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Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.
Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive
The universal blue distros are the fastest I've been able to have a usable computer up and running and doing what I want it to do. They are fantastic.
There are no official cosmic variants anymore, but there are things like Origami that you can rebase to, if you want to try. Can't vouch for their stability, but it's an option. If support is dropped you can rebase back to regular bazzite. Rebasing is easy and pretty safe, it basically acts like an update and switches out the system files, but you should back up your config files just in case the different DE's don't play nice with each others config settings. From what ublue developers have said this can cause problems or annoyances.
Or you could develop your own derivitive with bluebuild or something. I'm not sure how involved that requires you to be, but it's probably easier than learning nixos.
Yeah I tried out Origami I just felt the philosophy for the distro is a little strange lol. Cosmic itself was nice, it ran way snappier than GNOME and KDE on one of my really old computers, so thats interesting