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PopOS! A different Linux
As you may know my relationship with Linux has been mixed. Over the years I have tried to use several different distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Red Hat, Elemental, SuSe) and the experience has always been, to be kind, subpar. Whether it is total failure to run, choppiness, kernel issues, driver issues and even plain old lack of the right applications it has been painful. This pain was in part responsible for my ultimately making a Mac my daily driver (that and Salesforce.com development is best done on the Mac) and for my alternate being a Windows 11 machine.
Then I caught wind of a new distro named PopOS!. Probably more accurate new to me. PopOS! has some unique attributes that caught my interest such as:
1) It features a new UI design made specifically with supporting STEM workers in mind. This UI is named COSMIC. Right now it is a heavily modified version of the GNOME desktop Linux has had for a while but later this summer a new version that is ground up new code will be released.
2) It has abandoned the GRUB bootloader. In it's day GRUB was an institution but in todays world of UEFI systems it has been in need of replacement. PopOS! uses systemd-boot which natively supports both UEFI and NVMe SSD (which have no boot sector).
3) It comes with natively written drivers for NVidia graphics and CUDA. Likewise other popular accessories and components.
So I downloaded the latest version and set it up. Here are some pics:
This is part of the new installer package. System76 (the authors of PopOS!) worked with the team behind Elemental OS to create a more user friendly setup.
This is the basic desktop. And finally....
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My experience so far is this OS is pretty easy to install and it runs smoothly and pretty fast. I am still getting used to the features like...
Then I caught wind of a new distro named PopOS!. Probably more accurate new to me. PopOS! has some unique attributes that caught my interest such as:
1) It features a new UI design made specifically with supporting STEM workers in mind. This UI is named COSMIC. Right now it is a heavily modified version of the GNOME desktop Linux has had for a while but later this summer a new version that is ground up new code will be released.
2) It has abandoned the GRUB bootloader. In it's day GRUB was an institution but in todays world of UEFI systems it has been in need of replacement. PopOS! uses systemd-boot which natively supports both UEFI and NVMe SSD (which have no boot sector).
3) It comes with natively written drivers for NVidia graphics and CUDA. Likewise other popular accessories and components.
So I downloaded the latest version and set it up. Here are some pics:
This is part of the new installer package. System76 (the authors of PopOS!) worked with the team behind Elemental OS to create a more user friendly setup.
This is the basic desktop. And finally....
GateFans!
My experience so far is this OS is pretty easy to install and it runs smoothly and pretty fast. I am still getting used to the features like...
Star WARS: The Acolyte
Not a lot known about this show , just maybe a spring 2024 release (After Mandalorian S4?)
and that it is a Sith centered show set before the prequels
thedirect.com
and that it is a Sith centered show set before the prequels
Star Wars The Acolyte: Release, Cast & Everything We Know
When is Star Wars: The Acolyte coming to Disney+? Who's in the cast? What will the show be about? Find out here!
thedirect.com
Anti Star Trek website Treksphere puts out "hit piece" on the existing Star Trek fanbase. The rebuttal.
Our friends on social media have shared an article from treksphere.com which attacks the existing Star Trek fanbase directly. There are several articles of this nature and several tweets and Facebook comments being put out there. Most of them attempt to paint the existing fanbase of Star Trek as bigots and haters. (reprinted with permission by author)
There have been a lot of blind accusations going around. The one I'm addressing today comes from Treksphere.com and it's called, "The Star Trek Fandom And Its Hidden Bigotry".
This article assumes the same old trope of "If you don't like this show, you're a bigot". The difference here is that this author assumes that some may be engaging in bigotry "without realizing it". Ok, I guess I can buy that. So what acts of bigotry is this author referring to?
Critiquing a tv show. No, really.
This person is arguing that critiquing a tv show can be seen as an unconscious form of bigotry. Even if the critique has to do with canonical or historical accuracy, it still supposedly dismisses marginalized groups in some sort of way, therefore it's bigotry. I DON'T buy this. Here is their first example:
"When the characters of Gray and Adira were officially announced as the first nonbinary and transgender characters, so much of the discourse I saw by even well-intentioned fans were about how technically that wasn’t true because nonbinary and transgender characters existed in Trek before, so they weren’t the first. Examples of the J’naii and the Trill were brought up to defend that diverse representation was not just something only newer Trek shows did, but that older shows did it first."
To the author's credit, this is true. As a marketing stunt, the people who ran NuTrek announced, before the season three premiere, that Gray and...
There have been a lot of blind accusations going around. The one I'm addressing today comes from Treksphere.com and it's called, "The Star Trek Fandom And Its Hidden Bigotry".
This article assumes the same old trope of "If you don't like this show, you're a bigot". The difference here is that this author assumes that some may be engaging in bigotry "without realizing it". Ok, I guess I can buy that. So what acts of bigotry is this author referring to?
Critiquing a tv show. No, really.
This person is arguing that critiquing a tv show can be seen as an unconscious form of bigotry. Even if the critique has to do with canonical or historical accuracy, it still supposedly dismisses marginalized groups in some sort of way, therefore it's bigotry. I DON'T buy this. Here is their first example:
"When the characters of Gray and Adira were officially announced as the first nonbinary and transgender characters, so much of the discourse I saw by even well-intentioned fans were about how technically that wasn’t true because nonbinary and transgender characters existed in Trek before, so they weren’t the first. Examples of the J’naii and the Trill were brought up to defend that diverse representation was not just something only newer Trek shows did, but that older shows did it first."
To the author's credit, this is true. As a marketing stunt, the people who ran NuTrek announced, before the season three premiere, that Gray and...
WANDAVISION
Anyone watching this show? I gave ep 1 a try, waiting for the whole season to load before i watch more
I thought ep1 was a challenge to get through
