 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking about pop OS and this is a result of a poll over on our patreon page and I wanted to know which distro I should choose next to review and pop OS was the winner So I've been using pop OS and a virtual machine for the last few days to do some work and I've been very impressed So I thought today I would just go through and talk a little bit about my impressions with it Now I will say that I've not experienced it on hardware So my experiences might be a little bit different, but I've been very like said You can always tell how good a distribution is and how good well It's optimized and coded and all that stuff by how well it works in a virtual machine where resources are usually much more limited much much more limited Then they would be if you installed them on hardware. So like it only has four cores available to it only has eight gigabytes of RAM and Especially in video memory only gets a hundred twenty eight megabytes. So you can really tell how well graphically it does You know with those constraints. So let's go ahead and jump over to my install of pop And this is what it looks like out of the box I've done no customizations of this at all. I the only thing I've installed a few of my programs that I you know, that's really you need and I've installed going on tweaks, but I haven't actually opened going on tweaks at all Mostly because in the this comes with the extensions app so If you want to manage your extensions, you can do so here I've not actually added any but I've wanted to make sure that I had everything installed that, you know I want that I would need to have in case I wanted to do some customizations, which I might now that I've done some playing around with it Because I think I'm going to end up keeping this installed because I really do highly enjoy it now The one thing I've noticed the most about this is how much quicker it feels to me then a boon to itself so I Mean that was just almost an instantaneous amps at lunch and that's this is not a listen Not a list is probably the slowest of the term file managers out there It's just I mean granted that it had been opened before but it was that fast begin with I've also noticed that the one of the one of the things Ubuntu has a problem with is their app center is Horrendously slow at launching. I mean, I think part of it is because it's a it's a snap and this may be a snap, too I don't even know but I just noticed that this is way faster than the the Ubuntu App Center. I believe that this is actually based on elementary OSes App Center, I might be wrong about that It looks so similar and it doesn't have some of the features that The elementary S1 has but it just feels much better than the GNOME software center for some weird reason. I Haven't noticed any weird Software deficiencies one thing I will say is Alacrity is in here, which is very interesting because I could not find Alacrity on Ubuntu save life of me So either I missed it on Ubuntu and it's there or it's on a pop-up lesson It's not on Ubuntu. I'm actually gonna go ahead and install that because I would rather use this thing can gnome terminal It's gonna win me over termites here. I Honestly hadn't even looked that's not the same thing I Try Nice nice try whoever the eugenie rat rat now retnikov That is not termite. That's termit nice try That's disappointing but not surprising anyways, I Said the speed is really was kind of Won me over but the software like I said in this and software suction is actually very good One thing I'm really interested in trying it though is eventually installing this on hardware and seeing how the games work Because I'm guessing that gaming on this will actually very very good. I don't think that I could I never want to do a Gaming session on a virtual machine because 128 megabytes of video RAM is just never going to be okay But you know, let's give it a try. We'll install that one and what we're start while I'm installing it We'll go ahead and look at the applications There's not a lot here installed. There's just not a Libre offices here There's I believe this is probably you know in calendar. Yep Firefox is here. Geary is the web client or the email client settings terminal, which is this is just going on terminal Yeah, you know I'm terminal I knew that That this is just gonna be Jeannie probably Do they even call it Jeannie anymore? No, they call it good at it. This is get it G edit Never actually used you get it before Lackery I installed you know, I'm twice I installed and this is the gun on mother app. There's some utilities here Eddie I'm not exactly sure what that is. Oh You know, I bet you that's going to be the Like it looks like it will install the packages. Cool. So that's kind of like But what was that called back in the dead Debbie? Maybe I don't know Let's see what else is here USB flash your character map text and text info image viewer Archive manager extensions fonts videos. This is gonna own video. There's not an about section here, but document scanner and screenshot tool That's very minimal. I mean The there's just not a ton of stuff here now There's some more stuff here in the system things, but this is all again on discs and disc analysis and stuff like that A tool for managing your startup applications, which is nice really the application selection is very very minimal and it's good, you know for Being able to choose what you want on your system. I Prefer to have more stuff just because I'm lazy, but I don't need it I can install the stuff that I want to you know, install by myself by myself I'm usually confident enough to do that and we'll say let's go ahead and tweaks and we'll look at the parents here So this is the pop o s system theme. It comes with a couple. So it has a white version I'm glad they chose the dark version by default and then it just says the usual You know, I'm stuff like at a water or whatever the hell it's called at a waiter Just the normal stuff Pop pop dark is definitely basically looks like pop dark is basically at a what or whatever Just with some color That kind of theme is very good, too. So we're gonna try this game and see how it works This is gonna be the stupidest thing ever done on TV You're not gonna get any video any sound because I'm recording this in audacity and audacity doesn't have the sound or the input from the game so We're gonna learn how to play because I've never played this game before It's very choppy, but that's not surprising This tutorial will teach you the basics of the game Economy typically will start with a civic center and a couple of units and village Phase and ultimately your goal be to develop and expand your empire often by evading the town phase Evolving the town phase and city phase afterwards. Okay Before starting you can toggle between full screen and windows screen by using the alt return key You can change the level of zoom by Using the mouse wheel This reminds me a lot of war selection You can change the the camera view by using your keyboard's arrow keys Okay Well, what about sad W? Yep. Sad W works Okay, click one ready. Oh, we're gonna get more text This is exactly what I want to do want to play game read a novel Us, but I know I haven't done anything in this But for being in a virtual machine, this is kind of astonishingly Over here Anyways, we can quit this It does actually play which is interesting. I mean, I'm assuming that there would That was highly entertaining for everybody who was watching I'm sure The fact that it actually launched and played on a virtual machine. I'm still just I mean kind of shocked Granted, I mean, it's not as if I was playing Grand Theft Auto or anything, but you know, it's kind of cool. I wonder um I'm sure tux is here. What else tux football I've never heard of tux football before Tux super tux cart now. Why are there two of them? Oh, you want one because one's gonna be regular This is the flat pack version Okay So that's gonna be different than a boon to boon to support snaps This is gonna be all flat pack and that's the same with elementary OS and mint Someone install tux cart and go for a race While we're doing that, I'll talk about the tiling thing as a tiling window manager aficionado, I guess I Think I'd be remiss to say I I've tried the tiling thing and it's not good. It's not good Maybe if you've never used a tiling window manager before I'm still looking at the wrong camera Maybe if you've never used the tiling window manager before This would be fine. But I mean the first thing you do when you're in a tiling window managers, you know that super enter gives you a Terminal but this selects one of them and makes allows you to move it It doesn't really allow you to move it. I'm not exactly sure, you know, I can switch focus and I've looked at the The key bindings because it will show you the key bindings. Let's close This one here so they can actually see this The key bindings are weird I mean, you'd think that okay, so super enter supposedly enters adjustment mode. That means that you can Move the window back and forth with the key arrow keys And so that that space that reminds you a lot of like an emacs binding where you there's there's a modifier key Combination and then you have to do another key combination other do the thing you wanted to do It's a little weird so if we do shift in up and down supposedly yeah Okay There's seems to be a limit so like a on DWM. There's always a limit to how small a window can get I Really the biggest problem I had is that the mod of the the super key Has double duty so not only does it do a lot of these key bindings But it also controls your menu key your menu system You know going into your activities mode or whatever it's called that's just You can't have a key that that is that essential to your ability to tile to also be something else When that extension is active it should steal the super key to you know away from ganome Or it should change the super key to alter something. I don't know it's it's very weird. Um, I'm I use it for Maybe an hour the other day and And I've already forgotten all the key bindings and because they're all really weird And it was just so unintuitive. I mean, it's just it was just bad Like I said, maybe if you've never experienced an actual tiling window management before you'd be fine because you'd be learning it from I think but I've had all these muscle memories like super enter keyboard super D brings up a a menu system, but here's it's super slash Which works outside of tiling with the tiling window manager. It's very weird. Okay, so we're going to play some tux cart Just to see how this works. I should Okay um Okay Sure I'm play tux cart in ages. So Again, you're not going to be able to hear the the the music or the sound effects that's just eventually I'll get that set up because All right Accelerate up Steer left and right. I mean I don't leave anything To compare this to or those are bananas You don't want to hit bananas I always wondered how they got away with this game and not getting sued by nintendo Probably should keep the bowling balls until actually, you know need them I mean because this is so like Super mario kart It's amazing that they haven't you know Do I want one of those things? Yeah. Oh, I'm going off off-roading Click nitro piles. We use them around the curve after the curve. Okay. My aim is really bad The frame right here is not good, but it's on a virtual machine. So I'm not complaining obviously that much Use nitro by pressing n Okay, can anybody tell the difference between nitro and non-nitro? Whoa, it was really slow. I was supposed to go faster than there apparently It was when you're pressing trouble press backspace to be wrecked backspace. He rescued It's a bird Accelerate press the v-key. Well Just skid Skidding for sure. Well can help you turn faster and sharp turns. Okay crashed I crashed imagine All right, that's done. All right. We close that The fact that it runs in a virtual machine at all is frankly impressive All right final thoughts I like papa west a lot the fact that it has alacrity in the There I might be This might be an alternative for when arch finally craps out on me You know, you never know but the question I'm going to put at the top of this video at the at the As the title is is papa west better than abutu? Yes, I think it's Just demonstratably better than abutu. It's faster The app store is quicker. The reliance on flat packs makes me happy because I hate snaps for the passion Also, I didn't talk a lot about the installation the installation was very fast It was very good and the custom installer they have is very intuitive I mean, there was no weird selections that you had to make you just went through it and it was pretty much all default It was very good. So I think for especially for new users Papa west is probably the best distro you can use now. I got to remember mince out there and Looks better looks closer to windows So if you're if the new user is so entrenched in the windows look and feel mince probably better but I found papa west to be more responsive than mint I feel like because they have their own Software repositories and stuff their software centers better their the installation was Better, I think in terms of responsiveness and also look and feel because it's very much more modern than what mint looks like At least for me until you get into the cinnamon ecosystem and then that's pretty modern too. So But the installers basically if I remember and mint that's just ubiquity And it's you know, the same thing is installing ubuntu. So I would highly recommend pop uh, whether or not It would you know Be okay as my daily driver. 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