After having distro hopped for over 10 years ive settled on manjaro xfce and been happily running it for roughly five years now. It works very well out of the box, comes with working support for nvidia and steam being preinstalled. It strikes a very good balance between latest bleeding edge and just works, a position where it is bound to sometimes make some mistakes. But I've never noticed any issues. I can fully recommend it, it seems like most people that give it hate comes from memes or have never tried it themselves

I use Manjaro, what's the problem?

Steam Deck is based on Arch Linux & folks are trying to get as close as possible on their other PCs I assume.

People who Googled arch linux for dummies and realized even that was too complicated and then proceeded to install an arch based distro just to get AUR.

I daily manjaro, what's wrong with it?

I used it for a while, never had an issue. im on base arch now but ngl manjaro had the best gnome implementation I've ever seen

It was an often-recommended distro a couple of years ago. When SteamOS 3 was on the horizon, some people recommended it as probably the closest to SteamOS 3 on the market. Now, I haven’t bothered uninstalling it on my old computer yet.

That means the numbers are fake,

What? Them (phoronix) disclosing the source or valve releasing any numbers at all?

People please do your research and not trust sources that control the numbers.

How would that even work? Where would I get the numbers?

Deliver fake data would be an insanely dangerous game from Valve: that data is what all their partner to make strategic choices... if there's any proof of that, all their partner would drop the ball and Valve would lose it's multi billion business in just few weeks.

2. fake that data is plain stupid too: Valve has all the interest to know and share where is the bigger pie piece... so Capcom, Sega, Blizzard etc. can tune their product. For example, let's say Valve goes crazy and say that the GPU Nvidia RTX 5090Ti got 50% of market share... and all their partner follow this fake data and deliver all their products with no optimizations: results for their customers? (and, before any one mention it: yes, this apply the opposite: if Valve say 50% of GPU market share are shitty old Intel iGPU... all future games on PC will overly tuned towards the lowest end and big publisher won't even bother trying with next gen videogames).

FYI you can run the Windows version of Steam through Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit (or crossover-wine). I do that on my M2, works pretty well. It’s just like the old Linux days haha