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Whoa, I thought Ubuntu was the most popular distribution. Arch and even Linux Mint are beating it?
by modeless 1y ago
Whoa, I thought Ubuntu was the most popular distribution. Arch and even Linux Mint are beating it?
- ShinTakuya 1y agoThe average Linux gamer is likely to have a very different setup to the average Linux user in general. It's a subset of a subset.
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- currymj 1y agoSteam Deck is Arch-based, that's most likely why.
- machomaster 1y agoI wonder how much Omarchy (based on Arch) made a dent... DHH said that it has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
- bigyabai 1y agoThe hard part is never installing an Arch-like distro, it's making it past 5 sudo pacman -syu iterations without an AUR package going thermonuclear and requiring 45,000 pinned dependencies.
- yoyohello13 1y agoJust don’t use the AUR. Problem solved
- aaomidi 1y agoThis isn't really a thing that's happening though?
- cheschire 1y agoComing from being a Windows power user for decades, Mint just felt like more of a natural shift for my daily driving than Ubuntu. I wonder if that's a common opinion or if there's another driver.
- Jach 1y agoThe survey only shows Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and Ubuntu Core 22 for 8.25% vs Mint's 22.1 and 22.2 at 9.21%. There's a whole 18.04% hiding in the "Other" category that I suspect contains a lot of other Ubuntu interim and older LTS releases.
- Woberto 1y agoWouldn't there also be more mint versions in the other category?
- aeonik 1y agoArch is rolling release and bleeding edge. This helps a LOT with games, especially new ones needing the latest drivers or hardware support.
- Apaec 1y agoThat would explain the recent move to rewrite things in Rust on Ubuntu, they need the marketing to grow their user base.