CentOS still works great for servers. The problem with classic CentOS and other RHEL clones is that they can't fix bugs or accept contributions that change the OS. CentOS finally fixed these problems by moving upstream of RHEL (but still downstream of Fedora). It is now the major version that RHEL minor versions branch off from, so it's still very stable and highly compatible. I've got a thread with diagrams that may help.
carlwgeorge
joined 1 year ago
Howdy, I'm the maintainer of the gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell Fedora package, which is likely how you installed it on Fedora since it's not available from extensions.gnome.org. I'm glad you're finding it useful.
The pop-shell upstream is still being maintained by System76 engineers. Development work has slowed down since they started working on COSMIC DE, but they're still fixing bugs and reviewing/merging contributions. When COSMIC DE was announced I asked them how long they would keep maintaining their GNOME extensions, and they said at least until the end of life of the PopOS versions the extensions are shipped in. So pop-shell has still got some life left in it, even for a few years after COSMIC DE becomes their default in a new release.
Meta uses CentOS but they aren't leeches. They contribute a ton to CentOS, EPEL, and further upstream in Fedora and in individual software projects.