Constant maintnence by System76 (under a solid Ubuntu base)
Ships latest Mesa, firmware, and Linux kernel only a week or so after latest stable
flathub built in and the Pop shop is more stable and useful than gnome-software (but nowhere close to Linux Mint unfortunately)
The COSMIC desktop is really pleasant to use and GNOME 42 still rocks! System76 also have a plan for wayland mapped out with cosmic-epoch (Mint devs far behind on this one)
GNU Guix:
A transactional package manager that can be installed ontop of POP!_OS.
Hacking on Guix allows me to get the latest packages of things I’m interested in without compromising my base system. Why distro hop when you can use Guix?
Flatpak/Flathub:
Get latest stable versions of user applications.
It’s flathub, what more is there to say?
POP!_OS + GNU Guix + Flathub = the most complete GNU/Linux one can get.
POP!_OS:
GNU Guix:
Flatpak/Flathub:
POP!_OS + GNU Guix + Flathub = the most complete GNU/Linux one can get.
Interesting setup, I can definitely see myself giving that a go as a nice middle ground between traditional distros and full-on NixOS/Guix.