When a new version of Ubuntu comes up, Pop!_OS works on it and potentially fixes the issues that users encounter on Ubuntu’s original release before making the new upgrade available. You might want to hold on to a Long Term Support (LTS) release if you want better reliability and fewer issues. Unquestionably, both the distributions are beginner-friendly and quite reliable. With Ubuntu 19.10, you get NVIDIA drivers on the Ubuntu ISO but there is no such thing for AMD graphics. One for the systems with NVIDIA graphics card and another for systems with/without AMD graphics. So, it is worth highlighting that Pop!_OS provides separate ISOs. Technically, it isn’t a part of the comparison internally but it is a factor that some users care for. Yet again, this is something subjective because if you want no bloatware, Ubuntu has the Ubuntu Minimal options that comes with only the bare essentials so that you can choose which application to install. Pop!_OS comes bundled with fewer default apps (potentially less bloatware, if I may call it that) when compared to Ubuntu. Even if it does not affect the performance – some users just prefer fewer pre-installed apps. It may not be the biggest deal-breaker for some but having a lot of pre-installed apps could affect the experience and performance. Pre-installed Applications Ubuntu installation slideshow Of course, you can use the same PPA on a regular Ubuntu as well and take advantage of it. Android Studio PPA downloads the entire tarball and then extracts it on the system.

Do note that they might not be packages well.

You can use apt-get install and get these tools. You’ll find some useful applications like Android Studio, TensorFlow in here. This is why I prefer using the APT version of any application.īecause Pop!_OS has its own official PPA which is enabled by default.

They take too much of disk space and they take a lot of time to start. This greatly increases the number of application it offers.īut there are some issues with Snap packages. Ubuntu puts a lot of emphasis on Snap packages.

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