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Pop!_OS for the same reason. Also, I'm tired of how everyone seems to constantly re-invent the desktop.

Same. Snap killed Ubuntu for me. I don't normally care that much about change, I just roll with them. I got used to Unity and ended up liking it.

Snap would take my machine a minute to launch the calculator app back in 18.04 I think. And I really can't live with apps auto updating whenever the developer releases a new version. Lack of control over updates was what drove me from Windows in the first place.

Pop was such a breath of fresh air when I tried it. They are doing amazing things there, in so many ways.

Breath of fresh air is the phrase I'd use too. I didn't even realize that they were a hardware company, but after using the OS, I'd seriously consider buying their gear when the time comes for a refresh.

For what it's worth, even if you don't buy their hardware (I don't have any either, although I'm looking hungrily at their desktops and keyboards), it looks like System76 offers an option for directly supporting Pop!_OS through their site, like you might for other open source projects through GitHub Sponsors, Liberapay, etc.

What did you like, specifically?

Probably the single biggest thing was how their was nothing extra or (imho) weird.

It felt like Android on the Pixel compared to the heavily modified and bundled versions everyone else shipped.

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