They only thing I dislike about PopOS is that they have not gone all in on ZFS. The base Ubuntu has it.<p>They could really move ahead of every other distro if they had ZFS native encryption by default.
Does anyone else recommend this to people first trying out Linux? I have been mentioning this and Mint (though I use Debian PopOS! seems like the better of the two), and I'm curious which of them (or any other distro) helps convert more Windows users. I stopped recommending Ubuntu a few years ago because of snaps, they're such an Ubuntu specific thing in practice that I think it's harmful for people learning Linux.
I moved away from Windows at the beginning of the year. My first Distro was Linux Mint, then Ubuntu 22.04 and yesterday I installed Pop_OS 22.04. Fedora didn't fit my requirements as it doesn't support fractional scaling.<p>All very, very solid.<p>I gave Pop_OS a try because I wanted a simple tiling window manager. It does all I want.<p>The only thing I don't like is the color theme. I know it's a matter of taste but Pop_OS is by far the ugliest out there. Also the default backgrounds. Or the stacking window bar. I wonder what other users are thinking ...<p>Otherwise is seems very awesome so far. I don't understand the complains regarding the Pop Shop. I think it's actually pretty good. E.g. I can choose to install VS Code from Flathub or as deb Package. That's nice.
I updated to Popos 22.04 yesterday and I immediately had problems with prisma (Error: Unknown binaryTarget debian-openssl-3.0.x and no custom binaries were provided). This is probably ubuntu/openssl related rather than pops.<p>They do have a fix (you can switch to dev branch) or wait for it to be released next Tuesday:
<a href="https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/11356#issuecomment-1109060096" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/11356#issuecomment-1...</a><p>I normally wait at least a month :facepalm: Might want to wait a week or so before updating.
the best thing about pop os for me is the very sane default, out of the box experience. especially it's tiling by default and covers most basic use cases.
What are the top choices everyone would suggest in terms of Linux OS for reasonably upgraded packages, package availability in terms of dev/tech person and perhaps most importantly a sane and reasonably pain free upgrade path (no reinstall every year or something).
ZFS is great for laptops. Automatic snapshots, error detection (the hardware is mishandled), encrypted backup, compression for limited space, etc.<p>Why removing it?