One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
www.xda-developers.com
That's a lot of downloading.
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    1·
    24 minutes ago

    And on DistroWatch (last 30 days) its still place 16, just above NixOS. :D Shows again why DistroWatch shouldn’t be used as a generalized popularity comparison: https://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4 (Note the link will have different data after time goes on.)

    Last 30 days on Dec. 4, 2025:

    Rank    Distribution        HPD*
---------------------------------
1       CachyOS             4695>
2       MX Linux            2460<
3       Mint                2325>
4       Debian              1611<
5       EndeavourOS         1536>
6       Zorin               1420>
7       Pop!_OS             1316>
8       Fedora              1080<
9       Ubuntu              1061<
10      Manjaro             1045=
11      AnduinOS            914>
12      Arch                853<
13      openSUSE            729<
14      antiX               726<
15      Nobara              714>
16      Bazzite             692=
17      NixOS               647>
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 hours ago

    Yeah I tried Bazzite. Idk if its because I’m already in club tuxedo, but the whole immutability thing did not work for me when it didn’t work with my hardware out the gate.

    But if it had, wow, what a slick experience.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Hmm. Well I was on a tear of trying new operating systems trying to get a bit of bleeding edge kit working. I was about to be traveling and I needed it to just work. Bazzite had a release specific to my model… and it all seemed hunky dory, until it wasn’t and I couldn’t get in and wrench. I think in that week I probably went through 20+ different ISO’s and install scripts trying to get to an install that would let me use the GPU acceleration I paid for. Tried fedora, bazzite (and bazzite did work, but I had issues with the wifi/ blue tooth driver, but I had to do containers/ sandboxes to actually use RoCM), ubuntu, others.

        I ended up on Ubuntu for this machine because at least I can wrench on things, and I wasn’t prepared to take the Arch jump off the diving board (at least not on a new machine before traveling). And its been “fine”.

        But I genuinely do no like the Ubuntu experience. Once I can slick this machine (when I’m done with my current project), I’m going to go to Fedora because that should allow me to stay with the most up to date kernel.