 Hi everyone! Today I'm trying out POPOS and I was actually really looking forward to doing this because for months people have been telling me that it is super cool with its tiling capabilities and its style. So I really wanted to see what's the truth behind those words. So let's look into it and of course the first big change that I see is the bottom bar which is not coming from GNOME differently from the top one and so let's see what icons are there in that one except for of course the applications. So the first one is the same as the MetaKey and it's this cool launcher and I can see if we pop up a couple of applications it will actually list by default the applications we have. It looks like Carerunner but it also like by default lets you switch between apps and using just the keyboard super useful. I like the idea and you can even filter between them if I type home I can switch to that one and of course I can also search for anything pretty much and also like shutdown various full Carerunner sort of functionality that's mapped by default to Meta and I like it. I've been told it does not search between files and that's an issue however it's such a minor thing that I would expect that feature to drop pretty soon. The second one is Workspaces which is the GNOME more activity I think it's called View and you can switch between the Workspaces and in this case they're on the left in this floating bar and I like the style more than the one from GNOME actually and if we press on applications here or here it's the same thing we get a list of applications. Now I wish that the background of this page which is opaque was transparent like this one I think it looks much better and I also kind of wish that it blurred the background because it's actually not CPU intensive at all you can just blur it one time when the wallpaper is changed and then keep it in the in the run and then just display it so it would be like not super expensive very pretty so could be a suggestion. Then moving on we can see one of the main features of Popeyes which is tiling and this is what interested me the most so if we press it it will tile just like that it works and I can also see there are some gaps between the windows and other windows and the panels which look really nice I'm I think it's to the right amount by default but of course we can change it I'll go with 10 because I like seeing part of my wallpaper and there's lots of other stuff you can customize so first of all this shortcuts button if you press it opens up a window with all of the shortcuts it's very useful now I can I know that well let me show you one thing first if I actually drag two windows on top of each other I get this tabbed feature which was there in like plasma 4 kd4 sorry back then and then got lost in the transition so it's very nice that Popeyes brought tabbed windows back the look of the tabs is very tiling window manager-ish but it's fine and yes I was saying that as a negative thing and in here we get all of the shortcuts and just like that I know that I can switch between the windows using meta and the arrows as an example and I can also drag window windows around using the meta key looks very nice like this like this and I'm actually really happy to see tabbed windows come back because they're super useful and I was totally not expecting that there are a couple other options such as changing the accent color for the active you know window and also for the preview of where the window is going to be there are some tiling scripts for Queen but none are this good they don't display where the window is going to be and I think it's really nice I like it next up is in settings I've noticed this thing let's open it up here without breaking anything thank you and in desktop there are a lot of buttons that weren't there so first of all background wise I've seen these wallpapers very nice but these ones I just fell in love with them they look so nice these cartoon-ish space inspired wallpapers I love them then desktop we can change a lot of stuff first of all the shortcut of the super key what's going to do right now of course is the this coroner sort of things that's called launcher but you can also choose between work spaces and applications now in plasma you can also change the shortcut of what in my opinion is the most important key in the keyboard the meta key but to do that you need to get to the shortcut that you want to change as set it to I think alt f12 which is counterintuitive nobody's going to know that shortcut if we don't tell them so so it's very nice that they just present you with the three most common options and you can just switch between them we also get hot corners whether we want both buttons in the top bar and well windows controls we get the minimize button by default which I think is appropriate with the choice of having a task manager or dock to the bottom and then we get appearance switching between light and dark and keep dark because it's pretty here in this case although I use brisk light and then lots lots of options for the dock as an example in this case we get both some pre-made options for the dock size but we can also choose a custom one I think it's a very nice touch like allowing to change between the three most common options and then allowing a customer like it and then we can also choose what were to show the dock whether to show the dock at all and primary display stuff like that automatically hide the kind of stuff that you would expect and finally in workspaces we can choose whether we want dynamic workspaces or a fixed number of them personally I would keep the dynamic workspaces I really like that concept it's really useful to just pop up this one change the workspace of a window and then have a new one so I like it let's get back to settings and we can also choose where to put the this bar whether we want it to the left the top to the right so very nice I I'm not showing you these things because they are to do this is a beta it would be unfair to expect that everything works nicely I had a couple of crashes before it doesn't really matter for a beta what I'm looking right now at are the new features and there are a lot of them and overall I really like it the only like couple of things that I don't fully appreciate first one but this one is on me having both a bottom bar and a top bar feels a bit claustrophobic but really that's me I just wish that there was an option to unfeel the dock or make it floating which looks very nice and but it's not really important what's important and since GNOME 40 has it I kind of expect popwise to get it soon as well is keyboard gestures and right now there's pretty much none as at least that I can find swiping fingers on the touchpad and it's a bit sad that they're lacking but having said that those two criticism I think popwise is really nice and just the telling feature is worth the whole distro it's super nice well implemented shows you where the window is going to land and that tabbed windows perfect so very nice plus one I liked it