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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by BoysenberryPi on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:49PM (#29132257)
I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there.
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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by nicolaslem on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:58PM (#29132325)
Without downplaying the work put on Pop_OS, anyone can start an Ubuntu derivative distro in a few hours. Writing a DE from scratch is something else entirely, Ubuntu famously tried and it went nowhere.
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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by BoysenberryPi on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:05PM (#29132374)
It is a completely different undertaking but my point is, I'm willing to give System76 credit here and wait and see how this plays out instead of jumping to cynical conclusions about how terrible this will be.
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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by Barrin92 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:04PM (#29132919)
>Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there.

among enthusiasts on the internet possibly, but in terms of real world usage it is ubuntu/debian/centos etc.. followed by a long list of nothing.

there's always a new distro for tinkerers but five years later you never hear of it again, and when you invest into building an entire Desktop Environment that's supposed to compete with Gnome or KDE you're probably looking at that timescale before it's even competitive.

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by tomnipotent on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:48PM (#29134566)
It's a gaming survey with mostly reddit users, so may be skewed.

https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-20...

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:52AM (#29171526)
ubu/debian/centos: do you mean desktop, or are you adding in servers?

those distos have undeniably won the server market.

But they also don't really care about the desktop market as a result.

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by xkcd-sucks on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:07PM (#29132392)
It seems Canonical can make even worse decisions - for me it was going all in on snap
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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by spaetzleesser on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:56PM (#29132303)
Is it helping their business though?
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