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by bitwize 1238 days ago
"Major" = RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, perhaps also Arch.

Slackware is niche, sorry.
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CameronNemo 1238 days ago
Not niche enough, AFAICT

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/fwupd/

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josteink 1238 days ago
Arch is the new “big” distro among Linux gamers. It seems to be taking market share from Ubuntu.

And yes, fwupdmgr works fine on Arch too.

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Macha 1238 days ago
Also the Steam Deck is Arch derived, so I think there's a good chance after this year that Arch is actually the most common desktop Linux family.
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pxc 1238 days ago
fwupd is available on quite a few niche distros, including NixOS, GuixSD, Void Linux, Gentoo, and also, of course, Slackware.

Also I feel that openSUSE qualifies as a major distro despite not appearing on that list!

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