As much as I appreciate projects like Linux Mint improving portability for projects like GTK (against GNOME’s wishes), Linux Mint and PopOS have a similar dependency issue of being dependent on Ubuntu. To what degree each project is I don’t know, but personally I’d use something that is either entirely independent (Alpine, Void, Gentoo, Devuan, Debian, etc), or at the very least not a fork of a fork (especially in Ubuntu’s case with how many poor decisions Canonical are making in regards to proprietary repositories and telemetry).
Devuan or Debian aren’t exactly hard to set up with a similar environment and interface to Ubuntu, and otherwise function in a very similar fashion, so if you want something like Ubuntu without the shittification, use one of those.
EDIT: A commenter pointed out that LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) also exists, which is a Debian-forked version of Linux Mint, rather than Ubuntu forked.
As much as I appreciate projects like Linux Mint improving portability for projects like GTK (against GNOME’s wishes), Linux Mint and PopOS have a similar dependency issue of being dependent on Ubuntu. To what degree each project is I don’t know, but personally I’d use something that is either entirely independent (Alpine, Void, Gentoo, Devuan, Debian, etc), or at the very least not a fork of a fork (especially in Ubuntu’s case with how many poor decisions Canonical are making in regards to proprietary repositories and telemetry).
Devuan or Debian aren’t exactly hard to set up with a similar environment and interface to Ubuntu, and otherwise function in a very similar fashion, so if you want something like Ubuntu without the shittification, use one of those.
EDIT: A commenter pointed out that LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) also exists, which is a Debian-forked version of Linux Mint, rather than Ubuntu forked.
Use LMDE then, linux mint without Ubuntu lol.
LM best OS.