375: Wrong About Pop!

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more.

Chapters:

0:00 Pre-Show

0:44 Intro

0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru

2:39 Plasma 5.20

7:50 Kernel 5.9

8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm

15:28 SPONSOR: Linode

18:54 Big News for Nebula

22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel

27:40 Housekeeping

29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview

31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff

34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent

37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution

43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales

47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand

49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released

50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru

51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic

53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education

56:16 Pick: Autotier

59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1

1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors

1:01:10 Outro

1:03:18 Post-Show

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release!
• ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi.
• ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings
• Great News for Nebula
• Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time.
• Mobile Nebula on the App Store
• LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers
• The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines.
• AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pop!_OS by System76
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• Manjaro ARM 20.10 released!
• Feedback: TLP Magic
• Feedback: Chromebooks and Education
• PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
• AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog