What is the most popular Linux distribution on PC?

AprilF00lz@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml – 46 points –
64

You are viewing a single comment

Thst depends in a lot of things.

What do you mean with "PC"? Is a smartphone a PC? Is a steamdeck a PC? The Laptop of a government employee? A Raspberry Pi? What about a TV-box or an e-reader?

Because if you mean in general on non-server hardware it's probably some weird Chinese/indian fork for their government PCs.

Otherwise it could be Arch due to the steam decks, but then again it depends on how tightly you define "distribution". As others have mentioned, is Xubuntu their own distribution or does it count as Ubuntu? What is Mint/Pop!_OS?

But no matter what, it's not MX Linux.

A smartphone is not a PC I’d wager. People can treat them like ones but then we’d have to be annoying and broaden it beyond what anyone could possibly mean.

Most people mean a non-apple laptop or desktop when they say a PC. It’s widely enough accepted that it shouldn’t be too ambiguous when used.

2 more...