I installed Neon on Sunday. I will put in a few first impressions and thoughts throughout the week in case it is of any use to others...
First, my system specs are:
First, my system specs are:
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$ inxi CPU: 12-Core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 2235/2200/3700 MHz Kernel: 5.13.0-39-generic x86_64 Up: 53m Mem: 4436.8/32025.5 MiB (13.9%) Storage: 2.73 TiB (36.2% used) Procs: 501 Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
- Installation was a breeze. This was a clean install and I had to choose which filesystem to use. The default was ext4 but reading from the comments above and elsewhere I decided to go with btrfs.
- Neon is minimal. I needed to install additional software like Libreoffice and Gimp manually. And that's alright by me. I would prefer having a minimal install and choose to install what I really want over something that I may never use. Neon (or rather Plasma) came preinstalled with KDE Connect which I don't use; so that was the only thing I chose to remove.
- Updates -- not a big fan of the "System Upgrade"... that makes me restart the machine every time I want to upgrade. Reminds me of Windows XP days.
- My machine has an old NVIDIA graphics card that uses proprietary drivers. Kubuntu additional drivers would pick it up and give me a helpful message about the availability of NVIDIA drivers, should I want to use them. The additional-drivers software wasn't installed on Neon by default (which is fine) but I could never get it to work. I go to it from the System Settings and it just gets stuck at looking for additional drivers.
- I could not get lm-sensors to tell me my CPU temps... probably because Neon is using a (relatively) older kernel?
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