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 NewbiesPlasma 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 FlingsGreat News for NebulaNebula 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 StoreLUP 329: Flat Network TruthersThe 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 ThreadAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsPop!_OS by System76Unplugged Core ContributorsManjaro ARM 20.10 released!Feedback: TLP MagicFeedback: Chromebooks and EducationPIck: 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