Pop!_OS

“I chose it as a fairly popular distro having Ubuntu stability while offering a leading-edge kernel”

“pop and Bazzite in particular have proven to be perfectly capable daily drivers”

“There are definitely issues that come up sometimes when I upgrade to a new kernel version”

“It wasn't perfect - the sleep behaviour was particularly terrible - but it worked well with Teams and Google Meet.”

“the OS is a little buggy and functionality can be quite sparse in some applications”

“PopOS completely shit the bed for me on a major version upgrade, left the system is a completely inconsistent state”

“which is why I recommend Pop OS - at least I did when it was a light weight Ubuntu fork”

“They have done tons of work on DE (Cosmic) and in general don't go along with Gnome or Ubuntu strangness.”

“my recent upgrade to Pop version 24.04 has been a bit of a step back in terms of desktop experience”

“Haven't had any show stopping bugs on the laptop, just a few small quirks.”

“Pop_os! with the system76 power daemon makes a world of difference on my tiny AMD powered Lenovo ideapad.”

“zoom worked fine right off the bat. So did steam and all my steam games.”

“I recently upgraded to Pop_OS 24.04 because I was sick and tired of being stuck with an outdated base”

“I am a huge fan of System76 and Pop_OS, and I am sorry to see how this migration has split the community”

“My main gripe of Pop (other than the COSMIC issues) was mostly audio issues with how they set up PipeWire”

“Pop's out of the box is about 90% of what I want, which is better than most.”

“extra easy (with an LLM everything is already easy) installation of drivers (POP os?)”

“I've used Ubuntu, Pop, Mint and Fedora workstation in the last 5 years and all worked great.”

“Even the last half year on Pop Coxmic pre-release versions was overall less painful than a lot of my Windows experiences”

“beginner-friendly operating system in the same way that Fedora/LinuxMint/OpenSUSE/Pop!_OS/Ubuntu/ElementOS are”

“I've daily driven fedora, pop_os! and a few arch derivatives with few or zero issues for years”

“has treated me well for the last five years but Cosmic has been frustrating”

“I'd go with a downstream distro that removes them: pop os, mint, or even upstream (Debian)”

“PopOS and Manjaro (IIRC) were the distros to game on, if you wanted up-to-date OOTB working drivers”

“I use my Bluetooth headset on discord, slack, and google meet without any problems”

“I think it's just about the best out of the box experience in Linux for most users.”

“the GPUs are supported and work using FOSS drivers: the external screen works fine”

“I have a brand new NZXT machine with PopOS that I bought several years ago”

“I've enjoyed a much more stable Linux desktop experience than I had on other distros in the past”

“they're much more up to date on the kernel, a lot of the packages are newer than upstream as well”

“Didn't really need to improve on it from my POV since Chrome and Steam and Proton apps worked in it just great”

“I generally enjoy it. It could do with less punctuation in the name because it makes it harder to search the internet for distro specific information.”

“System76 is highly incentivized to do exactly this and specifically with nvidia drivers and laptops”

“Along with Pop, one of the main motivations for these distros is Nvidia support”

“the last time I had a distro install shit itself(pop os), I had no idea how to fix it”

“It is simpler than KDE for someone with dexterity and mild cognitive issues.”

“Fast, a slight learning curve(took me a weekend), and I'm back gaming and coding regularly.”

“Not knowing if I'll be able to sit down at my machine and have it boot up I consider buggy as hell.”

“Pop_OS is pretty rough. Theyre running on a super outdated base while working on COSMIC”

“I felt better just going back with Pop and keeping it close to defaults”