• Thurstylark@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    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?

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      2 hours ago

      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.”.

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    3 hours ago

    Arch is the most “just works” distro I ever tried.
    Reducing the workload of the distro maintainers by keeping packages vanilla and close to upstream, not writing a shitload of distro-specific GUI tools, and off-loading all the weird stuff to a user repo, is genius.
    That way, there’s more capacity to focus on getting it right.

    Other distros have a lot more “features” (looking at you, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu) but Arch just gives you a high quality package of the newest stuff, and it’s amazing how solid it is nowadays.

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    The Ubuntu and Manjaro era is over. Arch is the new Ubuntu (by popularity for gaming). Fedora and Endeavour also grew a lot. Question is if they reached their ceiling already. Pop OS could explode in popularity once COSMIC is out, but maybe not for gaming. Bazzite got even a patch note addressing an issue with this specific distribution in the game Marvel Rivals. Here is a lot of potential for this distro, as an alternative for the future general SteamOS distro (if it ever comes out as a general install media). BTW, nobody seem to talk about HOLO ISO anymore.

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      I root for bazzite. It’s so easy to setup and update all while providing superb support for gaming. I actually run it as a desktop os and I love it.

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    Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
    I know it’s based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.

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      3 hours ago

      This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.

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      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.

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    5 hours ago

    It’s interesting that you can see exactly when antergos shut down where Popos and Manjaro surge in popularity.

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      Author’s disclaimer:

      Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.”