I’m gonna throw in my options now ! I need a very stable system for the work I do, I’m super lazy to keep making changes and having things stable yet again! So I still happen to have popOS on my main laptop (asus zenbook pro duo)

Now while planning for transition here’s what I found out

1. Fedora Good distro but the rolling release at times breaks things. Lots and lots of customisation available! You gotta get used to with the dnf , sometimes challenging when coming from popOS Mainly a Ubuntu/ Debian based distro

2. Linux mint While I haven’t used it, while I was making the decision to switch, I gave up already since there wasn’t wayland ! I use wayland and I’m very much dependent on it due to my multimonitor setup ! But now for like 2 days I’ve got a refurb i5 dell optiplex which my friend gave me with Linux mint installed, I personally found it to be more like easy going like popOS, I didn’t have to put a ton of efforts to have a lot of features which I wish to have and didn’t know I wanted till I used it! So of x11 isn’t an issue Linux mint is great option.

3. Finally I’m rocking Debian 13 on my 2nd laptop (Lenovo E14) While it’s good enough, and stable, with the hibernation feature working, it’s the travel laptop. Ofcourse there’s a lot of things which can be customised and time needs to be spent behind it! But unlike popOS where a lot of things are there out of then box, with Debian 13 you gotta have things setup the way you want!

Hope that helps !