I’ve been using Pop!_OS (and only it) for about 3 years now because Windows messed itself up on one of my laptops and I didn’t feel like reinstalling it. During those 3 years, Nvidia on my two laptops has “just worked” with absolutely zero broken upgrades I can remember. I’m not trying to install a bunch of GNOME plugins to make it usable because that’s already said and done out of the box. There are zero annoying things running in the background sucking up all my processor time. So, overall, I haven’t snoozed more from a Linux distro, in contrast to trying to set up Arch on one of my SBCs.
Because of that, Pop will be the ONLY thing I’m installing on my computers for the foreseeable future. :) I wish all Linux distros were as boring as this.
It’s been rock solid for me going on 3 years now. I started using pop 20.04 and then upgraded to 22.04 and upgraded my DE from Regolith 1.6 to 2.0 and despite all those rather large major version leaps, I’ve had no issues.
And I’m a remote developer (doing LXC and other systems level development) using this on my work laptop that has to stay functional for my livelihood, so stability is paramount, but also the ability to customize things without it breaking the world.
If I didn’t have a System76 laptop with a dGPU I might just use Ubuntu or Debian because I don’t really utilize most of the pop-specific features (e.g it’s tiling functionality) aside from from the ease of dealing with power management and Nvidia graphics, but it’s still a great distro.
i have a 2017 macbook on which pop won’t install (installer crashes). so it runs ubuntu. the experience is maddening compared to my (non-system76) pop box