Linux Distros in March 2025: Here Comes A New Challenger!
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“Without further due”…
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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. -
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.
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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.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
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.
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?
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.
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 -Syuevery 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 -Syuevery 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.
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.
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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.
Do you run Steam from Debian repos or Flatpak?
