Pop!_OS freezing during setup despite trying everything to solve it.

[skullnoober]

I used different Flash Drives, reinstalled the .iso multiple times, recreated the partitions for the OS, am I missing something? I found out that the linux-swap partition was 3.9 gb and not 4 for some reason, even though I set it as 4 so I added 4.1 gb for swap, and it read it as 4, but that still didnt fix the freezing. The boot partition is more than 800mb by a bit, unsure if it affects it, I really don't know what to do. By the way, the Flash Drives are just under 8 gb, like 7.60gb or something, don't know if that affects anything

[crakddx]

on the behalf of tthe community, specs?
;-;

[skullnoober]

19 hours ago, Mr-G-Man said:

on the behalf of tthe community, specs?
;-;

amd dual core processor e1 7010

2gb ram

500gb hdd

basically im trying to dual boot it on a slow laptop

[archiso]

8 hours ago, skullnoober said:

amd dual core processor e1 7010

2gb ram

500gb hdd

basically im trying to dual boot it on a slow laptop

with a laptop that slow I don't think popos is the right os to run on it.

[10leej]

12 hours ago, archiso said:

with a laptop that slow I don't think popos is the right os to run on it.

no it's not, the gnome-shell desktop pop_OS uses is too much for that PC.

Rather than pop_OS! OP should look into Lubuntu or Xubuntu both of which use the lightweight LXQT or XFCE desktops

[skullnoober]

2 hours ago, 10leej said:

no it's not, the gnome-shell desktop pop_OS uses is too much for that PC.

Rather than pop_OS! OP should look into Lubuntu or Xubuntu both of which use the lightweight LXQT or XFCE desktops

Ohh okay, thanks for telling me, my friend suggested pop os to me saying that it has no bloatware and its a good linux distro to start with as a beginner, thats why i decided on pop os

[Kilrah]

That's correct, it's however not designed to be light on resources since it's made by system76 for their machines that are current and not bottom of the barrel stuff.

[archiso]

7 hours ago, 10leej said:

no it's not, the gnome-shell desktop pop_OS uses is too much for that PC.

Rather than pop_OS! OP should look into Lubuntu or Xubuntu both of which use the lightweight LXQT or XFCE desktops

Kubuntu could also be used or Manjaro.

[10leej]

13 hours ago, archiso said:

Kubuntu could also be used or Manjaro.

Mmm, the DE matters more than the distro, KDE Plasma isn't as light as people claim it to be since it relies on hardware acceleration for a lot of it's compositing.

[archiso]

On 9/17/2021 at 9:46 PM, 10leej said:

Mmm, the DE matters more than the distro, KDE Plasma isn't as light as people claim it to be since it relies on hardware acceleration for a lot of it's compositing.

I used arch linux with plasma on my old laptop and it was much better then gnome or windows.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

6 hours ago, archiso said:

I used arch linux with plasma on my old laptop and it was much better then gnome or windows.

"Better than GNOME" is a pretty low bar

[10leej]

9 hours ago, archiso said:

I used arch linux with plasma on my old laptop and it was much better then gnome or windows.

Again stop proclaiming KDE plasma is lightweight when you only compare it to gnome.

There's a reason XFCE's idle memory usage is slightly higher than KDE Plasma. Just like there's reason that Plasma uses less memory than Gnome 

[archiso]

On 9/20/2021 at 6:22 PM, 10leej said:

Again stop proclaiming KDE plasma is lightweight when you only compare it to gnome.

There's a reason XFCE's idle memory usage is slightly higher than KDE Plasma. Just like there's reason that Plasma uses less memory than Gnome 

you are correct, I was just offering other options.