This is easily my favorite Linux channel, even when the videos are things I already kinda know, because Veronica never does clickbait titles and is generally calm and reasonable.

We need more folks like you in the Linux community. A completely rational, calm video explaining what's going on with Pop_OS. Awesomeness. And as an aside, I've been pronouncing it "guh-nome" since the days of Ximian Gnome... 2000ish? Rock on.

Just installed Pop_OS on my main desktop. In the process of giving it a proper go. I was pleasantly surprised that the NVIDIA drivers worked quite well and I was able to play Elden Ring w/ Proton with no issues. Now that Linux gaming is a real thing I may make the switch permanently.

Hi, I just found your channel through a comment from a subscriber in a video of mine, I'm from Brazil, great job!

I've been usung Pop!_OS for almost 2 years now. Honestly, when I read about the update plans it never occurred to me to switch distros. I like it as my daily driver and their developers clearly know what they are doing. I recall the complaints some people have had about the lag between the releases of Ubuntu and the subsequent Pop!_OS releases. "Patience is a virtue" definitely applies here. When it comes to Cosmic/Rust I prefer done right to done fast, especially with Kernel changes relating to Rust in the pipeline.

System76 isn't canonical. They don't have a history of bad decisions (at least not as of yet). If System76 says this is needed, I'm willing to trust them for now. They make a good product!

I really appreciate your content and love seeing you pop up on my wall. You are my favorite Linux KZfaqr by far and now I'm considering installing POP_OS! 😅

Nice job on being ahead of the gnome pronunciation questions, lol. Though I'm a wm user, I look forward to seeing what they come up with. DWM is nice, and bspwm is surprisingly cosy.

One of the things I like most about your videos is that you state the facts, give your opinions and acknowledge that other people might have a different view.... and that it is ok! I wish more people were as open minded as you

Thank you for the PopOS coverage! I'd love to see a video about single GPU VM passthrough on Pop, I've been really struggling with this.

It's good to hear that. I''m a distro hopper and I thought I found Pop!_OS as my ultimate distro. I used Mint because of its less resource consumption. But using Pop I feel more comfortable. I'm going to build my main machine I hope to base it on Pop. I found your channel recently. Damn, you're doing great job :D

Ive been using linux as my main and laptop OS for a few years now. Your vids have taught me alot and I thank you for that. Ive recently distro hopped out of oblivion and on to Pop OS. And with some tweaking im very happy with the OS overall and will gladly wait till System76 comes out with a new update. Thnx again for all the vids and keep up the good work Veronica. o7

Great content you don't see anywhere else. I really like the straight forward direct communication with a lot of attitudes/opinions with facts backing them up in a sort of "argggh tone". From my experience these are the traits of "true professional linux users". Note: I personally use: Private use: POP OS Enterprise use: RHEL 8/9

I love jumping around on different Distros !!! I really enjoy your informative and fun videos. The downside of distrohopping - is knowing whats what - in the boot menu. I wish there were an easy way to modulate my menu mahem .....

Recent Pop_OS migrant and have been quite pleased so far. Not concerned about System76 skipping an interim upgrade. I am more interested in a new and unique desktop environment. I too like the tiling feature and have accepted the 'guh-nome' desktop after years on xfce. Thanks for another great video! :)

High quality videos. Thanks for all your hard work! Awesome content and editing! I would love to see your process from start to finish.

Another great video. I'm thinking of switching from Mint to Pop!_OS as my main distro. If I need the latest software, Flatpaks are fine (plus the odd Appimage), so I'm not worried that there will be no 22.10 release. I wish the Pop Shop did a better job of distinguishing between Debs and Flatpaks, but I'm okay with the command line for installing the latter.

I stopped distro hopping when I landed on PopOS and I've been happy ever since. While I am a little concerned about their release cycle changing to yearly, I am certain that any important system updates will still be released. Also, like you said, most of my apps are through flatpak. Except Steam, because I can't seem to get the flatpak version to work properly. So, for now I'm sticking with PopOS.

Thankful to the algorithms for leading me to your channel! Great, well thought out and presented content! Thank you!

I’ve been out of the Linux loop for a couple years now, and was wondering if any new Linux channels had popped up since then. I stumbled upon your channel recently and was happy to see a new face! Your videos are refreshingly different from the usual Linux/tech videos I’ve been used to for several years. Instant fan of the channel! Thanks for the neat content!

Love your videos. As a Windows user who has tried several times to switch to full-time linux (including a stint with Pop_OS), what makes me nervous is that the current version of their distro isn't quite mature and stable enough to keep me away from Windows, so my confidence level in such a big change isn't particularly high. I'll be interested to see how it works out.

Thank you! I’m definitely a fan and user of PopOS, and my next laptop (this year) will be a System76 one. I just don’t have a ton of time to manage my OS and too many issues, and PopOS has been perfect for me.

I'm using Pop!OS for some time now and loving it. I don't care about this change, it's all fine and I really want to see their new desktop environment. The thing I'm not happy with is that I learn about it today in a video that is now 3 months old while I check their website regularly... Great video btw, and I'm glad I found it since it made me discover your channel!

New to the channel. It's great so far! I like the humor and the snark. It reminds me of technology connections. And also praise to anyone who can actually write cobol.

Hey Veronica, just discovered your channel. Enjoying many videos, thanks for the great content! Just an idea for a new video: what about an office tour showing your computers and gadgets?

Couldn't agree more, happy to wait for Pop!_OS 23.04 with a Rust based desktop. Love seeing the Model M being used, I do too and really enjoy it.

I really enjoy your unapologetically nerdy content and appreciate all the time and effort that goes into making it. Thanks!

If it ever comes to fruition that you and Technology Connections do a collab video, I think the sarcasm'o'meter will go through the roof like no other time in history :D

I think this is the best made video on YT related to Linux I've seen so far. Keep up the good work. Also, drop that trackball thing, it's weird.

I am so happy to see another person using a Model M. I finally bought the UniComp version of it this year with the Super Key. Also the plastic from 1984 was really beginning to show its age and weird cracks in the case were showing.

I used to distrohop a lot. Always going back to linux mint. But then pop!os really got me hooked on windows tilling and everything. I think building your own de is a way to go. That's why i love cinnamon that much. System76 knows what they are doing, i have complete faith.

This looks to me like a software and hardware vendor behaving in a calm and responsible way. I'm gradually becoming a big fan of Pop OS. It's well constructed, and like you, I'm really liking the tiling features. Most of my work revolves around CNA, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes and Service Mesh, so a solid Linux platform is a must. It's great to see and hear someone with your knowledge and experience articulating an equally calm and sensible approach to their desktop. Thanks for the great content.

been pronouncing G-nome since 2.4 and proud of it! I've been using rolling distros for the most of my linux journey but recently decided that I want a system that is low maintenance, works out of the box and gets out of the way. Being a bit of the rust-stan and reading about direction they're taking decided to give pop a try and have to say It's amazing. Having an option of tiling workspace without the need of manually configuring a wm is a killer feature (and option to disable when not needed) As for their release cycle... if it ain't broken, don't need to fix it great video, keep 'em coming :)

Hi, I came across your channel by chance. I had years ago (1997?) the first time to do with Linux, then SUSE Linux, a distribution from Germany. At that time still on my good i386 computer. In the last years I got more and more away from Linux, professionally everything was Windows based and since Windows 7 it got better and better. After watching some of your videos I installed Linux on a laptop again yesterday, this time Pop!_os. Somehow I'm looking forward to tinkering again. Keep up the good work, looking forward to new videos from you.

I really love you channel, retro feel and the way you present stuff. So relaxing and right on the point.

I recall ago reading decades ago in the GNU documentation that the pronunciation should be Guh-new. Is it still there? I'll have to look. I have not looked in the Gnome docs for their desired pronunciation but I bet it is in there.

I was surprised with how immediately pleased I was with Pop OS. It’s my first Linux distro that sets up a recovery partition. It saved my butt over the holidays, when I wrecked my desktop trying to remove pop desktop and install KDE at a house with terrible Internet. I now know, don’t nuke pop desktop if installing a second DE, and don’t switch from the default display manager, unique to Pop OS but I haven’t researched why. I booted up the recovery partition, and since I keep /home separate, I had my environment back up in ten minutes with my profile intact. No flash drives, no waiting for a fresh ISO, and the fastest system recovery I’ve ever had. It isn’t perfect - I did have to set back up a mount point in fstab for my secondary drive and set ZRAM back up, but I’d rather have to do that over the system making a bad assumption that existing files were OK and failing the restore process as a result.

I'm totally OK with the delay especially with the rapid kernel upgrade and NVIDIA drivers and since I also own a S76 laptop that so far is very well supported. Thanks for your content!

After many years I was working in linux mint, andI was not happy with many failures in 2-3 last releases. Therefor, as many of us I am starting jumping method to find some other, for me daily driver distro. I try MX, opensuse, Manjaro, Antix, Fedora, but nothing. Then I hear about some changes in pop os, and I was happy. PopOS is my daily driver for PC and Laptop too. I am waiting for great changes from system76 people. Thank you Veronica, that such a nice person is part of popos comunity too. sry for may badglisch.

Great video. Love your wonderfully-crafted videos and explanations!

1:33 I'm not sure if you were intentionally doing an impression of "Technology Connections" but you nailed it perfectly!

Production value is getting better and better on those videos! Love to see it

I lovr Pop and it's been my daily driver for over a year. I hope the desktop made with rust works out. Thanks for the video!

I think this is a very SMART move for them. With a yearly update schedule, you won't get nonsense like what LTT went through when Linus tried using Pop. It's a great distrob for people want things to just work, and the quick, sometimes slightly buggy releases only got in the way of that.

Thank you for this awesome video! I also really like PopOS, devs did great job on it and I glad to know that they actively developing new Cosmic DE ;)

I like pop as my pick for distro. I am somewhat indifferent about it all. I didn't really care about intermediate releases when I used Ubuntu. I also feel quite comfortable in Gnome, but I am excited to try a new DE when it ships.

Great video. Yes, you are correct about Gnome pronunciation. I love the pop-shell tiling extension. I've installed it on every distro I use. Rust is a great language; that will surely be a good move for them. Thanks.

It's so refreshingly weird to hear a reasonable opinion about something like this instead of seeing dozens of angry forum posts. Thanks for being the voice of sanity! :)

Thanks for the video, Veronica. I haven't been keeping up with this story, so your report is very helpful. I'm pretty happy with Flatpak EXCEPT when I am using an IDE and need to use a language that isn't included in the Flatpak. For instance, the Geany Flatpak can't compile/build/run anything but Python. IntelliJ is OK because "approved" languages can be brought in through the IDE itself. I really hope that Flatpak IDEs get the ability to bring in compilers and interpreters in via Toolbox, Distrobox, or even a local package. GNOME Builder can do this already, but I find it hard to use for what I'm doing, which isn't (yet) building GNOME software.

Had to pause to write this comment. The editing on this video is AMAZING. 😮😮😮 I already like the content but the editing here is perfect and funny. Please, let the person editing your videos know that he/she is doing an amazing job.

I've also had a System76 laptop for a few years now. It has some hiccups every now and then but I'm not changing it out any time soon and I'm definitely going to stick to PopOS.

Hello! New to the channel and loved the outro music. Is there anywhere online it can be bought and/or streamed? I figured since you wrote it, you were the best person to ask.:) Thank you.

hey el!my windows xp work rly greate ,but some chat functions in face book r gone ,but i afraid if i install any linux ,then i can see only 2d text in my desktop,that i didnt know how to use it :)

i just found this channel and i love it so far!! you have the right balance of information, relatability, and humor

Thanks for the info! You've just gotten me to subscribe and start looking into using Pop!_OS as my primary distro!

Loud and clear explaining, I would love more like this, keep up the great job

Fantastic video! I've been in and out of PopOS for some time. I was dual booting and using PopOS for everything except shooting/editing videos. I could never get a reliable connection to my canon DSLR in OBS on Linux or any distro or it would be my only choice for an OS.

I really liked Pop os when I daily drove it for while. But the same issues I had with the Gnome DE in general are also in Pop os. I'm hoping the Rust based Cosmic DE they come up with fixes enough of those issues with unique changes. For example, Theming on gnome is a PITA. Didn't enjoy dealing with that. I do that to fix some of my issues with stock icons for folders so I can organize a bit better. Also needing an extension to format my date and time in the taskbar (and other simple settings) or not being present at all is annoying. Plasma on Kubuntu so far gives me everything I wanted in gnome by default. light theming can be done from within the settings instead of creating and messing with folders in home directory. Needing another extension to change audio devices from the taskbar on the desktop is also very annoying to me. I really want Cosmic to be good too.

I'm interested to see where Cosmic goes after growing a bit from it's Gnome extension roots. The current version feels a bit rough to me, but that's OK because it's literally a 1.0 after all. I also really like where Gnome 4x is going, and that kinda seemed like it was a catalyst for Cosmic. Aurgh! I wish the two orgs could get along better, but the hardest problems in technology always seem to be people problems, not technical ones. I've also been trying out the Fedora 37 beta for a few weeks, and that's been just fine. So whatever happens there will be a bunch of fine options to choose from suppose.

I'm happy to stick with Pop_OS and see what happens, for me, it just works and I'm happy with the way it fits into my workflow. Great video as always, thanks.

Entertaining! I'm in the Nome camp but that's me....as well as tried Pop OS for about a month hated the fact it wouldn't keep or use my wall papers or keep the power settings I set so I left and went to Endeavor OS and been happy for the last month so far. Also can't stand gnome but happy with KDE.

Would you do a video on the advantages and disadvantages of encrypting a laptop's hard drive? Does is get complicated or annoying if you have multiple users on the same computer? I ordered a System76 laptop, and will have to decide whether to encrypt the drive very soon. Thank you!

I love how you answer the questions in the thumbnail with your mug :D

Looking forward to the cosmic desktop. It's going to be fun to see. It's so rare that I need the latest version of a piece of software (other than my browser). Anything that reduces the gnome of gnome extensions in my life is good.

New subscriber here, thanks to Jeff at Craft Computing talking about the "Your Tools are Probably Fine" video on his Talking Heads stream. I'm not a Pop!_OS user, but I just don't see the big deal. I could even see the argument for them moving to following the Ubuntu LTS releases only. Look at the bright side--it's still updating more frequently than Debian stable! Also, I've been using Linux for over 20 years. Back when I started, I recall being educated that the proper pronunciation of GNOME was "guh-nome" because that's what the project called itself. In that respect, nothing ever changes--there's always questions and complaints about pronunciation.

Any chance on a walk-through of Kdenlive?

recently i decided to switch to linux full time and Pop!_os was one of the first ones I tried and after about 10 distros I keep going back to Pop. Really looking forward to the next release.

I switched from POP to Manjaro GNOME 18 months ago (I love the rolling release model), but I'm still using PopShell, because I'm addicted to windows tiling as well. I now fear PopOS is going to stop developing their GNOME extension though.

I would be less concerned about Pop rebuilding their base than Gnome's direction. Also, if System 76 does the same stellar job with their new Distro as they have with the current and their hardware, I am rather excited to see what they do. Of course there will be bumps as in all things new, but I have no doubt they'll have a plan to succeed.

Are the audio issues inside of Pop!_OS still present on anyone's computer? I never quite new how to fix it but I saw it being adressed on matrix and so on.

Good video. I am a newer viewer who is looking to switch to Linux in the future and I was wondering if you would consider doing a video on all the different package types, I find it a bit confusing what everything is in my limited experience with POP!_OS and SteamOS.

It is funny you say it is well-known, but I only just heard of it until today, this video. Maybe I have been living under a rock, but gonna give it a go. Subbed and liked, ty.

…was the wind sound near the end of the vid from Final Fantasy 6? (*very* important question (because that’s my favorite game))

Wow, the cliffs at Taylor's Falls on your wallpaper? That brings back some childhood memories

I just discovered your channel. I like your format, and your keyboard.

Oh the alliteration! Well done! Thanks for this video too, probably saved me a lot of heartache with xmonad.

How do you like your laptop? I ask because I recently purchased a darter pro and have been enjoying myself so far.

This video made me try pop os again after using arch based distros for last 3 years. Good work :)

that was teh one thing i liked about popos ..... that quick and easy tiler thing....... however i could not get ti to be usable on my systems, was just to laggy and i switched to Mint.

I almost went PopOS but decided to get off the Ubuntu train and hop on Endeavour OS. Final stop? Arch. (That's my cool way of saying I tried to install Arch and I can't do it)

Great video. I've used some version of Linux since 1996. I use Debian, but I do really like the tiling windows Pop_Os has.

Best Liux content creator by far. Thank you for making things simple to understand and follow. That's the right to bring more people to Linux. I keeo seeing guids like 'oh yah, just git this, install that, chuck this in your environment variables and you're done' and I'm like what?????? Of it's possible to make a video about setting up optimus switching so that the laptop can automatically start the dedicated gpu when needed (say a game) that would be amazing. Thank you so much!

Ok so I need you to make a video explaining how to run tiling. I'm trying but I don't know what I'm not getting.

You got me with the keyboard and shirt. I'm a trackball person also. Couldn't see. Which trackball do you use?

Pos!_OS is working for me right now. I do have some minor issues, but there is usually enough info how to fix them, as most of them are not entirely distro specific.

I've been playing with Pop!_OS and its tiling interface for some time on a REALLY old laptop (2008) but the upgrade to 22.04 seemed to break the wifi support; I have an ancient Broadcom wifi adapter. So I switched back to LinuxMint. I really missed the tiling interface 'cause keyboard stuff is so much faster than trying to mouse around on a laptop. Consequently, I re-did a clean install of Pop!_OS 22.04 and re-loaded the wifi driver I needed and it worked beautifully. Must have just been a glitch in the upgrade. i3 and some other tiling WMs that I've tried seem a bit too hard-core for me but Pop!_OS seems to have just enough of that secret sauce to make things really snappy without going full Spartan. I really hope they get the full Cosmic desktop done and made available in other Linux distro's because I'd love to try it on a stripped back Arch install.

Love this channel I just found in my recommendations. Curious if you are willing to review Drauger OS? Thanks :)

I love Linux, but because of one game WarZone I have not been able to fully switch. I can do editing and stuff like that but gaming online is where I find it is quite a bit more difficult to get working and I do not want to waste a bunch of time when I could be playing! Great video by the way!

😄 I like trackballs too. I have an Elecom Huge, and love it because i have a mild case of arthritics. For games I still use a regular mouse though.

That alliteration bit got me. Well done. subbed

Great Video! i say "gah" nome as well .... Also really like pop!os even though i don't own a system 76 computer i do own a T470 thinkpad, but my only problem with linux on that laptop is the sound and input device do not work as well as to lets say windows 11 though i do boot it up on a usb nvme enclosure that has pop!os on it so i been using it like that for awhile now i also have pop!os now on my Asus B350-F and i honestly think its a good system has good nvidia drivers support it has a later kernel than ubuntu and also i enjoy the tiling feature with blur my shell extension its pretty cool desktop i hope the rust version is better than gnome.

Oh, by the way thanks for what you do! I like your content, and love your enthusiasm.

It all kind of depends on how package management is setup. What I mean is take a distro like Arch where AUR was kind of a Flatpack/Snap before these were in wide use. Now that Snap, Flatpack, containers, Linuxbrew exist and are actually really good what the base distro. can or should provide and/or focus on narrows from everything under the sun to basically hardware support (the kernel/kernel drivers) and a unified UI/UX, which isn't trivial, but is narrower than what historically Linux distros handled. I've also almost hit my two decade mark with Linux and I've had the pleasure of compiling custom kernels to eventually after months of custom DSDTs, system freezes, finally getting suspend to work on my laptop, as well as working with unstable Linux distros where the for example sound doesn't work etc.. I don't really want to spend weeks working on getting hardware or software to work every OS upgrade. If that OS upgrade is frequent, eg half a year, that's even more time out of not being able to get work outside of the OS/software upgrading done. I've noticed my Lemur(10) has had all kinds of firmware updates over time, and while System76 isn't perfect, but what is, they are creating a quality product, over time, although I just had to replace my laptop's battery, literally yesterday, but that's my fault for keeping it plugged in 24x7, and that's 2 years after purchase. It's not as though System76 isn't being inventive, eg that Rust OS, COSMIC, System76 is working on looks real nice. tl;dr 1 year is a great cycle time imo for a stable release.

If they allowed desktop plugins I would agree with you. However due to the fact that they likely never will, I don't know what to do for my desktop options at this point. I refuse to use a desktop without that silly wobbly windows effect that was originally part of Compiz.

My next laptop will be from system76. I am a new pop_OS user having switch from W7 and I've been really happy with it.

I have recently dual-booted my PC with POP OS but while i am using it the screen starts flickering whenever I make a cursor move. This only happens in laptop display but not on any external monitor. Can anyone help me fix this issue.

Hi, a bit late but whats the comparison like between MintOs & PopOs (both ubuntu based)...

Being a Linux Mint user, which only gets major updates every two years, I don't have any issues at all with Pop!_OS skipping 22.10. But given the sheer number of desktop environments we already have for Linux, not to mention stand-alone window managers, I wish System76 would focus on making their System76 tools DE (and distro) agnostic instead of marrying them to GNOME or COSMIC.

I'm old school Linux user from decades back. I agree about G NOME from the GNU and it's pronunciation

I've liked what they've done with the Cosmic DE so far.