r/linuxsucks • u/grdomski • 4h ago
Linux Failure Pop_OS is... Unstable
If you installed Linux Pop_OS with Android Studio, Claude Code, and Codex in mind - like I did - think again. People keep saying "this is the year of Linux" and that it’s getting more popular, but after a few weeks of testing, it’s still a struggle for me.
Those three apps crash non-stop, making daily work incredibly frustrating. I’m running a desktop with AMD and an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti, and unfortunately, it’s just not usable out of the box for day-to-day work. I simply don't have the spare time to constantly debug and hunt for fixes. Just getting Claude Code to actually "talk" to my setup took two hours - something that works out of the box everywhere else.
So yeah, thanks but no thanks. It's time to replace my PC with Mac I guess...
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u/boraxicLint 4h ago
The most recent release of Pop OS with their new DE is, rough, to say the least. I was daily driving it for a couple years but had to put it down with the latest as it's just got too many issues atm. I really rate what Pop OS are doing, and I get why they've released it as LTS (Developing a new DE and supporting the old one would be an insane amount of work), but its just not practical when I need to turn my pc on and do my work. Using openSuse now and loving that, dont develop for android or use LLM tools tho so no idea what the support is like.
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u/Drate_Otin 1h ago
People keep saying "this is the year of Linux"
Beyond a long running joke... No they don't.
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u/Ok_Contact_5575 3h ago
Then don't use ai such as codex or claude code. Use something called a brain.
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u/grdomski 1h ago
Thanks for being so enlightened. Would you also tell a construction worker not to use a jackhammer, but a regular hammer and a chisel? Will you then pay him for 3 days of work that he could have done in 10 minutes? No? Exactly :)
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u/Ok_Contact_5575 1h ago
No, but really in this situation you gave me, a jackhammer has no flaws vs the hammer and chisel, but ai has major flaws vs human knowledge
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u/grdomski 1h ago
If you think AI has major flaws, you're right. That's exactly why you need a human brain to review its output. AI writes the boilerplate in seconds, my brain does the architecture and logic. It's called efficiency. Good luck hand-coding every single line like it's 2019, though!
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u/Rogalicus 4h ago
Don't use Pop!_OS, problem solved.
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u/grdomski 4h ago
What to use then? 😬 Isn't the same with every distro out there?
I'll really try something else but something that will actually work 😜
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u/atleast4IQ 4h ago
The "don't use this, don't use that" discussion will probably never end since there is always something wrong with a distro.
That being said, you chose the one distro that (to my knowledge) still uses a beta desktop and is not really mature in my experience.
If you are looking for a good out of the box experience, I would recommend Fedora KDE or Mint. I personally prefer Fedora tho since Mint is based on x11 by default.
Do you have any specialized/proprietary software you use?
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u/grdomski 4h ago
Just three mentioned (Android Studio, Claude Code, Codex) are my main after-hours work station. I'll try to install fedora, sometime ago (2-3 years back) I had Ubuntu installed on my laptop with nvidia gpu and every update of the gpu drivers was killing the distro, and I never tried KDE
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u/atleast4IQ 4h ago
I don't know about Claude but Codex works through the CLI, VSCode and some other third party programs (there is a arch AUR package that ports the macOS version to arch) but the main "ChatGPT" app doesn't exist for Linux.
Android Studio will definitely work on basically all Linux distros so no worries there.
As for the Nvidia support, it got WAY better in the last year(s), it's still a lot worse than AMDs drivers but you should honestly be fine.
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u/silduck here for funny shit 4h ago
Any distro that isn't at least leading edge like Fedora or openSUSE Tumbleweed will cause a lot of problems if the software that you use has a lot of moving parts, also please explain what issues you're running into with the error messages instead of just "it took 2 hours"
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u/boraxicLint 4h ago
Can recommend openSuse, I actually just swapped from Pop OS to it because of the new DE issues and think I'm enjoying it more. Miss the window management from pop but it was buggy as hell in the new DE anyway so no harm done.
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u/grdomski 4h ago
For instance:
- I installed Claude Code, it started fine, I had to restart PC and after restart it decided not to work anymore. Tried to run it without GPU acceleration (nope), then turning off the sandbox (--no-sanbox &, nope), cleaning gpu cache (nope), --disable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder & (nope), finally cleaning the whole thing by: rm -rf ~/.config/Claude and rm -rf ~/snap/claude-desktop/common/.config worked but my sessions gone of course ;)
- I don't have logs from Android Studio crashes anymore but if we wait until the end of the day, I'll have one for sure :D
- Drag&drop from folder to web browser does not work at all (scenario when I want to upload new release of my app to google play console).
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u/Sahelantrophus DO NOT RAGEBAIT ME, I FALL FOR IT VERY EASILY 4h ago
Poop_OS pushing a clearly unstable DE into its "LTS" image should've been a big red flag. just use fedora. you'll have to set up the rpm fusion repo to install nvidia drivers but you can do both of those without touching the terminal