I think it's the other way round, when the amount of interesting SW is rising,the probability of good HW will be higher. And yes, as we can see, the SW can be developed independent of HW.

e.g. Fractal can scale down to mobile:

They are enabled to (also) run on phones. E.g. libadwaita makes it possible to write application which can adapt to the screen size and therefore run on big and small screens.

Now with the long awaited USB portal! Yeah 🚀

Flatpak?

thanks a lot, I tried to make the headline more accurate

Thanks. Yes, indeed, I follow a couple of RSS feeds and of course other sources. 😃

Unmaintained code in the kernel is really bad due to possible vulnerabilities. If you want to keep it, it must be maintained.

My suggestion, ignore those desktop fights. Just use what fits best to you. Save your energy for something useful, eg contributing.

Maybe they needed a rest 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs

Clear vote for Fedora,