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An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Pop is stagnant while they work on Cosmic. I'm one of the people who left because of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I'm not using Pop, but am somewhat interested in their development. In what way is it stagnant?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

No new version will be released until Cosmic is ready.

Edit: I don't intend to badmouth S76 here. I love PopOS, it's the distro that made me a Linux fulltimer. Cosmic looks great so far. However the last major release of PopOS was in early 2022.

[–] mmstick 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are new versions released every two or three weeks. I'm about to release Linux 6.6.8 with Mesa 23.3.2. We have Pipewire 1.0.0 and NVIDIA 545. ISOs are regularly rebuilt with our latest updates.

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