It’s interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.
Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.
Do you run Steam from Debian repos or Flatpak?
I go from the repos myself.
Sooo… The author mentions that Manjaro fucked up, but I’m not sure what they’re referring to…?
I mean, like… To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
https://manjarno.pages.dev/ Manjaro’s Pamac took AUR down twice, also their website had its SSL certs expire 4 times
I mean, like… To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
Obviously, I’m not the author. But if I’d have to guess, their answer would likely be “Yes.”.
It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it’s rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don’t get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).
Here’s a list of issues I had:
- Was forced to not encrypt my system because for some reason the unlock screen rarely recognized my keyboard was connected and I couldn’t input the password. I would have to turn on the computer, then reboot at least once to get it to work.
- The absolute confusion surrounding YaST when I tried it out. The community made it sound like the best thing about openSUSE, but also don’t use it because it’s terrible. Apparently it’s being depreciated now. Don’t want to learn an entire system just for it to be removed.
- I didn’t experience any issues with this but it makes me nervous: Rolling Release + Required (for me) Community Repos. Meanwhile the standard release is slower than Fedora
- This one is a big “first world problem” but it really annoyed me. zypper, it’s one of the longest package manager names, and i can’t tab to autocomplete because there are other packages with similar names.
Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn’t really worth the effort when my main issue was: “The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn’t really impact my system.”
Most of it is historical momentum. Regardless of relative quality, far more people try Fedora and so far more people stick with it.
As for Tumbleweed specifically, many people do not like rolling distros. I do.
My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don’t see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
I’m surprised bazzite broke
Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
I know it’s based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.If only it was mentioned in the article…
This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.
I was about to say “what article?” because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there’s a linked post that my client isn’t showing!
Very interesting! Thank you for mentioning this! I suppose including a link to the article in the main body would help alleviate this issue.
This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.
It’s interesting that you can see exactly when antergos shut down where Popos and Manjaro surge in popularity.
