Pop!_OS

Reader supplied reviews for Pop!_OS Average rating 8.0 from 244 review(s) What are your thoughts on Pop!_OS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 24.04-alpha222.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.10 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 22.04 Rating: 7 Date: 2024-10-23 Votes: 3 Have not tried Pop OS is a while and was surprised to see it was still at 22.04 LTS. Not that I crave cutting edge Linux releases but I do find it sort of behind the times for even a LTS distro. Maybe its why I have seen Pop OS sort of fall in downloads. I think with so much happening in hardware I do want a OS to keep up with a more recent kernel and improvements. I especially find it strange since System 76 hardware offers a choice between Pop OS and Ubuntu which is now on 24.04. Still, I still find PopOS acceptable and stable dispite the lag in updating. But I am not sure about sticking with it when so many other distro's are updating faster. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-10-07 Votes: 0 I've been using some version of Pop!_OS for at least eight years and have found it to be reliable. I'm running it on a System76 Gazelle laptop that has an Intel Core i7-11800H 2.3 GHz processor, 16 Gbytes of memory, 1Tbyte SSD and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile graphics processor. The system and OS have been trouble free. Pop!_OS is my daily driver and I use it for everything. For example I use it with: OBS Studio for recording onscreen videos, Shotcut for video editing, Brave for web browsing, Betterbird for getting and writing emails, Lazarus/Free Pascal for RAD GUI development, GCC for coding console applications, GIMP for image editing, etc. I quit using MS-Windows over twelve years ago and I don't miss anything about Win-Doze. I keep one laptop, that currently has MS-Windows 10 on it, for cross development work (using Lazarus/Free Pascal) that I do for a charity organization that requires Windows compatible applications. I was a Win-Doze user since the 3.0 days and it took me a long time of trying Linux distros to finally bite the bullet and switch, mainly because it's taken Linux and its assorted applications many years to mature into something that's reliable and powerful enough to supplant Win-Doze. It has achieved that capability and capacity. I vote "YES" for Pop!_OS and I say goodbye Win-Doze I don't miss you one damned bit. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-09-16 Votes: 0 Using Pop!_OS since months. Working good on high resolution monitors under Wayland, very smooth. Has a good App store, but of curse you can install software via apt or from .deb files or via flatpak files directly. I like the menu of Pop!_OS which does not cover the whole display as it does the GNOME Menu and does not need 2 mouse clicks to open it as in default GNOME. I love the integration of the weather app and calender app into the date/time panel widget, so when you click on the date widget on the panel, you see the weather and all your apointments in calendar without having to open the calender app and weather app. The system apps like calendar, contacts have good nextcloud integration. If you don't like the default theme and icons as I do, it's not that difficult to change them, I just followed some guidelines on youtube and could install nice icons and change the theme of menu and the panel. Also what I love about Pop!_OS that it is made for multiple monitor usage, so if you open a program on the monitor B it will be minimized to the menu on the monitor B. If the mous coursor is currently on the monitor A and I hit the "super" key, the menu opens itself on the monitor A. So there are some very good designed and thougtfull concepts on Pop!_OS which I could not see on other distros. All the software I use no matter if e-mail client or music player are the newest versions, the kernel is also always updated reguralry. Pop!_OS became my daily driver system, and I am using it sinse months after trying different distros like zorin os (which is very good), mint, ubuntu, fedora, debian. For me Pop!_OS offers the best experience. I just needed an OS for office work, emails, movie streaming services, listening to high resolution music files, having regularly videocalls, programming, virtual box, reading eBooks, printing and scanning documents, youtube, online shopping on multi monitor system setup - and for that Pop!_OS works just fine. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 244 reader reviews of Pop!_OS...