Biggest difference between Ubuntu and Pop is that Ubuntu aims to popularise usage of snap and uses apt as a backup option while Pop aims to deliver its software through apt and flatpaks, in the priority that the user wants.
Flatpaks are more consistent to run, they can run between all distros but install dependencies seperately so could take up more space for installations.
Apt makes use of the native debian installation, which works well for most but sometimes you could be stuck in a dependency hell between some software. Uses the storage more efficiently as it can share dependencies between multiple installed packages.
Snap sucks. There’s literally no point in using it. It can run apps on all distros similarly to flatpak but its worse in every possible way. It hits noticably to run time of applications.
it’s very easy to make those changes to ubuntu, but i guess for a new user it might be a significant barrier
Yes. But that’s highly subjective, as I fucking hate Ubuntu and the direction it has taken. I don’t mind distros that are based on Ubuntu, though, so based on that I’d go for Pop rather than stock Ubuntu.
For the record, I run LMDE as my daily driver.
I never liked the look and feel of Ubuntu. My first Linux server experience was running Minecraft servers off of Ubuntu. Try it out and see what you like better. Thats all that matters.
Yes. Flatpak, not Snap.
[addedum] it has been my daily driver since I switched away from Kubuntu a few years back for the aforementioned reason.
I like the name PopOS more.
Also, Ubuntu is well known to use the Snap app packages, which is something that everyone in Lemmy absolutely despises. PopOS doesn’t have that.
It’s not either, but I like Fedora.
