Rhythm of the Linux Desktop

With the release of Gnome 48, I asked myself the question: When will it be available in which distro? And this led me into a tiny rabbit hole that revealed a certain rhythm in the way desktop distros are released that I wanted to share here. GNOME has a pretty fixed release schedule, with a new version every March and September 1 . The two most used desktop distros (citation needed, but if you…