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Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I think it was more of a fad for a short while, but there are a lot of other much more entrenched and mainstream distros

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    This graphic is just a bit misleading, and the more detailed results show the opposite story. Bazzite is as 5.53% of Linux users, up 1.29% from last month and one of the most used single distros, behind SteamOS, Arch, Mint, and CachyOS.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Bazzite has been one in a LONG line of Trendy Distros Of The Month. People have been trying to make CachyOS happen, Zorin has made a couple appearances, ElementaryOS and Pop!_OS traded blows for awhile, Nobara was in there, a long while ago there was Peppermint, I'm forgetting a lot of them.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Feels like youre really diminishing Bazzite's popularity here. Ive seen it regularly talked about here and in a lot of YouTube videos for around a year now. Its also currently used by 5.5% of the Steam Linux player base (you can see by filtering the results by Linux only), making it one of the most popular distros for gaming right now. Also, CachyOS is just ahead of it at 6.74%. Definitely not flavor of the month numbers imo

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    CachyOS is attempting to fill the same workcase as bazzite and does it better. Which is the real problem for bazzite.

    And cachyOS is basically just a gamer preset for endeavour. Since all the arch based distros kinda suffer from the same problem in differentiating themselves by just being glorified presets of all of the same thing. Which is both actually a rather good boon but also a bit of a problem with being a gimmick or a flavor of the month. You just kind of pick an arch preset to start with and go from there.

    Of course manjaro being the weird one out.

    Like if you're just looking for a straight up preset up one button, go gaming distribution. Cachy and baz both are trying to be that same workload. But cachy just does it better with less weird quirks and issues.

    Not to mention they're both trying to be distribution so you can just put on a steam deck. And again the cachy option just has less issues and quirks.

    But cachy is fighting against stupid outdated memes about Arch so it just won't ever really catch on. So even as a flavor of the month distro, it struggles to really ever reach true fad territory.

    While bazzite easily can reach it since it doesn't have to deal with a decade of misinformation spreading memes.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I honestly think for most people atomic systems should become the default, so I’m team bazzite right now.

    It just feels like they need to get over decades of bad app/file hygiene to improve.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I have just run into such an insane amount of problems with atomic distros. The thing is that you don't know it will be a problem until you start having a need for the functionality

    I still daily drive bazzite, but embedded programming, wireshark (constantly breaks upgrading on atomic fedora), any VM that had to connect to the LAN, any sort of document signing, key management, using any sort of government ID software like Belgium's EID to log in on a web browser, and much more is very difficult with most of the examples being dead in the water and will apparently never be attempted to be fixed.

    It works great for most people, until they need to do 1 thing outside of the mainstream and it falls apart. Hell, there is literally no documentation at all on how adding a user to a group is fundamentally broken (fedora's fault, not bazzite) and you have to copy groups manually from a non-documented file to /etc/group.

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