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That’s good… for a second I thought they’d integrated Zoom videoconferencing into the desktop.

That's a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Some great features too. However, I strongly dislike bland Open Sans. Yuck! What the fuck are they thinking making their unique OEM desktop font look like everything everywhere and blending into the Gooble-verse. OPens Sans is used on something like 20 million web sites, numerous apps and Android phones. Google owns it. I understand the technical reasons why they might try to use it, but it's not a good fit for System76. FiraGO or DejaVu Sans would be a better company fit. I imagine there's a good portion of their target market who don't appreciate Google's abusive and intrusive behavior and attempt to de-Google. Their company aesthetic, adherence to open source philosophy and attempt to buck the abusive corporate tech surveillance right down to the firmware is at odds with using this bland overused corporate owned font. System76 strip out all of the telemetry, closed source additions and account options Canonical add to Ubuntu. They have a reputation for respecting their customer's privacy and Google is the polar opposite. I hope that decision doesn't bite them in the ass.

I'm saying what the fuck, but in the end it's just a font and can be changed, and I will be changing it. COSMIC is absolutely awesome otherwise. I know there's a lot of unavoidable corporate contributions to Linux, but this one is totally avoidable. It's a choice and decision that has me perplexed. And, I know Open Sans is open source, but I don't get this at all. FiraGO would make more sense. It's an improved Fira Sans with international glyphs.