Are any commonly used desktop distros debian based besides Ubuntu ? Ubuntu derivatives are not as they follow the latest upstream packages 1:1 usually iirc. Monjaro has its own dependency update schedule so it creates a new userspace dependency set to build against. If 10 distros follow the same thing we have 10 different timestamps of arch you have to build against.

Maybe my info is out of date, I just use arch & fedora.

I have a dream, that one day people will stop making arch derivatives that fragment the user space even more

Elons working hard on that one. Don’t worry!

Is Sora even that popular versus other AI video generators? They had first mover advantage but its largely consumed off site so they still don’t have control of distribution.

Your suppose to create a monopoly THEN shittify your product with ads. OpenAI is like speedrunning being a big tech company before our own eyes, it lines up from what I hear from people working there.