I spent a full 7 days working the day job and playing around in the new Cosmic desktop from System76's Pop!_OS.

Would like to have a pywal type effect that would change the accent and active hint colors to match the current wallpaper.

Im using 2 GB of ram at idle. During my normal workday with 3 browsers, 6-9 tabs open and the occasional Libreoffice sheet open. Ram was typically around 5-6 GB avg with one peak that I noticed was up to 10 GB when I also had a vm running for a short while. These are nearly the same that I get with Pop shell (gnome version) on the same machine.

Multi monitor on Cosmic is a dream come true. This is the proper way for a DE to implement tiling window features. Not this convoluted crap that Gnome and KDE did. Its obvious that the Cosmic devs are true tiling window manager fans. This is 100% AWESOME! A user wants to take advantage of multiple desktops. Most will use 1 or 2 windows per desktop. Cosmic makes me think of what you would get if i3/bspwm and gnome had a baby.

Although it's still in an alpha phase Pop!_OS's Cosmic desktop is very near time to release to beta. It seems to be stable enough to use for an average computer user. I wouldnt suggest it for a power user. I take you on a tour of what they have got finished and what they have left to do.

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You all totally missed the point of my last video. You were thinking I was praising snaps. I was not. I said a lot of the hate that snaps get is not true and the vast majority of Ubuntu's users do not care about snaps. In this video I explain how you missed the point and why.

Of course, obviously easiest solution is to just use a different distro that doesnt have snap. But if you do that, then what would you have to complain about?

Commands from the video:

Do these last

Then block snapd by creating a file at /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref Use what ever text editor you lke. Im using vim.

sudo vim /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

Add this to that file:

Package: snapd

I go through the beta Ubuntu 24.04 from an average user's pov. I show that a lot of the "hate" that was thrown at Ubuntu is unfounded and mostly people just hating on Ubuntu because its the "cool" thing to do.

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Checking out TileOS River Edition in a VM. I'll give my review of it on bare metal in the live stream.

Saturday nights at 7pm EST join Radioman Johnny Gearjammer & Unkle Bonehead as they discuss the idiots & stupidity of this crazy world we live in. Trigger warning We are Equal Opportunity Offenders

Language warning. John & I are truck drivers and we talk as truck drivers do. Dont watch if that offends you. This is not a show for children.

Just a few quick words for this gen z'er.

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