Because it is not only Ubuntu that man-linux lives, a few hours ago and almost a day after Groovy Gorilla has arrived Pop! _OS 20.10. Although to be fair, the above is a way of speaking, because although it is true that there are other distributions such as Fedora or Manjaro, the System76 operating system is based on Canonical's, but includes many characteristics of its own for which some say it is even better than its parent.
Among the most outstanding news that Pop! _OS 20.10 includes, we have some that come directly from Groovy Gorilla, such as GNOME 3.38 or the kernel, which also uses the Linux 5.8 series. You have the rest of the news below, among which the improved support for external monitors also stands out.
Pop! _OS 20.10 highlights
- Based on Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla.
- Linux 5.8.
- gnomes 3.38.
- Security updates have been included that have also reached the v20.04.
- Support for the deb822 repository format.
- Stacking improvements (see video).
- Exceptions in floating windows so that they do not stack.
- Fractional scaling. This allows you to set the optimal view size to as many percent as 125%, 150%, or 175%.
- Support for external monitors in hybrid graphics mode. Until now, computers had to be rebooted to NVIDIA mode in order to use an external monitor. Now this will no longer be necessary.
For existing users, including many with a System76 team, upgrading is as easy as open the settings app, go down the side bar to the system updates section, click on "Downloads" and then on "Update". If you are one of those who prefer to do it from the terminal, the command is not like the Ubuntu on which it is based, but the following:
pop-upgrade release upgrade
The ones you want to do a zero installation, Pop! _OS 20.10 can be downloaded from the project's download page, which can be accessed from this link. Two versions are available, the normal and the NVIDIA. The minimum requirements ask us for a computer with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and a 64-bit processor. Pop! _OS 20.10 will be supported for 9 months.