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Up to 2.7% in May 2025 from 1.5% in May 2023. Almost x2 in 2 years is very impressive.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Two of my friends switched recently.
They had none to very little experience with anything Linux before, their previous win11 installs just over bloated and the copilot bullshit pushed them over. Both (indie/non-pop shooters) gamers btw.

This is the year of linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I wish I could get my friends to switch. I even had one tell me they would rather use it if supported the games that don’t work (which of course are games with anti-cheat issues). But they at least recognize that Windows is getting quite bloated

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Do they choose distros made for gamers?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

One is trying Bazzite the other one is just classic fedora

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm quite impressed Arch comes out on top

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not honestly. As far as I know SteamOS is based on arch which should give it a massive boost in comparison to other linux distros just from the number of Steam Decks

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would expect Steam to report Steam OS as Steam OS.

They managed to differentiate Manjaro to it's own entry after all. It's Arch based too.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

SteamOS does not get reported as Arch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn't a bad distro from first impression... The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling... Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !

Happy EndeavourOS user !

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The numbers are 3 weeks old, but they are still good. 😋

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair the numbers are from June 1st, and are for the month of May. So a tad newer than you graph that state March as the latest.

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