Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline?

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

  • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, I love me some Flatpak distro ;-)

    On the serious note, I’m sad openSUSE is so low. Tumbleweed’s great distro!

  • robber@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

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

  • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    PopOS is what got me into Linux, and the only one that worked “out of the the box” for the handful of things I wanted, esp remote desktop.

    Yes, anecdotal, but I’m running 3 PCs on Pop and loving it.

    Edit: reading the article, and graph, it also looks like the field is more crowded in general. Also, would be good to see total installs over time, not just %.

  • FreeBooteR69@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m running Pop on my living room pc and it’s fine, looking forward to Cosmic when it arrives. Also have Linux Mint cinnamon on my bedroom pc. Been thinking of going back to Arch, but i’m lazy so i’ll stick with what i have unless i get annoyed enough to switch.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    10 months ago

    Very interesting. My rig is still on Pop mostly because I’ve just never had issues with it. I use the Liquorix kernel for a little added spice.

    On my laptop I’ve been playing with NixOS lately (used to run Arch btw). I love it so far, but haven’t explored it for gaming.

  • joba2ca@feddit.de
    21·
    10 months ago

    Pop has not received feature updates for years, because the dev team focuses on implementing Cosmic.

    Given the overall progress of Linux Desktop environments, this might have led many users to switch away from Pop.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    Some reeeeally weird trends here

    • Mint is more popular than Fedora or the overhyped Nobara?
    • Arch is so popular? Does that include SteamOS??
  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    These days I’m most interested in Endeavour and Garuda, mostly as gateways into the Arch world without the headaches. Endeavour seems more mature so that’ll be my next install.

    I’m giving up on Manjaro since it seems to lag and have odd discrepancies with Arch/AUR.

    Going further back I liked Mint and SuSE and even Ubuntu, but the lack of gaming focus has driven me to other distros.

  • grimaferve@fedia.io
    1·
    10 months ago

    Makes sense to me. I’m a Pop! user since 22.04 and the wait is painful, although the blog posts definitely help a bit. Currently I have no problems but if something breaks I’ll try out Nobara I guess. My /home is already partitioned so I can make that hop with minimal loss.

  • windlas@lemmy.ca
    11·
    10 months ago

    Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I didnt realise that Arch adoption was so high. I (don’t) use arch, BTW. Although now I feel like I want to give it a spin to see what all the fuss is about!

    Or maybe I’ll stay fat, dumb, and happy with Fedora and Nobara on my desktop and laptop.

    Not that it would change anything for me personally, but I really think Pop! OS is a poor naming choice. Who puts an exclamation mark in their name? Aside from Yahoo! I suppose.

    • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Stick with Fedora and Nobara, they are good distros. I use Arch myself, because I like that bleeding edge, bro - but if those other distros are working for you, there’s pretty much no reason for the average person to switch.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        31·
        10 months ago

        Nobara is sooo hyped. It is not a secure Distro. They literally

        • do tons of weird stuff with Apparmor and literally disable SELinux “because its easier to work with” (fedora variants are the only Distros using it, which is such a security advantage!)
        • add tons of packages
        • modify GNOME to make it very strange
        • delay an update for over a month

        I recommend to use bazzite.gg if you want Gaming. They do all the Nobara fixes but

        • immutable
        • daily updates
        • SELinux intact
        • various spins for every hardware, including custom Kernels and tweaks
  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    10 months ago

    After the bug with pop_os that happened to Linus I stopped using it. I’d like reliable system and clearly the pop_os team doesn’t know how to package their software if a dependency error that bad happens

      • Samueru@lemmy.ml
        01·
        10 months ago

        That vid is actually good, it exposes lots of issues that regular users run into when switching to linux, in fact debian changed apt to make it harder to remove essential packages like linus did.

        On Arch to remove essential package you will not be prompted with confirmation to remove them, you will have to add --nodeps --nodeps twice to the command to be able to do so, no idea how long this has been the case on arch or if it was implemented after linus vid as well, but that is something that should have been that way a decades ago, I still see on reddit posts of people that accidentally delete grub or remove important directories from their system.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    12·
    10 months ago

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

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        02·
        10 months ago

        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.