linux VS default-settings

If in the USA then System76 could be a good contender, they don't make the hardware just use Clevo hardware, however I've had so many issues with the Lemur Pro and support has been terrible, after significant shipping costs to fix a common freezing issue they sent it back with a broken trackpad, missing screws and the same issue persisting (https://github.com/pop-os/linux/issues/45 & https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1172) tbh they (System76) really don't like any critizism and popOS has been really flaky between updates, they also tend to be bad actors in the community with little upstreaming and a sense of superiority (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/10/system76_gnome_desktop_fight/) - My machine (lemp9) is basically just sat in a cupboard gathering dust.

The problem is it says the audio is working out of the box, but it isn't. I've talked to the support and I was shown this: https://github.com/pop-os/linux/pull/205

As for kernel 6.3 update, it is going on for testing currently: https://github.com/pop-os/linux/pull/251

I don't use Pop but the repos show 6.2.6

Linux 6.2: https://github.com/pop-os/linux/pull/228 Not Mesa 23.1 but Mesa 22.3.5: https://github.com/pop-os/linux/pull/228 (Merged)

I suffer from this issue across different linux distros and found that it is indeed a btrfs related issue. Have a read here and tinker around the suggested sysctl values https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/issues/111

This has already been done https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/pull/172

Pop uses zram by default now, so unless you're planning to set up hibernation you don't need a separate swap partition.

The default swappiness in Pop has been 10 since 2019

/u/jadero I've been experimenting with a zram optimization for Pop lately. I suspect that a great deal of remaining issues could be caused by memory pressure behaviors. https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/pull/163 There's some tweaks in here that seem to be yielding great results from the few people that have tested it so far.

Personally, I follow the pop-os/repo-release repository so that I get notices of what is being updated and when and I can gauge what looks OK or not. I've caught a few things that looked wrong before and I have been able to provide feedback and sometimes fixes (eg. https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/pull/145).