Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline?

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An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.

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Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I didnt realise that Arch adoption was so high. I (don't) use arch, BTW. Although now I feel like I want to give it a spin to see what all the fuss is about!

Or maybe I'll stay fat, dumb, and happy with Fedora and Nobara on my desktop and laptop.

Not that it would change anything for me personally, but I really think Pop! OS is a poor naming choice. Who puts an exclamation mark in their name? Aside from Yahoo! I suppose.

Stick with Fedora and Nobara, they are good distros. I use Arch myself, because I like that bleeding edge, bro - but if those other distros are working for you, there's pretty much no reason for the average person to switch.

Nobara is sooo hyped. It is not a secure Distro. They literally

  • do tons of weird stuff with Apparmor and literally disable SELinux "because its easier to work with" (fedora variants are the only Distros using it, which is such a security advantage!)
  • add tons of packages
  • modify GNOME to make it very strange
  • delay an update for over a month

I recommend to use bazzite.gg if you want Gaming. They do all the Nobara fixes but

  • immutable
  • daily updates
  • SELinux intact
  • various spins for every hardware, including custom Kernels and tweaks

Arch was great for teaching me about Linux. It was rough, I completely borked my system about 3-4 times in the course of about 10 months lol. But it taught me valuable lessons on how to fix a destroyed system, how to use Timeshift to rollback changes, how to patch drivers and specific system packages, etc.

Ultimately, it was the constant fiddling that got me to go away from Arch and towards Nobara for my main gaming PC. I just wanted an OS that was stable, had great gaming performance, and didn't require me to install a bunch of obscure packages and tools like Arch needed to get certain things to work.

Nobara has been fantastic so far and is probably my go-to distro recommendation for folks who plan on gaming hard on Linux, their pre-included kernel patches and utilities like Protonup-QT are awesome for gamers.

I installed LMDE on my work IT laptop recently and overall I like it. Have had a few annoying bugs because of Debian's old packages, but everything is ironed out now and it's great. Something stable and basic that gets out of the way for me to do my job.

Personally, I think they should make LMDE the default version of Linux Mint.

Debian -> Ubuntu -> Linux Mint vs Debian -> LMDE

Since it's more upstream, it should be more up-to-date and secure, right?

I feel like basing a distro off of Ubuntu is sort of a crutch. It's makes things easier at the beginning, but ultimately it holds you back as a distro developer

i think the high arch use is mostly steam deck users running steamos.

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