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Linux continues its rise in Steam Survey (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Up to 2.7% in May 2025 from 1.5% in May 2023. Almost x2 in 2 years is very impressive.

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm quite impressed Arch comes out on top

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm not honestly. As far as I know SteamOS is based on arch which should give it a massive boost in comparison to other linux distros just from the number of Steam Decks

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would expect Steam to report Steam OS as Steam OS.

    They managed to differentiate Manjaro to it's own entry after all. It's Arch based too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Manjaro is not Arch based. They use pacman, but they use their own repositories. They create a ton of issues that way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro:A_Different_Kind_of_Beast

    Although Manjaro is Arch-based and Arch compatible, it is not Arch.

    Manjaro package repository

    Stable branch - There is no solid rule indicating when Stable branch is snapped from testing. It can be anything from one to four weeks....

    Testing branch - Testing branch is snapped from unstable at irregular intervals - ...

    Unstable branch - Unstable branch is synced several times daily from Arch stable

    Manjaro Unstable is Arch Stable

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn't a bad distro from first impression... The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling... Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !

    Happy EndeavourOS user !

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