Personal use numbers:

  • Ubuntu: 27.7%
  • Debian: 9.8%
  • Other Linux: 8.4%
  • Arch: 8%
  • Red Hat: 2.3%
  • Fedora: 4.8%
  • @woelkchen
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    3 hours ago

    Interesting how the numbers between “computer pros” and hobbyists (Steam Survey) diverge. Unsurprisingly for Steam gamers the Windows numbers are way higher but for Linux specifically Ubuntu is crashing hard since a few years from absolute domination to all Ubuntu versions + derivatives (Mint + pop_OS) combined barely making up 20% of the Linux user base whereas at Stack Overflow there’s a clear lead of Ubuntu over the rest.

    Edit:

    https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=linux

    • Avid AmoebaOP
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      65 hours ago

      I think for games, people need newer kernels and drivers to support the newer hardware needed to play newer games, and they’re willing to put up with the bugs that come along with thay. Ubuntu and Debian (stable) aren’t strong at that by definition. I always use an older GPU that supported well by the Ubuntu LTS I run. If it doesn’t play something, I’ll wait till a new driver lands in that LTS or the next.

      • @woelkchen
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        44 hours ago

        Latest non-LTS Ubuntu could be high up the Steam Survey list but isn’t. The strongest general purpose distribution is Arch Linux.

        • ffhein
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          04 hours ago

          Probably because everybody with a Steam Desk shows up as Arch in the survey.

          • @woelkchen
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            44 hours ago

            Probably because everybody with a Steam Desk shows up as Arch in the survey.

            Had you looked up the current stats, you would have known that this is completely false. SteamOS is in massive lead and I used the phrase “general purpose distribution” for a reason.

            • ffhein
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              03 hours ago

              I looked at the August 2024 results and SteamOS was not mentioned anywhere in the OS version section.

                • ffhein
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                  22 hours ago

                  Ah, I didn’t expect the results to be different when looking at the overview, this is what I saw…

                  Any way to break down that “Other” and see what it contains? If it counts Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as different operating systems there might be some more Ubuntu versions hiding in there.

                  • @woelkchen
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                    12 hours ago

                    Any way to break down that “Other” and see what it contains?

                    No, not without lobbying Valve.

                    there might be some more Ubuntu versions hiding in there.

                    Certainly because non-LTS versions are not in the main table as well but neither are Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, etc.