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LTT does another Linux Challenge
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Honestly, I think lots of people are hating on him just because. Pop is still highly recommended on a random Google search, and his reasons to pick it are legit. Plus he acknowledged that last time the issue was user error + unimaginable level of bad luck, and removing that there would be no reason for him not to use it. Also if you saw the WAN show he also installed Bazzite and Kubuntu on two other systems and got two other issues.
As much as I want to say he did something bad like last time, this time I don't see it, his issues are legit and to dismiss them because he's using an "unstable" (that is the default and recommended) DE or because he chose a distro that is in the top recommendations on every site out there is disingenuous.
If you're going to get Windows users with limited technical knowledge to switch over Pop makes quite a bit of sense given they can go out and grab a System76 PC and not have to think about how to use Rufus to make a bootable USB.
On which website is Pop_OS! the top recommendation?
Tell me you didn't even saw the video without telling me you didn't even saw the video. But you want an extra one? This one, here's the link to the pinned thread on this same community where the top 3 recommendations for beginner distros are Fedora, Mint and Pop: https://lemm.ee/post/37682729
Is watching the video a requirement to participate with the comment I wrote?
Not really, but this is a reply to most comments here about the video so without seeing the video and reading some of the other comments you are missing a lot of context. In the video Linus shows several different sites that recommend Pop, he even looks for recent sites written by people specifically because he got some bad comments about using listacle articles before. He also asks chatGPT, and while that's not exactly reliable it is based on average messages online so it's not fully random. Also, like I pointed out, the community we're using to discuss this also lists is as recommended, which goes to show it's not a fluke of the sites he used but that it is generally recommend broadly.
The fact that he asks ChatGPT should tell you all you need to know about his professionalism.
Besides, all top 10 websites that are returned by i.e. Google Search list either Ubuntu or Linux Mint as the best choice for beginners.
Tell me you are a redditor without telling me you are a redditor