Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming Scene

Still plenty of Debian/Ubuntu out there. And with bazzite even Fedora's getting in on gaming.

Arch distros have made some truly impressive gains in userbases recently, though. Especially for being based on a distro that explicitly eschews user-friendliness

Isn't it because SteamOS is based on Arch?

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It's because SteamOS identifies itself as Arch. Omitting this information is either dishonest or uninformed.

Exciting to see endeavoros making the list. I'm one of the 0.06%! There's dozens of us!!

Debian gamer here. Glad y'all are having fun, too.

NixOS gamer here. I can't be the only one!

Literally spent the second half of my holiday vacation moving from dual boot Mint+Win11 to EndeavourOS. The last few days has been fun getting the latest Plasma to be themed out how I want it.

To ease my move, I repartitioned my secondary NTFS days drive to free up space for an EXT4 partition and moved my /home to it. Once that was done, bye bye to the other 2 OS installs and hello to a nice clean install of eos.

It's worked very well so far. As a long ago Arch user who battled the AUR back in the day, I was hoping for the experience to be better now. And to my joy, it is. (It's been probably at least a decade since I last used Arch.)

Since almost all of my Windows needs are now covered natively and the few that aren't are something I've gotten working via WinApps for a (mostly) seamless experience, in pretty comfortable with where I'm at now.

I've even got my 2024 Kraken Elite working via NZXT CAM so I have full control over the cooler until that is eventually supported elsewhere. (Including control of the screen.)

Hello from Bazzite, just floating along somewhere in the numbers~!

Dang it's me. The % .10 Mint guy over here. Good shit.

I wander if there are several of us gaming on openSUSE ...

I am one of the few Ubuntu gamers. Please don't hurt me.

Hmh. Guess with opensuse tumbleweed, I'm a minority of a minority. Oh well, I don't mind.

BtwOS is finally seeing proper representation :3

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I feel underrepresented as a Void user.

Although the absurd number of hours I've played a certain popular gacha under Lutris might not trigger the Steam metrics, I demand credit for dumping 45 hours into a poorly translated RPG Maker looking project!

Part of the Arch games, Well I don't exactly use Arch but it's A Arch based distro for Performance (Cachyos) and I love how they leverage cpu instructions

Guix! Yay!

I've been considering these: Crystal, Archcraft, Arco, Exodia. Are these any good?

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I tried a few distros this year. Landed on vanilla arch using KDE Plasma. Love it so far. Unfortunately I do some hobbyist stuff with Fusion 360 and my friends and I started playing PUBG again so i need to boot into my windows partition for those.

surprised fedora isn't on this list tbh