<div dir="ltr"><div>Well I just popped Pop into a VM (see what I did there?).. so far so good, actually. Worth investigating more...</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 14:53, Jason Eckert <<a href="mailto:jason.eckert@gmail.com">jason.eckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've never had the patience to watch those videos. <div>I just experimented with it in a VM for a few hours before deciding that it was the best thing since systemd (um, I mean sliced bread).</div><div>However, I did exactly that - my Mac Pro tube (late 2013) with 128GB DDR3 now runs Pop!_OS natively instead of macOS, and it's one heck of an awesome upgrade in my opinion.</div><div>Running Linux natively is more appropriate for my development needs (which require a lot of containers and VMs), but the main reason I switched was the desktop experience, actually.</div><div>The performance of my setup with Pop!_OS has also increased tremendously, which also means the hardware will be useful to me for much longer as well!</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jason.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:40 PM Chamunks <<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've really liked the new Gnome experience I just wonder if it's anywhere near as smooth as I want it to be. Are there any reasonable videos to watch online to showcase the OS that isn't like 3 hours of someone dragging us through the mud in a monotone voice like most early tech demo videos?<br><br>I really like the idea of a responsive and useful desktop experience with Linux I really want to cut and run from OS X as soon as someone else does a better job.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:05 PM Jason Eckert <<a href="mailto:jason.eckert@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.eckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://system76.com/pop" target="_blank">https://system76.com/pop</a><br></div><div><br></div>Someone with a System76 laptop at UW gave me a demo and got me hooked.<div><br></div><div>I've since made it my main OS after spending a week migrating all of my developer configuration. It's Ubuntu 18, but modified to a very granular level with an incredibly large number of clever enhancements for productivity, many of which aren't available anywhere else. <br><div><br></div><div>It's the first Linux that truly could replace any other OS for any user in my opinion (basic users, power users, hardcore Linux nerds, etc.). </div><div><br></div></div><div>It's like crack - you'll probably get hooked. </div><div>The good news is that the first hit is free (as are all other hits because it's FLOSS).</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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