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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.
It can't be better than Gnome or KDE but it will be very different for sure.