PopOS is already a kind of “more user friendly” version of Ubuntu, and Mint acts as the “more polished little one”.In this article, we would discuss how to install Steam in Ubuntu 22.04 release. But will Ubuntu ever regain ground in the gaming space? It’s hard to see them change priorities anytime soon, and even if they did, they have quite a lot of competition these days, and one would be hard pressed to find a good reason to stick or switch back to Ubuntu. A lot of software out there is still created or tested with Ubuntu as a target. Ubuntu is still a reference in the workstation/desktop space. The tide has certainly turned when Valve decided to choose Arch for the basis of their new SteamOS iteration for the Steam Deck. Gaming require fast moving updates and upgrades and a rolling distro is best suited for that, which is why the ProtonDB data shows that the Arch block (Arch Linux + Manjaro + other Arch derivatives) accounts for almost half of the distro share here, where they used to be at most 20% a few years back.
While they are still many derivatives based on Ubuntu, it’s not the only standard anymore and it has clearly lost its leadership. Ubuntu has also pushed for installing apps using their snap solution, often done without the user knowing that specific packages were installed this way rather than through the regular apt package manager mechanism. Ubuntu has failed to innovate on the desktop after many years of successfully experimenting from one version to the next.įollow us on Twitter or Mastodon to stay up to date with our content as well as the numerous additional info we share every week with our followers! It’s no secret that Ubuntu has lost its position as a default distro for Gaming, a position that it used to have in the early days of Steam for Linux. Funny thing about Fedora is that I keep hearing a lot about it, even from people who were not Fedora users before but decided to try and switch to it recently. Fedora has been getting some renewed interest.Arch is still growing steadily, albeit slowly.Ubuntu‘s share in this dataset has shrunk by almost 3 times (from almost 45% to about 15% now) over the past 4 years.Looking closely at the numbers, we find that: The usual caveats apply: this is probably not representative of the market at large, blah blah blah, but this is a very good indicator of what’s happening in a very active slice of Linux gamers heavily involved in gaming activities. And what do we find out? Well, Ubuntu‘s share is STILL going down. Using ProtonDB data to check gaming distro trends is a fun exercise and and here’s a quick update following the most recent data available there.
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