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System76 Pop!_OS Scheduler Now Detects Hyprland, Lands Various Fixes

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In addition to System76 software engineers being busy working on [1]their new COSMIC desktop environment , on Thursday they also released a new version of the System76 Scheduler that is used by Pop!_OS.

The System76 Scheduler is their project that is [2]a Rust-based scheduler aimed at increasing desktop responsiveness . Over the past few years this System76 Scheduler has landed [3]various optimizations for gaming and desktop apps , [4]performance optimizations , and [5]other features .

As the first new release in more than one year (since May 2023), the System76 Scheduler 2.0.2 was released on Thursday. With this new version it adds the Hyprland Wayland compositor to the list of detected desktop environments. There are also a few bug fixes.

Downloads and more details on the updated System76 Scheduler used by Pop!_OS and other Linux distributions can be found via [6]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Scheduler-1.0

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Scheduler-1.2

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Scheduler-2.0

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Scheduler-2.0.1

[6] https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler/releases/tag/2.0.2



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