no. i imagine the install- and user-base is huge due to the footprint in edu and enterprise.

but ime it is unpopular for personal use esp. in the enthusiast/dev/ops/hacker demographic that i consider to be a sizeable portion of the framework target market.

I feel like the exact opposite of what you're saying is true. Education and enterprise stick to Ubuntu, which is practically the Windows of Linux distributions. Hugely popular and mainstream.

fair enough, maybe this has reversed recently.

public opinion here also seems to suggest that my experience is less trustworthy than your feeling and tbh i mostly don't care wich flavor of unix is running my wm and browser.