Linux Distros in March 2025: Here Comes A New Challenger!
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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 thatās what Steam reports when itās 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, likeā¦ 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, itās far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if thereās any big changes to anything Iām 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, itās far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if thereās any big changes to anything Iām 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?
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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. ā 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.
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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Do you run Steam from Debian repos or Flatpak?
I go from the repos myself.
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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. ā 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?
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.
