No it is not lol

I have no idea of the experiences of new users. The biggest issue is that PopOS has no KDE Plasma spin, so users can either use GNOME or their thing

I will give the desktop another try. Their apps are all very minimal. Cosmic files has network shares though which is nice!

I installed it in a VM to get the repo files as I found no better way. Now I use some cosmic apps on Debian GNOME