feel like we’re going to be waiting for 2-5 years at least…

by KDE i meant Fedora KDE. Thought it would be obvious since the graph is labelled that way, i guess not.

I guess competing is correct, but I don’t see it overtaking steamOS any time soon or even coming close since the steamdeck is an actual product marketed by a for-profit company.

I feel like it may not overtake KDE, from the graphs the trend seems to somewhat be following there too recently. Like a bump in number of downloads because of popularity, but not a linear trend. Does that even make sense?

While it does seem that way initially, strict copyleft licences can often do more harm than good. Projects need companies to use their software so that it becomes popular and get funding. There’s a reason why there’s barely any AGPL (or adjacent) licenced projects compared to GPL or MIT.

When people comment about having issues with Linux, this is what that should be compared with.

Or not, since linux distros ideally shouldn’t be bound to windows. (but realistically they are)