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Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 57 points 11 months ago (27 children)

I'm surprised Bazzite isn't higher on the list, here, it really seems like the OS I hear about whenever Linux gaming comes up.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That list is just weird and only shows a few specific distros. If you go to the Linux only results you get way more info. It shows Bazzite as used by 5.53% of respondents, +1.29% from last month.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, that makes way more sense. Nearly 6% of the gaming Linux market for such a new distro, and rapidly growing, sounds much more like where I would've expected Bazzite to place, based on my own experience and the tune of most recommendation threads here.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Agreed. Ive been active in a lot of Linux communities for a good while now, and I've never seen a single distro being recommended as much as Bazzite. Mint was probably the closest, but it's always had detractors due to its stable base affecting hardware support.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago

    I switched to Bazzite based on a recommendation and it's been a fantastic OS for me (gaming and light development/home labbing) and I no longer have any desire to distro hop.

    Took a bit to figure out the immutable stuff for some very niche things I needed done, but other than that ezpz

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    I think it was more of a fad for a short while, but there are a lot of other much more entrenched and mainstream distros

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    This graphic is just a bit misleading, and the more detailed results show the opposite story. Bazzite is as 5.53% of Linux users, up 1.29% from last month and one of the most used single distros, behind SteamOS, Arch, Mint, and CachyOS.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Bazzite has been one in a LONG line of Trendy Distros Of The Month. People have been trying to make CachyOS happen, Zorin has made a couple appearances, ElementaryOS and Pop!_OS traded blows for awhile, Nobara was in there, a long while ago there was Peppermint, I'm forgetting a lot of them.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Feels like youre really diminishing Bazzite's popularity here. Ive seen it regularly talked about here and in a lot of YouTube videos for around a year now. Its also currently used by 5.5% of the Steam Linux player base (you can see by filtering the results by Linux only), making it one of the most popular distros for gaming right now. Also, CachyOS is just ahead of it at 6.74%. Definitely not flavor of the month numbers imo

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I honestly think for most people atomic systems should become the default, so I’m team bazzite right now.

    It just feels like they need to get over decades of bad app/file hygiene to improve.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Why do you not like immutable distros?

    I’m asking as a long time Mac user, just tried Linux this year, and have settled on atomic fedora and bazzite, so looking to learn not imply I know more than you or anything like that. I’m just very sold on them and the ostree idea.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    See the problem is that you're a normal computer user and not one of the 3% that actually like the experience that is the traditional Linux desktop.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Somehow that does not help me know what I’m missing.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Basically, traditional Linux allows you to mess around every part of it and even completely break it if you weren't careful enough. This is really great and powerful for people that knows what they're doing, but for 99% of users, the ability to change the underlying operating system is not really necessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Thanks. That's fair, I mostly don't want to deal with that most of the time (I would if I had a spare computer)

    Is that not possible while still having an ostree, or is that just because the ostrees are all basically just fedora?

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