People (especially tech influencers) tend to hate beginner-friendly OSes.

I’ve been using Pop for 3+ years on my main rig. Especially with COSMIC, it is fantastic.

Sure, I’ve got Arch on a laptop, and I dabble with other distros periodically. Pop stays on the main rig though. Why? Because I don’t want to update something with a bleeding edge package and break my system. Whatever time I would be spending doing something fun in my off time would then be spent fixing Arch, instead of doing the thing.

Now, back to the influencers: why do they hate Pop / Mint / Ubuntu? Tbh I think there’s just a certain amount of flexing they have to do as influencers, and it’s hard to flex when everything just works.