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If we are talking about desktop PCs, maybe Ubuntu, but based these reports it's Arch.
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
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
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Nah in that category it was separating steamOS. Here is the stats for operating system for Linux.
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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.