A First Look At Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Just don't let Linus use it

One of the reason I switched to Pop was because it nailed the light/dark theming before the GNOME team ever got around to it.

I Wana do someone's nan

Plus tiling (in cosmic which is work in progress at the moment), tiling is even better! Plus it basically is ubuntu but with tons of fixes and patches to make it better and easier to stRt using

I'm using it for most of the past year, and it's amazing, love the tiling , the packages the information on the forums. I also installed it on a friend's laptop, replacing win 10 and he was shocked about the speed increase. He's using it ever since as well very happily. Well done system 76, and great video as usual dt

Laptops from the past 10 year can benefit a lot from removing Windows. Windows is the epitome of bloat.

Only thing I am frustrated by is how hard they have made it to install a Plymouth splash screen. After days of trying I can't get it to work. Their explanation is that it adds 5 seconds to boot time, so they don't allow it. Like really? It's Linux. It's supposed to be customisable.

@@methamphetamememcmeth3422 I never tried Plymouth before, I'm gonna check it out

How did it do on battery life

@@victoririas2366 depends on use, I never had any issues or noticed any drop compared to win or other distros

I absolutely love Pop os! I wish they had merch to show it off to the world. :D The first thing I noticed about it was how quickly it installed and how smoothly it worked on my old laptop.

If you install it in uefi mode pop os will also automatically create a separate recovery partition that contains a copy of their iso. In case of boot failure you can try booting into the recovery partition and fix your system from there. Shame you didn't show it in the video it's a super useful feature

Wow, that sounds neat! Thanks for mentioning that!

I guess they took their lesson

I wouldn't want the waste of hdd space. Manjaro sucks, but you can install it in under 15 minutes and be back up and running from a dvd.

@@madthumbs1564 That assumes you have the dvd

As a Pop user, I'm looking forard to their new Cosmic DE. I do love switching on the tilling mode, especially when I'm taking notes on something. Mattermost is a platform for large communities, as it acts as an intranet and social network. XR use it as their main internal communication platform.

I've been using Pop on my desktop for ~6months now. First time using Linux to. It's been a journey re-training my brain off windows (even mac) ways, but getting more and more use to it. Looking forward to being a power user one day. It's exciting to see what you can do, and I'm happy when you see the tech oversight / data collection from big tech.

The best thing for me was it was rock solid stable whatever I throw at it. Complex docker builds, compiling ue5. It just eats everything without freezing. Did an amazing job of keeping me sane last two years in tight schedule on job.

How do i do that didnt know one can compile ue5 on pop os....the only reason i hop back to windows 11 is ue5

I know it's very ephemeral; I have to say one of my favourite things about Pop is their choice of Font - it just looks so much more *cleaner* than a lot of other Linux GUI's! Thanks for the review as always and I can barely wait to see what System76 come up with for their display manager ... It'll be great to see a name in the industry really doing something with Rust! Thanks again!

PopOS is great. I use it on my laptop. It is the only distro that makes Gnome usable for me. I really like what they're doing with Cosmic. They have a lot a lot of good ideas and I'm really looking forward to seeing the full Cosmic desktop when they get it released. My only beef with it is its dependency on Ubuntu while Ubuntu is going in its own direction with snaps and the like. I'm hoping they decide to re-base it off of Debian or even become their own base at some point. Ubuntu has a lot of good ideas, but not all of them are good and I have a feeling some of them may end up clashing with the direction PopOS and other derivatives want to go especially as the PopOS devs move further into developing their own DE and software. If they're re-writing everything in Rust, and Ubuntu's libraries conflict with what they're doing, it can become a mess.

Pop!_OS, get it right.

I have played with linux a few times over the years but Pop OS actually made me switch to linux as my primary OS , Its amazingly good and I am looking forward for the future of POP !

Thanks for mentioning the kernel version, DT. No other channel I know of does this.

just installed this in virt-manager and if it works this well i may think about installing it on my main machine.great video i dig virt manager because of you.keep the videos coming.

About having Date&Time centered: On ultra wide monitors, having stuff in the corners is usually annoying because it is relatively far away from where the mouse pointer usually is. Also, the eyes have to move quite a bit to look and something e.g. in the top right corner.

Im using it for 1 year now :) I still love it. The tiling window on pop os is more than enough for me 2 applications open at the same time is less distracting for me. 3 to more applications open i will be distracted af

I run up to a dozen on three or four desktops. Still great!!

Give it time. 2 windows could be a browser on youtube, and mpv playing the video in another window. If it's a Linux tutorial; you may want another window to follow along. If you download warez, movies, shows, etc with programs like weechat, or jdownloader; you may want those running in their own virtual desktops while you do other things. -Same if you want to record what's on your screen with OBS. If you want to edit an image to upload; you don't want to close your browser; just load the editor on it's own virtual desktop. You might want a floating drop down terminal to quick edit a config file. If you have a bar; you are already running other stuff; each part of it like calendar, sensors, etc are other programs.

I received my System 76 Lemur Pro yesterday and I am liking it so far.

One of the only distributions that just work. If you have time to tinker around go ahead and get something else. But for me it's a rock solid distro.

Exactly right!!🏆I couldn't agree more!!

I got tired of tinkering. Back to Pop os yesterday with cinnamon desktop environment. Everything runs smoothly.

Windows works. VR, Codex games, controller with gyro, VLC - all far better in Windows. It just works rock solid. If you're not a tinkerer; you're on the wrong OS.

I've been using PopOS from the last 2y and i do not intend to switch... super stable and reliable, just love it!

It's spelled Pop!_OS.

@@jinxterx so it's pronounced pop exclamation mark underscore os?

@@ConchobharMag Exactly.

@@ConchobharMag the only critique that i have with Pop!_OS is the name lol

@@victornecromancer Linux doesn't tend to have amazing names for the distros/apps lol the operating system I use is named after a hat for goodness sake!

I use Linux Mint on my desktop and will continue to do so as I love it and I like Cinnamon. But for my 2012 Macbook Pro I installed PopOS and I've found it to be perfect for laptops. Literally the only issue I had was that I had to plug an ethernet in and then apt install bcmwl-kernel-source to get the wifi working, which is something the pop shop recommended I install and after a restart my wifi was just working. Other than everything works perfectly. Great for bringing older laptops back to life.

I had the same problem with all Ubuntu based distros. Then I tried Manjaro Gnome on the 2012 Macbook Pro and everything works out-of-the-box.

After hopping through a lot of beginner friendly distros like Linux Mint and Zorin, I finally settled on Pop OS as my daily driver. According to me this is the most polished distro of the lot. I was facing heating issues with some of the distros on my ultrabook, but it is working very well with Pop OS. Also, the Virt-Manager virtual machines run very well on Pop OS; better that hyper-V VMs on Windows... Also, the "intellgent hide" option works very well for the dock in Pop OS.

Glad this came out today. I have the update downloaded and just waiting for hte work day to end to hit upgrade.

It's the only distro I install on my Laptops. Its usability, especially with touchpad gestures, is simply amazing. I appreciate it less on a desktop PC, where I usually prefer KDE distros, such as a native Debian, very stable OS for professional work. Maybe it would be nice if you could test this distro on a laptop, so to appreciate the gestures that really make it something special.

I liked the gestures but I could never wrap my head around the fact that it takes 4 fingers to changes workspaces and that the change is inverted.

I like what they've done with Pop OS since the last time I looked at it. I received it on my System76 PC, but ended up moving on to other distros (hopping, the usual). I'll have to take a look at this myself.

Linux desktops have evolved so much throughout the years. Really, if you're not much of a gamer (even though linux supports a lot of games today) and don't use a lot of os-caged proprietary software, there is no other reasons not to chose the superiority of a linux desktop.

The thing is, as a game dev, things like unreal engine works really Bad on linux (slow, buggy,less features...) So even tho i use os independent stuff like kdenlive and blender it's hard to switch

i installed it and have my steam games and epic games on pop os 22.04 lts.

I really need CAD software like fusion 360. Freecad just can't compete. Other than that, I use Linux.

Pro-Tip for Linux Gamers: Give Nvidia the bird, go team Red (AMD) the company open sources their GPU (Vulkan) drivers and generally perform MUCH better on Linux than Nvidia garbage.

I have Crysis Remastered and Rise of the tomb raider humankind and Dirt Rally on Pop OS 22.04 LTS and it runs it great but that is also only six games i am thrilled Linux does those games.

Total newbie to Linux, jumping off the Apple gulag-train. I got myself a System76 laptop with Pop_OS on it, it’s honestly been great. A lot more intuitive than I thought, I’ve had very little issues (aside from user error)

love Pop OS so easy to use ,does what it needs to and gaming is sweet with "gamemode" and xanmod installed

the POP OS is so gorgeous. i going to install it. this is so beautiful

Time in the center is a much nicer placement especially for large and ultra-wide monitors.

PopOS was my first distro and was on it for a year. It was a really nice time and a really good stepping stone into the Linux world. The Pop Shell extension is definitely it’s stand out feature which really got me into tiling window manager. I can’t wait until COSMIC’s full release

Exclamation!

I just got Pop Os installed the other day and im enjoying it so far.

I had the same problem as you did looking for minimize when right clicking the title bar, it's now called hide Lol Pop is coming along nicely, can't wait to see what they bring to the table with their own written in rust.

Really excited to see what all the ubuntu based distros will bring this time.

I can't wait to see Mint

I like how they implements the apps menu in the cosmic desktop. Gnome 40 app menu seems too much to just browse quick app

Thanks DT i installed it great distro.

Having used Ubuntu a few time, I am finding out of the box its working like a charm apart from it hate my old USB3 wi-fi dongle, That dongle was a really early usb 3 device and has been a bit funky in the past even on windows, Loving the usability right out of the box.

lol you come out with this right after I made it to arch!

Installed it on 2011 MBP and it is awesome! Love it

You should give the KDE Bismuth window tiling a try. It's decent and once you get your head around using activities in addition to virtual desktops, it actually brings something potentially compelling to the table.

Please tell me is it better than cosmic tiling

DT, I always catch you right when you upload LOL.

Well, the coming Cosmic desktop which is written in rust will be coool

I've been running Pop on my HTPC for a while now, and I have to admit that it's a very good "just works distro" for things where you just don't want to deal with it. I think the only problems I've had so far is just hardware accelerated video in Firefox (because you need to disable sandboxing for it to talk to VAAPI) and then some weirdness when trying to wake the machine from suspend with a wireless keyboard (that fixed itself after an update).

I use i3 for tiling, but I do like what pop has done with tiling. It is actually available on any Gnome desktop, since it is the pop-shell gnome extension. I am using it on Arch.

Been using it for a year now. Never once got any issue. I installed it on lenovo thinkpad x220. All drivers worked out of the box including touch screen and stylus.

I can't wait to see the new Cosmic desktop written from thr ground up in Rust. I imagine it will be very attractive and, more importantly, very stable and responsive. The lead engineer, Jeremy Soller, is building his own microkernel OS, Redox OS, from the ground up. So both projects, Pop!_OS and Redox OS, have been cross-fertilizing each other for a few years now, and Jeremy and the various developers working on both keep learning and growing from their experiences with each one. What they learn working on one helps them in the other. Because of this, Pop!_OS will keep getting better, and I'm excited about that. I wish it was based on Fedora instead of Ubuntu, but it is what it is. Might install this new version on my laptop.

I like the time in the middle. I always move it to the middle on xfce

Tiling windows is a good touch using this for last 4 months and love it

I love Pop!_OS, it's the first distro I tried that just clicked with me There was surely a learning curve, but it's a very natural feeling I like it, because it "just works"

Is great for beginners on Linux or Unix

I like the date centered, just my like :)

Pop_OS! from the other Distros seems really charming. I might use it.

You forgot the !

i've been using popOS for almost 2 years feels very nice

Works perfectly on my Acer Predator Triton RTX3060. Set up dual boot with Windows 11. Split 1TB drive 50/50 for each OS.

First distro I installed was Arch, then I got fascinated by PopOs! specially when they announced that they'll be developing their own desktop environment in Rust, but unfortunately my installation got messed up somehow and lots of bugs happening, I just gave up and went back to Arch. I'll try Pop again in the future and hope I get a better luck with it!

Exclamation in the wrong place and you missed out the underscore. It's like this: Pop!_OS.

moving away from arch to a pre-config distro is usually a downgrade every time lol I go with server isos almost exclusively now

Can't wait to see Zorin OS with the new stuff. That's the best Ubuntu-like distro of the lot imo.

I'm poised to switch to Linux and Pop OS looks like the most attractive option right now. I think System 76 shares the same values as myself - the clean minimalism of the GNOME workflow (not for everyone, but it's what I'm after), with a few more options, and better defaults. I appreciate the option for more customization when I go looking for it, but I think all the options in the Dolphin file manager and KDE apps/settings would be overkill for me personally. System 76 seems to strike a really good balance, and I'm certainly excited to see what they do with the RUST Cosmic DE.

Using it on and off...I installed 22.04 today and everything is working great,but I use Linux for connecting to office with Citrix and unfortunately Citrix workspace not working with 22.04 Ubuntu or popos...I returned back to OpenSuse..I can't wait for Citrix to fix this and I can give it a real spin for a daily driver....DT ,great video as always and on point... cheers

This is my current distro, and I love it. Slick-looking, professional, just works.

Recently switched to mainline Ubuntu 22.04 (they did something to graphics, apparently, and it finally worked on my laptop), previous experience only being shell interface in WSL and a little bit of Kubuntu. And I gotta say, it's better than the Pop_OS version, judging by this video (accent colors, activities, super key to launch a search window, small things). Though, I'll probably migrate to KDE some time soon, some window settings, this dock and the top bar do bug me a little bit. Still, if we talking out of the box experience, GNOME is really good, and you can be very efficient with it right away. This software center look really nice, though; on Ubuntu there's not built-in Flatpak support and I couldn't find Discord as a .deb

I do alot of unreal engine dev so linux isn't really an option for me Wsl is really cool tho

@@thisisntmymainaccount7923 dual boot?

Lol at your name

I have always preferred Ubuntu since coming back to Linux Desktop a few years ago. Just a few months ago I had a small little 125gig SS drive I needed to do something with and I decided to install Pop Os again. Yes, I had tried it in the past and really didn't think it was as good as Ubuntu. I feel different though with Pop OS 22.04. I think system 76 is starting to get the gig and the gig is laying something out there that works without being to intrusive to it's users. I immediately installed my game of choice on Pop and it worked flawlessly including the headphones and outgoing audio over the mic. I couldn't do that in Ubuntu. I had to wrestler with crap for ever to get it straight. This was different. It was perfect. The people listening to me on the other end said they had never heard me sound so good. Almost zero latency. Keep it up System 76. When you sell a computer, the operating system has to work. No excuses. In my opinion Pop is ready for prime time. Good Job.

Love your video quality! BTW, are you're a Mixing Engineer?

Got the update last night and it's good. Although I don't like some aspects of pop shell i like what they are doing with pop os One thing for people with dual boot , you need to setup chain Boot if you are using grub as after update the existing chain boot will break

It's what I've been using... I feel very at home with it. Also, gaming is extremely good on it.

Thanks for the introduction to POP OS for me. What camera did you use to make your video!?

just to let it out, pop os works great with the lenovo x1e's never had a problem and got all my firmware updates

There is also one cool feature I am not sure that is installed on any other distro is window stacking :) using Super + S You create a stack which then can create cards like in a web browser with each app on its separate card. Multiple stacks can be created and put on screen like normal windows

I have always been arch or arch based distro kinda guy and had issues with getting good performance on my nvidia optimus laptop my friend with the same hardware got the best performance his hardware is capable of without having to do much because pop os just takes care of everything in regards to drivers

Hey DT, I remember you use Tastyworks. If you still have this Pop VM, would you be willing to install the java client in it and see if the right click popups work? I upgraded last night and the popup only shows up once, and even then on the wrong monitor. I might have to move to Arch.

PopOS seems to be Ubuntu on DMT. A desktop environment written in Rust is rad! Looking fwd to it.

nice presentation sir.

dt, you are incorrect on how the tiling windows works with multi-monitors. It tiles on each monitor separately, works really well. (Although all monitors are still part of the same workspace, so when you're switching workspaces it switches the stuff on all the monitors.)

I like your presentation sir.

I am really looking forward to the release of the RUST Cosmic DE because that is the part of Pop!_os that I am really interested in. It would be awesome to have that DE on Arch

Great Review. You should have a look at Kubuntu 22.04. It's pretty much THEEE Best Distro out there right now.

15:24 hide is the second option, and does the same as "minimize"

Yeah, in gnome (fedora), I just hide windows. That's the functional equivalent.

i actually like the time in the center.

OMG, that is like the strongest pwd I have ever seen!

Amazing Video. I will promo the hell out of this one!

I wish I could use it. Love the tiling wm, love the look and pretty much everything about it. But when running it on my 5 year old xps13, everytime start a KZhead video, CPU goes to 100% and my PC becomes unusable. Tried everything I could find on the Internet, different kernels, settings and so on, but didn't help. So I'm on mint atm, but will try newer popOS releases again in the future. Really love the OS

its the feel. pop os managed to make linux usable for noobs like me. what i like in 22.04 is that pop os recognized my nvidia card right away.

I like having the date & time in the centre

20:40 actually in Pop OS every monitor is it's own workspace :D

The workspace manager kind of treats them all as the same work space in some respects... though it becomes very obvious that they're not the moment you disconnect one of the monitors ^_^

Pop!_OS is the king for me. I use it on the original Lenovo Carbon X1 that's over a decade old. It's my home computer and everything works well and looks good doing it.

I never use double click or the button to maximize whether it's windows KDE gnome cosmic i just drag the window to the top of the screen and it work it's actually smoothest on windows since there is no delay i can just fling my mouse and be done with it

Which one do you recommend Pop OS, Linux Mint or Elementary OS? I am leaning towards Pop OS for its clean UI, I hope it works smooth like Ubuntu does for Node JS development.

22:40 Not much, PopOS is almost identical to how I have my Fedora Gnome setup. In fact it is one of the reasons I'm considering switching from Fedora to PopOS because it is an easy switch since I don't need to alter the DE. Most of the way PopOS looks can be done with one extension, 'Dash to Panel', with it you can choose to leave the Top Bar in place and then choose where you want the dock and what elements you want included in the dock. My dock is also at the bottom but is more like a old Mac dock (not sure if they are still this way). This is very handy on my TV because the bottom of my TV is damaged so I have my dock fill the damaged area and then when I maximise an app it only fills the non damaged area but my dock is still completely usable because I can make out the icons that are a little distorted but all my other important stuff is in my top bar which I have set to auto-hide. Gnome Extensions make Gnome 42 very customisable and very usable. Something a prefer in Vanilla Gnome to PopOS is the applications launcher which also makes Workspaces redundant. I think it is handy to have my Run command, Applications and Workspaces all in one screen that I can bring up just by pressing the Super keyand while I prefer vertical workspaces I'll happily trade them for that superior Applications launcher that still has my Workspaces and Run command. I think I'll give PopOS a run on one of my machines and I think it will be a difficult decision deciding which I'll prefer as my main daily or on all my Linux machines but there are a few things in PopOS that I prefer over Fedora. They really are so close at this point. PopOS would be my recommendation to a newbie as I think it is more newbie friendly.

"Extensions make Gnome 42 very customizable and very usable." Dude have you seen how many extensions are borked?

@@iceman8075 None that I use. IDK, I use Extension Manager, every extension that has claimed to be compatible with Gnome 42 has worked as intended. I'm using 8 downloaded extension along with the 2 system extensions I use. Since my first comment I have tested PopOS 22.04 and discovered I'd have to turn off the PopOS extensions and run the ones I currently use as those in PopOS are inferior. For example my dock has previews on hover while the PopOS dock does not and as I wrote earlier I prefer how my App launcher looks and works. So the reality for me is the main difference between PopOS and Fedora is RPM + Flatpak vs Deb + Flatpak. FWIW these are the extensions I use -Blur my Shell -Dash to Panel -Desktop Icons: Neo -Hide Top Bar -Removable Drive Menu -Replace Activities Text -Show Applications Instead of Workspaces -Vitals. -AppIndicatior and KStarusNotifierItem Support -Applications Menu The way I have these set is, Super launches the app launcher as described earlier. In my top bar I have only applications but this actually opens a Win7 style app menu. The top bar is semi transparent and hides and in the left it goes Applications, Focused App Menu, Vitals. I have a Mac style dock at the bottom of the screen that is completely transparent and has previews, On my Desktop I have my Home Folder, Trash and removable drives/locations. I have my Laptop setup very similar but touchpad gestures make some things redundant and the Laptop is far nicer to use because of the touchpad gestures.

Please spell it correctly: Pop!_OS.

@@jinxterx can't really tell if what you're saying is satire, I hope it is :p

@@iceman8075 :P

DistroTube - What software do you use to edit your videos and do you do it within Linux?

Good review.

Mattermost is a chat framework, believe it ships by default with self-hosted GitLab installations.

Can confirm. It's basically a self-hosted open source Slack (even has Slack-compatible APIs). You can also install it separately (don't necessarily need GitLab)

Pop OS is the One! I installed it yesterday because I'm developing a website.. It's just amazing.... It's not fancy and it doesn't have all the bells and whistles like Xero Linux or Garuda... Its clean, efficient, secure and snappy...

I have tried so many distros and like many of them, but I keep going back to Fedora. This one does look promising.

I think it is just about the best all-around 'Windows substitute' Linux for those who are done with Windows but are just now getting into Linux. I also like most versions of Zorin, too. I know many love Mint, but I had hardware recognition issues, so gave it a pass. But it looks very easy to use and to keep updated.

i laugh everytime you say "let's make a strong and complicated password"

Pop is an amazing distribution. It finally stopped my distro hopping :)

Mattermost is an open source alternative to slack and discord You can basically host your own nattermost server on cloud or a system of your own.

If it’s GUI for Linux, this is the way to go 🥰

I'm enjoying Pop Os so far I like the ease of use and how fast it is. it's a faster update process than windows.

Is there a way to force integrate that top bar and the dock, so that there's only one strip at the bottom of the screen?

Hey DT Have u thought about making your own Distro?

popos has some cool qol features but workspaces/overview is way better on vanilla gnome. also you can already install the pop os shell into arch (tiling manager + launcher)

Hey DT could you review Kubuntu 22.04 ?

Any idea how to make top panel transparent 😐 I am able to make bottom dock transparent