Arch takes the majority because SteamOS is based on it. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s anything in the data that would allow discerning between those two.
From the comments on the video the uploader said that they use ProtonDB which separates steam deck from normal Arch
I think SteamOS doesn’t report itself as Arch, but as SteamOS/Holo.
I’m not sure if that’s the case, since looking at the stats you’d expect SteamOS/Holo to beat a couple of these listings if it was truly being counted separately to Arch
Manjaro sucks anyway. C’mon, broken certificates 5 fucking times?
I liked Manjaro, but when stuff broke it broke in weird fuckin’ ways. My last attempt with it ended when I tried to do some gamedev in Godot and Manjaro started registering my laptop’s mousepad input as a joystick 😭
I take broken website certificates over broken bootloaders.
And ManjarNO has both
It never broke on me for much longer than I was running EOS, which did exactly that.
You could’ve used systemd-boot.
I used what the installer defaulted to during the installation at the time.
“I fogor 💀”
I wouldn’t say goodbye manjaro there are still plenty of users using it. But I’m happy that my distro of choice so far (endeavourOS) is also on the chart I feel like it’s a solid choice :)
I installed EndeavousOS on Feb 18, 2023, and it has given me the best gaming experience with the fewest of issues. Previously, I’ve tried Manjaro, PopOS and Tumbleweed and was met with issues early on that made running the latest AMD hardware troublesome in each, but I experienced none of that with EndeavourOS.
I’m currently on Nobara after EndeavourOS nuked itself and having the pleasure of experiencing their toxic community. I’m even considering going back to Manjaro at this point because that was still the most stable Linux experience I had. Maybe their website cert handling sucks but at least my system was running stable, for much longer at that.
I used to run Manjaro, too and I was happy with it until it broke one day after an update. Arch had launched the archinstall script by then so I tried it and honestly, it makes the installation too easy for Manjaro to make sense anymore.
Well at least Nobara is on the chart.
I’d probably use arch if there was an easy general immutable/atomic version of it. I just don’t trust bleeding edge rolling enough to not have that kind of a safegaurd.
I use arch with btrfs and a pacman hook, that creates a snapshot before and after every update.
You can also configure grub to create new entries for those snapshots and boot directly from them.
For me this is safeguard enough.
Until grub gets nuked.
People are starting to use different bootloaders now so I guess that infamous grub issue ended up being a good push for diversity in bootloader.
Grub has many features & addons that many others are still lacking though. But maybe we’ll see some improvements in that area now as well. Still sucks for an end user.
Maybe BlendOS?
Such wide swings, especially for Flatpak, make it clear the sampling is low and data is inaccurate and spotty. I wouldn’t base much on this.
I use gentoo on my gaming computer.
id really like to try out nobara some day
My opinion on Manjaro seems unpopular, but I still like it. I daily-drive Manjaro happily.
It’s Arch that just works out of the box.
But most importantly, I already have it set up, and I am lazy. If it’s not broken (too much), don’t fix it.My sister spent hours trying to play dvds on her new windows laptop ; I found her getting pissed off , turning to percussive maintenance, and starting to fill out a warranty claim on the dvd player . . .
It took about 15 minutes to download , flash (figure out how to change the sodding boot order) and run Manjaro installer/live usb stick to demonstrate how real computers can just do things like play dvds.
Manjaro is great for cases like that, since it works, is easy, and will have pretty well up to date kernel.
I mean don’t get me wrong, installing arch from scratch is a good fun and educational process and very nostalgic for the 1990s . . . but i’m not doing all that on my sister’s laptop just to demonstrate how shit windows is.
and i’m very grateful for valve doing it all for steamdeck.
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