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

  • Possibly linux
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    211 months ago

    Pop os is incredibly ancient. I imagine it will explode in popularly when Cosmic is released and the distro gets a refresh.

    • Michael Murphy (S76)
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      11 months ago

      2022 was only a year and a half ago, and we ship the latest Linux kernel, firmware, Mesa libraries, NVIDIA drivers and libraries, Pipewire/Wireplumber, ZFS, Firefox, Alacritty, Lutris, Steam, and Rust. Since when did we start considering that to be “incredibly ancient”? The next LTS release is not yet available to base Pop!_OS upon, but we ship newer kernels and drivers than the latest version of Ubuntu.

      • @buzziebee
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        611 months ago

        Yeah ignore the hate. I really don’t get what that other poster could possibly be missing. LTS versions are where it’s at anyway. I’ve been loving pop and am looking forward to cosmic (when it’s ready). Like you say with all the kernel and libraries updated it’s totally fine to stay on the LTS.

      • lemmyvore
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        11 months ago

        There are people for whom 2 weeks is too old, don’t mind them.

        Ironically it’s also this type of user that tends to get in over their head with rolling bleeding distros and destroy their system. 😄

        I tend to think about it as the “wild” years, it’s a time in a PC enthusiast’s life when they want to experiment with lots of stuff and only the most fresh will do. But there are lots of people who appreciate a bit of stability more.

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        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 They are all out of date.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.