Pop!_OS 21.04 First Impressions

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Pop!_OS has become one of my favorite Linux distributions over the last couple of years. It’s a fantastic distro for many reasons, most of which is the way it “just works.” Sorry Apple, that’s not exclusive to you. System76 released version Pop!_OS 21.04 and I upgraded immediately. Here are my first impressions.

I’m basing this review on a native install on my Lenovo Thinkpad E590 laptop. I use this laptop for personal projects, website maintenance and building articles/tutorials like the one you’re reading now.

I’m able to do the work I want to do without thinking about my operating system and configuring it. While I generally love to tinker with operating systems, if I have a machine dedicated to work, I’d prefer not to. I got tired of updating Arch Linux and diagnosing things when I fired up the machine to write some code.

Version 20.10 is based off Ubuntu 20.10 and it’s important to know that Pop!_OS is Ubuntu under the hood. But it’s not just a reskinned Ubuntu.

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