Surely this represents the subset of users that like doing things like tinkering with their OS and contributing to ProtonDB, not all Linux gamers. Normal people don't go switching distros every month.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you do a compatibility report on ProtonDB you attach your specs including distro, so yeah this will be biased towards tinkerers. However, HW survey tells a similar story:

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wish they'd merge the non-rolling-release distros by version (as well as by distro "family" in the case of e.g. Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu), so that they wouldn't look underrepresented compared to Arch. For example, Arch isn't actually more popular than Mint; it's just that some of the Mint users are slower to update than others.

[–] calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

That’s correct! There are a few caveats at the beginning of the article.

I thought this one was most interesting:

This may not be completely representative of all Linux gamers either. But I’d wage this is actually a good predictor where the market is going to shift. We saw first that Manjaro was getting the boot here first, before going under pretty much everywhere.

These two correlate more directly to what you mean:

This may not be representative of all types of Linux users. I’m sure this is not what your AWS architect uses on EC2.

There may be some additional biases, due to whoever used ProtonDB.