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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] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

2022 did not ship the latest of everything. Check the versions compared to Debian, Ubuntu for Fedora. They are all out of date.

It isn't a big deal as I use pop os on a work machine with distrobox.