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[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community.

How does the community here feel about this distribution and the company that has brought it to us? How do you feel about the projects that they’re working on, and their goals for the distribution moving forward?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

During the install it had already messed with the hard drive partitions in order to run the live environment, which is a big no-no for me.

WHAA??‽!!

Ok, I’ve been dealing with this distribution for close to a decade and I’ve installed it on over a dozen machines of all sorts of configurations. I’ve never heard of this. I’m very curious as to hooooow this happened.

From all of my experience and everything I know, this absolutely should not have happened and could only be the result of some sort of mistake or bug or some usual circumstance. This is not the typical or normal experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah just tried it again now.

I deleted the partition again first, then when I got to the installer, it had created a new 50GB partition and mounted /var/crash and /var/log which can't be unmounted (tried force unmount and all that jazz)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I once had a installer crash and wipe my drive in the process.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Like, as a bug, right? Not as SOP?

I mean, I get that - as a rare occurrence - shit can go wrong. I wouldn’t blame openSUSE (for example) if that happened during an install. I’d just assume it was a bug and that I was having a shitty day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It was some new distro that I forgot everything else about. It was very new so it problems were to be expected. I just didn't expect it to wipe out my disk. I was trying to dual boot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I get where you’re coming from, it just blows my mind that you encountered this outrageously rare problem that must certainly have been a bug.

You must understand, this was not intended behavior, nor should this ever have happened. I’m very sorry for your experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That was many years ago back when Linux was the new kid on the block

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Popos has only been around for 6 1/2 years. Linux has been around since the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't Pop OS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, sorry, I missed that, lol