Debian, always stable…
It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it’s rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don’t get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
Most of it is historical momentum. Regardless of relative quality, far more people try Fedora and so far more people stick with it.
As for Tumbleweed specifically, many people do not like rolling distros. I do.
My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don’t see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
I like Fedora because it’s a very forward focused distro, pushing things like Wayland and btrfs instead of clinging or dragging their feet like some other distros. I used OpenSUsE on my desktop towards the very end of my time with KDE but when I decided to switch to Gnome I stuck with fedora since it was what I had been using on my laptop for a while.
I will concede I rarely had a clean upgrade when new releases of fedora came out, but since I switched to silverblue that’s a thing of the past :)
Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.
“Without further due”…
… yeah …
Weird, am I blind or is there no SteamOS?
I know it’s based on Arch, but it is NOT Arch.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.
It’s interesting that you can see exactly when antergos shut down where Popos and Manjaro surge in popularity.
