I felt the same way, but have been finding Ubuntu Core to be a nifty OS for running as a VM.

Still true that bypassing TPM means major upgrades are disabled and requires manual install by iso?

The recent Hardware Haven video I think was better that the LTT videos. That dude does a great job presenting some pros and cons and is much more level headed in his approach.

But I agree that the big names in YT is doing a good thing showing people it’s not too hard to switch, Especially if you have a spare SSD so you can keep your Windows install just in case.

My phone and Linux PC’s now all do this. Primary partition in use. Updates apply to secondary partition. At next reboot, load the updated partition.

It’s so much better that the alternative, I can’t wait for Windows 14 to adopt it.