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Ubuntu or Mint
Mint is old.
This issue is going to be fixed with the edge ISO and Mint is way more similar to Windows in terms of UI that helps a lot of beginners to transition smoothly
Mint is just green Ubuntu.
And its a good pick too! Tho my favorite is pop!_OS
I liked the feel of Pop_OS!, the setup and configuration are great, but damned it was unappealing looks wise for me.
I mean, you can just install another DE on it if the looks is the problem. There’s also System76’s new COSMIC DE coming out somewhere in summer. It should be blazingly responsive as it’s written in Rust and has a GNOME-like UI.
Yeah I feel like that just defeats the purpose of it though, in that case just install Debian.
Yeah I am interested in Cosmic DE.
better Ubuntu
Not the Debian edition
My favorite edition!
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Actually Mint is un-enshittified Ubuntu
IMO Pop_OS matches the definition better.
Mint is better Ubuntu
There is not a reliable way to determine that, by design.
MX Linux
Source: https://gitnux.org/most-popular-linux-distributions/
It’s the most popular on Distrowatch but definitely not in real life
Disteowatch is an unreliable source since it’s basically just a giant tracker for its own sites.
Distrowatch only tracks the number of hits that distros website gets. Which is a really stupid way of ranking popularity. The most common distro would be Ubuntu (by far).
Probably depends how you define things. Like, is Xubuntu Xubuntu or Ubuntu with Xfce included by default? How much change is necessary before it’s not “debian with added bits”?
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I think a lot of people just got trolled in this thread.
snufkin linux
Amongst Steam users, the most popular desktop distros are:
- Arch Linux 64 bit 7.66% -0.49%
- Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS 64 bit 5.54% +5.54%
- Linux Mint 21.3 64 bit 3.77% +0.21%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.42% +0.07%
- Other 29.41% -1.37%
According to a recent survey.
Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases
Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)
In professional space work space, ubuntu will probably be highest. Second place I would guess Fedora
As personal workstation I would guess arch (even without steam deck) followed by mint or some flavour of Ubuntu
I don’t think Arch is more used than Ubuntu, unless maybe if you count all the Ubuntu flavors separately
PC-BSD
Hannah Montana Linux is probably the most popular Linux distro.
In all seriousness, popularity isn’t necessarily the best metric for what you should run on your computer. Ubuntu might be fairly popular, but it also isn’t particularly good.
PC deez nuts
Chrome OS.
If we are talking about desktop PCs, maybe Ubuntu, but based these reports it’s Arch.
Worth keeping in mind that the steam deck uses a distro based on arch, so it might be inflating the arch numbers in that steam survey.
I don’t think it is. Mint is based on Ubuntu but still shows up as mint. Arch is very popular
The lack of a separate SteamOS entry does make me think that SteamOS is reported as Arch.
Nah in that category it was separating steamOS. Here is the stats for operating system for Linux.
Huh weird, it didn’t on my screen.
I guess there’s a different screen with a more precise breakdown of the various Linux distros?
Yeah you can filter stats by OS then click on the linux os section to get more details then you’ll see what I screenshot. I had to dig to find it.
With Steam having a gaming audience I’d argue that this has at least a slight bias towards Arch, as the latest kernel versions and other software are often advantageous for gaming in particular.
But even with the Steam numbers note that Arch is just listed as one single variant, while Ubuntu has separate entries for different versions. Ubuntu LTS 22.04 alone is so close to Arch that it’s probably ahead once you include all versions.
That’s because SteamOS, the operating system preinstalled on the Steam Deck, is based on Arch.
I don’t understand why they haven’t offered a way to filter out the Deck from those results. It skews every category (CPU, GPU etc.)
Not really…That’s not a linux user metric it’s a steam user metric. Seems fine to include the steam hardware platform
If you count Ubuntu and all disto’s base on it as one, then it would top the list.
you mean debian, right?
define “most popular” please
for instance https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity, does that metric fit your definition?
Anyway whatever the answer it doesn’t really matters, at the end of the day it is always Linux anyway, regardless of package manager, desktop environment or init.
I’d just warn you against Ubuntu, because its company Canonical is behaving a lot like a young Microsoft these days.
