Dome. Pup. Teepee. A-Frame. Two-Person. Pop-Up.

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A neat little dome-tent with good-sized porch whose side panel windows would allow me, as a friend said, to "watch the rain siling down!"
This failed after only a fortnight in service, by UV degradation. It had been half-price as an ex-demonstration tent, erected for a protracted time on the dealer's yard of white concrete and gravel. They refunded me but I ought really have asked for a new replacement and paid the difference.
  

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A modest frame-tent, given to me by a friend. I followed another friend's suggestion that I leave the inner at home and use my back-packing tent erected separately, inside it for the bedroom, as it would be a lot warmer. It did fit, leaving enough changing and cooking-space. He was right. It ended when a gust of wind caught it when I was dismantling it, and broke frame parts no longer made.

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My "mountain tent", which would sleep two though I've only ever used it solo, is a Terra Nova of cross-dome pattern. I can't recall its model-name offhand, it has given me good service walking in the hills of Norway's interior. Its only drawback is having to pitch it inner first, and take down outer first - not so good for a tent designed to be useable in bad weather. Less serious, all tents of that form
have long sloping door-panels so reaching for the zip from inside, usually involves lying under a porch roof dripping with condensation.
 
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Keeping the Terra Nova and the ridge-tent company up in the loft (dry and out of sunlight) is a dome-tent with extended porch of standing-height over most of its area. I forget its make (Saunders?) and model, hopefully only because I have had no reason or opportunity to use any tent this year! It is ideal for longer stays at locations accessible by car or tractor-&-trailer, but takes a while to pitch especially if without help, and like all large tents can be cold at night even inside the "bedroom".

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I've never used a "pop-up" tent but a friend who tried one for 2 nights in the benign surroundings of a university sports-ground in an English Midlands Autumn, was very happy with it. (The event was a conference held over a weekend.)

Another friend who had used a back-packing tent for years finally succumbed and bought a frame-tent. He printed a joke house-name plaque for it, in self-adhesive plastic, and put it on the tent's large front window. It read in cod-Gaelic, Duneelin.