I’m trying to switch from endeavouros (arch based) to pop os. I heard that pop releases latest versions for some packages even though it’s a point release distro. Hence the question. Also how cutting edge are the packages in general? What advice do you have for someone about to switch to pop?
Pop!_OS gets Cosmic updates before they are even technically released.
Pop!_OS packages are not cutting edge. They are based on Ubuntu LTS. They do keep some packages more up to date than Ubuntu, such as Cosmic, kernel, mesa. But the vast majority of packages are from Ubuntu LTS unmodified.
Pop!_OS has also been lagging in using the latest Ubuntu LTS. They stuck to 22.04 for almost 4 years before releasing 24.04. It’s also not clear when they will update Pop!_OS to 26.04, but that should not take as long as 24.04.
They test a LOT of the packages from what I understand. Not a good or bad thing but it does make things harder to update as time goes on.
They stuck to 22.04 for almost 4 years before releasing 24.04
Wasn’t that because of the COSMIC rework? I.e. the created their on DE.
I’m using popos but I’m not sure what kind of advice you need. You use apt to update and not Pacman. If you want to play windows games I recommend a combination of Heroic and faugus. This isn’t necessarily pop specific though.
