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Distros Used for Gaming on Linux, Evolution over Time - November 2023 Edition - Goodbye Manjaro! (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Pleasantly surprised that Arch tops the chart. Then again, and I might be wrong about this, but to me a clear bias in the ProtonDB data is that those who submit reports to ProtonDB are usually users who are likely used to submitting bug reports and stuff, so obviously not your average "freshly migrated from Windows" gamer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think it's also an issue of selection between the bases.

Yes, arch is on top, but Ubuntu, mint, pop (maybe more?) Are all "Ubuntu", so their representation is divided.

Completely agree I was surprised to see Arch on top still! Plus I'm very new at all this...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Manjaro is Arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh! That makes it close again!

Maybe I need to look into arch/Manjaro, unless it's not new-friendly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Arch is at the top because of the steam deck which uses arch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The steam deck being based on arch probably influences it a lot too. You can see the same trend on the steam hardware survey results.

edit : My bad actually, the video creator mentions in the comments that this is data without the steam deck section of the site.