>manufactures and sells their own laptops, desktops, servers, and keyboards
>disables Intel's ME backdoor firmware
>leading the charge in innovating Linux and freeing it from the clutches of people and projects sabotaging and holding Linux back (you know who)
>doing it all in a programming language that fixes all of C/C++'s shortfalls and which stands to become the most dominant programming language of the future, Rust
>picking up where Ubuntu left off to make an OS consumer friendly enough to convince people to ditch Mac and Windows
Name another Linux distro doing more for the Linux community and regular consumers who aren't hardcore hackers. I'll wait.
Most moronic logo award goes to...
Logo? I was thinking of the name.
>disables Intel's ME backdoor firmware
Source for this? I seriously doubt this is true, it's a complex procedure and can't be done without opening your box like so. You shouldn't lie about these topics.
>complex procedure
computers are not complicated.
a moronic farmer from Laos can figure out computer architectures within 2 weeks. It is probably the most simple subject ever next to maybe something like Algebra.
Since you are so knowledgeable and I am so moronic, please explain to me how you can flash your BIOS and disable Intel's ME just by installing another OS?
I don't see it.
Ok, i'll tell you later.
NTA, guess it is done for hardware sold by System76 and for those running coreboot
See https://support.system76.com/articles/intel-me/
>a moronic farmer from Laos can figure out computer architectures within 2 weeks. It is probably the most simple subject ever next to maybe something like Algebra.
No it could not "figure out" anything it hasn't already figured out. If those things were at all capable of any of what you're suggesting, it would've already happened
The hardware they sell has ME disabled, it's not PopOS doing it.
But it's PopOS's choosing. Framework open source Laptops doesn't even do this.
Pop OS does not do it. It can't
System76 firmware does allow you to disable ME if you buy one of their devices.
This is not a libreboot but it does neuter ME to the point where it can't communicate with the web.
https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/blob/master/docs/intel-me.md
Poop!_OS is bloated garbage and Cosmic will be abandonware in 3-5 years.
That is, assuming Cosmic actually releases at some point and isn't just vaporware.
It doesn't matter how much you daydream about COSMIC not existing. It has already been developed, and many are already actively using it, and creating applications for it, despite the lack of a release. It will be showcased at LinuxFest Northwest tomorrow.
You will not dethrone the kin/g/.
God it looks like stale vomit
Do tinker trannies really want this?
looks neat and all but if it's not easy to navigate using just a keyboard, it's nothing for me to get excited about.
COSMIC is gonna be great, but they need to fix their light theme first, starting by switching the white and gray around.
There is no singular light theme. A theme configuration is dynamically generated by cosmic-settings based on the chosen color values for the background and primary container layers. The generated color palette is influenced by the OKLCH lightness scores of the selected color(s). If a background color has a lightness score below 89, then a neutral palette is generated which creates ligher components and container layers. If a background color has a lightness score above 88, then a neutral palette is generated which creates darker components and container layers. Using this approach, it's possible to generate a light theme with dark containers, and vice versa. Text color is also dynamically chosen to ensure ideal contrast in any scenario.
That's nice and all, but that gray is too gray.
If you cannot appreciate my SNES color scheme, then you do not deserve it.
looks good
This actually does look really nice, I think I'll try it out on my main PC when it properly launches. I've been meaning to swap to linux from win10 for a while anyway but I'm pretty interested in this, and there's not really a better opportunity to do it.
Does it have RISC-V support?
>unlike you wintoddlers and macgays, I have le CHOICE®. There is no central authority that can FORCE me to adopt a particular standard. That's the beauty of free and open sores.
>but also, Linux is being HELD BACK by one central authority that is forcing everyone to adopt a particular standard.
Pick one narrative please.
It's actually very funny that there are several groups who make tons of money attempting and failing to hold linux back
Can I make ME unusable by using an USB to ethernet adapter?
USB is controlled via the CPU, where the ME is, so no
>manufactures and sells their own laptops, desktops, servers, and keyboards
They buy and resell shit with their own logo, which is not a bad thing, but nothing super special either.
>leading the charge in innovating Linux
How? Just by creating ANOTHER desktop environment? Like it or not, Fedora is the one that leads with open source solutions. Pop!_OS is Debian's fork's fork.
>picking up where Ubuntu left off to make an OS consumer friendly enough to convince people to ditch Mac and Windows
Show me the stats
No, the whole reason Linux broke 4% marketshare was because of Valve and SteamDeck/SteamOS
I use it, because it Just Werks.
i was sold until you mentioned rust
no thank you me and my penis will go somewhere else now
>Name another Linux distro doing more for the Linux community and regular consumers who aren't hardcore hackers. I'll wait.
Did you even try?
>redhat
>doing anything for the linux desktop
pick one
>I had a Megadrive
Same, although I only owned a few games, so I mostly played on an emulator (Gens) as well.
test
>use GTK
>GNOME ecosystem
Dropped. It will inexorably be forced to be gnomefied sooner or later.
COSMIC uses libcosmic; not GTK.
COSMIC does not rely on any GNOME libraries.
Cosmic DE is neat, but the future is on something like Fedora Silverblue with a good image build system like uBlue Os's.
Pop OS seems to only be a great experience on system76 hardware. Though I might check out cosmic on nixOS one day. It may be the first DE in a while I install, mostly because it seems to be a DE made by people who have used and liked I3
>seems to only be a great experience on system76 hardware
why?
I've installed it on other laptops. It seemed buggy. I assume the clevo laptops they pick are what they test and debug against. And YouTube shills that actually seem to daily drive pop OS and say good things about it all have the company's hardware.
The regression tests that Pop!_OS performs equally improve hardware support for all systems out there with similar hardware. At a bare minimum, it has the same level of hardware support as the Ubuntu base that it is built upon. Pop!_OS uses mainline kernels from the Ubuntu mainline packaging.
You're clearly too young to have ever owned a SNES.
I couldn't afford it, I had a Megadrive (Genesis, in case you don't know).
My neighbor's kid had the SNES with DKC, the Super GB and Revenge of the Gator. I think Spanky's Quest as well. I came to own an SNES many years later but by then emulators were running "fine".
it's good that for a change a distro is run by a company that actually makes its money with desktops, rather than just using its desktop user community as QA labor for their server OS. They actually have an incentive to innovate and sell a good desktop experience.
Agreed. The main reason Canonical canned Unity and never really put much effort into it, I believe, was because they made their money from servers. They didn't even stop using GTK.
rename it, new logo and I seriously would consider using it (even over Fedora)
unironically this. hope with the new version and the release of cosmic they get rid of the silly fricking name
literal morons
y tho
Been using Linux nigh 20 years, Pop OS is literally the best one I've ever used. The integration with hardware+drivers is bar none, and I'm not lying when I say:
The tiling extension changed my life.
It has ruined other OSes for me. The true It Just Works©, and it works so well.
sudo apt-get install steam
oh whoops
their laptops are rebranded cheap chinese computers. plastic trash.
their new desktop is written in rust, which is also shit.
Anyone who thinks Rust is shit has shit for brains.
their keyboards and desktop chassis are made in the US
And what about everything else?
same chinkshit as everywhere else
>Is Pop!_OS the future of Linux?
No, Arch + KDE + Wayland is.
Funny how FOSS only works when there is someone that actually earns money. And in this case it only works because FOSS tards literally can't get the hardware they sell for free as in download from github.
FOSS is not about working for free