I use it on my Gazelle and have been surprised how well it works. All the user friendly helpers, even including their "app store" (which is essentially an APT GUI) are actually useful.

The only issues I had with it were the lack of setup wizard support with LUKS and Dualboot to Windows w/ Bitlocker (for Games) over GRUB, so I had to configure everything manually.

Other than that, it works like a charm - unless it hits the proprietary Nvidia blob driver (no real hotplug for HDMI and mini-DP, sometimes screen tearing on big displays). But that is not a popOS! issue and most of the time it works fine.

I like it a lot and keep coming back to it. I’m using the LTS/18.04 variant of it. Some of the things I like include:

- great installation experience that just works. Most of the distros I’ve tried have had problems with this

- comes with a newer kernel and the correct set of drivers, so most of the time I’m not battling with it

- its an Ubuntu derivative, so every tutorial on the internet works for it. I’m not seasoned linux user just yet, so this has been quite helpful

- its relatively lightweight and for the most part gets out of your way

- superficially, I like its theme more then Ubuntu proper

I hope they keep doing the right things with the next lts.

I recently used Pop!_OS and it was great. It's a better Ubuntu, with less junk preloaded. It's probably the nicest linux distro I've used. Nothing earth-shattering, but just a very good user experience.