[noisy_boy]

The whole snaps business was already annoying. Then my external monitor stopped being detected due to some issue with Nvidia graphics on (which probably is more Nvidia's fault then Ubuntu's). I'm using Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2. Tried Fedora 32's live usb and basically everything worked but the installer didn't detect all partitions and didn't give a choice of choosing exactly what goes into which partition without offering to wipe-out stuff (they need to take a cue from the flexibility of Ubuntu's installer). Finally tried Pop!_os's live usb and everything basically worked + had no issues with the installer either.

I wasn't keen on using a derivative distro of a derivative distro; thought of using Debian but wasn't very confident if the issues won't persist on it. Considering everything just works perfectly with Pop!_os, I might just stick with it.

Ubuntu was such a breath of fresh air at the beginning (I still remember Dapper Drake). It is sad to see it going this way.

[zdragnar]

Say what you will of their hardware, but the system76 team really nailed pop_os. So many little things I was used to suffering through manually configuring on a fresh install were just "right" straight out of the box.

Supposedly they're working on tabbed and stacking layouts for tiled windows- if that is the case I don't know if I'll go back to i3 or sway again!

[noisy_boy]

I don't have any experience with their hardware but I'll have to agree on the software front. I have a multi-port hub that I also connect the HDMI cable for monitor to; I connect the hub to the laptop its actually plug-n-play. I haven't had to run one command to hack/override configs etc.

I tried their tiling option but didn't stick to it because when I maximized a window and toggled to another, the original window went back to being tiled. Too lazy to remember shortcuts for tiling WMs (probably to my own detriment)

[markbnj]

I've been a critic of their hardware in the past, but yes they do a great job on the software. And to be fair the purchase on which my earlier criticisms were based is almost four years old now. Hopefully they have improved the hardware side of things.