(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      No it doesn’t. It’s mostly a passionate minority hyping it up, but there’s pretty much no marketing.

      If any distro has “Apple level of hype and marketing,” it’s Pop!_OS or Ubuntu, because both have a large-ish company behind them actively pushing for user adoption. Your average Windows user is far more likely to have heard of either than Arch.

      I have no problem with Arch or Ubuntu, I used Arch for ~5 years and Ubuntu was my first (used for 2-3 years). I’m on openSUSE Tumbleweed now though because it ticks the boxes that are most important to me.

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      11 months ago

      The biggest company in the world vs dozen of fat nerds keeping a system as a hobby. Who would win?

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        BOTH, That’s the beauty of it. If the fat nerds come up with some sick new thing, it eventually gets added to the corpo distro. Meanwhile the big company can liaison with hardware vendors for drivers so that the fat nerds can spin it into their niche distro (e.g. new CPU compatibility)