I have no experience with Linux, but I’d like to give it a try. I’m looking at the System76 Meerkat and Thelio with the Pop!_OS option.

I don’t see myself gaming on it because I have a Windows machine for just that. I’d mostly be using it for learning Linux and doing basic things like web surfing and word processing (Libreoffice perhaps).

Any recommendations or advice? Thanks!

  • @constantokraEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Pop’s implementation of tiling is worth mentioning again. It’s incredibly intuitive, so if you fool with it for a few minutes you will get the hang of it, and you will almost definitely miss it if you turn it off, but you can turn it off so easily that even if you hate tiling it’s not a problem. The virtual desktop implementation is similarly polished and intuitive.

    I agree the pop shop is slow, but it’s also the most usable GUI app store i’ve seen in 25 years of using linux. I find myself frequently opting to use it instead of the CLI, and coming from me that’s high praise.

    • @zipsglacier@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Oh yeah, ease of switching between tiling and floating is another good point. And the “floating window exceptions” for the handful of applications I don’t want to tile (like the steam library) are easy to set up and work really well now.