Comment by goosedragons
2 years ago
It's not really. The most popular distro is actually SteamOS Holo with 40% of the pie. For whatever reason Steam doesn't report SteamOS in the overall Linux stats until you drill down. It's also hard to tell if Arch is really the top non-SteamOS Linux distro because 5% of users are using the Steam Flatpak which could be on virtually on any distro.
Arch being popular among desktop distros is believable. It also aligns well with the existence of ArchWiki and EndeavourOS (easy to install Arch derivative).
I missed the Flatpak line. That definitely throws a wrench in the stats.
Flatpak does not change much the deal, you can see another data source here showing its real size at least for gaming: https://boilingsteam.com/goodbye-manjaro-update-on-the-evolu...