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  • I do this exactly. I have a Pop Os installation on its own drive and the original win 10 drive, plus they each have their own secondary storage drives. I switch using the BIOS but honestly I find myself doing that less and less.

    I used to have a larger NTFS storage drive both systems could see but it kept getting marked as read-only so I gave up and just got a fourth one for Pop Os.

    Sometimes when I boot up Pop Os after having been in Windows it can’t see any USB devices until after login or until I plug and unplug them.

    So there’s some minor annoyances to this setup but at least windows doesn’t overwrite the bootloader every couple updates.

    I’m very much considering never getting windows 11 (or 12 lol). The only games I have issues with are some AAA multiplayer games - like Borderlands - and even then they run they just don’t play nice with other players.






  • I prefer using a firefox PWA but I have the scrolling bug no matter what browser I use - the page keeps jumping to top when I’m trying to read.

    So I’ve started using liftoff this morning and so I agree with others in this thread, it looks the best to me. It’s not as smooth but I find it each much easier to tell which post comes from which instance than with connect. The community icons and titles are larger and the cards seem more separated.

















  • It did! I loved that DE. it was shortly before then than first installed Ubuntu and Unity just felt fresh and futuristic.

    But I think it’s as you say - desktop is not the priority for Canonical. I’d add that because of their relative size they try and force their way onto the scene even if the consensus is the other way - see wayland and snaps.

    still i after i made the rounds i settled on Pop Os and don’t see myself switching any time soon




  • When I first tried the tiling in Pop Os it broke certain apps for me and i ended up disabling it. I still turn on the tiling when i have a lot of things open, but it’s a specific use case for me.

    Still it’s great to see any distro really try to innovate the UI. I am optimistic for how a full cosmic DE might turn out.

    Then again I was one of the Unity DE supporters back in the days so my judgement may not be sound lol