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Oct 15, 2025 · 9:43 PM UTC

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Check out the look and feel: s76.co/Pop!_Feature_list

Your desktop interface has never looked so good. (COSMIC Beta Theming...

Transform the look of your interface in seconds. Change color theme, accent colors, panel location, apps & applets, and panel opacity. COSMIC beta arriving S...

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Install now with no subscription, no license fee, no data collection. system76.com/pop/pop-beta/
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Just switched my Dell G15 laptop from Windows 10 to Pop!_OS and the performance jump is insane. Games that I used to run at ~90FPS now hit 120. Pop!_OS feels way smoother overall, especially with NVIDIA drivers.
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It's still buggy, not yet ready for full production use! Still under testing
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Some bugs, but we're working through 'em! Even as a beta it's been our smoothest release yet.
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Linux will make most people throw them out quicker, nothing against you personally though.
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throw them out...their Windows?
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Been using 🚀Pop_OS! For 3 years. Never been life soo good.
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Our engineers are really working their magic with this one! 🧙‍♂️
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With rust based cosmic desktop how efficient is compared to gnome desktop on 8gb old devices (they are non upgradable old intel macbook air)
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8GB RAM is recommended so you should be in the clear. As for efficiency, while we're still tackling optimizations, Phoronix benchmarked the beta against 22.04 LTS and it seemed to edge out the old version in every test! phoronix.com/review/popos-24…

System76 Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Performing Well In Early Benchmarks

Last week System76 released the Pop!_OS 24.04 beta along with the beta COSMIC desktop.

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Hey, I ran into an issue with games using COSMIC where when I try to full screen them, they'd only appear in one corner. Is there somewhere I can add a bug report?
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That sounds like the one we're tracking here github.com/pop-os/cosmic-com… but if not, feel free to file it there. Thanks for the assist!

New windows for some apps appear not centered, offset to the right and bottom partially outside of...

Showing an example with a game but happens also with VLC video playback: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1nfi141/comment/ndwu86t/ Tried resolving this with X11 window application scaling o...

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Unsolicited non-robotic reply, Pop!_OS works great on my new Strix laptop. As is true with most distros, any problems I had with it were largely self-inflicted.
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Pop OS is pretty good, i will never understand the hesitation towards moving from windows to a Linux distro
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is it really a good idea to recommend a beta version to people that know nothing about linux?
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Don't mention disk encryption, because people most likely still have PTSD thanks to Microsoft's BitLocker.
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My wife was absolutely thrilled with her Pop install after being able to play older games that she couldn't get working on win10. But, my 16yr old insists on learning Unity engine, his sys qualified for the "upgrade" though so he's good, sort of. My 14yr old has a dual boot win11/pop; booted win11 one time -- during the installation. I signed up for the extended security updates to buy myself a few days to break from procrastination.
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So true
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what if we have literally hundreds of boutique audio softwares that were specifically made for either windows or apple? some of the plugins i have are obsolete and the companies don't even exist anymore (so there's no updating, etc)
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How far is it from final release … looking for a new os to try
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What is final release date 🙄⌛
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Well that's great yet unfortunately the printing part where the Linux was weak at this point
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i wish there is an offline install option
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Or just use rufus to upgrade to windows 11
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Remember folks, recycle that old hdd, throw in a cheap sata and install Linux.
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everyone need to boycott windows
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uhmmm... no thanks, I'll just change to windows 7
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👀 𝓢𝓬𝓲𝓮𝓷𝔃𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓸𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓮 🤔 @linuxkumpel
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I've decided to install @pop_os_official with Cosmic Beta on my decommissioned Matebook D with AMD Ryzen 5, which still runs Windows 10, in the next few days. @COSMIC_desktop @carlrichell
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I won't be able to use the Beta version as a daily driver. But, definitely, looking forward to using 26.04 LTS next year.
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Welp... it's time to pirate ltsc version
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so ur telling me that linux cant be hacked in or is private ? dont it matter what page u visit anyway?
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