the real story here is bazzite
How was Manjaro so popular for so long after 2017?
It’s wild ubuntu still has those numbers. It seems like an experimental distro doing all sorts of shady stuff, I’m not sure why people would stick around for that.
I wasn’t aware Fedora was such a “small” distro that even OpenSUSE had larger shares than it just 5 years ago. And nowadays very few run openSUSE.I mean whenever you ask “give me a beginner Linux distro” you will most likely still hear Ubuntu. Only recently have people started recommending Linux Mint to a similar degree. And everything else is regarded as more specialized, even very easy to use distros like pop os.
I mean whenever you ask “give me a beginner Linux distro” you will most likely still hear Ubuntu.
Yeah, but isn’t that just instinctual? It did use to be good, 10-15 years ago when it catapulted linux forward quite a bit in many peoples consciousness, I even dabbled with it back then.
@RedSnt @hoshikarakitaridia possibly Canonical slowly but steadily losing feedback touch with community, with more and more push for docker containers and kubernetes services, things that don’t make sense in a desktop/laptop? Not sure about Mint in this respect. You can always go full hardcore Debian or Arch if you want to ditch the commercial drive completely?
You can always go full hardcore Debian or Arch if you want to ditch the commercial drive completely?
I have a (weird) tendency to be skeptical of things that are as popular as Arch, so I’ve avoided it so far, and Debian are a bit too slow at keeping up to date package-wise, so I’ve been on Nobara for a few months now, but probably moving to openSUSE over the summer.
@RedSnt but openSUSE has similar corporate issues as Ubuntu, or Fedora …
Have you clocked me as an anti-corporation guy or what? Can I not critique Canonical without needing to hate say Red Hat, Inc. and SUSE S.A. are equally bad?
I would like to hear about the corporate issues though.@RedSnt why would I ‘clock you’ as anything? Dude …
Not all Linux users are techies and tinkerers; Ubuntu used to be the recommended beginner one, I imagine plenty of people installed it once and it’s been working fine ever since.
Also as these are numbers from ProtonDB I’d assume they’re only representative of people who actively report game support, which has got to be a pretty tiny user fraction.
I guess that’s been a problem for a while, gathering statistics about linux users, and yeah, protondb is perhaps not the most reliable source.
I am one of those. I tried Ubuntu server once (after using CentOS), liked it somehow and have hence installed so many ubuntu-vms it would be a major PITA to change them all to arch. Which would be my today-choice. Honestly don’t know much about cachyos.
That does sound like a huge advantage Ubuntu has over other distros, one I didn’t consider. Makes sense people would stick around. Also they’ve proven that when they say LTS, they mean it.
I’m just not a fan of snap being proprietary, and them trying to get around GPL by rewriting core-utils etc.
That’s what I meant with “shady”.
Yeah, look at that openSUSE blink in & out like a champ!!
