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Linux Distros in March 2025: Here Comes A New Challenger!

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    It's interesting that you can see exactly when antergos shut down where Popos and Manjaro surge in popularity.

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      Debian, always stable...

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        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.

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          Ah, yes, "Flatpak", my favourite distro 😸

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            Flatpak is surprisingly low

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              Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
              I know it's based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.

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                Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
                I know it's based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.

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                This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.

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                  Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
                  I know it's based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.

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                  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.

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                    Ah, yes, "Flatpak", my favourite distro 😸

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                    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."

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                      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.

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                      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.

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                        Arch is the most "just works" distro I ever tried.
                        Reducing the workload of the distro maintainers by keeping packages vanilla, 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.

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                          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?

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                            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?

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                            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.".

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                              Arch is the most "just works" distro I ever tried.
                              Reducing the workload of the distro maintainers by keeping packages vanilla, 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.

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                              I went wild and started using it for servers about 5 years ago and I shit you not, it’s far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if there’s any big changes to anything I’m using but given most stuff is offloaded to containers, I pretty much yolo a yay -Syu every week. Zero issues.

                              I had more issues with Debian and Ubuntu due to bugs in stale packages or weird default configs than I have running bleeding edge vanilla via Arch.

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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.

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                                  It's interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.

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                                    I went wild and started using it for servers about 5 years ago and I shit you not, it’s far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if there’s any big changes to anything I’m using but given most stuff is offloaded to containers, I pretty much yolo a yay -Syu every week. Zero issues.

                                    I had more issues with Debian and Ubuntu due to bugs in stale packages or weird default configs than I have running bleeding edge vanilla via Arch.

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                                    I wouldn't call it stable. To me that implies I can run it for 5 years and don't have to worry about compatibility changes.
                                    But I never had it break on me.

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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.

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                                      Do you run Steam from Debian repos or Flatpak?

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                                        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?

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                                          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.

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                                          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!

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