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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

POP!_OS:

Constant maintnence by System76 (under a solid Ubuntu base)
Ships latest Mesa, firmware, and Linux kernel only a week or so after latest stable
flathub built in and the Pop shop is more stable and useful than gnome-software (but nowhere close to Linux Mint unfortunately)
The COSMIC desktop is really pleasant to use and GNOME 42 still rocks! System76 also have a plan for wayland mapped out with cosmic-epoch (Mint devs far behind on this one)

GNU Guix:

A transactional package manager that can be installed ontop of POP!_OS.
Hacking on Guix allows me to get the latest packages of things I'm interested in without compromising my base system. Why distro hop when you can use Guix?

Flatpak/Flathub:

POP!_OS + GNU Guix + Flathub = the most complete GNU/Linux one can get.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting setup, I can definitely see myself giving that a go as a nice middle ground between traditional distros and full-on NixOS/Guix.