Unique to Pop
For a long time, Ubuntu was the gold standard for beginner distros. It’s still a great choice, but over the years there have been decisions (some of which have been undone) that have caused consternation among the community. Pop, while still being an Ubuntu-based OS, differs from its progenitor in a few key areas.
Perhaps the most relevant today is that it doesn’t use Wayland, the new graphics protocol the Gnome desktop environment has been championing. Pop sticks with the tried and tested X.org display server for now. The people at Pop are “evaluating [Wayland’s] readiness” and will offer it when they feel it’s worthy of their users.
“Pop comes with the cutely named Popsicle, which is a graphical tool that makes it much more difficult to write images to
