I was initially waiting for Windows 10 to be officially unsupported before I switched to Pop_OS, but today, I just got sick of looking at the Windows 10 UI and decided to jump the gun.
As a complete normie, I am so glad I didn’t fuck up my computer because my laptops settings to get into the BIOS was completely different than how most videos instructed.
I’ve been playing around with it for a bit, and I most say that using this distro is a lot easier than I expected! The Pop Store is a lifesaver! I’m not sure if I could’ve made it if I had to manually install my browser and all that.
I feel like my laptop is now a bit slower and the graphics look a bit lower? Maybe I missed something when reading the rec specs. Oh well…
if by lower graphics, do you mean fonts and such are larger or your resolution is off?
if so you might have window scaling at 150% or 200%. this has happened to me with GNOME in the past. it might be worth checking your display settings.
I use KDE at 150% and it looks great. I’m glad Wayland and KDE have gotten fractional scaling to the point where it’s working well. The last major bug I was following was https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479891 but that was fixed in KDE Frameworks 6.9.
sure. i’m not saying fractional scaling looks bad but if they came from no scaling, suddenly having scaling can be a little jarring and can feel like a “lower” resolution. i regularly run fractional scaling in GNOME and it looks just fine. it’s a pretty solved problem at this point for the major desktop environments.