The landscape of what Linux gamers choose as their main distro on their gaming machine has completely changed in just a few years! Data is from ProtonDB. Music is Digital Phonk from INFRACTION. Ana...
Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.
Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.
Ubuntu is falling behind in official Steam hardware & Software Survey as well. Of course the sample size is much larger, so the specific percentages don’t match but the trend is identical.
Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.
Pop_OS hit 12.3% in Feb 2021 and completely fell off the chart in May of this year before coming back for September. I’m one of those users.
Oh, and i’m pretty sure I know where flatpak is from. The instructions to input your system data in ProtonDB relies on steam’s system information. My OS shows as flatpak by default because I installed a flatpak version of steam from the pop shop. If someone doesn’t manipulate it themselves, it shows as “OS: Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime)” - The most recent data shows flatpak as 4.5%. So who knows where those users really are coming from. Cachyos ships with steam, so it won’t ever show up as flatpak for that OS unless someone does something really funky.
Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.
Ubuntu isn’t easy. Not when the context is gaming as is this video’s.
Since Steam Deck all interesting developments (emulators, source ports of commercial games) happen on Flathub.
Canonical banned Flatpak from the default installation of all official Ubuntu variants (so Kubuntu, Lubuntu,…), therefore it is required to type shell commands to get stuff off Flathub, therefore it’s now among the least easy to use distributions.
This is why I always end up back at Ubuntu. Shit just works 95% of the time. Sure, it’s a skill issue that I can’t make a lot of other distros work for me but I don’t want to close a skill gap every time I need to use my computer
That’s what kept me on Fedora. It just works. When Ubuntu went all-in on Snaps and ignored every bit of criticism about it, that was the end of my love and support for Ubuntu or Canonical.
Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.
Ubuntu is falling behind in official Steam hardware & Software Survey as well. Of course the sample size is much larger, so the specific percentages don’t match but the trend is identical.
Yes. However, it’s still very notable that distros like Ubuntu have gone from 40+% to under 10%.
Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.
Pop_OS hit 12.3% in Feb 2021 and completely fell off the chart in May of this year before coming back for September. I’m one of those users.
Oh, and i’m pretty sure I know where flatpak is from. The instructions to input your system data in ProtonDB relies on steam’s system information. My OS shows as flatpak by default because I installed a flatpak version of steam from the pop shop. If someone doesn’t manipulate it themselves, it shows as “OS: Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime)” - The most recent data shows flatpak as 4.5%. So who knows where those users really are coming from. Cachyos ships with steam, so it won’t ever show up as flatpak for that OS unless someone does something really funky.
Ubuntu isn’t easy. Not when the context is gaming as is this video’s.
Since Steam Deck all interesting developments (emulators, source ports of commercial games) happen on Flathub.
Canonical banned Flatpak from the default installation of all official Ubuntu variants (so Kubuntu, Lubuntu,…), therefore it is required to type shell commands to get stuff off Flathub, therefore it’s now among the least easy to use distributions.
It’s easy to use unless you NEED the non-snap version of a package.
So I wanted to install GrapheneOS on my pixel. I booted into Ubuntu and the USB connecting to my pixel just didn’t work
Turns out, snap is at fault. Guess what, there’s no easy way to just say “give me the non-snap package”
This is why I always end up back at Ubuntu. Shit just works 95% of the time. Sure, it’s a skill issue that I can’t make a lot of other distros work for me but I don’t want to close a skill gap every time I need to use my computer
That’s what kept me on Fedora. It just works. When Ubuntu went all-in on Snaps and ignored every bit of criticism about it, that was the end of my love and support for Ubuntu or Canonical.