 Have you been looking for a Linux distribution that tries to mimic the look and feel of the Apple iPad? No, me neither, but there is a distribution out there that does try to do that. It's called Jingo S. It is a Chinese based Linux distribution. It is based on Ubuntu and it really tries to capture that iPad kind of look and feel. As you can see from the website here at jingo s.com, you know, it looks like it's a really gorgeous kind of interface. Obviously, it's really meant for a touch device, a touch interface. I don't have such a device to test this thing out on. I don't have any touchscreen monitors or anything. So today, I'm just going to take a look at it inside a virtual machine. I'm just going to use the keyboard and mouse to play around with this thing. It's beta software anyway. They just recently put out the first ISO that the general public can take a look at. It's Jingo S version 0.6. So it's not a 1.0 release yet. I will say I know some people are going to have problems with the fact that this distribution is a Chinese distribution, but it is free and open source software. The one kind of sticking point with it, though, is that to be able to get the download link to grab the ISO, they do want you to sign up for a mailing list. They do want you to give an email address in order to then receive an email to get the download link for the ISO. Most people I know are going to have a problem with that. To be honest, I have a problem with that. If I wasn't taking a look at this distribution for purposes of this video, I would never give somebody out my personal email. What I suggest doing, there's a million services out there on the internet to set up a one-time temporary email just to quickly do something like this. So go to one of these temporary email services, grab a temporary email, sign up to get the ISO, and then you never have to worry about them potentially spamming you or selling your address or anything like that. I definitely wouldn't give them a real email address. So let me switch over here to a virtual machine, and this may take a minute or two to load up here in the VM. I'm using Vert Manager here, and I'm using the Vert IO drivers as far as a graphics driver inside Vert Manager. I found that to work quite a bit better than the QXL drivers, the default driver that Vert Manager uses. As you can see when it first booted up, it was running some kind of check disk there. It was checking for errors. And then finally, of course, we get to our, I guess, kind of a login screen here. It's very mobile-like in its interface. Let me move my head out of the way. See, we got the time and date here. And if I, I don't have a mouse, I have this circle, I guess that's imitating, you know, the point of a finger, you know, if I was dragging, for example, this arrow up like you would on a mobile device, you know, we get our keypad here. And from here, we need to unlock the screen. Now I'm just doing this off a live ISO. And the default password is 123456. So I'm going to type 123456. And then you get the welcome screen. And user experience means a lot to jingling. It's asking, do we want to agree to give jingling the company information about our system? So they're going to get, I guess, the type of device we're running this on, information about our hardware, our MAC address, and various things by selecting agree you consent to the collection of your information by us. I'll go ahead and agree for purposes of this video. Then I get a congratulations stating that I am the 1847th user of Jingo S. So I guess, you know, because everybody that is using this ISO agrees, you know, to be a part of this collection of information, they know exactly how many people have tried the ISO. And I guess I'm 1847 in the list. So I'm going to click get started. And here we are really inside the interface. The first thing you notice as soon as you get into the actual desktop environment here is that it's a very mobile kind of interface. You see, you have the dock here at the bottom. I'm not exactly sure what Linux dock they're using. Could be something like a docky or maybe latte dock or something like that. And of course, you can drag over or back to the left. So that's dragging to the right, dragging to the left, you have, I guess, two virtual desktops or the most common application anybody's going to use on a computer, whether it be a standard workstation computer or on a mobile device. It's of course, the web browser. And it looks like we're going to use the Chromium web browser here. And let me launch this. Let's see what version of Chromium we are using. This is an Ubuntu based distribution. So it's not rolling release. So Chromium version 90.0.43. I'm not exactly sure how recent of a version of Chromium that is. And how do you close out Chromium? Well, we did have the close buttons on Chromium. But being that this is for a mobile interface, a lot of applications I don't think will have any kind of window direct decorations that you would traditionally click on with using a mouse, right? It's designed for touch. And on a mobile device, what you would do, I think is just drag these out of the way. No, dragging from the top gets you your notifications and dragging back up swipes them away. But if I click on the dock down here, assuming this is my finger, I believe the applications should just disappear. They don't actually appear in the dog, but they do go away. Other than the browser and the calculator, we have our calendar app, we have a clock app, we have a media player, we have MPV media players, we have two different media players. So what is this one? I know what MPV is, but this one here, I am not sure what kind of player this is. Doesn't look like an application that I'm familiar with for Office. We have WPS Office, we have presentation spreadsheets and writer. That's interesting that they're going with WPS Office because that is proprietary software. And you would think they would probably try to stick to free and open source software where possible. So I'm not sure why they wouldn't go with Libre Office or some other free office suite. But WPS Office, I believe the company behind it is also a Chinese based company. So that may have influenced their decision to use the WPS products there. I switched back over to this workspace here. We have Curigami Gallery, KDE Connect. Of course, that's to connect your mobile devices as for syncing between devices, Dolphin. So KDE Connect and Dolphin, KSysCard, KWallet. So these are all KDE applications. And I'm assuming that is what the desktop environment actually is. It's just a very highly customized KDE. If I open a terminal, and I do have the terminal app docked down here in the dock, it was not here originally. How I discovered the terminal originally was I just did a Control Alt T because on a Buntube based systems, you would expect Control Alt T to give you a terminal. And it does this pulls up console, console with a KDE default terminal application. If I do a uname space dash R, we are running kernel 5.4. So that's an older kernel, but that's an LTS kernel. So it should be very stable. Do we have anything like H top installed on the system? No, we don't. It tells us we could do a pseudo apt install H top or a pseudo snap install H top because a Buntube uses the apt package manager. It also has snaps enabled by default. So let's do a pseudo apt install H top. Because we do have the KDE system monitor, the graphical system monitor we could look at. But I like to use the same tool for every single Linux distribution I take a look at. So it makes sense just to check everything in H top, just to make things kind of fair. I gave this VM two threads of my 24 thread threadripper for the CPU. And I gave it four gigs of RAM. And it's not really using much CPU as expected, we're not doing much. It is using though, a lot of RAM, a lot of RAM, 1.8 gigs of RAM of the four gigs I gave this thing. Also notice we have some Wayland stuff going on. So it is using Wayland as the display server, I guess we're rather than Xorg that is interesting. And we have the plasma shield running, pulse audio is running, really there's not much running system D plasma, a pipe wire is running. That's also interesting pulse audio. Yeah, let me quit out of H top. So it's definitely not lightweight, right? This is not going to be a lightweight Linux distribution. But again, this is not for old machines anyway, you can tell this is a much more modern touch kind of interface and it's designed for a modern machinery, of course, I go to the info center, this is KDE's info center will actually tell me what version of plasma they are basing off of yeah, plasma 5.20.2. So and KDE frameworks 5.78 the cute version is 5.15.2. And of course, we would have got the kernel version as well. If I just open this program rather than the terminal and closing this program, once again, there's no window decorations, no traditional clothes buttons or anything. So again, I'm just going to click down here on the dog, and it will go away. Now before we got the notifications by dragging from the top so we can get our notifications, can I dismiss on my can very cool and then just swipe it back up to the toward the top. I will say this actually does work. Like even though it's beta software, I really like the interface like it's very intuitive. I really didn't read any documentation on how to do anything in this. And you don't have to that. And that's kind of the design. That's these mobile designs. Anyway, they're typically very easy interfaces where you just touch something with a finger and it opens and you slide it out of the way when you're done. It's got that that traditional kind of mobile interface. We do have some icons up here. I'm not sure what they do. I think I have to drag them. Okay, so we get not notifications here, but this looks like a, I guess, preference settings for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the ringer. Of course, this is a VM, but you know, so we're not really going to get any kind of effects. Audio playback, I guess if I was playing something, if I actually had audio file to play in the media player, it would give us that information here brightness. But I actually just open the sound settings here. Okay. So if you click on, you know, some of the settings, it will actually open up your settings manager. This is the KDE settings manager thingy. For those of you familiar with the Plasma desktop, I don't use Plasma very often. So I'm not not that familiar with a lot of this. But here's where you could change the KDE theme right now. I'm not sure what theme we're using theme. We have choices between air breeze, breeze dark, breeze light and oxygen. Let's see if I go to a dark theme, will I actually respect that? Yes, it will. Very cool. I think that's really all I want to play with here in the settings. We could change the pin for the lock screen if we wanted to. Let me click on the dock to make the settings go away. Looking at the applications in the dock, the first one is the settings manager that we just took a look at. That's just another way to get to it. This icon here that has the GING OS logo on it. I'm not sure what that is. If I click on it, it's our software center, also our update manager. We have 32 updates available. This looks like one of the standard KDE software centers. Is this discover? I believe this is discover. I go to settings. Now how about let's go to about and this is discover 5.20.80. So it is the discover software center. We can do settings installed. It did look like when it gave me the 32 updates. I don't know if you guys saw it when I first opened it. There was an error or something. I don't know if there was an issue with one of the repositories. But then again, this is beta software. So this is not ready for prime time. This is really more of a preview release. And honestly, that's really about all I can show you with this. I mean, it's really just a heavily modified KDE plasma desktop, except it's simplified, right? There's not much to it. You have two virtual workspaces with some some icons on each workspace. You don't have a ton of applications installed by default, but you have enough. You have what you would expect on a mobile interface. I've got to say it does look attractive. And really, once you get the right video drivers working, at least here inside Vert Manager, the performance is actually not bad. Like these animations and everything, they're pretty smooth. Again, considering that this is beta quality software, I'm pretty impressed. I think once this thing reaches a level of maturity where they can put out a 1.0 release, I think people will be pleasantly surprised at how good this particular Linux distribution is. Again, I know some people are going to have a problem with it because it is Chinese based distribution. I don't like the fact that they do include some proprietary applications like the WPS office suite, when really you probably could have found open source alternatives for that. And again, to at least right now, in order to download the ISO, you actually have to give an email address. You have to give them your email address and then then they immediately email you the download link. What I strongly suggest you guys do again, use a temporary email address for all of that. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. I need to thank Absi, Dallas, Devonfran, Gabe, Lou, Corbinian, Mitchell, Akami, Arch 5530, Chris, Chuck, David, David, David, David, the other David, more David's, Donnie, Dylan, Gregory, Lewis, Paul, pick me up, Scott, Wes, and Willie. These guys, they are my highest tier patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this first look at Gingo S would not have been possible. I also need to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well. All these names you're seeing on the screen. 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