[rg111]

It was all shiny and nice until I started using it.

I stopped using Pop OS. I am using Linux Mint and I am very happy with it.

The main problem of the OS was its very poor power management. With Kubuntu/Mint, I get about 5.5 hours of battery backup from my laptop and when using Pop, I barely got 3. Yes, I get more than two hours more from using Kubuntu/Mint rather than Pop.

The wifi was problematic. I tried common fixes and they did not work. Internet was (testedly) slow always compared to other devices on the same network.

These are the main reasons why I decided to leave Pop OS. And then there are those problems which you get from using Linux distros in everyday life. They existed for Pop. This sounds vague. But things go wrong often. Regular Linux users will know.

Another major issue I must mention is freezing and outright crashing when the Pop Shop is launched. Installing something new was a costly endeavour. It was also a key factor in my decision to leave PopOS.

I have found Linux Mint to be the most usable, lowest maintenance distro out there (Arch requiring the highest maintenance). But I wanted my personal machine to look nice, so I tried Kubuntu, and I like it. I am not going back to Pop.

So it's Ubuntu (workstation) + Kubuntu / Mint (personal laptop) for me.

[Filligree]

> The main problem of the OS was its very poor power management. With Kubuntu/Mint, I get about 5.5 hours of battery backup from my laptop and when using Pop, I barely got 3. Yes, I get more than two hours more from using Kubuntu/Mint rather than Pop.

I had the same experience. However, is your laptop a dual-GPU model? System76 enables hybrid graphics by default; most other distributions don't, and that can account for a significant power draw.

[rg111]

The laptop in discussion does not have even a single GPU.

[aaomidi]

You mean you were software rendering everything? Or there was an igpu?

[rg111]

There was an igpu, of course. I didn't think to mention it because I thought it was a given. My bad.

[notwhereyouare]

so, I use PopOS and only really have 1 of those issues. My wifi will randomly not work coming out of sleep, but a disconnect and reconnect fixes that issue.

I do have 1 issue that I didn't see you mention, the trackpad will randomly not work. I have to put the computer back to sleep and re-wake it up and it works.

[lugged]

You seem to be confused, Linux doesn't have the problems you think it does. Im a daily Linux user and don't have these problems you're suggesting.

Have you made a bug report?

[rg111]

Sometimes I do.

With the previous Kubuntu installation, the VLC wouldn't fully close.

It would show up in the list of processes and also in the tray.

Turned out it was a common bug and I had to manually kill the process using flag -9.

It got fixed in the current version.

There are small problems rampant with desktop Linux distros that get in your way.

I have been using Linux as my daily driver since four years ago.

[pxc]

I get being reflexively defensive of what seem to be secondhand opinions, but denialism like GP's is not helpful to anyone, including the desktop Linux community as a whole. :(

[lugged]

It's not denialism.. he's referring to Linux when he means to refer to specific software.

You can try and compare apple to Linux like that if you want but it's like complaining it's apples fault for docker on Mac sucking.