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Switched to linux (popos - so far so good) this month because fuck microsoft. yeah, some things aren't perfect or require extra steps (modding, usually) but fuck microsoft. Fuck their AI shit, fuck their "recall" spyware, fuck their CEO that babbles about AI while laying off thousands of workers.
I'm a long-time Linux hacker and I'm currently running Pop! OS on my laptop and dev box. It's the best distro I've found yet that Just Works™ (but naturally still allows for all the customization I might want).
I've also run mint and ubuntu, but this was very smooth.
The only problem so far are I get a crackling in my headphones in at least one game (guild wars 2), and I'm not sure how to diagnose that. One of the related problems of windows being so dominant is the internet is full of SEO slop for windows problems
Easy effects (flathub) helped improve my sound a lot
I find Ubuntu to be buggier than it used to be, and snaps are inherently broken.
Mint stands between Ubuntu and Pop! OS, but is still fiddlier than what I want for a daily driver.
really? I found the customization for Pop/COSMIC extremely limited.
Like I said, it allows for what I want. I don't need to "rice" a setup that I'm trying to use to Get Shit Done. These days, the only time I'm rebuilding Linux from scratch is when I'm literally building an OS for a project.
With Pop!_OS you should be in for a good huge update in about 2026 or so. They normally released every half year with Ubuntu, but they haven't done a new release since the 22.04 LTS (Long Term Support) version because they're working on their own desktop environment and it's taking up most of the developer resources.
So hopefully in 2026 they'll release 26.04 with the new COSMIC DE to replace 22.04 with Gnome (with their customizations, also called 'COSMIC' so it gets confusing lol). I think technically they're working on a 24.04, but at this rate I think Ubuntu 26.04 will be out around the same time or even before COSMIC is fully ready.
So there's a decent chance you'll get a whole lot of improvements at once, which is cool