I’ve been test driving Cachy for about a month and it’s so smooth and cozy I am — much to my own surprise — not missing Fedora. I still avoid AUR as much as possible, though. This may be the first time in nearly a decade where I’ve felt completely comfortable with a distro other than Fedora.
I would absolutely not recommend it to a new Linux user, though. It’s still more hands-on than Fedora or Bazzite, but I appreciate that. I also appreciate the automation tools that will set up entire use-cases for you.
Cozy is definitely the right word. Like a warm blanket and a rum-spiked hot cocoa on a cold day.
Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.
Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.
Ubuntu is falling behind in official Steam hardware & Software Survey as well. Of course the sample size is much larger, so the specific percentages don’t match but the trend is identical.
Yes. However, it’s still very notable that distros like Ubuntu have gone from 40+% to under 10%.
Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.
Pop_OS hit 12.3% in Feb 2021 and completely fell off the chart in May of this year before coming back for September. I’m one of those users.
Oh, and i’m pretty sure I know where flatpak is from. The instructions to input your system data in ProtonDB relies on steam’s system information. My OS shows as flatpak by default because I installed a flatpak version of steam from the pop shop. If someone doesn’t manipulate it themselves, it shows as “OS: Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime)” - The most recent data shows flatpak as 4.5%. So who knows where those users really are coming from. Cachyos ships with steam, so it won’t ever show up as flatpak for that OS unless someone does something really funky.
Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.
Ubuntu isn’t easy. Not when the context is gaming as is this video’s.
Since Steam Deck all interesting developments (emulators, source ports of commercial games) happen on Flathub.
Canonical banned Flatpak from the default installation of all official Ubuntu variants (so Kubuntu, Lubuntu,…), therefore it is required to type shell commands to get stuff off Flathub, therefore it’s now among the least easy to use distributions.
S76 has been focusing heavily on Cosmic, so Pop as a whole has fallen behind. The new Beta is very promising, but not something I would daily drive. I love a lot about Cosmic, but it has a long way to go before it’s as polished and functional as Plasma.
I feel like it was a huge mistake on their part to try to make a whole DE rather than work on a bunch of GNOME extensions, but now they’re trapped and can only keep working on it. I don’t dislike Cosmic, but I just keep asking “why?” every time I look at it.
Cosmic started as a fork of GNOME. They worked on that for a long, long time before deciding to start over.
I think it’s the right call. I can see myself using it once it’s matured some more. The ability to seamlessly switch between floating and tiled modes is wonderful. The simplicity and intuitiveness of the UI and settings. They take all the right features and ideas from GNOME, KDE, MacOS, and Windows and made something that could be better than all of them. All they need is time and polish, and they seem dedicated to doing it right.
I am looking forward to seeing it evolve and am cheering for them.
The only thing I actually liked from Cosmic is the ability to remove rounded corners, which is something I hate that we’re forced to endure in every single UI at every single level. Even KDE seems to lack that, even though they give a few options for the UI. (Edit: I mean, as far as I saw on Plasma, KDE doesn’t have the option by default. Maybe it can be added or something, but I didn’t see anything in the settings to indicate I can remove rounded corners.)
Tiling is just not to my liking, but maybe it’s because I don’t use huge monitors, so every time I tile a window everything gets bunched up or cut off. Maybe I’ll think differently when I move from 24" to 27", who knows. I ended up disabling tiling and stacking in Pop! OS 22 and just use vanilla GNOME snapping when needed. Stacking also adds a horrible tab UI that can’t be edited (say, make it vertical instead of horizontal), as far as I know.
So, to me, the DE just doesn’t add anything different or extremely necessary. But of course, I can only speak for myself, my tastes. I’m generally very picky and an outlier in most things, so I’m not surprised other people find those things to be essential.
Yeah, I didn’t do a whole lot of research before moving to Pop but i’m sticking with one distro for a while just so I get fluent in something. I hate the out of the box DE experience but with a little tweaking it’s usable.
Gaming is so easy to figure out. I’ve gotten FSR4 to work and I don’t notice much in the way of a performance delta with windows. Plus if you run into any issues there’s solutions to practically everything with ProtonDB, reddit and the archwiki.
So far my biggest gripe so far is zero HDR support which is hardly a dealbreaker.
It’s easy to use unless you NEED the non-snap version of a package.
So I wanted to install GrapheneOS on my pixel. I booted into Ubuntu and the USB connecting to my pixel just didn’t work
Turns out, snap is at fault. Guess what, there’s no easy way to just say “give me the non-snap package”
Same experience for me.
Recently I booted the Live CD to test something, downloaded Steam via the Ubuntu App Store and that Snap garbage wouldn’t even launch, meanwhile the Steam.deb worked perfectly fine on the same environment. Imagine getting that as your first experience with Linux…
This is why I always end up back at Ubuntu. Shit just works 95% of the time. Sure, it’s a skill issue that I can’t make a lot of other distros work for me but I don’t want to close a skill gap every time I need to use my computer
That’s what kept me on Fedora. It just works. When Ubuntu went all-in on Snaps and ignored every bit of criticism about it, that was the end of my love and support for Ubuntu or Canonical.
That’s what kept me on Fedora. It just works.
I recently set up a PC for a pensioner who can’t or does not want to afford a Windows 11 PC. I used AlmaLinux (community RHEL). I’m not the biggest fan of some Gnome defaults, so I installed Dash To Panel from the official repositories and enabled traditional window buttons to make the experience closer to Windows. That’s it.
The Fedora developers laid excellent ground work.
I wonder if this also reflects a general shift away from Ubuntu of if the phenomenon is mostly limited to the gamer demographic.
I wonder if this also reflects a general shift away from Ubuntu of if the phenomenon is mostly limited to the gamer demographic.
Today’s Linux gamers are tomorrow’s Linux admins.
Could be A and B, keep in mind that gaming is one of the largest enticements of the PC platform in general (Phones snapped up most of the home office users).
(Phones snapped up most of the home office users).
You just connected so many dots for me.
Probably those email power users. Still surprising to see Arch so popular. Is it pure arch or does it includes the various flavour of arch. Tbf I also used arch as my daily driver.
Is it pure arch or does it includes the various flavour of arch.
They are separate entries. EndeavorOS and CachyOS should tell you that much.
The steam deck is arch based if that enlightens you at all.
The steam deck is arch based if that enlightens you at all.
The Arch stats explicitly exclude SteamOS.
Is this another one of those where Steam Deck gets lumped under Arch?
No
What is STEAMOS considered?
SteamOS is considered Steam Deck. ProtonDB separates devices into three platforms: PC, Steam Deck and ChromeOS.
It’s not on the chart.
Is this a reliable set of stats then?
Is this a reliable set of stats then?
This is PC operating systems which by ProtonDB definition excludes Steam Deck. See https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-keeps-spreading-and-takes-second-place-among-linux-distros/index.html for more information.
The most reliable stats would be the Steam hardware survey.
Just straight Arch is unstable and difficult to configure.
Arch hasn’t been unstable in years. Windows 7 was more unstable then what arch is now.
It is actually surprisingly stable nowadays, the core system has become very meticulously maintained which means 9/10 times if you encounter an issue it won’t brick the system and you only lose access to some package or program until it is fixed
I’ve yet to have it brick so yeah, it seems solid.
Now let me go update my system and have it crash and prove me wrong
