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Re:Pop OS – System76 by jeppester on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:02AM (#28902688)
This comment seems rather disingenuous. PopOs is meant to run on System 76 machines, and this person installed it on a Dell XPS.

Do you expect to run OS X on just about any machine and not have any issues?

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Re:Pop OS – System76 by sudhirj on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:08AM (#28902715)
PopOS is marketed as a general purpose distro, same as Ubuntu. Made by System76, but don't think they're claiming it doesn't work anywhere else.

They're under no obligation to test it on Dell machines, of course. The community should be doing that.

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Re:Pop OS – System76 by arc-in-space on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:27AM (#28903077)
Yeah, but I think jeppester also hits on a wider, and valid, point: OS X has got it easier, only needing to provide very limited hardware support.
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Re:Pop OS – System76 by sudhirj on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:11AM (#28906214)
Relatively, yes. They've now managed to support double digit configs across two CPU architectures, so from a throwing-stones-at-the-QA-team point of view it is a lot of work.

Definitely don't think System76 has that big a QA team, though, will have to be community supported as well.

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