It's September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It's fast, fluid – and fallible.

Pop!_OS 24.04 still has sharp edges – such as text overflowing boxes here in the Settings app

To judge by by word of mouth, System76's Pop!_OS seems to be one of the more popular Ubuntu remixes among tech-savvy Linux enthusiasts. That may mean that the bolder of them are about to break their computers, because finally, the beta of version 24.04 is here , along with the beta version of the company's COSMIC desktop.

The version number is because this release is based on Ubuntu 24.04, aka "Noble Numbat," which was emitted by Canonical at the end of April 2024 . This Pop release arrives so far behind that of its underlying OS because it has a whole new desktop environment.

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