I cheated, and now she is pregnant with his baby." Love and the human desire. A double-edged sword that both enriches and complicates our lives. We are capable of deeply loving one another, yet when lust enters. Some are drawn to betray the ones they love the most. So goes the story of Sophia and Henry, both bound by love, history, and a marriage of over a decade.  She hopes to find peace in sharing her story with us. Could confessing to a twisted cheating story absolve Sophia. I let you decide. Before we start, gift the like button a cat, but don't mention its feral. Warning, OP is so honest and to the point, you will be triggered. I was referred here by my sister, who thought getting opinions of people not familiar with my situation could benefit me. I'm a 31-year-old female. You can call me Sophia and my husband Henry, who is 33 years old. We've been married for 10 years and together nearly 13. We have two children, a girl aged 9 and a boy aged 8. Henry is the only man I had been with, prior to my affair. While Henry had three previous girlfriends prior to dating me. We had a great marriage, full of love, laughter, and a blessed family. Though we had been married for a number of years, our intimacy was completely fulfilling for me, and I believe it was for Henry too. Now for the part where I ruined everything. I met a man, call him Adam, at my daughter's soccer practice. He was a parent of a 6-year-old girl, who was playing in the league below my daughter. He worked from home and was able to attend soccer practice and games. Initially, I spoke to him as part of a group of parents as we stood on the sidelines, watching our children. These chats led to an uncomfortable conversation, where he told me he had strong feelings for me. I clearly told him I was happily married and we'd have to stop speaking.  While I rebuffed his advances, for some reason I liked the attention. I know it was so wrong now, but I want to be honest here and tell you what I was feeling. Eventually, he brought his feelings up again and asked if I'd meet him for a coffee at a shop in the next town over. At first I told him no, but then decided to meet with him, making it clear it would only be this one meeting for coffee and nothing more. I know now just talking to him was cheating and totally disrespecting my husband and family, but I couldn't stop it. At the end of our private meeting, before we left to go to our children's practice, he told me that he wanted me come to his house tomorrow at the same time. He gave a piece of paper with his home address. I said no, I can't. But with that, he gently kissed me. And I'm ashamed to say not only did I kiss him back, I kissed him again when he pulled away. The next day we met at his house and did it. There was no talking before or build up. We just did it. As I looked around and saw photos of his beautiful wife and child, I became so upset with myself. I also started thinking about Henry and our kids and burst out crying, telling Adam I couldn't do this again. We cleaned up, got dressed, and left in our cars for practice. For the next week, I avoided Adam at soccer practice, and when I did eventually spoke to him again, I told him I didn't want to see or speak to him ever again. With this, he handed me a note with the name and address of a hotel in the same neighboring town. He said he wanted me to meet him there tomorrow at our special time, but would understand if I didn't come. I just told him, no, no, I can't and left. That night, I stayed up all night thinking about this situation and how it would destroy my marriage and family if this ever became known. But foolishly thought it was unlikely, as we never called or texted and all of our communications were verbal or via these handwritten notes. My intention was not to go, but I broke down and did. Again, as with our first meeting, it ended with me crying and telling Adam we cannot do this again. This time, he agreed with me, but he added that our love making was worth the risk. We parted, and this time remained apart for a full month with no contact, outside of brief conversations at soccer practice and at games while talking with other parents. What's most disturbing is that at one of the games, my husband Henry and Adam ended up talking, not just talking, but having a deep conversation for over 20 minutes. This made me feel terrible, but in a way, it excited me in some twisted way.  Adam and I spoke at soccer practice the day before and agreed that we can no longer meet, as we were both happily married and loved our spouses and children. However, and here's where I made a really bad mistake. We agreed to meet one final time. I know people some of you here are not going to believe me, but it's the truth. D-day was to be our final time. I didn't want to meet at Adam's house as I couldn't take seeing the photos of his wife and child, so I offered to have him meet me at my home. The plan was for him to park on the adjacent street and walk over to my house, then walk up to the side door where I would let him in. It was lightly raining and no one was out on the street, so I thought he did so undetected. I took him to our home office on the second floor, which has a guest bed, and that is where we got together. I want to say I would have never done anything in our marital bed like we did at Adam's house, as I have too much love and respect for my husband. Since this was going to be our last time, there was a lot of hugging and kissing just before we really got into it. My husband Henry came into the room and stood beside the bed, recording. I don't know how long he had been there before he said, what the hell is going on here? With this, Adam and I quickly jumped up and separated, and I just started crying, telling Henry I'm sorry and could explain everything, explain what, I don't know, but at the time it was all I could think to say. I don't know what got into Adam, but he completely panicked and tried to rush past Henry, who was blocking the door. Henry is over six foot and weighs nearly 230, while Adam is about five foot ten and weighs about 160, so he bounced off Henry, falling back to the floor. He got up again and attempted to charge at Henry, but this time Henry stepped forward and pushed him back hard.  He had no clothes on, I cried and begged Henry to stop as he was going to hurt Adam, and I didn't want him, Henry, to get in trouble. With this, Henry just gave me a mean look and ran down the stairs. I was afraid he was going to beat Adam and was so fearful my husband would get in trouble with the law. I watched from the window wrapped in a blanket and saw Adam still laying in the bush, trying to extract himself. I could see he was scratched up and hurt but didn't appear seriously injured. Henry emerged from the house holding Adam's cell phone and started shouting at Adam to give him his passcode. Adam started begging for mercy, pleading with Henry not to hurt him and not to call his wife, Kate.  With this, Adam quickly gave him the code and Henry entered it into the phone.  After some additional back and forth and comforting talk, he gave Kate our address and ended the call. I then saw our next door neighbor walking over. He asked Henry if everything was all right. Henry told him no but said he'd be okay. Henry then thanked him for calling him and explained he caught us in the act. Our neighbor said he knew something was up. When he saw a man sneaking around outside the house, he said at first he thought he was robbing the place until he saw me answer the door and let him in. The neighbor told Henry he just had to call him. Henry told the neighbor he was going to call the cops as he wanted to report the situation. Hearing this, Adam began crying and pleaded with Henry not to do so. At this point, he was still naked and had began shaking violently. I shouted down to Henry asking him to please not call the cops but he ignored us and called. They came within a few minutes. Henry and our neighbor met the officer out at the curb where they spoke for several minutes, pointing at the neighbor's house and then up to the office window. Next, they walked up to the bush where Adam was hunched over weeping. The officer asked Henry if he could retrieve his clothes and Henry said he would do so. When I heard Henry open the door, I ran to the top of the steps crying and telling him how sorry I was and how much I loved him. But he never looked up. He just gathered Adam's clothes and shoes off the floor and stares and went back outside. The officer took the clothes from Henry and handed them to Adam and he clumsily got dressed. The sight was humiliating. Adam was hyperventilating and still violently shaking at this point. I had never seen anyone do this and realized it was probably from a combination of nervous fear, shock, and from being cold as it was only about 55 degrees. I stood at the window while the officer questioned Adam, but they couldn't see me because of the screens we have on our windows. He told Adam to settle down and relax, which he eventually did. Adam said it was all his fault and he deserved it. He explained truthfully what happened and said he charged at Henry as he just wanted to get out of there. The officer asked him if Henry acted defensively or offensively when he pushed him. Adam replied that it was defensively. I was relieved Adam didn't falsely accuse Henry. Soon a number of neighbors gathered out front. The neighbor who reported me to Henry was explaining to them what was going on. I was so embarrassed and just cried harder. Now back to the police officer and Adam. The officer asked him if he wanted to press charges. Adam said he didn't and said he just wanted to leave and promised to never bother our family again. After this, Adam's wife, Kate, pulled up out front. My husband walked out to greet her where they spoke for a minute or so. Adam ran over to her crying and saying he was sorry, but she didn't even acknowledge him. The officer spoke to her and I could faintly hear her say. She wanted Adam to stay away from her. The officer then told Adam to step back. He did took a step back and looked betrayed and he started ugly crying. The officer spoke to Henry and Kate for a few minutes, then walked into the house to speak to me. He called up the stairs and asked if I could come down and talk with him. I said okay, but asked him to give me a minute so I could get dressed. The officer then took my statement. At the end of our conversation, he said that my husband requested I voluntarily leave the home. I told the officer I didn't want to and that I needed to speak with my husband. He said he understood but explained it would be best if I left, at least for tonight, so things could calm down. I cried so hard. He then asked if there was anyone I could call. I told him, yes, my parents. Coincidentally, shortly after I said this, I heard my mom's voice on the porch talking to Henry. When I saw her face, it broke me. I just said mom, I'm sorry, mom, I really messed up. The officer explained to my mom that it would be best for me to stay with her for a few days, at least until things settled down. I then went upstairs with her to pack. She didn't say anything while packing, but I saw she was fuming. I knew she was angry, embarrassed, and really disappointed with me. When we came downstairs and walked outside, only the officer was there along with several neighbors who were still out on the sidewalk talking. The officer explained that Henry had gone to pick up the kids at school, that Henry would be taking them to practice and then out to eat. He said Henry asked that I close and lock the door and he, Henry, would call me in a few days to talk. When I got back to my parents' house, both my mom and dad scolded me for destroying my marriage. I just said I was sorry and explained that I was going to win back Henry's trust. My dad told me that was never going to happen and that I should start preparing for divorce. With this, I burst out crying and mom asked him why he'd say something like that. He just said because it's true. For the next two days, I texted and called Henry, but he didn't respond. Then on Wednesday evening, he sent a text stating we could meet on Saturday morning at our house to discuss next steps. He also wrote in the text that he had already explained to our kids what happened, so they were fully aware. I couldn't believe he did this without me. I thought they must hate me now. In a separate text, Henry said he filed charges against Adam and secured a 30-day temporary restraining order. I hated hearing this, as I just wanted this nightmare to end. To make matters worse, the incident was written up in the police section of our local paper. While the paper didn't give names or our house number, it did give our street name and was written so it was obvious what happened. Add in people knew from gossip so everybody must have known it was about our family. Saturday came and I was both excited and nervous to see Henry again. My dad and mom drove me and stayed out on the porch as Henry and I met inside. I told them they could leave, but Henry said he wanted them there as he didn't trust being alone with me, seriously. I went in to hug him and he just held up his hands, keeping me away. We sat down and he handed me separation papers. I broke down crying and told him, no, please don't do this. I pleaded and again told him how sorry I was and I loved him, only him. He just said, no you don't and started explaining the papers like a machine on a mission. I continued begging just to have a moment to talk to him about what happened, but he just kept explaining how the separation will work. He said I could move back in, but would be staying in the office. That was still just the way I left it. He then said he was splitting our bank accounts 50-50 and we would split the equity in the house if it ever sold, but explained he wanted me to surrender any claim to his 401k. He then went on and explained that starting next month, I would be required to contribute 35% of our living expenses, including the mortgage, insurances, utilities, car payments, food, etc. This would be about $2,300 per month. Since I didn't have a job, I would need to pay him from my half of the savings. He explained that all of this was clearly detailed in the separation agreement and that I needed to get a lawyer to review it. I told him I don't want to get a lawyer, I just wanted to talk to him about us. He calmly but firmly said there's nothing to talk about and said he just wants to officially separate from me. Then he explained that the only time he will talk to me would be for matters pertaining to our kids or when our kids are talking to both of us. He said anything else I say will be ignored. I cried and asked if he was seriously going to divorce me and he said, right now, that's my plan. I told him I couldn't live without him and I will fight with everything I had to keep him. He gave me a reaction I didn't expect. Thinking back, I can clearly see it printed in my mind. He just looked at me with disgust and started laughing loudly. With that, he yelled out to my parents to come in. He then called his parents on speakerphone and explained everything he just told me to both sets of parents. It was so cold. It was like a business meeting. All the while for me, it was torture. I just apologized to Henry and our parents and said I was going to fight to save my husband and family. This all went down this morning and now I'm here in the office writing this post at 2 a.m. as I can't sleep. Talking to my sister earlier, she gave me great advice and said I might also want to share my story online to see if any readers might offer some additional suggestions that could be helpful. So here I am. What should I do? Have I broken my marriage beyond repair? Is there any chance of getting back the beautiful life I destroyed or is it gone forever? All responses, even bad ones, are welcomed. Right now I just feel like an outcast with no one to turn to. My sister has been great, though she too is disgusted with me. Thank you in advance for reading this and for any replies you send. Sophia. Not only have you destroyed your marriage, you have forever changed the relationship you have with your children, your parents and everyone in the community. Something similar, though not as dramatic happened to my sister 16 years ago. Her husband divorced her and everyone in our small town still refers to her as the homewrecker. Good luck. Do you know how much danger you put your husband in by bringing this strange man into his home?  Your husband could be facing prison time now all because of you. You are in beyond awful. I was in your shoes seven years ago. I know you're not going to want to hear this but the best thing to do is to divorce. My loving husband took me back but our marriage was never the same. He never touched me again and instead began a relationship with his now wife. He met her through the one-sided open marriage I offered him. We finally divorced two years ago. A lot has happened in my life since I last updated. I first want to thank everyone who responded to my original post. Reading all the responses helped keep me going even though many were very critical of my actions. I can say from experience that not every story has a happy ending. In fact some endings are just terrible. Henry and I are now divorced. I tear up just typing those words and still can't believe it. It's just a nightmare. If you remember from my original post my husband and I were back living together in our home even though we were legally separated. Things were cold between us for the first month but then he started to come around talking to me more and even laughing and joking with me and the kids. I was feeling good about our progress and was confident we could still reconcile but only if we kept on the path we were on. Then out of the blue four months into our separation Henry said he wanted to talk with me alone without the kids. I thought this was going to be a discussion about us taking the next step towards reconciliation but instead he told me he wanted a divorce. I was completely devastated. I know all wives that did what I did use that term a lot in these posts but I can tell you I truly was. Henry explained that while he will always care deeply for me as the mother of his two beautiful children the love passion and trust he had for me is gone. I tried everything to change his mind but it was already made up. I broke down and we hugged but I could tell it was not a hug of a husband and wife it was more like two friends. Since we had been separated nearly four months and had already agreed to the division of assets and custody in the separation agreement the divorce went quickly and was finalized in February of this year. Henry treated me fairly. He bought out my equity share in our home and even gave me an additional $10,000 as he wanted to make sure I was able to maintain a good home for our kids even though I had a nice sum of money from the divorce. It was not enough to buy a home nor was it enough to live on for the rest of my life so I ended up taking a job at a new donut franchise just down the street from our kids school. I know the woman who owns the franchise so I contacted her about working there and she hired me on the spot. Contrary to what you might think I love working there. The owner is very nice and understanding my co-workers are awesome and our customers are super friendly. I kind of wished I had gotten a job while I was married as maybe things wouldn't have turned out like they have. How does the saying go an idle mind is the devil's playground or something like that? Oh well I can't change the past. Buckle up for next part. As for Henry, a month after our divorce was final he announced to his family and friends that he and Kate were officially a couple. Not only that, they were expecting a child in August. I ended up finding out through my kids who were excited about having two new siblings the new baby and Kate's daughter. This news absolutely destroyed me. I just couldn't believe Henry would do this and then not tell me about it himself. It's obvious Henry and Kate were seeing each other while we were separated. In fact the gossip is that they started their relationship right after D-Day. We live in a no fault state so it doesn't matter anyway. Unlike Henry and I Kate decided to divorce Adam right away. Since the house they were living in was gifted to her and they apparently had little savings their divorce was final months before ours. As for Adam it's a sad story. He was very broken up by the divorce and on Halloween of last year he was picked up for a DUI. Apparently this was his second such violation. Kate used this to get full custody of their daughter and now he only has supervised visitation which occurs at Kate's parents house as Henry and Kate don't want to see him. On top of that Adam is deathly afraid of Henry. I learned this through gossip but didn't need to. I remember D-Day and how it all went down. I think it's dirty and cruel for Kate to do this to her child's father even though she may hate him but I understand why she did what she did. Kate and her daughter are now living with Henry and my kids in my house. Of course it's no longer my house but I still think of it that way. This whole situation really depresses me so I try not to think about it but still do nearly every minute of the day. I try to convince myself that this whole thing with Kate is just a phase for Henry just like I went through with Adam. Kate is pretty and young she's 26 so she's like a new play toy for Henry. Since they were brought together under stressful circumstances I don't think their love is genuine. I still hold hope that one day Henry and I will reunite but I wish him and Kate the best. Last week I was advised that my contact with Henry will be limited further as he advised me that we will only be talking about our kids via email starting on Wednesday this week. Henry said Kate has been communicating with Adam this way and he wants to do the same to me. Hearing this so bluntly broke me even further. I know Kate had to put him up to this as he would never cut me off like that. As for me I've recently been spending most of my time decorating my new apartment and making it a comfortable place for my kids. It's only got two bedrooms so things are a little crowded but we make it work. I wish I could go back and change the past but I can't. So now I'm just moving forward one baby step at a time. That's where things are today with me. Thank you for listening to my story. That was Sophia's story. A story with series of choices with consequences, some light as feathers, others heavy as stones. Sophia's choice to cheat with Adam was one such stone. Well, a huge stone sinking her into the depths of regret. In the end sharing her story might give her breathing room and a sense of relief. What is your take on this? Is she fair in her comments about Kate? Let us know down below.  Thank you for watching Royal AI. I appreciate you for staying all the way till the end. See you in the next one.


Tom here for more systems and it is the year of the Linux desktop where everyone's going to move away from Windows and over to something like pop OS, right? Well, okay I say that jokingly and very tongue-in-cheek, but honestly I want to talk about system 76 pop OS and why I think it's a great distribution and specifically the 2104 edition that has been recently released recently It's been out for a little while But I'm using it because I wanted to provide my review from a usage standpoint not just a hey I just loaded at standpoint now for those you don't know I've been running a bunch to on my desktop for a long time that I did switch a little bit to Katie neon But overall I settle on a few years ago pop OS and I've been happy ever since I've been doing in-place upgrades on my systems Now I wanted to bring this up because we're gonna talk about you know Using Linux full-time as I do and as I have been for years and my perspectives on that We'll also cover maybe why you may not want to use Linux But those are a few different details and I also want to talk a lot about pop OS and why if you're deciding Maybe you've had enough of all the well issues that may come from Windows And you want to take a look at getting into the Linux world and what distribution may be right for you This is a pretty solid choice. I believe and I'll make my case for that shortly Before we dive into those details if you'd like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems Dot-com if you like to hire sure project There's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on a channel which do include some of these shirts with cats on them and fun things like that Well, that's linked down below now System 76 who are they and what is pop OS? So this is the version I'm running right now is pop OS 2104 and Let's talk about naming scheme real quick pop OS follows the Ubuntu naming scheme naming scheme And it is also based on Ubuntu 2104 now 21 represents the year 04 represents the month in the way Ubuntu names it System 76 is following Ubuntu's naming scheme But actually released it after April of 2021 but this makes it simple to understand what the base is when you're doing it That's an important thing because if you don't understand what the base is it could be a little bit harder to troubleshoot and Let me back up a little bit about what I mean by the base with it being based on Ubuntu That makes it a really solid platform And if you're asking why would you take something that's based on Ubuntu wouldn't you go to the original? Well, that's where system 76 comes in and puts a little bit more polish and more workflow options So Ubuntu has a great workflow and uses gnome System 76 takes gnome and really puts a lot of pizzazz on it to make it a more enhanced and more customizable experience and that's what the new as they refer to it cosmic desktop is Really a much more enhanced experience now system 76 is the company that builds the open-source pop OS They're a hardware vendor that sells laptops and desktops Specifically linux focused and when you buy their laptops or desktops One of the options is either to get them with Ubuntu or their system 76 and they make a really nice very high-end Linux systems that are really outstanding like the build quality and everything him is quite well I'll leave a link over to Jay from Linux TV. He's covered these before and done some in-depth reviews on some of their hardware I've also reviewed some of it that will all be linked down below back over to pop OS They wanted to provide a better experience then you get with stock Ubuntu and that's where pop OS comes in now Streamline your workflow Workflow customization is something I think is really important. I'm mixed on this particular feature called stacking Jay's a big fan of it from Learn Linux TV and he's reviewed it. I'm less a fan of it, but it's pretty cool It's once again one of the reasons that Linux can be troublesome for people coming from the windows world Before they move over to something like pop OS or Ubuntu going What do you mean? There's multiple ways to do things because in the way that Microsoft has always done it It's predefined in the major changes in your workflow or how you integrate with applications and how you use the system comes from major version changes and windows, but that version change in windows really kind of Brings you down only to that workflow and it's very the word I probably could use this homogenize across the whole Platform where everyone just kind of does it the same way Linux is a little bit more of a learning curve because they give you all these different customizations But that's also one of the reasons I enjoy it so much because I can customize things the way I want them to work and One thing that pop West does a nice job of is offering all these different like keyboard shortcuts for Managing your workflow and applications and how you interact with the system This sounds a little bit daunting it like when you see all these different keyboard shortcuts but they quickly become muscle memory once you're using them and You can do things like alt tab and jump between things and yes This is a cool-looking old retro terminal that yeah, I just thought it'd be kind of cool makes it look like a CRT I don't have any real practical use case other than it presents cool on the screen here now Back to talking how this works There are a few different keys like super key D that I have set up that will allow me to go between the different virtual workspaces This is another enhancement that you get with pop o s and the way they've implemented it is a really smooth Workflow for virtual workspaces. Yes, that does work in a bunch as well We're gonna focus on pop o s and how they have it implemented though This allows me to kind of choose between applications choose between things that I have open and switch between them and alt tab Like I said works fine So I can do this the downside is of course because I have multiple chrome windows open Do I want this one or that one? I like little previews it gives me but being able just to tab between things is Easy but fills old school when you can just do the application switching such as this right here Like if I wanted to jump over to you slack right here And this is once again hitting the super key now Let's actually jump into the settings menu here won't go here to system settings And this is where you can change what that does so right now the super key does the launcher or I can say Hey, do the workspaces, but I like it as super key D So we leave it like that or we can actually have it so it brings up all the applications to launch now One thing that I'll say is a little Weird to me instead of your normal like you may be used to a start bar at the bottom in the windows world when you launch applications They go like this and kind of show up as these large icons, but of course they're searchable here So if I wanted to launch something like virtual box, I can then find it and it will find other Subsets there or just go like this and open up virtual box. So it's pretty Easy enough to kind of get started with it when you're coming from a windows world I also have this set to hide at the bottom, which is the Which is the dock at the bottom here you I have the dock enabled and once again You can customize, you know always visible or they have what they refer to as intelligent high But I could also say always make that dock visible and be down there at the bottom Now you can switch from applications around on the dock So you notice that are all launched here so I can go like to the calculator I can pull slack back up I can go here to the terminal window that I have open or the cool retro terminal that I have here So it does work in a similar way and of course this shows all the applications This shows all the workspaces and that shows the launcher So there's different ways to get to things but I kind of like the auto hide and once you learn the keyboard shortcuts makes it a lot easier now Doing this and let me jump back over and show you the workspaces They seem a little complex because you maybe you're not used to using multiple workspaces But they actually make this relatively easy. So let's go ahead and take our calculator And where'd my calculator go? Well, I can just search for it like this. So we'll pull up calculator There it is. One of the things I really like is when I did that it also Moved the window focus to be the calculator. So I dragged it to a new workspace. It's all by its lonesome here Let's go back to the Firefox one and we'll hit the super key and type calc again It brings me right to focus on the application I wanted and puts me so the cursor is in there I know it sounds simple like you see this alt tab But when you have a lot of windows open This is where I mentioned that workflow and one of the things that you can run is so many different applications at the same time You kind of can get lost in that I think they've done a great job of making it so you can find it just how Chrome has finally added, you know, easy way to search all the different Chrome tabs that you have open To be able to find them when you're one of those people which I occasionally am who have many many tabs open Yes, you can now search for all the different applications you have open and be able to just jump between them Either this way or have a virtual workspace environment now The nice thing also about the virtual workspace environments is we can build one kind of as needed and As so much happens in the tech world you get disrupted or someone has a question and you need to kind of move somewhere clean to start doing some type of Dive into whatever someone interrupts you on but you don't want to break the workflow you had for everything else You had open. This is one of the other advantages. I really feel is with the Multiple workspaces is being able to go. All right, let me just get this other workspace. Let me open up We'll put the Libre writer right here and let's Dive into that so we can all right now we can start this document here. All right, and then when the person's done bothering me We're gonna go hit Over here or back over here what we're talking about with these shortcuts and it's this window I want on top so it's not just searching to the workspace Bring this back on top bring me back to what I was doing and the same thing works for when I'm doing my workflows for things like Caden live, so let's go ahead and do this go down here and then Choose that workspace Caden live, which is actually with the video editor I use for this and Pull it up in this particular space. So it's gonna launch.  This is here There's my document. I was writing there's this and let's talk about these system 76 back over here And once you get used to this, it's really nice Now I've been using Papa West for a long time and the cosmic desktop brings forth that a little bit more polish on there Now one thing I haven't really taken the time to learn is all the gesture commands This is one of those things that Papa West has as well as be able to use touchpad and gesture I I've figured a few of them out. It's kind of a nice way. They've integrated this It's where I want to learn even more for people It's gonna be helpful that are using not just a trackpad here But if you want to get a trackpad add-on in addition to your mouse Yes, you can use both at the same time so you can reach over your trackpad make gestures to move these windows around a certain way I'm so partial to the keyboard shortcuts But once again, this goes back to the flexibility that you're gonna get with some of the Linux desktop now Displays and multi monitor. This is something really clever that I like the way Papa West handles this really really well Now pretty much even my laptop desktop my desktop Where I do most editing is a triple monitor setup, but the system here is going to be and we'll go to settings again Settings menu. Let's go in my displays and by the way, you can search your settings like any control panel So go here and we'll just jump to displays because you know as there's a lot of options in here You want to get to the right one? It's set to mirror now I have it set to mirror when it plugs into the recording studio here when it plugs into my secondary monitor when It's at home. It recognizes and moves all the applications to that secondary monitor by Extending the display to it But when it senses that it's plugged into the display essentially that it detects for the recording It then says nope that one is set to mirror It remembers everything on a per device you plugged it into setting So the last setting I use which being near for this one and being extend on my external monitor Works perfectly fine. It understands and and it remembers what applications were on which windows So I can quickly take this plug this into my second screen when I get back home And it goes back into being a dual display and it says, you know You had this window over here and this window over here and remembers the settings that it was extended not that not a Mere display. This is one of those things that becomes really nice about the way Linux handles all that and It really shows how mature and how the product has really come along because earlier in the days when I did switch to Linux These things were just really difficult to do and you've spent a lot of time messing with it now It's really so easy. There's not any command lines. I had to do to do that This is an out-of-the-box way the system works now Let's talk about applications and this is where I think the pop shop is Really making it a lot easier for people to adopt into Linux and it just keeps getting better with each version picture Very much like the application stores that you have for modern phones, whether it's a Google Play store the Apple store or you know insert Store that you may be using it's not on those specifically But you get the concept being able to have all the applications here and if I wanted to load something either a game Graphics There's a lot of different options on here now It's becoming a very popular platform for developers because we have things like Android studio available in here And you may notice just a couple different ways to load things and this one particular comes as a flat pack Flat packs are instead of trying to load the application With all of its dependencies that are needed flat packs kind of wrap all the things that an application needs into a single file. It's actually very Interesting way to handle it. I actually am a big fan of this because it allows you not to have to worry about Collision so to speak between some incompatible apps This is specifically a problem in the video editing world and one of the reasons I use Kaden live for my video editing And I use it as a flat pack because it's not going to interfere with maybe another tool I might be using it has a different dependency on one of the Different codecs that are needed so don't get too deep into that. We'll just say it's a good thing but all these different editors and Audio communication development and as I mentioned earlier with slack being open slack being one of the popular business tools I don't have any problems from a business standpoint using this from a day-to-day usage But and as much as we know steam is in there I know games are gonna be one of the first hang-ups for the average end user and this is where I'll say maybe this is Not always the time to run Linux I bring this up because someone may call me out on it in the comments and they would be correct to say Tom Don't you have a Windows computer at home? Yes, and I will admit yes for games It's just runs better because the games I like aren't quite good yet on Linux And that's what it comes down to and the same thing with I'm a huge open-source advocate I'm a massive fan of the Linux desktop and I was there during the painful days And now I would say it's pretty you know easy to switch to but switching business clients over to it not quite as easy because yes, there's a lot of pain with them because a line of business applications and user training and Yeah, and Microsoft it's what people are used to using so it's gonna take a while before we really get to the year of the Linux desktop Before we really see Microsoft replace but with more and more things being web-based applications the operating system matters a little bit less But don't say that too much around really diehard Linux enthusiasts I mean I am one but I'm also someone who realistically manages Windows computers So I know it's gonna be a long time for we really see on desktop But overall my thoughts are if you are starting out and you would like to get into using Linux I think the pop OS is a wonderful choice. I'm running it right now in my think pad l480 So even though it's supported and will ship on a system 76 system It does work on a multitude of hardware pretty much any hardware that Ubuntu will support Also being based on Ubuntu if you're having any trouble figuring something out in the learning curve of maybe you're new To Linux system 76 pop OS gives you that extra polish on the desktop But maintains that compatibility that well 99% of the time you can search for Ubuntu 2104 and how to do something and no same instructions will apply to pop OS You don't necessarily need to search for how to do something in pop OS unless you're doing something very Interface specific for the changes that pop OS put on top of known kind of skinned it But my overall if you want to get started in Linux, I think it's a great distribution I think this latest version of it is pretty outstanding and allows a lot of flexibility for how you want to use it And so those are my thoughts on pop OS. I loaded it is today. It came out all my desktops Laptops every one of them whether they're the office ones or even you know like this older. I forget model this one was This is a little x250 that you sometimes see in some of the videos I've loaded on this and a few others in the office here and we love it We think it's been great. The update does take a little while to do But it's actually been kind of impressive to think that I've been running it for years Which is in place upgrades for each time a matter of fact I've even swapped hardware where I take the hard drive out put it in a different laptop and yeah Now I have a new laptop and it doesn't it doesn't complain much about hardware switching. All right I'll leave links to Jay who also did a review from learning TV on pop OS and his thoughts as well. 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