People mostly seem to like KDE Plasma more than GNOME, but Ubuntu still seems way more popular. Will Kubuntu ever overtake Ubuntu? Will people ever default to saying Kubuntu instead of saying Ubuntu even when speaking generally about *buntus?
Same questions for other distros like Fedora/Fedora KDE
Eh, Ubuntu (definition: can’t configure Debian for us oldies) is just a waystation to better Linux places. It’s saving grace was compatibility to weird and wonderful hardware, ‘just works’. That’s long since been rolled into the kernel, any distro will work with most things.
I gave my kid a bazzite installer when their old motherboard died and they didn’t want to buy M$ again, literally zero issues. Was expecting some, but no, everything they use was fine, or at least they worked it out without my input, proud parent moment. I occasionally give them hints as to how powerful it is, but they don’t care, and that’s great.
I don’t care for Ubuntu myself, but I think it’s disingenuous to paint it as just preconfigured Debian. Honestly, if that’s all it was I don’t think I’d dislike it at all.
Ubuntu still has compatibility for stuff that others dont.
Mostly custom images with weird patched vendor kernels like for ARM or RISC-V, but they also ship the snapdragon images.
On the Asahi front, the hackers chose Arch and Fedora so that was a loss for them