Pop!_OS Arch when

I had their shell on fedora 32/33 and loved the setup. When all the components are back for fedora 34 will probably use them again.

That's a little sad actually. Not a fan of GNOME, but I was very impressed with their distro, and it helped a lot of people I know get into using a Linux distro as their daily driver, whether that is Pop or a different distro today. Curious to see what's next.

I initially said (only half jokingly) that they might be setting up pop_os as nothing more than a GNOME extension; though they're probably looking at something a little more ambitious like a full-on DE like elementary, maybe even a fork of GNOME.

There's an interesting discussion (more like 'controversy') going on at Jeremy Stoller's (the sys76 engineer linked above) twitter the past couple of days. See this thread, for example: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1433487714926698498

It sounds like pop os devs are clashing with GNOME devs over custom stylesheets, with accusations flying both ways. As a silly amateur myself, I don't pretend to understand everything that's at stake, but each side seems to have a valid point. GNOME devs say: If you want features, contribute to the relevant repos at our gitlab; sys76 devs claim, on the other hand, that with an API with arbitrary handicaps, GNOME doesn't make it easy for outsiders to 'contribute'.