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26 Pop!_OS Reviews
4.5 out of 5
26 Pop!_OS Reviews
4.5 out of 5

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Pedro Andres R.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

Stable, based on Debian and the theming is awesome. Ease of Installation. Use it everyday, its my daily driver. Linux Desktop is getting better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

Lately, its taking to long to come out with the Cosmic Desktop and an update based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aryan C.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

Being a unix OS its great for my devops tasks that i do daily at my job, its fast and support old hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

requires a lot configuration for first time setup else its great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sajid B.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

I appreciate Pop!_OS for its seamless support of Nvidia drivers. Unlike many other distributions I've tried, which often made configuring drivers a hassle, Pop!_OS simplifies the process. Additionally, I value its tiling window manager features for their user-friendliness and configurability, which significantly enhances my workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

Nothing too serious, but I've noticed that either my system or Pop!_OS itself takes a bit longer to boot up. Additionally, unlike some other operating systems, Pop!_OS doesn't have a booting logo by default. Moreover, I've encountered some slow scrolling issues in Neovim and VSCode, particularly when using different window managers like i3wm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muneeb M.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

POP OS excels in GPU support, a lifeline for deep learning tasks. It effortlessly works with NVIDIA drivers and CUDA, making it a dream for those, like me, who rely heavily on GPUs for speedy model training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

POP OS although based on Ubuntu, has a somewhat limited software repository. Occasionally, I've had to go on a scavenger hunt for less common machine learning packages or tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit J.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

Its based on linux kernel and it give more control. I like it Simple UI and light weight. It highly inspired from MintOS and Ubuntu.

I work almost all old system very smooth whereas other os leggy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

PopOS UX is not good. Animations are poor may be for incresing speed. All other are good. No complain.

Thanks you PopOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

Pop os was my first Linux distro that i took a liking to

First it was a bit cluttered and difficult to know all the commands that are used to maintaining this os but you become used to it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

Slow loading time for dual boot

no efi support

Bugs

Graphic driver bug that crashes the system

less accessibility to change ui

Doc type navigation bar

Frequent Crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brayan I.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

As a programmer, I find Pop os tilling a plus for me; being able to tile all open apps that I need to review simultaneously makes it easily accessible. and with the availability of a seperate ISO installer for NVIDIA is just amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

Linux distros have a terrible tendency to hang or crash when using dual monitors, and Pop os is just one of them; with a few workarounds, it works but still crashes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zhivko L.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

The integrations to online accounts, the driver support, the kernel flexibility and the gaming opportunity as sometimes its important to be able to chill on your favourite compute with that comfortable OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

The installation process is not so simple or not detailed enough. The functionalities during the installation should describe more the options we can choose, like the encryption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vignesh kumar D.
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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

Pop os is a one of the best Linux kernel systems. It gives a lot of benefits to interacting users GUI enhancement the performance and signing flexibility is easy to access terminal usages lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

The pop os gives lot of updation regarding firmare and os update if we are not updating it stops his help support to the user and it always popping the notification to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Pop!_OS?

The OS is based on Ubuntu and may be familiar to many people. Cosmic is very impressive and auto tiling is excellent. The main thing that makes POP! different from Ubuntu is the automatic updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pop!_OS?

Few customization features during the installation process. No VM images for faster installation. Some apps like Firefox takes a very long time to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.