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Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.
Sooo... The author mentions that Manjaro fucked up, but I'm not sure what they're referring to...?
I mean, like... To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
I mean, like… To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
Obviously, I'm not the author. But if I'd have to guess, their answer would likely be "Yes.".
Arch is the most "just works" distro I ever tried.
Reducing the workload of the distro maintainers by keeping packages vanilla and close to upstream, not writing a shitload of distro-specific GUI tools, and off-loading all the weird stuff to a user repo, is genius.
That way, there's more capacity to focus on getting it right.
Other distros have a lot more "features" (looking at you, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu) but Arch just gives you a high quality package of the newest stuff, and it's amazing how solid it is nowadays.
Debian, always stable...
The Ubuntu and Manjaro era is over. Arch is the new Ubuntu (by popularity for gaming). Fedora and Endeavour also grew a lot. Question is if they reached their ceiling already. Pop OS could explode in popularity once COSMIC is out, but maybe not for gaming. Bazzite got even a patch note addressing an issue with this specific distribution in the game Marvel Rivals. Here is a lot of potential for this distro, as an alternative for the future general SteamOS distro (if it ever comes out as a general install media). BTW, nobody seem to talk about HOLO ISO anymore.
I root for bazzite. It's so easy to setup and update all while providing superb support for gaming. I actually run it as a desktop os and I love it.
Flatpak is surprisingly low
“Without further due”…
… yeah …
It's interesting that you can see exactly when antergos shut down where Popos and Manjaro surge in popularity.
Ah, yes, "Flatpak", my favourite distro 😸
Author's disclaimer:
"Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish."
Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
I know it's based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.
This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.
If only it was mentioned in the article...
This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.