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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:09PM (#39420784)
> it's still the most widely used DE on Linux by a mile

How would we be able to tell that?

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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by a_vanderbilt on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:32PM (#39421042)
It's the default on Ubuntu and RHEL, which are the two most popular enterprise distros. Ubuntu is also the most popular consumer Linux distro.
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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:14PM (#39424012)
> It's the default on Ubuntu and RHEL, which are the two most popular enterprise distros.

For servers; that's not super compelling.

> Ubuntu is also the most popular consumer Linux distro.

That's a much stronger argument, though I'd point out that Linux distros are disproportionally used by people given to customization, so the default may not be as important.

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