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
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