Comment by PorciiVorbesc
6 hours ago
>It does show up on top 5 lists for Linux desktop distros quite a lot
1) Firstly, your source plase? My research according to Google Gemini 3.8 Pro shows top 5 DEs are as follows:
+---+---------------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| # | Environment | Est. Share | Primary Ecosystem / Defaults |
+---+---------------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| 1 | GNOME | 45% - 50% | Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, RHEL |
| 2 | KDE Plasma | 25% - 30% | SteamOS, openSUSE, Kubuntu, Manjaro |
| 3 | Cinnamon | 8% - 12% | Linux Mint flagship |
| 4 | Xfce | 6% - 9% | MX Linux, Xubuntu, low-spec PCs |
| 5 | MATE | 2% - 4% | Ubuntu MATE, Mint MATE (GNOME 2) |
| - | Others / WMs | 3% - 5% | Hyprland, i3, Sway, LXQt, Budgie |
+---+---------------+------------+-------------------------------------+
So then COSMIC isn't even TOP 5, for this to be a major target by market share as originally claimed.
2) Secondly, keep in mind that distrowatch is not representative of linux userbase. MX-Linux kept showing up at the top spot for many years despite being niche.
3) And thirdly, TOP 5 DE isn't really an achievement when Linux DE market share is overwhelmingly dominated by KDE Plasma and Gnome as the majority shareholders, with XFCE and Cinnamon trailing. So Cosmic DE if it somehow made the no. 5 spot, would still be ignorable sub <1% market share, as I initially claimed, basically invisible to bad actors.
You're being way too defensive. GP replying to you was clearly trying to have a conversation, not attack your knowledge. Chill.
>You're being way too defensive.
"Way too defensive" how? By asking and bringing data for my PoV?
>GP replying to you was clearly trying to have a conversation
As am I, except I ask for, and also bring data to back up my PoV, instead of vague opinions.
>Chill.
Where am I not being chill?
To reflect some sentiment from another comment you posted - we're not your unpaid tone auditors. Learn to have normal discussions.
For funsies, I threw two different DE-by-marketshare inquiries at Gemini 3.8 Pro in separate sessions and it ranked Cosmic 12th in the first and 7th in the second. Very trustworthy stuff.
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Don't post AI generated content, if needed post the actual source.
>Don't post AI generated content
Do you have a better source than GP?
>if needed post the actual source
Define "actual source"? In good faith, I mean.
Where else do you get this information that's, quote, "actual source"?
As in the study or survey or analytics segment where the data was collected to produce the report.
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Sorry for being unclear. I meant it shows up as a top 5 distro recommended by reviewers. This kind of thing: https://linuxblog.io/best-linux-distro/
OK, but what's the sample size of that and who's measuring it? I never heard of that blog or took part in that poll. So how is that blog link the yardstick but mine is not?
Because that blog actually talked to real people and did real work, and yours is just a hallucinated list from one of the me-too LLM vendors
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