issue222:critique2
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| - | After a gap of five months since the last alpha release, Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta arrived on 25 September, 2025. | + | **After a gap of five months since the last alpha release, Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta arrived on 25 September, 2025. |
| With seven alpha releases over a period of ten months in 2024 and 2025, there has been a lot of user anticipation as to what would turn up in this new beta release. That last release, Alpha 7, was reviewed in FCM#220. | With seven alpha releases over a period of ten months in 2024 and 2025, there has been a lot of user anticipation as to what would turn up in this new beta release. That last release, Alpha 7, was reviewed in FCM#220. | ||
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| Work on the new COSMIC DE (“desktop environment”) using the Rust programming language, iced toolkit, and Wayland display server, has now been in process by System76 for three and a half years, with the final stable version promised before the end of 2025. The developers have also indicated that we can expect at least one “release candidate” version in between the beta and the stable. | Work on the new COSMIC DE (“desktop environment”) using the Rust programming language, iced toolkit, and Wayland display server, has now been in process by System76 for three and a half years, with the final stable version promised before the end of 2025. The developers have also indicated that we can expect at least one “release candidate” version in between the beta and the stable. | ||
| - | On 5 September 2025, an official Bluesky post set the date for this beta release as 25 September. The beta almost didn’t arrive on that announced day though, as some last minute ISO issues resulted in System76’s development team putting in a long day and finally getting it done around midnight, Boulder, Colorado time. | + | On 5 September 2025, an official Bluesky post set the date for this beta release as 25 September. The beta almost didn’t arrive on that announced day though, as some last minute ISO issues resulted in System76’s development team putting in a long day and finally getting it done around midnight, Boulder, Colorado time.** |
| - | Background | + | Après cinq mois d' |
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| + | Avec sept versions alpha publiées en dix mois entre 2024 et 2025, l' | ||
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| + | Le développement du nouvel environnement de bureau COSMIC DE, basé sur le langage de programmation Rust, la boîte à outils iced et le serveur d' | ||
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| + | Le 5 septembre 2025, un message officiel de Bluesky a confirmé la date de sortie de cette bêta : le 25 septembre. La version bêta a failli ne pas arriver à la date annoncée, car des problèmes de dernière minute avec les fichiers ISO ont obligé l' | ||
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| + | **Background | ||
| System76 is an American computer manufacturer specializing in Linux computers. They originally supplied their products with Ubuntu but, after that distribution moved on from the Unity interface, System76 built their own modified interface for Ubuntu which slowly grew into the COSMIC interface (a backronym for Computer Operating System Main Interface Components). | System76 is an American computer manufacturer specializing in Linux computers. They originally supplied their products with Ubuntu but, after that distribution moved on from the Unity interface, System76 built their own modified interface for Ubuntu which slowly grew into the COSMIC interface (a backronym for Computer Operating System Main Interface Components). | ||
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| Announced in 2022, as a project to replace that previous COSMIC modified GNOME interface, the current work will result in the newly-written COSMIC DE desktop, combined with the tested and true Ubuntu back-end, to create the final, stable version of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS. | Announced in 2022, as a project to replace that previous COSMIC modified GNOME interface, the current work will result in the newly-written COSMIC DE desktop, combined with the tested and true Ubuntu back-end, to create the final, stable version of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS. | ||
| - | Not only is COSMIC DE an all-new Linux desktop, but it comes with a suite of new core applications including COSMIC Files, COSMIC Media Player, COSMIC Screenshot, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Terminal, and COSMIC Text Editor. | + | Not only is COSMIC DE an all-new Linux desktop, but it comes with a suite of new core applications including COSMIC Files, COSMIC Media Player, COSMIC Screenshot, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Terminal, and COSMIC Text Editor.** |
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| + | System76 est un fabricant américain d' | ||
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| + | Annoncé en 2022 comme un projet visant à remplacer l' | ||
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| + | COSMIC DE est non seulement un environnement de bureau Linux entièrement nouveau, mais il intègre également une suite d' | ||
| - | Getting Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta | + | **Getting Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta |
| It is worth noting that Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta can be downloaded and run on almost any Intel or AMD computer and not just System76 hardware. | It is worth noting that Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta can be downloaded and run on almost any Intel or AMD computer and not just System76 hardware. | ||
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| pop-upgrade release upgrade -f | pop-upgrade release upgrade -f | ||
| - | Or you can just download the ISO file, write it to a USB stick and do a fresh installation. | + | Or you can just download the ISO file, write it to a USB stick and do a fresh installation.** |
| - | Installing | + | Obtenir Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta |
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| + | Il est important de noter que Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta peut être téléchargé et exécuté sur la quasi-totalité des ordinateurs Intel ou AMD, et pas seulement sur du matériel System76. | ||
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| + | Plusieurs méthodes permettent d' | ||
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| + | Vous pouvez également télécharger le fichier ISO, le copier sur une clé USB et procéder à une nouvelle installation. | ||
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| + | **Installing | ||
| I downloaded Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta from the official source, the System76 website. There is no BitTorrent option, just https for download. As usual I carried out an SHA 256 sum check to ensure file integrity. | I downloaded Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta from the official source, the System76 website. There is no BitTorrent option, just https for download. As usual I carried out an SHA 256 sum check to ensure file integrity. | ||
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| The ISO file is 3.0 GB, which is only 100 MB larger than Alpha 7's 2.9 GB. By contemporary standards these are relatively small ISO files, less than half the size of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS which was 6.1 GB. One reason why Pop!_OS is smaller is that it includes fewer applications. | The ISO file is 3.0 GB, which is only 100 MB larger than Alpha 7's 2.9 GB. By contemporary standards these are relatively small ISO files, less than half the size of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS which was 6.1 GB. One reason why Pop!_OS is smaller is that it includes fewer applications. | ||
| - | I dropped the ISO file onto a USB stick equipped with Ventoy 1.1.07 and booted it up for testing. Pop!_OS is officially supported by Ventoy and it booted up fine after an initial USB writing error which resulted in consistent kernel panics until I fixed it with a second write. | + | I dropped the ISO file onto a USB stick equipped with Ventoy 1.1.07 and booted it up for testing. Pop!_OS is officially supported by Ventoy and it booted up fine after an initial USB writing error which resulted in consistent kernel panics until I fixed it with a second write.** |
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| + | J'ai téléchargé Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta depuis la source officielle, le site Web de System76. Il n'y a pas d' | ||
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| + | Le fichier ISO pèse 3,0 Go, soit seulement 100 Mo de plus que les 2,9 Go d' | ||
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| + | J'ai copié le fichier ISO sur une clé USB équipée de Ventoy 1.1.07 et je l'ai démarrée pour effectuer des tests. Pop!_OS est officiellement pris en charge par Ventoy et a démarré correctement après une erreur d' | ||
| - | System requirements | + | **System requirements |
| There are no listed system requirements for Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, but I can report that it is not light on RAM usage. | There are no listed system requirements for Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, but I can report that it is not light on RAM usage. | ||
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| One of my previous complaints about Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS was that, after a fresh boot, its idle RAM was 3.9 GB. Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 increased that to 4.3 GB and the Beta is 4.7 GB, so this is not a lightweight distribution! In comparison, also running on Ventoy Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.04 both idle at 2.3 GB. | One of my previous complaints about Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS was that, after a fresh boot, its idle RAM was 3.9 GB. Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 increased that to 4.3 GB and the Beta is 4.7 GB, so this is not a lightweight distribution! In comparison, also running on Ventoy Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.04 both idle at 2.3 GB. | ||
| - | In my testing of Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta with a collection of common applications open, I easily reached 9 GB of RAM in use so I would recommend 16 GB as the minimum, with 32 GB being better. A similar set of applications on Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS uses about the same amount of RAM, so POP!_OS may not actually suffer from excess RAM consumption in daily use, despite the higher idle RAM. | + | In my testing of Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta with a collection of common applications open, I easily reached 9 GB of RAM in use so I would recommend 16 GB as the minimum, with 32 GB being better. A similar set of applications on Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS uses about the same amount of RAM, so POP!_OS may not actually suffer from excess RAM consumption in daily use, despite the higher idle RAM.** |
| - | Trying out Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta | + | Configuration requise |
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| + | Aucune configuration requise n'est spécifiée pour Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, mais sachez qu' | ||
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| + | L'un de mes reproches concernant Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS était sa consommation de RAM inactive de 3,9 Go après un démarrage. Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 l'a portée à 4,3 Go et la version bêta à 4,7 Go ; il s'agit donc d'une distribution conséquente ! À titre de comparaison, | ||
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| + | Lors de mes tests de Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta avec plusieurs applications courantes ouvertes, j'ai facilement atteint 9 Go de RAM utilisée. Je recommande donc un minimum de 16 Go, et idéalement 32 Go. Un ensemble d' | ||
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| + | **Trying out Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta | ||
| In running Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, the new desktop worked well with only a couple of minor menu crashes, which is not totally unexpected for beta-level software. Hopefully these will be corrected for the stable version. | In running Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, the new desktop worked well with only a couple of minor menu crashes, which is not totally unexpected for beta-level software. Hopefully these will be corrected for the stable version. | ||
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| A desktop setting from the panel menu allows selecting “floating” or “tiling” windows with a simple switch. Despite all the development emphasis on tiling, in my testing I found that Pop!_OS' | A desktop setting from the panel menu allows selecting “floating” or “tiling” windows with a simple switch. Despite all the development emphasis on tiling, in my testing I found that Pop!_OS' | ||
| - | Still not yet added as a feature is the ability to add some desirable missing desktop shortcuts like "hide window" | + | Still not yet added as a feature is the ability to add some desirable missing desktop shortcuts like "hide window" |
| - | Settings | + | Test de Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta |
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| + | Lors de mes tests de Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, le nouveau bureau a bien fonctionné, | ||
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| + | En réalité, | ||
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| + | Un paramètre du bureau, accessible depuis le menu du panneau, permet de choisir entre fenêtres flottantes et mosaïques. Malgré l' | ||
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| + | Il manque encore la possibilité d' | ||
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| + | **Settings | ||
| Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta continues to maintain a focus on maximizing user choices and that makes it very different from Ubuntu and more comparable to Kubuntu. | Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta continues to maintain a focus on maximizing user choices and that makes it very different from Ubuntu and more comparable to Kubuntu. | ||
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| As before, most of the settings are found in the new COSMIC Settings manager, which is very well organized and makes everything easy to find. A few specific menus are hidden away in the panel icons but are easy enough to find there. | As before, most of the settings are found in the new COSMIC Settings manager, which is very well organized and makes everything easy to find. A few specific menus are hidden away in the panel icons but are easy enough to find there. | ||
| - | The settings available do provide a wide range of customization including adding or removing anything on the panel since those are all individual applets. The panel does have additional applets that can be installed but these are currently very few in number. There are still some desirable items missing though, like the ability to display battery time and percentage charge remaining on the panel. | + | The settings available do provide a wide range of customization including adding or removing anything on the panel since those are all individual applets. The panel does have additional applets that can be installed but these are currently very few in number. There are still some desirable items missing though, like the ability to display battery time and percentage charge remaining on the panel.** |
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| + | Paramètres | ||
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| + | Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta continue de privilégier la liberté de choix de l' | ||
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| + | Comme auparavant, la plupart des paramètres se trouvent dans le nouveau gestionnaire de paramètres COSMIC, très bien organisé et facile d' | ||
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| + | Les paramètres disponibles offrent une grande flexibilité de personnalisation, | ||
| - | The dock has many user settings, including the ability to move it to any screen edge, change its color, opacity, and size, shrink or expand it to the screen edge, or turn the dock off entirely. | + | **The dock has many user settings, including the ability to move it to any screen edge, change its color, opacity, and size, shrink or expand it to the screen edge, or turn the dock off entirely. |
| Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta has two window themes, light and dark. There are also nine provided highlight color schemes for each of the light and dark themes, or you can pick your own color from a color-picker. These colors provide selection highlighting in application windows and also frame the active window (the so-called " | Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta has two window themes, light and dark. There are also nine provided highlight color schemes for each of the light and dark themes, or you can pick your own color from a color-picker. These colors provide selection highlighting in application windows and also frame the active window (the so-called " | ||
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| This release includes seven wallpapers, all of which have " | This release includes seven wallpapers, all of which have " | ||
| - | I think that Pop!_OS’s wide range of settings really do make it easy to customize Pop!_OS, which should prove popular with users. | + | I think that Pop!_OS’s wide range of settings really do make it easy to customize Pop!_OS, which should prove popular with users.** |
| - | Applications | + | Le dock offre de nombreuses options de personnalisation, |
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| + | Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta propose deux thèmes de fenêtres : | ||
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| + | Cette version inclut sept fonds d' | ||
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| + | **Applications | ||
| The applications included with Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta are the same mix as in Alpha 7, and most are the same version, too, except for Firefox and Thunderbird which have been updated: | The applications included with Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta are the same mix as in Alpha 7, and most are the same version, too, except for Firefox and Thunderbird which have been updated: | ||
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| Systemd 255.4 init system | Systemd 255.4 init system | ||
| Thunderbird 128.14.0 ESR email client | Thunderbird 128.14.0 ESR email client | ||
| - | Wget 1.21.4 command line webpage downloader | + | Wget 1.21.4 command line webpage downloader** |
| - | Both the Firefox and Thunderbird versions provided are the Mozilla binaries and not Ubuntu’s Snap format ones. Pop!_OS does not use Snap files by default, although snapd can be installed to facilitate using Snaps if desired. Pop!_OS is set up for the usual .deb file repositories, | + | Applications |
| - | As can be seen, the suite of default | + | Les applications |
| + | Archive Manager (file-roller) 44.3 archiveur de fichiers | ||
| + | COSMIC Files 0.1.0 gestionnaire de fichiers | ||
| + | COSMIC Media Player 0.1.0 lecteur multimédia | ||
| + | COSMIC Screenshot 0.1.0 utilitaire de copie d' | ||
| + | COSMIC Store 0.1.0 système de gestion des paquets | ||
| + | COSMIC Terminal 0.1.0 émulateur de terminal | ||
| + | COSMIC Text Editor 0.1.0 éditeur de texte | ||
| + | CUPS 2.4.7 système d' | ||
| + | Firefox 143.0.1 navigateur Web | ||
| + | GNOME Disks 46.0 gestionnaire de disques | ||
| + | GNOME Disks Usage Analyzer (baobab) 46.0 gestionnaire de disques | ||
| + | GNOME Document Scanner (simple-scan) 46.0 scanner optique | ||
| + | GNOME Document Viewer (evince) 46.3.1 visionneuse de PDF | ||
| + | GNOME Image Viewer (Eye of Gnome) 45.3 visionneuse d'image | ||
| + | GNOME System Monitor 46.0 moniteur système | ||
| + | Gparted 1.5.0 éditeur de partitions | ||
| + | LibreOffice 24.2.7.2 suite bureautique, sans LibreOffice Base | ||
| + | PipeWire 1.2.7 contrôleur audio | ||
| + | Popsicle 1.3.3 graveur sur USB | ||
| + | Systemd 255.4 initialisation du système | ||
| + | Thunderbird 128.14.0 | ||
| + | Wget 1.21.4 téléchargement de page Web en ligne de commande | ||
| - | The biggest shortcoming in Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta remains the same as I noted with Alpha 7, the lack of features in the core COSMIC applications. They all work but need some features added before they will be ready for serious daily use. For example: COSMIC Files 0.1.0 file manager does not display disk space, has no bulk file renaming, and does not even give a count of files selected. COSMIC Media Player 0.1.0 is lacking codecs for .mov files although it will play some .webm ones. It offers to install the missing codecs, but then doesn' | ||
| - | Until these applications | + | **Both the Firefox and Thunderbird versions provided |
| - | Conclusions | + | As can be seen, the suite of default applications remains moderately minimal. In comparison to more complete desktop distributions like Ubuntu, it is lacking a bittorrent client, calendar, file back-up utility, webcam, image editor, photo organizer and remote desktop client. All of these can be installed from the repositories or using Flatpak, if needed.** |
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| + | Les versions de Firefox et Thunderbird fournies sont les binaires de Mozilla et non celles au format Snap d' | ||
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| + | **The biggest shortcoming in Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta remains the same as I noted with Alpha 7, the lack of features in the core COSMIC applications. They all work but need some features added before they will be ready for serious daily use. For example: COSMIC Files 0.1.0 file manager does not display disk space, has no bulk file renaming, and does not even give a count of files selected. COSMIC Media Player 0.1.0 is lacking codecs for .mov files although it will play some .webm ones. It offers to install the missing codecs, but then doesn' | ||
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| + | Until these applications are improved, there are still many alternatives to all of them in the repositories that can be installed instead. I have tested the Nemo 6.0.2 file manager and the gedit 46.2 text editor and they work just fine on Pop!_OS.** | ||
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| + | Le principal défaut de Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta reste le même que celui que j' | ||
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| + | **Conclusions | ||
| Between the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 on 24 April 2025 and this beta on 25 September 2025, development seems to have slowed. It is possible that there has been more work happening behind the scenes and that the release candidate version will show a capability jump. | Between the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 on 24 April 2025 and this beta on 25 September 2025, development seems to have slowed. It is possible that there has been more work happening behind the scenes and that the release candidate version will show a capability jump. | ||
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| + | *Conclusion | ||
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| + | Entre la sortie de Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 7 le 24 avril 2025 et cette version bêta du 25 septembre 2025, le développement semble avoir ralenti. Il est possible que des travaux supplémentaires aient été menés en coulisses et que la version candidate (R2C) offre des fonctionnalités nettement supérieures. | ||
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