Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
28 points by Jackevansevo
28 points by Jackevansevo
Heh, is it 24.04 or 25.12? :)
Jokes aside, my GF chose Pop!_OS for some reason some time ago and she's very happy. I'm plopping 24.04 on my "lab" laptop as I write this to test drive it out.
The question is how long System76 will update 22.04?
Edit: also, Firefox seems to not be a Snap, and I have no snap in my path. I thought 22.04 didn't have it either, but I noticed my GF's laptop seemed to have Snaps, so I was a bit confused.
Edit 2: just tested if for some crazy chance they supported global shortcuts, but no :(
System 76 is one of those orgs that I'm hoping really shines - or, continues to shine! I don't know anyone who works there, I've only ever heard the founder on podcasts, and i don't (yet) own any of their products...and yet, something about the org seems to exude a sense of fuzzy warmth. I know they are a for-profit company and all...but it feels like the kind of company from years ago where there's no BS...i assume i pay for a product/service, and get a product/service, and that's it - no other BS. I'm curious if anyone has experiences with the company - to validate my assumptions?
Secondly, while POPOS is not something i daily drive, i played around with Cosmic, and whoa nelly its nice!!! I wish them well on their release and look forward to playing more with Cosmic!
Pop OS user here. Happy to drive their stuff daily. There's excess greed these days, but not all for-profit companies are problematic (especially if they stay small to medium sized.) The risk for System76 to forget their core customer base is absolutely there, but for now let's enjoy them as they are!
I've bought a desktop and a laptop from System 76 and they're both pretty excellent, no compromise Linux devices. Their support is friendly as well.
The only thing that would make me switch from my current System 76 laptop is if they release one that's ARM64 based!
Don't recall an ARM64 version before, perhaps it was mentioned on a roadmap, but it's there now and installs well under UTM/QEMU on M4 Pro Mac. Looks great; I'm enjoying digging into what they've built.
I think at this point if I were them I would’ve waited to rebase on Ubuntu 26.04 and released in a few more months. tho this does give them a few months of fixing issues before that release! I think that’ll be the one I’ll kick the tires on
I’m thinking of leaving Windows soon now that Win10 no longer gets security updates. At this point I’m fairly set on switching to a well-supported immutable distro with a sane desktop environment, which basically means Fedora with KDE (so Kinoite). I’d love to see more adoption of Cosmic in that area beyond the home-grown container images that’ve been put out, since Cosmic seems opinionated and lightweight in a much more thoughtful way than Gnome.