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update pop basics article to align with 24.04 features#1354

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Added basic elements of Pop!_OS 24.04 to include a few tips on using the basic features. Also added the current videos that highlight COSMIC features with new screenshots as well.

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I cannot get the lint errors corrected. It's very odd. When I change it to for italics it reverts to the and I can't get my underline to stick.

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jacobgkau commented Feb 4, 2026

I'm not sure what problem you were having with the _ characters, but a single * on either side is also italics in Markdown (bold is two **), so I changed it to that.

Never mind, the linter wants it to be underscores... I'll do that instead.

@jacobgkau jacobgkau force-pushed the update-pop-basics-2404 branch from 2e858f6 to 9a4dcca Compare February 4, 2026 22:05
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The underscores seem to be working fine for the italics.

@jacobgkau jacobgkau force-pushed the update-pop-basics-2404 branch from 3759eae to ca6fbb0 Compare February 6, 2026 20:22
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Here's what I changed in my revision pass:

  • Made the YouTube embeds responsive (so they take up the full width available to them).
  • Reworded some of the phrasing around the videos so they flow better with the rest of the content (I don't think the italics descriptions were structurally necessary).
  • Reworded the second intro sentence to avoid repeating the word desktop so many times in a row.
  • Changed the Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Environment header to just COSMIC Desktop Environment to avoid confusion about COSMIC's name.
  • Un-capitalized desktop in desktop environment and capitalized Rust as a programming language name.
  • Added a hyperlink to the COSMIC webpage the first time COSMIC is mentioned.
  • Reworded the Launcher's intro sentence.
  • Added additional info about the Launcher's web search feature, and tweaked phrasing for the other features.
  • Changed Dock wording to avoid confusion about applets vs. app icons (there was some incorrect information describing applets as "which applications are accessible with one click on the dock"; pinned apps are actually all part of a single applet).
  • Moved mouse-based Workspaces info out of the shortcuts section into the main section above it, leaving only shortcuts info in the shortcuts section.
  • Fixed inconsistencies in the capitalization of COSMIC and various COSMIC components.
  • Reworded all generic "this" and "here" hyperlinks to describe what they're linking to for better accessibility and readability.
  • Miscellaneous grammar fixes (commas, etc) and typo fixes (consiting, acces).

I'm approving now since it looks good to me after the revisions. Support can give it another look for their review.

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jacobgkau commented Feb 6, 2026

I'll need one two more commits to fix the new linting issues I caused.

- Made the YouTube embeds responsive (so they take up the full width available to them).
- Reworded some of the phrasing around the videos so they flow better with the rest of the content.
- Reworded the second intro sentence to avoid repeating the word `desktop` so many times in a row.
- Changed the `Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Environment` header to just `COSMIC Desktop Environment` to avoid confusion about COSMIC's name.
- Un-capitalized `desktop` in `desktop environment` and capitalized `Rust` as a programming language name.
- Added a hyperlink to the COSMIC webpage the first time COSMIC is mentioned.
- Reworded the Launcher's intro sentence.
- Added additional info about the Launcher's web search feature, and tweaked phrasing for the other features.
- Changed Dock wording to avoid confusion about applets vs. app icons (there was some incorrect information describing applets as "which applications are accessible with one click on the dock"; pinned apps are actually all part of a single applet).
- Moved mouse-based Workspaces info out of the shortcuts section into the main section above it, leaving only shortcuts info in the shortcuts section.
- Fixed inconsistencies in the capitalization of COSMIC and various COSMIC components.
- Reworded all generic "this" and "here" hyperlinks to describe what they're linking to for better accessibility and readability.
- Miscellaneous grammar fixes (commas, etc) and typo fixes (consiting, acces).
@jacobgkau jacobgkau force-pushed the update-pop-basics-2404 branch from b26cc1e to 3139a85 Compare February 6, 2026 21:52
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Lint passes & build succeeds again now.

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