Really feels like a great year for the Linux desktop. Also with cosmic desktop having an alpha ready in a few months.
I can’t wait for COSMIC, not so much because I’d use it, I quite like Budgie and so will need to do extensive test-driving to switch, but to just see System76 back onto the stage.
Pop! OS hasn’t been updated in a couple years now, making it an absolute relic. As far as I know none of the Pop! OS apps have been either. I get why they’re doing what they’re doing but it’s gotten to the point now where I, and many others I’d assume, are forgetting about them. Pop! OS was huge, now I hardly see it anywhere.
I don’t use Pop! OS nor any other System76 products, but the nature of our community means any developments anywhere grow it. I would recommend Pop! OS to my friends as a first-distro, but I can’t throw them two years into the past, no small amount of time for Linux, to give them a feel for how it is today. I currently refer them to Fedora, but Fedora is far from perfect for a total newcomer.
I think they will come back very quickly in 2024 and there will a big surge in popularity thanks to cosmic, specially if it’s better than Gnome in ways people care about. Will be so much fun to see.
