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I installed pop!_os as my daily driver some months ago (completely got rid of windows) and have thought it pretty good. But something about it seemed off - it would take programs just too long to open, it wasn't snappy... Once I got into something it seemed to run fine (playing dota or something else was fine after initial quirks).

Well, today, figured it out...

When I did the first install, I was very nervous about deleting all of my existing data on my disks and so tried to manually partition everything so that I could get it right (I think I was also planning to dual-boot).

Fast forward to today, and I'm testing speeds on all the drives to see which one to pitch for a new one I acquired. I see the 3 HDDs, but where is the SSD... Oh god, I installed the boot partition and root and home all onto one of the ~12 year old HDDs and the SSD has been sitting idle.

Anyway, just about done with the new fresh install onto the SSD, hopefully it isn't too hard to start port over the home directory from that HDD...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

When I installed pop! Os (on my ssd) it was laggy and a little glitchy, it's like the whole os would just freeze up sometimes. It really got on my nerves. I prefer nobara, it's so snappy and fast, everything just feels better than windows, and it's way more customizable. But there is definitely a higher learning curve and some small weird glitches you have to deal with so I wouldn't recommend it to someone without intermediate knowledge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Same experience. I really like PopOS, so much so that from my last Alienware I moved to a System76 Gazelle 16. But you're right, PopOS would just randomly lag for absolutely no reason (not often, but certainly in the worst possible moment). I tried for about a year on and off alternating with Fedora, no I've been exclusively (almost, with some distro-hopping here and there) for 2 years, and I've never had an issue.