I’ve had a mostly good experience with pop. It’s definitely a different workflow than I was used to, but it works for me. Looking at switching to nobra though.

I would not recommend pop!_os for beginners if they have nvidea drivers. A few of the recent updates have had problems

“We are not increasing the price of your subscription, we are simply changing the benifits you have and adding a tier above yours that’s identical to what you used to have” was basically whe announcement they made alongside that IIRC

Id recommend mint cinnamon. If you have any problems installing it, try Zorin

They baked AI into the operating system and had that recall thing where they basically took screenshots of your screen every few seconds. Linux doesn’t do that.