My main question is, can i get a good image preview with the file picker
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Can you elaborate on what features of pop os work better for you than Linux mint?
Bluetooth immediately worked, no need to mess with configurations
Nvidia drivers worked immediately
Those are the two main ones, but there were some other small annoyances that I haven't had to deal with in pop.
Mint is great, and we'll see how I like pop after using it for more than a day. Liking it alot so far.
Pop has some excellent driver support 😃
Yeah I'm noticing that now :)
Lol just tried it yesterday and had the opposite experience. After a day moved to edevouros and loving that. But that's the life of a Linux user. 🤣
It has a toggelable tile window manager
Still trying to get used to the auto. It seems great, but sometimes a little annoying, but it's because I'm not used to it.
I am used to and love a keyboard driven set up, so Pop's native auto tiling is a comfortable fit. Originally based on i3WM it was a perfect swap and I've not looked back all these years.
Many things people will say about Pop are related to aesthetics, but Pop's real power and reason to use lay deep in the system. Pop has the reliability of Debian and the utilities of Ubuntu, but Pop's devs strip out anything from upstream that is not in the average user interests, or not in alignment with open source principles. They often rewrite entire system components in a memory safe code language called Rust. So the things they remove make it more user friendly and less creepy corporate crap. Telemetry, Snaps backend and Ubuntu Pro are three examples that come to mind.
Pop's devs are constantly investigating ways to optimize and tweak the system for better performance. Many of these tweaks and System76 software have been accepted upstream being high quality code and improving things significantly.
Pop is NOT Ubuntu or some reskin or basic fork of it. Ubuntu ISO is now a whopping 6GB+ where Pop is under 3GB. So much bloat is removed. And one of Pop's most important features is the fact it is created as an OEM operating system for hardware sales. System76 NEED a stable working OS at all times and Pop's devs are on the ball. They have consistently demonstrated that they are able to keep security at a maximum while maintaining usability.
Thanks for the reply. This was a lot of good info
Glad to hear it! I saw your post on Mint and was a bit surprised, but I'm glad Pop_OS is working well!
Thanks!