[deanclatworthy]

Forgive me for asking, but what is different about this than Ubuntu 19.04? I looked through the POP!_OS (terrible name btw) promo page [1] and the majority of the things it's talking about are basic Gnome features shipped with Ubuntu?

[1] https://system76.com/pop

[tonysickpony]

That's a good question. Unfortunately I can't do System76 and Ubuntu guys justice here because I really don't know the work has been done in both distros.

From the user perspective, I would say smoother hardware integration (I download the ISO with NVIDIA proprietary drivers, haven't encountered any graphic card comparability problem), consistent theme across gtk and qt based applications , saner defaults and clearer setting structure, good keyboard shortcuts. There are merely less than a dozen shortcuts that are not found in Ubuntu, but very easy to get used to. like win + up/down to switch between workspace.

I know all these can be accomplished by extensions, add-ons and themes. But they do feel different when it is out of the box and carefully curated.

[bwat49]

https://github.com/pop-os/docs/blob/master/docs/difference-b...

[ekianjo]

mostly custom icon pack and the inclusion of nvidia drivers by default. Seems to work out of the box with laptops with nvidia cards

[pknopf]

It doesn't really add anything.

It does however, break things.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/503481/why-does-apt...

I would steer clear of it unless it actually provides anything other than a default nvidia setup.