Canonical published a review of the development of the distribution Ubuntu Desktop. The article also mentioned that more than 6 million active users use Ubuntu assemblies (data based on monthly cuts of update delivery statistics).
Judging by rating on Stack Overflow, Ubuntu Desktop is used by 27.28% of the 87 thousand interviewed developers (8.39% of the respondents use Arch Linux, compared to Debian x – 8.06%, Fedora – 4.37%, Rhel – 2.14%, Chrome OS – 1.88%, BSD – 0.96%).
Among the active Linux users of the Steam gaming service, the share of Ubuntu as of 04/22/2 is 7.38%. Steamos has a share of 42.07%, Arch Linux – 7.94%, Linux Mint 21.1 – 3.84%, and Manjaro Linux – 4.29%.
Among the changes scheduled for the autumn production Ubuntu Desktop 23.10:
- Expansion of supported devices (for example, creation of an editorial board for RASPBERRY Pi boards).
- Simplification of installation and work for beginners, involving a new application manager.
- Support for automatic installation with setting via Cloud-Init.
- Additional mosaic layout mode with the screens of the screen into 4 parts.
- Support for hardware encoding and decoding video in a SNAP package with a chromium browser.