im using fedora and its nice, but i installed bazzite on a mates laptop recently, and when it comes to nvidia, and especially hybrid graphics (laptops with nvidia gpus), it’s so much easier to use bazzite with their preconfigured nvidia stuff than anything else. so, bazzite is really nice to use and based on fedora, but for my main machine i’ll probably stick to fedora for now.
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.
The only controversy I’ve heard of was Manjaro forgetting to renew an SSL license a while back (probably 2 years ago by now), I wasn’t aware there had been other issues.
manjaro really does some things right. it’s the best grub boot menu i’ve ever seen, with perfect dual/triple booting detection and such, but it kept breaking all the time and was a pain to fix. switched to fedora and never looked back. i got debian on machines where i don’t want to fiddle with the is often. then fedora on what i use a lot and need to be flexible. bazzite on machines where its supposed to just work and manage the nvidia optimus pain, which it does really well. also i’d opt for mint for people starting out, or not as tech savvy people.
different distros for different use cases, but manjaro has proven to be too much work (on my workstation and those of multiple friends).
(also i’m looking into nixos)
It’s simply reflective of how Steam publishes those numbers on its own platform. For some reason, Fedora isn’t explicitly accounted for while it’s very likely to possess a huge chunk of the “Other” category.
To illustrate this point, we’ll look at Boiling Steam’s latest report. It uses ProtonDB’s data to give us (possible) insight on what’s found within “Other” (that accounts for 23.27%). Before I delve further, it has to be said that ProtonDB’s data contrasts Steam’s in significant ways. It’s not a huge departure, but one definitely notices a slight discrepancy between the numbers.
FWIW, as per Boiling Steam’s report, we find the following numbers for Fedora (and related derivatives):
Fedora - 8.7%
Nobara - 5.2%
Bazzite - 4.5%
Which (together) amounts to 18.4%.
If we would scale this down, as Boiling Steam’s report doesn’t include SteamOS Holo[1], we’d get:
Fedora - 6%
Nobara - 3.6%
Bazzite - 3.1%
Totaling to 12.7% this time. And thus, it('s at least likely to) constitute the majority of the “Other” category.
I’ll assume its share is 30.95% based on Steam’s own numbers. ↩︎
I’m on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.
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.
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.
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
im using fedora and its nice, but i installed bazzite on a mates laptop recently, and when it comes to nvidia, and especially hybrid graphics (laptops with nvidia gpus), it’s so much easier to use bazzite with their preconfigured nvidia stuff than anything else. so, bazzite is really nice to use and based on fedora, but for my main machine i’ll probably stick to fedora for now.
It’s as good as any other distro
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.
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.
There always seems to be some sort of controversy going on about the devs’ behavior from an ethical perspective.
The only controversy I’ve heard of was Manjaro forgetting to renew an SSL license a while back (probably 2 years ago by now), I wasn’t aware there had been other issues.
There was also an issue with a dev wanting to use donation money to buy a gaming laptop. That rubbed some people the wrong way.
Obligatory insert Manjarno.
manjaro really does some things right. it’s the best grub boot menu i’ve ever seen, with perfect dual/triple booting detection and such, but it kept breaking all the time and was a pain to fix. switched to fedora and never looked back. i got debian on machines where i don’t want to fiddle with the is often. then fedora on what i use a lot and need to be flexible. bazzite on machines where its supposed to just work and manage the nvidia optimus pain, which it does really well. also i’d opt for mint for people starting out, or not as tech savvy people. different distros for different use cases, but manjaro has proven to be too much work (on my workstation and those of multiple friends). (also i’m looking into nixos)
It’s simply reflective of how Steam publishes those numbers on its own platform. For some reason, Fedora isn’t explicitly accounted for while it’s very likely to possess a huge chunk of the “Other” category.
To illustrate this point, we’ll look at Boiling Steam’s latest report. It uses ProtonDB’s data to give us (possible) insight on what’s found within “Other” (that accounts for 23.27%). Before I delve further, it has to be said that ProtonDB’s data contrasts Steam’s in significant ways. It’s not a huge departure, but one definitely notices a slight discrepancy between the numbers.
FWIW, as per Boiling Steam’s report, we find the following numbers for Fedora (and related derivatives):
Which (together) amounts to 18.4%.
If we would scale this down, as Boiling Steam’s report doesn’t include SteamOS Holo[1], we’d get:
Totaling to 12.7% this time. And thus, it('s at least likely to) constitute the majority of the “Other” category.
I’ll assume its share is 30.95% based on Steam’s own numbers. ↩︎
I’m on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.
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.
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
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 game on fedora (nobara) fulltime and its enjoyable and works great