[taohansen]

I don't know why the article didn't mention the most prominent technical features of Pop!_OS that propels it beyond being a mere copycat.

* HiDPI Daemon: They wrote this themselves and what it does is if you have mixed DPI monitors, it auto-detects and conforms them to the lowest common denominator. Wayland does this by default but support for Nvidia isn't there yet and applications like Firefox don't reconform between monitors.

* Systemd-boot. GRUB is the past. Systemd-boot is life. Faster startup to desktop.

* Do Not Disturb and performance profile picker from the menu bar.

* Dat installer. They collaborated with Elementary OS' Daniel Foré on this. It's polished, easy for anyone to grok, offers simple full-disk encryption, and and creates a recovery partition in case you hose your install.

System76 has really thought through these usability improvements to bring us a desktop that anyone can use and encourages security out of the gate.