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Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025 (lemmy.ml)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a Fedora there, it's a pretty great and up-to-date distro. And pretty popular.

I'm also surprised Flatpak isn't higher!

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora-based) are my top recommendations for new Linux users. I’m constantly surprised at Mint’s general popularity, especially for gaming. Even openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better option when it comes to gaming.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Wanted to try bazzite but on my 13 year old cpu and mobo it wouldn't boot. Mint ran perfectly.

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m not a new Linux user but am a new Linux gamer. I landed on endeavorOS a few months ago and like it enough I converted my other two desktops over. Whether it’s just dumb luck or not it has been noticeably more snappy on all three of the workstations I put it on than anything else I was using. It’s honestly kind of eerie, after putting my work laptop (windows11) away for the day and jumping on one of my systems they are so responsive now that sometimes it feels like it’s predicting what I want to do before I do it.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Endeavor is pretty great. I haven’t tried Cachy yet, but I hear it’s like “Endeavor with less setup”, which sounds good to me. That’s one of things I love about Linux - no matter what your priorities are, there is likely an ideal distro for you.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

There's a reason it's not up there and cachy is, bazzite is in basically just a worse version of what cachy is setting out to do.

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also surprised about that. I use Nobara and that too is based Off Fedora.

[–] quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it seems there's something going on with what's listed here. It doesn't match any other measurement.