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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.
It's interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.
Flatpak is surprisingly low
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.
I was about to say "what article?" because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there's a linked post that my client isn't showing!
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."
It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it's rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don't get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).
Here's a list of issues I had:
Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn't really worth the effort when my main issue was: "The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn't really impact my system."
My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don't see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
Most of it is historical momentum. Regardless of relative quality, far more people try Fedora and so far more people stick with it.
As for Tumbleweed specifically, many people do not like rolling distros. I do.