https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
All of the results are very odd. If you look through the other categories, Simplified Chinese gained THIRTY percent, the Hard Drive categories also wildly changed, and 32 GB RAM jumped +18%. It seems to me like a bunch of Chinese systems just flooded the statistics.
This toot is a response to a very similar question from someone else.
Also keep in mind, LTS versions always offer 5 years of support, so the current PopOS 22.04 LTS will receive support until April 2027, and the new PopOS 24.04 LTS will receive updates until April 2029.
PopOS isn’t going anywhere?
They’ve been working on their own Desktop Environment (COSMIC) for quite a while, an alpha and a beta already exists and the release is planned for December 11th (source).
For me I’d just say oh well, gotta fix it when I’m home again.
Otherwise I’d probably write some script on the server, which reboots my router when the server either doesn’t have internet anymore or can’t ping itself.
AFAIK you can enable the snapcast server and then use an app like SnapCast to stream to your mobile devices.
This program is a client for the very solid Tvheadend TV streaming server. Tvheadend supports pretty much any source you can think of, but is a little more complicated to setup.
Tvheadend is a selfhosted service meant to be run on your own server with your own TV dongles / IPTV channels / etc.
If you only want to watch TV on your PC, doing so with something like Kodi is probably a better idea, as Kodi also supports USB tuners and is simpler to setup (doesn’t require a separate server).
I really like Pop!_OS, AFAIK it doesn’t have any telemetry. It’s basically a Ubuntu fork but without the stupid Ubuntu stuff, and they’re currently even working on their own Desktop Environment.
I don’t use it anymore as I switched to TrueNAS which has the functionality built in, but I used to use docking-station.