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If we are talking about desktop PCs, maybe Ubuntu, but based these reports it's Arch.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam%3Fplatform%3Dlinux&ved=2ahUKEwjdg9iH-d2FAxXjppUCHVjoCJUQjjh6BAgbEAE&usg=AOvVaw208M9_ZU0zQ2BXwz8ei5Oa
https://youtu.be/8V8uQbIFlh0?si=Zc-AG7Ojf1V0y8sT
Worth keeping in mind that the steam deck uses a distro based on arch, so it might be inflating the arch numbers in that steam survey.
I don't think it is. Mint is based on Ubuntu but still shows up as mint. Arch is very popular
Nah in that category it was separating steamOS. Here is the stats for operating system for Linux.
Yeah you can filter stats by OS then click on the linux os section to get more details then you'll see what I screenshot. I had to dig to find it.