• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    You don’t need to test every distro.

    Honestly you could capture 90 percent of the market with just arch and Debian/Ubuntu.

    You could add 2 or 3 of the gaming focused distros for comparison however since they tend to be built on top of the two above things are more likely going to vary based on configuration more than which distro or de you are using.

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      4 hours ago

      They don’t test all the windows varieties either. 10, 11, 23h2, 25h2, home, pro, N, …

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      4 hours ago

      Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go. Debian is just not present on gaming set ups, Arch is close to what Valve is doing and Ubuntu has like 69 downstream distros.

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        2 hours ago

        Debian is just not present on gaming set ups

        You are mistaken.

        It’s not popular in that arena, but it’s definitely present.

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        4 hours ago

        I guess my Steam install and few games on Debian are not present.

        To be fair, they’re not AAA games, so they’re just not real games anyway. Gaming is for people with bleeding edge software and super recent hardware, obviously. /s

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        4 hours ago

        Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.

        Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks and making choices that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.