This is the first time in recent memory that a company's software has made me want to buy their hardware. They are doing such cool stuff with Pop_OS, figure my next laptop will be from System76.
Besides, there is nothing stopping you from using their DE on any other PC.
I do hope they take the time to fully iron out the bugs on cosmic before making it the default. I was an early wayland adopter but after facing issue after issue, I eventually realized that the jump from xorg to wayland was all about making the developers life easier, with little to any benefit to me as an end user.
I'd fix it myself but it's all in Vala and I don't have time to learn another language.
Is it a matter of these particular bits not receive adequate attention or something else? I'm not opposed to trying to pitch in and help improve them but before that's feasible the root problem needs to be understood.
I think a lot of it is because distros tend to play hot potato with the packaging and try to reduce their load by building off Debian or Arch, which makes the experience way less consistent as you end up with fragmentation surfaced to the user. Add in a bit of corporate open-source "embrace the user" and you get app store jank that the developers never use because they just open a terminal instead.
I would definitely not buy one if you're not in North America as there's a decent chance you'll need hardware support.
Hardware (darter pro 7, everything maxed):
Recently, the keyboard and trackpad of my two-year-old laptop suddenly became a convex surface. Had to open a support ticket to ask how to get a replacement battery.
Many days later, I got a reply that it would be $120 + shipping and do I want to go ahead and order one? No advice on how to mitigate a potentially hazardous situation caused by their product and full retail price on replacing the defective part.
Pop!_OS:
Before I had actually moved into the laptop or installed anything (other than emacs and firefox), the package manager crapped itself with some circular dependency. As I started to work through unfucking the situation, it occurred to me this wasn't my fault and why am I putting up with this?
Kudos to them for working with me and for the support staff generally being friendly (and also putting up with 3 RMAs). I ended up just getting a refund though and buying an M2 Macbook Pro.
I think the major issue atm is that they're stuck working with second-string ODMs who aren't necessarily the highest quality but who will at least give them access to hardware documentation.