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I can. Ubuntu is decreasing in quality and Pop OS is already being billed as the better Ubuntu. It has a good commercial backing and is slowly but surely gaining popularity due to its polish.

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That won't happen. It's easier to fix Ubuntu than to fix Pop. Plus Canonical has just much better engineering and resources, and have been in this game for longer. The only reason People prefer Pop is because of its theme (I find it hideous, but to each their own), that it's marketed towards gamers (I don't think there are any significant performance differences between both) and that it comes with Flatpaks instead of Snaps. People just hate Ubuntu because of Snaps.

Larger organizations with a lot of salaries to pay are also typically risk averse and therefore much less willing to make huge bets on adventurous experiments into the unknown.

I can also confidently say that most people using Pop aren't using it because of the theme, and Pop!_OS is actually marketed to STEM and developers rather than gamers. It's just that a lot of PC gamers like what Pop!_OS has to offer to them, so it seems that way by word of mouth.

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