Hmm, it is hard to address the target group of Mageia. A quick answer would be that targets to a lot of people. Yes, Mageia is one of the most popular distros around and is relatively a new one.
Mageia isn’t for enthusiasts, isn’t about the latest packages, isn’t an LTS and it doesn’t ship either a commercial support, but is user friendly. The best words I can find to describe it, would be a Community Edition of Canonical’s Ubuntu...
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