I’m planning on moving to linux from windows(personal) and macos(work use), although I prefer mac os, so I don’t really want to use mint, and I feel like I should add that I don’t care if GNOME isn’t that similar to macos, I want something different, and I also use my computer for gaming

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    POP!_OS all the way. They ship the latest kernel and also have their own COSMIC desktop workflow. If you want the latest software use flatpak or Guix/Nix instead.

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    How much RAM do you have? Ubuntu and Pop use Gnome and it’s heavy on RAM. Linux Mint is light on RAM, for example, especially Mint MATE.

    I’m sure there must be a way to install the latest drivers via backports. You’d have to research it.

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        Ok that’s plenty. Ubuntu uses about 1.6GB at cold boot. Pop should be similar. Mint uses about 745MB at cold boot. Mint MATE about 500MB.

        It’s really up to you. They all have an ubuntu base so just decide which desktop environment you like.

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    I’d say popos. It’s very polished and they are both developers as well as hardware people. It works very well. For servers I’d go with Ubuntu, but not for desktops.

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    Pop_OS! is a greatly extended version of Ubuntu. It offers an unique 1 password encryption + login solution. I don’t have Nvidia gpu but many people has claimed it offers the best Nvidia support out of the box.

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      It does. Literaly worked out of the box whereas on windows i had to go through some really painfull process to make it work

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      I’ve been using Ubuntu for the past 6 years, haven’t tried another distro because I’m so comfortable here. Could you tell me why you think others are so much better?

      Maybe I should switch, but I think my experience in Ubuntu might outweigh the negatives that it has ie I might just know how to deal with it’s peculiarities and I don’t even realize

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    pop_OS is a de-crapified Ubuntu remix. It’s not a stand-alone distribution. For most packages pop_OS is reliant on Canonical, including graphics drivers. So if you want to use it for gaming and have and AMD or Intel GPU and not an NVidia one, you’ll have to stick to Ubuntu’s outdated Mesa and kernel drivers. For gaming on AMD/Intel GPUs, something along the lines of EndeavourOS or Fedora should be a better choice. If you use a GeForce, pop_OS should be OK.

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      So if you want to use it for gaming and have and AMD or Intel GPU and not an NVidia one, you’ll have to stick to Ubuntu’s outdated Mesa and kernel drivers.

      This is not true. Pop OS packages its own kernel and often the kernel version provided by pop is upstream of the Ubuntu version. It is only recently that they have fallen behind ubuntu because they have diverted their resources to creating the Cosmic DE.

      Edit : Also to be noted is the fact that being on the latest version of mesa is only necessary if you have very new hardware which may not be supported well(or at all) in the older versions of mesa. I for example have an RDNA1 gpu and saw no performance difference between mesa 22.5 on pop os and mesa 23.1 on endeavourOS. People using RDNA3 or Intel Arc may see massive performance/stability difference because these are very new hardware and drivers/optimisation for these current gen GPUs is ongoing