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...
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.
S76 has been focusing heavily on Cosmic, so Pop as a whole has fallen behind. The new Beta is very promising, but not something I would daily drive. I love a lot about Cosmic, but it has a long way to go before it’s as polished and functional as Plasma.
Cosmic started as a fork of GNOME. They worked on that for a long, long time before deciding to start over.
I think it’s the right call. I can see myself using it once it’s matured some more. The ability to seamlessly switch between floating and tiled modes is wonderful. The simplicity and intuitiveness of the UI and settings. They take all the right features and ideas from GNOME, KDE, MacOS, and Windows and made something that could be better than all of them. All they need is time and polish, and they seem dedicated to doing it right.
I am looking forward to seeing it evolve and am cheering for them.
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.
S76 has been focusing heavily on Cosmic, so Pop as a whole has fallen behind. The new Beta is very promising, but not something I would daily drive. I love a lot about Cosmic, but it has a long way to go before it’s as polished and functional as Plasma.
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Cosmic started as a fork of GNOME. They worked on that for a long, long time before deciding to start over.
I think it’s the right call. I can see myself using it once it’s matured some more. The ability to seamlessly switch between floating and tiled modes is wonderful. The simplicity and intuitiveness of the UI and settings. They take all the right features and ideas from GNOME, KDE, MacOS, and Windows and made something that could be better than all of them. All they need is time and polish, and they seem dedicated to doing it right.
I am looking forward to seeing it evolve and am cheering for them.
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