Will Pop!_OS replace Ubuntu as the primary distro for the Linux desktop?

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• i still think ubuntu is the best first choice for new users. the upgrade path is easy, whereas with derivatives, u can't easily upgrade, u need to do clean reinstalls, and there are so many official flavors, so, one can choose from a big variety of experiences. gone are the days where derivatives mattered more since wifi drivers out of the box is no longer an issue, like it once was.

• i like pop os because it is faster, secure updates, customizable, and more friendly than Windows. I'm using Pop Os right now. I'm using Pop Os 22.04.

• No

• Ubuntu was my introduction to Linux and I have run it the majority of the last 10 years. Recently I did switch to another company developed distribution Tuxedo OS, because I like the KDE desktop and Tuxedo OS has an easy to implement power menu similar to windows where you can set the CPU to best performance, balanced, or best battery. If you buy a Tuxedo PC you get other menu functions, but on my ThinkPad the power settings work well. Yes it does have me thinking my next PC may be from Tuxedo as their distro is very stable and easy to use.

• Linux Mint is the primary replacement to Ubuntu!

• Forward thinking innovation can not exclude it's past positive strong points. I have far more ram access than 2GB now, however Linux Distros ought keep the minimum 2GB ram standards to force greater creative technical innovation. After all isn't that focus what got Americans on the moon? Less is more. Men are too easily fascinated by our purported shinny new toys, national & global junk piles are testimonials to our fascination with fire.

• Unfortunately, too many "distros" are forks of other distros such as PopOS is a fork of Ubuntu. I think that if a distro should be taken seriously is that it is not a fork of another distro but a fork of just one of the base systems such as Arch, Fedora, or Debian. When you add too many hands that make changes, it makes the end product a little more difficult to maintain.

• I think so- and GOOD– ubuntu – although GOOD software…is a LOUSY group/company or whatever you choose to call it.. too political and commercialized.. like GOOGLE and MICROSOFT– which should ALL be broken up and disbanded– and forbidden to reform EVER (like the did the phone company many years back!)…

• I believe that functionality will define who will win. As of today, I still see many videos focusing on looks and a few buttons in some control panel. But NO ONE has ever reviewed something as basic as sharing a folder in your lan, or network printing, etc. all reviews are about superficial stuff, and very little about productivity.

• POP OS is a reskined Ubuntu.

• Linux mint will tbh

• Pop does support lts for 5 years

• Why do people settle for telemetry ?
  All to run steam games ?

• I think if system_76 really wanted to kill ubuntu, they would release their own server distribution. When you go to system_76's server section, it appears like they actually promote Ubuntu. Maybe in the future they may partner together. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• I installed Pop!_OS! 22.04 on btrfs without problems

• I think POP! Will likely become the new "Ubuntu". The fact they distribute an ISO that includes NVIDIA out of the box is a huge bonus. especially as the majority of PCMR prefer NVIDIA. I unfortunately had some goofy breakage with POP! many times I've used it. Hopefully future builds will be more stable, but I've been back on Mint with virtually no Issue. I'd still recommend POP! though because the stock experience is pretty good. Even though I'm not a GNOME fan by any means.

• I am optimistic in this regard. While I do not see this occurring anytime soon, I would love to see System76 or any other manufacture of Linux hardware take the lead here. Not just to dethrone Ubuntu, but to become the 'Mac' of the Linux world. This would relieve the anxiety of us as Linux users to escape the continuing control and attempts by Microsoft to dominate on the hardware side of computing.

• Sorry, Pop! OS is not a stable operating system

• Thanks for this interesting and well thought out video. MX Linux is also a popular and fast-growing alternative to Ubuntu that probably should be talked about in any discussion of Ubuntu loosing market share. MX Linux is Debian based, so not dependent at all on Ubuntu or Canonical. MX Linux is loved by many for it's tools that make system install, configuration and management easier for the less tech inclined or less experienced user. I still prefer vanilla Debian over MX Linux but I use MX Linux on systems with older hardware or uncommon hardware with drivers not included in the vanilla Debian packages. MX Linux doesn't have a large company behind them, so if you agree with FOSS & Linux Journal that this might be a disadvantage, it may be a consideration. The recent inclusion of an optional KDE Desktop should make MX Linux more appealing to users who don't like the original XFCE desktop from MX Linux. People really like to customize their desktop environments and KDE is still the best at supporting customizations. Pop!_OS doesn't currently use GRUB so those users wanting to dual boot it with Windows must use a different, manually applied dual boot method, and many newer users wanting to dual boot Linux to try it out may just choose to go with a distro that will automatically setup grub to dual boot during the installation. Sorry if this seems like a hijack of the comments of this video.

• The great thing from a User POV is we can change from one OS to another without too much trouble or expense. We can always go with what is the best out there for our needs and change up when its prudent.

• Ubuntu Desktop doesn't make sense for Cannonical financially. System 76, on the other hand, has every reason to manage PopOS well.

  So… yeah.

• In my humble opinion, anyone using an Ubuntu derivative should root for Ubuntu to continue reigning. If a spin-off "replaces" the OG, the days of all Ubuntu spin-offs are numbered, since none of them can exist without the OG. Sure, they could switch to using another base but the fact of the matter is that no other Linux base has even remotely the amount of online support that Ubuntu has; not even Debian on which in turn, Ubuntu is based.

• i find garuda gaming edition better and is my go to.

• I strongly dislike Ubuntu and I have tried POP several times. I don't like it very much either. I found it slow, buggy and bloated with way too maybe of 76s tweaks. Fedora is a much better choice.

• I use pop os

• I tried pop!_os 2/3 times in recent years. In every occasion I find it very interesting and beautiful but with a lot of annoying bugs. I've always switched back to Ubuntu. I think that the most elegant and reliable Ubuntu's derivate is still Linux Mint.

• I believe Fedora is a better alternative to Ubuntu and Pop

• Pop is just Ubuntu customised by an OEM (System 76). This means it inherits all of the decisions made by canonical, Cosmic is just a set of Gnome extensions after all, and that can easily be changed.

  You say some very odd things about recommendations and software availability which is actually not different, and what matters most is usability and stability, neither of which differ significantly between these two.

• dumb spelling, shouldve went with just Pop OS (instead of Pop!_OS)

• Does anyone use "pure" Ubuntu"? It's as difficult as a pure Debian, ie useless on the desktop. It's the variants of Ubu and Deb that are usable.

• No, because Fedora is.
  Correction: Void Linux is.

  Disclaimer: Yes, I recently switched 😀

• использую POP OS на настольном компьютере. надеюсь нам оставят возможность POP OS использовать без ограничений. привет из России.
  I use POP OS on a desktop computer. I hope they will leave us the opportunity to use POP OS without restrictions. Hello from Russia.

• Pop os is a joke. If you don't want Ubuntu, use fedora.

• im not a gnome lover at all …but ….if i was to use a Gnome -type desktop, POPos is the best!

• I currently run Pop! and Zorin next to each other. Zorin is my favourite, but Pop! isn't far behind and if Pop! would a bit less in-your-face and a bit more visually restrained, I would switch over in a second.

• PopOS is good on paper, but cosmic is still way behind gnome 42 on Ubuntu lts. Cosmic shell is still buggy, laggy, not integrated with the launcher (like the gnome all in one shell), pop shop is buggy and shows less information compared with gnome software. And the tiling windows mode can be installed in Ubuntu as well within one minute. As the current lts, I think Ubuntu works much smoother and is more stable, but for the next one who knows… I really hope Pop OS with the new cosmic will make a quality jump with its rust version, and will be the better solution in 2024.

• I have downloaded POP OS and love it, much better than Ubuntu

• Mint

• I think fedora has already taken that spot.

• ubuntu in general is a bloat, and gnu libc adds heavily to this… go Alpine (both containers and real hardware) and MUSL lib c

• LOL Pop Os is based on ubuntu…

• Switched to Pop recently, absolutely a better experience all-round. Also if I was in the US I'd recommend their hardware as it seems very competitively priced

• If Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu, how will it then replace Ubuntu?

• I am actually in the middle of the fence for both. I personally experienced more bugs with PopOS than Ubuntu which is annoying. Ubuntu LTS felt more stable somehow. Just wished Ubuntu had a tiling manager option by default and it would be perfect. I prefer Flatpaks but I believe Ubuntu won't include it by default because Snap is used for their server implementations.

• I wouldn't consider Pop!_OS as a better experience. The OS is way buggier than Ubuntu and has gotten way worse over the last years

• I tried using Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10 for a couple of days but gave up because the internet connection for wifi is really slow, and all the fix I tried didn't fix it so I moved to Fedora 37 instead.

• PopOS never. Too many bugs on my Lenovo Ideapad Ryzen and ThinkPad Carbon. Deleted it after some minutes.

• Love it!

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