Personal use numbers:
- Ubuntu: 27.7%
- Debian: 9.8%
- Other Linux: 8.4%
- Arch: 8%
- Red Hat: 2.3%
- Fedora: 4.8%
Haiku
Personal use 0.2%
Pro. use 0.1%
Some people love a challenge I guess. No disrespect to Haiku.
Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.
Can confirm. I have used one or the other exclusively for 20 years. Mostly on laptops. And these days with just a tiling window manager and terminal.
It just works.
Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I’m going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for “Shiny thing sindrome”, or the “grass is greener on the other side” stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I’d have known better.
NixOS is a nightmare. It works then you want to do something that can be done on another distro and you can’t. Same just went to silver blue at least acts like a regular distro.
Interesting how the numbers between “computer pros” and hobbyists (Steam Survey) diverge. Unsurprisingly for Steam gamers the Windows numbers are way higher but for Linux specifically Ubuntu is crashing hard since a few years from absolute domination to all Ubuntu versions + derivatives (Mint + pop_OS) combined barely making up 20% of the Linux user base whereas at Stack Overflow there’s a clear lead of Ubuntu over the rest.
Edit:
I think for games, people need newer kernels and drivers to support the newer hardware needed to play newer games, and they’re willing to put up with the bugs that come along with thay. Ubuntu and Debian (stable) aren’t strong at that by definition. I always use an older GPU that supported well by the Ubuntu LTS I run. If it doesn’t play something, I’ll wait till a new driver lands in that LTS or the next.
Latest non-LTS Ubuntu could be high up the Steam Survey list but isn’t. The strongest general purpose distribution is Arch Linux.
Probably because everybody with a Steam Desk shows up as Arch in the survey.
I’m on the Other category, both for home and work. I use Tumbleweed in both.
I see a crazy amount of Tumbleweed on protondb. Must be good for gaming or the users are knowledgeable.
Top paying technologies interestingly has Go, Rust and Zig almost same medium salary, and very close (in that order). Immadiately followed by “Bash/Shell”? Yet, the most used languages such as Python and JavaScript are way down. Funny how Bash and Shell scripting is more used than Java, C#, C++ and C, while on the same time earns more money than those languages.
Can you make a living as a “Bash”/“Shell” programmer? :D
and you spend your entire tenure trying to convert it into another language while simultaneously adding to the pile.
