Given they have a massive install base on PopOS GNOME that they’ve targeted for use friendliness, I think they’re going to plan for an in place upgrade.

Pure speculation though

Yeah, I’ve had a developer tell me that they’ve done most of the beta milestone already. There will be an Alpha 6, however, so the absolute earliest we could see Beta 1 is end of February, assuming Alpha 6 releases end of January, and they move into Beta after that with no delays.

According to the releases so far, and how far ahead the code has come, and how many bugs it has still, i’d say that 1.0 will probably come around August or September. I’m running Cosmic and it’s still not there, too many rough edges.