Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix
Mint isn't overly bloated, or even "bloated", these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS
Gnome isn't bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome's experience is great.
Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more "bloated" than what you'd expect, but still, ubuntu isn't half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes
And ubuntu server rocks
Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases
Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen't from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying "I use arch btw")
Fedora 40 with kde plasma 6 dropped a day or two ago, and they did remove x11, you have to get it from the repo in case you want it, otherwise, it only comes and is planned for wayland, which I believe is great, for once it does seem like the year of wayland
Your work app may be electron based (which is a bit too common nowadays), and until they update to electron 29, wayland won't probably work.
(or until they add xwayland video bridge, but the former option is better than the latter.
I don't know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad
This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully
Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great
I'll invest in yourself, I have 1 euro, is that plenty for you sir?
Too much, just, too much
Partially unrelated, but, if anyone is using the "arr" suite of programs for their home server or whatever, I suggest you checkout "bazarr". Works better than downloading them through jellyfin+opensubtitles Imo
Recently in Spain a small pub/bar owner had been streaming all important football matches through piracy to avoid paying 400€/mo for something only a handful of people would be seeing in such remote place.
She was demanded, sent to court, and won. For piracy, southern Europe is crazy good.
It turns off in you install linux
Great success
Is your statement true? Probably
But if we set our standards to "enough", there wouldn't be any progress
Was the switch enough for couch gamers? Sure. Did valve want to progress further? They did.