Mobile plans as standard here (in the UK) offer SMS for free, can’t remember when they used to routinely charge tbh. But I think I only text my dad as he’s very old school, everyone else is Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram

Nope, installed directly on an old Dell laptop

Checking it out now, seems very usable already!

Main issues I’m having are related to the Panel applets, like not being able to open Mullvad or Steam library from their right click menus.

But the standard things I’ve tried like streaming music, watching movies on VLC on a second monitor and playing games (admittedly easy stuff for the laptop like Slay the Spire and Into the Breach) all work with no issues so far.

Looking forward to getting into theming, etc and to see Cosmic get the additional Settings menus and be further refined 😄

Fwiw, I’ve had no issues playing CS2 on either with my old (3700x/1080ti) or newer setup (5800X3D/7900XTX) with PopOS. The first doesn’t seem too far away from your rig, have you tried switching the Nvidia driver you’re on? I think Turing is fine with 560?

I smell a class action lawsuit brewing

Does your display specifically support HDR? If not it doesn’t matter whether the codecs/media/metadata support it, you won’t gain from it

Really appreciate the shout out to the community members providing the fixes, very cool. Dusted off an old laptop in preparation for the Alpha!

Deadbeef might be worth a look, though you might need a plugin for folder view

To be fair I’ve had no issues, just trying to degoogle slowly

Great to see, tempted to buy this on principle as I’m fortunate enough to have the disposable income.

They’re ironing out some wrinkles with NFT support at the moment, and then the next planned feature is wireless display support.

Uh, I’m assuming they mean NFC support

Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega

I agree with this from using Pop on a Surface Pro 8, much more casual usage though: mainly web browsing, watching shows, light gaming and scrolling through PDFs/CBR files. Just using a cheap/non pressure sensitive stylus too

Great news, would love to see not just laptops but tablets too from vendors like Tuxedo and System76

Fwiw I started out with PopOS as I had a 1080ti and am still with it having moved to a 7900XTX. No issues with it apart from the Pop Shop being slow which should be remedied by the new Cosmic version

Even having moved to Linux, I miss Foobar. Deadbeef isn’t that dissimilar but isn’t quite close though for me

Number 2 was huge for me, and it hit home when I realised that 99% of my Steam library was supported. Thankfully I don’t need to use any Windows only apps (Adobe suite, etc) so the decision to move over to Linux was trivial personally

I started using Pop OS at the start of the year and have managed to play the vast majority of games including Baldur’s Gate 3. My hardware was similar to yours (though I’ve recently upgraded): 3700X, 1080Ti. Downloaded the version of Pop with the Nvidia drivers and ensured Steam Play was enabled for all games (to automatically utilise Proton).

I’d suggest trying the other Nvidia driver versions, as one of the other ones might work better with your 1070. Seem to recall I accidentally switched to one of the other versions Pop offers and had issues so maybe playing around with them will get some games working

Same as you friend, in fact the Deck helped me to realise that the vast majority of my games play fine on Linux doing nothing but enabling Steam Play for all other titles in Settings. That’s literally all I had to do.

I know it’s definitely not the same experience for others but I’m glad I could make the 100% jump to Linux. Especially with Cosmic on the way for PopOS!

Great to see work on gestures, think a tablet with Pop is my next portable device when the laptop dies