Damn, that is a solid upward trend.

I joined the Linux team like six months ago. Fuck windows ai garbage and spyware

I'm a part of that percentage!

Fedora did not break the top 10. Is it not good for gaming? Genuinely curious as I was thinking of hopping to Fedora.

Most of it is probably steamos devices, which is an arch derivative

I’m on Fedora and it’s great.
I think I had a GNOME-related performance issue the other day, so I’m trying Plasma KDE

It's as good as any other distro

Fedora is fine for gaming. The biggest issue I had with it was that if i had an issue with it, I had to do a web search for fedora + issue and I got a lot of unrelated hits for hats.

That said, gloriouseggroll made their own Fedora based gaming distro called Nobara. However I don't know if they would have based their distro off of fedora if they didn't work for Redhat.

Personally, I prefer rolling releases which is why I no longer use Fedora.

I'd argue that for Nvidia and their drivers management there are better choices, such as Manjaro.

Although on desktop I didn't have any problems, laptop with AMD iGPU and Nvidia dGpu, prime etc. It's really a PITA on Fedora.

AMD 9070 on Wayland and Plasma isn't perfect neither.

Ay, moved over to Arch 3 months ago! It's been fantastic and nearly every game has worked out of the box, protondb solved most other issues.

I game on fedora (nobara) fulltime and its enjoyable and works great

I don't get the hateboner the linux community has against Manjaro, it's the only distro that booted correctly in live image mode with full nvidia support on my PC, so seems like they at least take Nvidia pretty seriously.

But how does one participate in these statistics? Via the Help menu -> System report -> Submit?

People are still choosing Ubuntu too much which feels annoying to me considering how much better the alternatives are, including mint which is second highest.

I guess more likely Fedora being an RPM distro with its own set of system standards keeps people from switching.

I would think Bazzite and Nobara would have boosted the usage, but I guess not as much as I think.

No. It's randomly sampled supposedly.

Bazzite did it for me, never looked back.

I do wonder if there's any selection bias in the hardware survey steam does. I'm sure they sample randomly, but I think a user on Linux might be much more eager to participate in the survey than a Windows user, simply because Linux users tend to have a desire to be more vocal about their OS use than Windows users.

Three months of using Arch and you've not included your 'btw' when claiming to use it? Most suspicious.

But yeah, agree completely. I made a new-years resolution about five years ago to try 'Linux only gaming for a month' rather than dual booting; worked so well that I wiped Windows a few months later and have never missed it for a minute. That was for Mint, which is great but hard to keep cutting-edge. Decided to try Arch instead, and after a couple of false starts (hadn't read the install guide carefully enough to have networking after restart, that kind of thing) it's been absolutely superb - rock solid, got everything I want at the very latest versions for work and games, best documentation of any distro.

I switched to Linux mint a year ago and play most of my games on it. However, i still need a windows installation for those games that refuse to work on Steam (I play Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 coop and I can’t get expedition 33 to run on Linux. But besides that, i spend most of my time on mint (mainly Monster Train 2 and Mechabellum)