 Time here for more systems and with the release of Ubuntu 2010 Groovy Gorilla comes the Subreleases while everything that's based on essentially Ubuntu including my favorite Linux desktop operating system popo s And now that they are at version 20 Let's talk about some of the new features inside of here and it's not a major update But it's definitely something I like and yes, we'll get this out of the way I still recommend it over Ubuntu because of the fit finish and polish that they put on top of Basically Ubuntu and add some shortcuts and one of the things you may have noticed right away looking at these tabs is a feature We'll talk about last but it's probably my favorite feature of popo s 20 dot 10 So the new Linux kernel is that version 5.8 gnomes at 3.38 security updates, etc And a few other radon details But the big things that are exciting here is fractional scaling if you have really high-res monitors You need some of the fractional scaling in between that is now supported So or maybe some people who have a limited site want to just expand and make things look bigger That's another reason to use that external monitor support and graphics in hyper graphics mode This is for people especially with laptops that have dual video cards and the option to Support this used to require a reboot and no longer now you can choose some of the settings in there But in version 20.04 they introduced the concept of these tiling windows and They're pretty neat the way you can tile windows instead of having everything individually or sharing things between desktops and Oh, by the way, this is the cool retro theme that I'll leave a link to I just thought it looked kind of novel I thought people might be interested in taking a look at it, but Nonetheless, it's a pretty innovative way to handle things. So these are virtual desktops Which is native for Linux now what I want you to notice is that I had the tiling turned on originally And I turned it off right away and never used it until version 20 10 now because well it just didn't work right because of a really specific problem and that problem being the Inability to make floating window exceptions. So in the past we're going to open up right now And we've got these tiled together matter of fact Let's untile them all together and we'll start from the beginning with it So here are a bunch of individual windows that I can of course tab through like normal and some of these are on different desktops And there's this grouping of windows and then this grouping of windows now Well with one laptop with all of this it can be quite a bit So let's talk about how that works with tiling now the problem in the past we will turn on tiling All right now I've got this and this but I want them to be grouped together And I could just drag these tabs over there, but this is where things get kind of interesting with the groupings So we'll go to the grouping option and we'll drag this on here Now that's that group and that group but Individually they're treated as individual windows that can be dragged around to different desktops matter of fact I can drag this back up to this desktop and go here and Now they're all tiled together, but the challenge is going to be let's open up calculator If we open up kelp that looks stupid there's no other way to describe it and The problem was we couldn't make exceptions to this. So let's select the calculator and Well, it's current window only just this one of it Hey, look it's floating now and it doesn't get stuck in full screen I could have made that a permanent switch I could have not this is the one thing that it was really missing So I'm really happy they listen to people because well Papa West and that team over at system 76 does a good job of that And this feature makes this extremely usable all of a sudden So now I can take certain exceptions that I don't want grouped together and they're handled that way where I can say All right, it can go behind these windows. So I still have my groupings. I still have my ability to Tile things together and it works on all the individual screens and has all the other customizations on there That's probably the big thing that I noticed about this now Of course Papa West is going to include anything else that you've seen coming over in a bunch to Including something I probably should have mentioned but it's worth a note of the percentage being at the top here for Battery percentage that's actually something that was a well kind of a Hidden feature before you had to tweak around to get turned on a camera what you had to do to do it It's been so long But now it's just a button that was added to a bunch to and of course brought over here to pop and as I said I still think Papa West is a great way to start I really think a bunch is a solid desktop operating system But a little bit bland Papa West along with all the keyboard shortcuts that allow you to build really navigate things And what I feel is a very efficient way is one of the reasons like Papa West the installer works really well And of course allows you to encrypt the entire drive on the fly right from the go Which is something I really care about when it comes to security that we especially on a laptop where it is Well more potential for it to wander off somewhere I like the fact that it has a boot password and everything set up on here with full drive encryption Papa West the upgrade process Going from 2004 to 2010 on both my laptop my desktop went really smooth I didn't do a video on it because it's not very engaging content. It prompts you for an upgrade You see yes, it downloads and ask you to reboot it applies the upgrade on reboot And I believe it reboots one more time and that's it you're in and all my settings and everything didn't go away at all As a matter of fact It was probably the smoothest update of anyone I've done over the years with Papa West which I've been using for quite a While this does include for my video production and my video editing and Kaden live and all the other open source tools I use and yes, I do run this desktop for my business So big thumbs up and hats off to the folks over at system 76 and pop and the Papa West team because they did a great job on This version pain-free upgrade really great features and now I want to use these Tiling windows because of the way they can stack together and are managed and although. I've only been running this for a couple days No, it's actually been pretty smooth I haven't found any quirks or bugs or anything But if I do find them of course I'll make sure they get reported because you can't just complain about them You're gonna fix your yet to go through processes and bug reporting and document them That's how the developers know to fix problems, but my big thumbs up on this release and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the Bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums that Lawrence systems calm where we can carry on the discussion about this video other Videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time