pop linux reviewed on distrowatch
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20180528 By a strange coincidence the Sys 76 Linux version gets a look over this week on Distrowatch about the same time as our last meeting. A range of interesting comments amidst the dross. ~ Ian Y
On Wed, 30 May 2018 09:29:20 +0000, Ian Young wrote:
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20180528
By a strange coincidence the Sys 76 Linux version gets a look over this week on Distrowatch about the same time as our last meeting.
That’s the first I heard of systemd-boot. I presume that, by being UEFI-only, it can be a bit slimmer than GRUB. In any case, by making my Gazelle laptop dual-boot, it is now using GRUB anyway. But yes, when I first got it, it would boot immediately, without showing any boot menu. I had to find this support page <https://support.system76.com/articles/boot-menu/> to figure out how to boot off a USB stick.
RE System76 - Lawence wrote...
But yes, when I first got it, it would boot immediately, without showing any boot menu.
From my recollection...
If I have a single partition drive with Ubuntu on it, then on power on I won't get a grub menu. Pressing the shift key after power-on should invoke the grub menu. (...but not always<https://askubuntu.com/questions/668049/grub-menu-at-boot-time-holding-shift-not-working>) If I add a second partition and place ubuntu onto it, then on power on I will always get the grub menu. The grub menu will default to booting the second partition as that was the most recent partition installed. i.e. It was the partition that last ran the grub-mkconfig utility. Some links; here, here<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-boot> and here<https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/7nfsrb/systemdboot_advantages_over_grub2/> to gummiboot, an open-source boot manager, now the systemd-boot component of systemd. cheers, Ian.
On Wed, 30 May 2018 09:29:20 +0000, Ian Young wrote:
A range of interesting comments amidst the dross.
You have to wonder about something like this: Pros: The name has the letters OS in it, conveying that it is an operating system. I am a big advocate of straightforward, clear nomenclature. Cons: The "Pop!" sounds frivolous and juvenile, not something that a serious, grown-up user should trust as a "daily driver", especially for important data such as finances, health, etc. It nowhere uses important terms like Linux, GNU, open, free or libre. More here <https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ratings&distro=popos>.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro