Probably for the same reasons why there are so many packaging formats in the first place. If everyone settled on deb, rpm, or arch style tar packages. Then we wouldn’t need the aur, flatpak, snap, appimage or anything else.
Not only that but looks to be via tracking code used on various sites. I suspect a larger percentage of Linux users will be using ad blockers that likely block that further reducing the numbers.
The stack overflow survey puts the various Linux distros at about 58.4%* with windows at 59.72% and MacOS at 32.57% for personal use. This both accounts for people using multiple OSs and gives a much more accurate number - at least among developers. Though I do suspect these numbers will be higher for developers than the general population but 3% to 58% is a huge discrepancy.
The steam hardware survey does put the number at 1.44%, though that is extremely biased towards windows for obvious reasons. And I don’t know of any more accurate ways of counting then these two. But they only show two wieldy different domains.
wonder why they broke that out to different distros this year pushing it down the list by splitting it up 🤔 why not also report on the different versions of windows? 😒
Okay, so I haven’t installed Debian in quite some time, but I think I know what’s happening here.
It’s looking for the CD / DVD “repos” because it may be enabled in your apt sources. You just have to comment out the lines involved with CD and DVD in your /etc/apt/sources.list file I think.
Since OP is new to linux I’ll just add this in case it’s helpful.
To edit a file owned by root (super account) you can use sudoedit /etc/apt/sources.list or alternatively sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list in a terminal.
In the editor save by using the key combo Ctrl+S and exit with Ctrl+X.
Commenting is adding a # in front of the line.
so the file should look like something like this
<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;"># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.5.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20220910-10:38]/ bullseye main
</span>
yes it can be changed just to un check the box that says Cdrom in sources list. you may need to install that package as im not sure it is installed on debian by default. I start with a minimum install and build my system from there so it’s been a long time since I have seen a default install.
To add to what @lordnikon said, it the program is called Software & Updates and I’m pretty sure it’s installed by default in GNOME (don’t know about other DEs).
Honestly your best bet is probably to use a game with a built-in benchmark over Steam. That way you get numbers that are somewhat comparable to the ones from public sources (game review sites/videos).
I don’t know why there isn’t a proper tool like 3DMark for Linux systems.
When you say “built-in benchmark over Steam” what does that mean? If that is a common thing, I have a steam account but I’ve never really used it before as I get pretty much all of my games from itch.
Oh ok, but on top of the fact that I can’t run that game, I don’t really need help anymore. I’ve already determined that I’m pretty sure that my GPU is having hardware problems.
It’s not uncommon. The main use is running the powerful GPU only in games and such, while using the other one the rest of the time, to reduce power consumption, heat and noise.
I am using NixOS and have used Arch before. Its great. No dependency hell, superb config management (with home manager) and builtin rollbacks. But the nix language is somewhat arcane. Error messages are only somewhat helpful and docs are really lacking. NixOS also uses quite the amount of disk space in its store. Would only recommend NixOS if youre a resourceful programmer (or not)
PS. Ive never had arch break any drivers on me, or any upgrade failing (unless a package itself is borked, but they usually put out posts for this). But my systems all amd, ymmv
Oh yeah I use nvidia so it’s pretty unsurprising. How much coding is required? I know how to code so it’s not a very big deal but I’d like to have an idea.
I wouldn’t call it coding. It’s more about writing configurations. You have to provide a list of packages you need and some configuration for them like configuring default desktop environment. I recommend searching for dotfiles repos with configuration.nix on github to get an idea.
As someone elase said, it’s not really coding but more like writing a configuration. If you need an example (I’m using AMD so there will be some changes required) you can check out my own config at gitlab.com/theshatterstone/nix-conf
Edit: Also, the note on shebangs applies to all scripts within NixOS.
Manjaro’s delayed package system can actually make things less stable if you use AUR. I’d recommend EndeavourOS for that experience, it’s very similar to Manjaro but in my experience hasn’t broken as much
I just did the suggested workaround and that worked. It also seems that installing lib32-libnm is probably a better fix, I’ll try that when I get home today.
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