Honestly you could capture 90 percent of the market with just arch and Debian/Ubuntu.
You could add 2 or 3 of the gaming focused distros for comparison however since they tend to be built on top of the two above things are more likely going to vary based on configuration more than which distro or de you are using.
Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go. Debian is just not present on gaming set ups, Arch is close to what Valve is doing and Ubuntu has like 69 downstream distros.
I guess my Steam install and few games on Debian are not present.
To be fair, they’re not AAA games, so they’re just not real games anyway. Gaming is for people with bleeding edge software and super recent hardware, obviously. /s
Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.
Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks and making choices that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.
The vast majority of the use of arch at this point is complete out of the box… Arch hasn’t been a diy distro any more or less then fedora or Ubuntu for a few years at this point.
Between endeavour cachy and steam os. Diy arch is basically not really a thing for gamers. It’s a meaningless concern.
You don’t need to test every distro.
Honestly you could capture 90 percent of the market with just arch and Debian/Ubuntu.
You could add 2 or 3 of the gaming focused distros for comparison however since they tend to be built on top of the two above things are more likely going to vary based on configuration more than which distro or de you are using.
Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go. Debian is just not present on gaming set ups, Arch is close to what Valve is doing and Ubuntu has like 69 downstream distros.
You are mistaken.
It’s not popular in that arena, but it’s definitely present.
I guess my Steam install and few games on Debian are not present.
To be fair, they’re not AAA games, so they’re just not real games anyway. Gaming is for people with bleeding edge software and super recent hardware, obviously. /s
This is fucking benchmarking… You don’t benchmark a 5090 with crysis 1. That would be objectively stupid.
So you are actually correct your use case literally is not real gaming for the purpose of the context.
Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.
Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks and making choices that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.
The vast majority of the use of arch at this point is complete out of the box… Arch hasn’t been a diy distro any more or less then fedora or Ubuntu for a few years at this point.
Between endeavour cachy and steam os. Diy arch is basically not really a thing for gamers. It’s a meaningless concern.
They don’t test all the windows varieties either. 10, 11, 23h2, 25h2, home, pro, N, …