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		jeroenhd on April 29, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you ... I wouldn't go with Pop_OS with that hardware. The Nvidia GPU isn't supported by the new Nvidia driver and because System76 is hard at work writing Cosmic, their repositories are quite outdated. Support for things like Wayland is quite mediocre in the old drivers. Switching to upstream (Ubuntu) with KDE would probably be more your speed.

jessekv on April 29, 2025 [–]

I recently updated Pop OS to the Cosmic Alpha and it is much more to my liking than Gnome 3 ever was. I have an older Nvidia GPU though.

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