An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.
It’s probably best to take this whole graph with a grain of salt. There’s already some questionable relationships in it, like for every 4th Manjaro user coming in a Gentoo user, which I find hard to believe to say the list.
Second, it’s hard to say Pop exclamation mark underscore OS is on the decline when the whole field just looks more diversified in general. Sure the hype around gaming distros from the lockdowns seems to have cooled down a bit, but there isn’t any distro that just disappeared. On the contrary, it seems to have gotten just more.
As already mentioned, we can expect another hype again when Cosmic DE launches.
Very interesting. My rig is still on Pop mostly because I’ve just never had issues with it. I use the Liquorix kernel for a little added spice.
On my laptop I’ve been playing with NixOS lately (used to run Arch btw). I love it so far, but haven’t explored it for gaming.
I guess the Pop bubble has… Popped.
Sorry.
Makes sense to me. I’m a Pop! user since 22.04 and the wait is painful, although the blog posts definitely help a bit. Currently I have no problems but if something breaks I’ll try out Nobara I guess. My /home is already partitioned so I can make that hop with minimal loss.
Also switched distros from pop. I’ve had more success with Ultramarine than with Nobara on my nvidia-powered laptop. Check it out if Nobara gives you problems.
