That said, on my Lenovo ThinkPad L420 that's running PopOS! 21.04, it won't upgrade to 22.04 for some damn reason or another so there's that. I really like eOS because its look and feel is so Mac-like, and it doesn't slam a bunch of apps onto your system that require foreknowledge to competently operate like Mint Cinnamon, or Ubuntu (whether Xfce or Budgie).The pitfall to eOS is that it's a complete reinstall between major versions Luckily, now that everything's in the cloud, it's not as big of a deal as it could be, but it's still a real time suck. I do the majority of my production in MacOS, because the programs req'd just work. I'm running Mojave, Big Sur, and Monterey on my Macs and elementary OS 6.1 and PopOS! 21.04 on my Linux laptops. ) I currently have 4 macs and 3 Linux machines. ( I got used to Win 7, but I can't stand Win 10.
I'm getting ready to start IT work in a windows environment in the near future. I've used Macs since 1984, PCs from 1988-2012 (w/ a 2 yr hiatus from 92-94), and Linux in various flavors for the past 11 years or so. I came away with a sort of grudging respect. Their choices are not mine, but they are not as arbitrary as I initially thought. They have chosen the angles they want to address. I feel it has a long way to go to become a fairly complete system, with its own tools for everything, and maybe that is not the way to go anyway. Its desktop is not a bunch of Javascript extensions bolted on to GNOME, or any other off-the-shelf thing. It's not chock-full of all the usual suspects, like so many distros. Secondly, I compared it to a bunch of other distros I've tried recently: Ubuntu Unity, which is my daily driver, and Mint 20.2 Cinnamon, Fedora $LATEST, Debian $LATEST, etc.
Unlike many distros, it has a revenue model, and can invest in original R&D.
What changed my mind was that the project lead answered my questions well, cogently and coherently, and explained why the company made the choices they did. My initial impressions were not that positive. I do not think I will be adopting EOS myself. I may be one of those people with strong personal preferences I suppose.