Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
History
System 76 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop!_OS)
To my knowledge the only PC manufacturer that also ships it's own Distro, other than Raspian/RasberryPiOS for Rasberry Pi's (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/linux-distro-review-system76s-ubuntu-based-pop_os/#:~:text=The%20subject%20of%20today's%20Linux,by%20a%20hardware%20OEM%20manufacturer.&text=Until%202017%2C%20System76%20sold%20its%20systems%20preinstalled%20with%20Ubuntu%20Linux.)
Release Notes Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS (https://support.system76.com/articles/Pop!_OS-20.04-LTS-Release-Notes/)
Extras
In Chrome and Chromium, and possibly in others, the option Force Color Profile needs to be turned to sRGB (or probably other profiles) in chrome://flags for blues to be... not purple.
Wine Dependencies (https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/WineDependencies.md)
Drivers (https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md)
Battle.net (https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/Battle.Net.md)
Support popOS here (https://pop.system76.com/)
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Bashtop
Bashtop (https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop)
git clone https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop.git
cd bashtop
sudo make install
To remove it, in the same directory, run:
sudo make uninstall
To add temperatures, make sure you install the lm-sensors package, and for disk usage, install the sysstat package so BashTOP can use iostat.
sudo apt install lm-sensors sysstat
Install from PPA (https://code.launchpad.net/~bashtop-monitor/+archive/ubuntu/bashtop)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bashtop-monitor/bashtop
sudo apt update
sudo apt install bashtop
Install from snap (https://snapcraft.io/bashtop)
sudo snap install bashtop
sudo snap connect bashtop:mount-observe
sudo snap connect bashtop:network-control
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