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Is there a timeline for PopOs 24 release?
I'm currently on OpenSuses Leap, since I saw on the net that it's easy to install on my laptop which has a nvidia gpu
Avoiding ubuntu because of the things heard about snap, but have also heard that PopOs is cool and am thinking about trying it out.
Most beginner tutorials on the net seem to target debian/ubuntu users, so there's that too. Opi n factory are useful, but sometimes I avoid trying out some things because the packages are not easily available.
Timeline is in rough stages right now. 2 alphas, a beta, and then a stable release alongside POP!_OS 24.04 which should be released around mid summer to the end. But as always, there are no hard dates for a good reason.
POP!_OS will do yearly releases from that point as well as maintaining upstream system components like Mesa, nonfree Nvidia drivers, systemd, pipewire among others.
There's no plans to move away from their ubuntu base. COSMIC will come to other distros for sure like OpenSUSE and Fedora (obv Arch as well) so don't feel like you have to use POP!_OS to get COSMIC.
Thank you.
American season? Assuming that since System76 is based in there. Searched about it on the net; does it mean August/September?
Yup. Dates are flexible though. We are still at the cutting room floor stage and things outside of COSMIC have to be resolved as well (Nvidia support in Linux, HDR color support, wayland protocol finalization etc).