15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Pop!_OS first-hand: 10 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Our team literally been moaning for weeks every time we use Tuple (and Pop! and huddles, and every other tool we tried) that it wasn't co-screen!”
regret · production · heeton · 2026-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“explicit sleep will not come out of sleep w/o a hard reboot (hold power 25sec).”
regret · personal · jojosbuddy · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It feels good to be total control again.”
endorse · personal · LatencyKills · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using is since early Alpha and overall its pretty good.”
endorse · personal · panick21_ · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PopOS 20/22 was the first 'as good as mac' desktop linux experience IMO.”
endorse · personal · JojoFatsani · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is all a simple install under linux (pop os in this case).”
endorse · personal · mobiuscog · 2023-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to using pop once I discovered the people behind screen hero made it.”
endorse · production · christkv · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PopOS which is GNOME plus Pops Shell - their custom tiling WM.”
endorse · personal · zaptheimpaler · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They prefer the Ubuntu and Pop os machines, but are fine with any.”
endorse · personal · taeric · 2021-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had (what I consider) a better experience on Ubuntu/Pop with Regolith as a tiling WM.”
endorse · personal · gavinray · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had good luck with Pop!_OS but 1.5x scaling is always blurry on Linux.”
regret · personal · eknkc · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Settled on Pop as my daily driver.”
endorse · personal · appleiigs · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“haven't booted by PopOS desktop since I'm not at home”
neutral · personal · cloudengineer94 · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pop!_os might be slightly more stable in that regard.”
neutral · personal · runjake · 2021-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?