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Pop_OS 21.10 has landed

by dmytton on 12/14/21, 5:20 PM with 27 comments

  • by nopenopenopeno on 12/15/21, 6:45 AM

    I stopped using Pop_OS because it breaks compatibility with nvidia-docker, which I use for tensorflow, and the devs say this doesn’t matter because they made their own project for running tensorflow in docker. Their project is called “tensorman” and it’s a complete joke.
  • by mikey_1 on 12/15/21, 2:06 AM

    I've been running this on my ThinkPad P1 for a couple of years now without fail. I like that I have the ability to be able to easily switch between discrete and integrated graphics and download and update ThinkPad firmware. I assume Ubuntu has these features now, but I'm not really sure as I haven't touched it in a long time.

    Initially I had issues specific to my P1 regarding external monitors and switching between graphics modes, but I likely would've experienced these issues with whatever distro I used, and they've since been addressed.

    The only thing that irritates me now is that the Pop Shop app occasionally blocks apt because it's running update in the background. And the app can become laggy if you're doing too much with it at once.

    Overall PopOS just does what is says on the box and with minimal need to configure it. It's currently my preferred distro for modern laptops.

  • by xmunoz on 12/14/21, 9:38 PM

    I have a system76 laptop and love using Pop_OS. Granted, I spend most of my day in the terminal, but the driver support for bluetooth and wifi are really good and work out of the box. Think Ubuntu, but less bloated.
  • by moondev on 12/14/21, 9:41 PM

    Disappointed the arm release is raspberry pi specific and not a standard uefi aarch64 iso installer. Upstream Ubuntu releases these and they work great for esxi arm edition.
  • by chrstphrknwtn on 12/14/21, 8:46 PM

    Would be nice if the blog post included screenshots big enough to actually see what it looks like.
  • by rPlayer6554 on 12/15/21, 6:27 AM

    > We now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users.

    Doesn't that eliminate a lot of software options? Just curious, I haven't used Linux or Ubuntu in a while so things could have changed or I might be misunderstanding something

  • by MichaelRazum on 12/14/21, 10:54 PM

    What is exactly the benefit of Pop_OS compared to Ubuntu? I mean installed drivers are great, but that was basically only one apt install command and a reboot.