line stuff and looks like its booting the installer but then the screen just goes black and nothing. Ill fart about with it more later on once Ive finished the stuff I need to get done before I can have another go.

Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? That sounds like the Nvidia issue. Pop do two ISOs - an AMD/Intel one (open source drivers) and an Nvidia one with the proprietary Nvidia driver installed and working out of the box (even in the live USB). Worth double checking.

OP I've been using Linux and BSD in one form or another for about 15 years or so, and I now run it full time on all our machines (desktop and MacBook Pro). There's a fair bit to learn but you'll find it so much more refreshing, easy to work with (i.e. you have control and know where everything is if something breaks) and private/secure. Welcome to the club.

Double07 · 28 Apr 2019 at 23:29

Rainmaker said:
Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? That sounds like the Nvidia issue. Pop do two ISOs - an AMD/Intel one (open source drivers) and an Nvidia one with the proprietary Nvidia driver installed and working out of the box (even in the live USB). Worth double checking.

OP I've been using Linux and BSD in one form or another for about 15 years or so, and I now run it full time on all our machines (desktop and MacBook Pro). There's a fair bit to learn but you'll find it so much more refreshing, easy to work with (i.e. you have control and know where everything is if something breaks) and private/secure. Welcome to the club.

It was having two monitors connected that was an issue. Installed with one and then plugged other in. All fine.

maj · 1 May 2019 at 21:55

After hearing good things about Pop OS, I've just installed it onto a spare SSD I have to try it out. I'm trying to install Stream and Chrome via the store and both are sat at 'running' with the progress bar not moving and I have a circle spinning next to the search box. This normal behaviour? I've been sat for about 20 minutes now waiting for them both to install.

If I click cancel nothing happens.

wiiija · 1 May 2019 at 22:02

maj said:
After hearing good things about Pop OS, I've just installed it onto a spare SSD I have to try it out. I'm trying to install Stream and Chrome via the store and both are sat at 'running' with the progress bar not moving and I have a circle spinning next to the search box. This normal behaviour? I've been sat for about 20 minutes now waiting for them both to install.

If I click cancel nothing happens.

Sounds like its bugged out maj, kill the process and retry, I had no issues installing both.

maj · 1 May 2019 at 22:13

wiiija said:
Sounds like its bugged out maj, kill the process and retry, I had no issues installing both.

And here my learning curve with Linux begins. How will I do that? Terminal?

Should I be on the same IP as when I'm on Windows? I manually gave myself an IP on Windows 10 and Pop has assigned itself the same one too.

picnic · 2 May 2019 at 09:15

You can't have 2 devices with the same IP address. If you're assigning devices fixed IP addresses you should really do this via DHCP issuing them based on MAC or have a range of IPs you can use outside of the DHCP address pool.