I’ve used Arch, Pop_OS for gaming in the past, was looking for a distro that just works and doesn’t have any extra fluff or do anything nonstandard. (For example I don’t like that some programs will only update through the pop shop on pop os and not through the terminal.)
flatpak updateis all you need to do for terminal.I agree, I’ve always used
sudo apt update,sudo apt upgradeandflatpak updateon Pop OS and never used the pop shop.