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Why I switched to Pop_OS?

Krishnakanth Alagiri on January 16, 2021

Originally published at thekrishna.in As of 2020, Windows is still the dominant desktop OS comprising nearly 90% of it's demographic and I was i...
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Vincenzo Di Vico

i love it and installed on my thinxkpad x230. it run so smooth, better than normal ubuntu. and better than windows 10.
i wanted to install it on my desktop too, in dual boot so i can use popos for development and windows for gaming, entertainment and photoshop. but pops installer don't permit to install it due to a wront type partition

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Krishnakanth Alagiri

Thanks. There are ways to convert a MBR disk into a GPT disk for Windows. Quiet time consuming but I guess it's worth it :)

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leob

Excellent post, and if it weren't for specific programs (Adobe and so on) or the need to develop on a Windows (.NET) or OSX stack, I'd recommend every dev to just use Linux :-)

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Krishnakanth Alagiri

I really wished all Software publishers made their programs available for Linux. Meanwhile, try photoshopCClinux for installing and configuring Photoshop to work well on Linux using WINE. Works perfectly on my Pop_OS.

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leob

In most cases there are open source alternatives (and of course that's more in the Linux spirit), but yes Wine often works ... and as a last resort there would be something like VirtualBox, but then you need to install Windows again, so that would be cheating :-)

Apart from Windows-centric devs (.NET), the most often used argument in favor of Windows are the games that run on it ... :-)

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Ynoa Pedro

.NET is cross paltaform for ages

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Ynoa Pedro

But Microsoft need serious marketing and dev rel improvments haha

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Mahmoud Mohamed

I want to help I can't copy one video from the main volume to the other volume The primary storage unit on which the operating system is loaded is popos The other storage unit is of type hdd I can't even move an image from the main volume to the sub volume

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Dani Guardiola_

Wtf dude I had the exact same wallpaper a while back on my Pop! OS setup lmaooo I'm scared

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Fahad Ali • Edited

Can i install adobe cc ie,and xd

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Krishnakanth Alagiri

While there are linux alternatives available, you should checkout photoshopCClinux ๐Ÿท