I think silverblue is still better if ubuntu doesn’t have immutability just yet.
Silverblue feels appropriate for intel/radeon graphics. But because of the need for 3rd party repository, thus breaking the “atomicity” in principle, Nvidia feels better on the regular Fedora.
ohhhh I have to think about this, thank you!
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This does not break atomicity, it simply means that updates and other changes will take longer to apply. The process itself is still atomic.
makes sense
Because their line ups are NVIDIA only, which don’t work well under Wayland (until recently)?
So there’s nothing else that makes it not recommended? I can just enable Wayland and then use it?
It says it already uses Cosmic? Am I missing something?
Yes, they named their lightly tweaked version of gnome, Cosmic, before they decided to make their own Desktop Environment (also called Cosmic) that is the source of the confusion, (what you are reading is referring to the former, not to Cosmic the desktop environment).
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Pop OS doesn’t officially support Wayland (yet). If you enable Wayland, you may encounter bugs.
Also, the current release of Pop OS is based on Ubuntu 22.04, so you are stuck with some pretty old packages in the repos, which Privacy Guides recommends against.
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With the COSMIC release in late alpha now (and expected full release towards the end of Q1 2025), would it be worth beginning to recap whether it will live up to the requirements for being recommended?
I’d still hold off on actually recommending it until the stable release is out, but it seems that most of the issues in this thread are resolved in the COSMIC release.
Let’s just wait until it’s out, no need to rush anything.
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How the Cosmic release addresses been stuck with Ubuntu release cycles?
According to their documentation they do rolling releases:
Pop!_OS is built from Ubuntu repositories, meaning you get the same access to software as Ubuntu. Based on both user feedback and in-house testing, we continue to make changes and updates to the operating system for quality-of-life improvements. The best part is, updates are kept on a rolling release cycle, so you don’t have to wait around 6 months for bug fixes or improvements to your OS. [1]
I’m not positive that what they are picturing as rolling release security and bugs fixes updates is what we are really looking. Also, personally I’d not install a distro that requests to disable secure boot to install it properly.
This is quite exciting to see things are closer for general acceptance with pop os.
I’ve been testing it out for almost a year now for a year to see if there is finally a Linux version that I can successfully move my family to and from the stuff all my nontech family cares about so seeing that the main concerns brought up here may be adressed shortly is great.
PopOS has a very outdated veesion of gnome which does not support the lates security features of wayland unlike latest gnome versions.
Not to worry, we’re not discussing the 22.04 LTS, but the future 24.04 release with COSMIC, which does support and defaults to Wayland.