375: Wrong About Pop‪!‬ LINUX Unplugged

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