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Someone recently recommended PopOs to me. Any thoughts on that?
Great beginner distro for sure. On par with Mint with "it just works".
They're between releases right now, but once COSMIC desktop is ready and they release Pop 24.04 I'll probably try it out. More likely that I'm moving to Xubuntu Minimal 24.04 on the daily driver though.
PopOS is great OOTB but I've become attached to rofi and XFCE recently and like the old-school "apps are utilities" style of Linux desktops over PopOS / Mint which try to bundle everything together.
Why not just do Mint XFCE then? At least that way there's no snap to deal with.
It's honestly one of my favorite distros and has a lot of unique awesome features and guides for beginners.
Discord has some rough edges if you use it regularly but it definitely still works.