◄ DISTRO FIGHTER ▶Play Distro Fighter: WARS
35,149
fights recorded in the WARS circuit, and counting.

This page is the running tally: which distros show up, which desktops get picked, and what fighters carry into the ring.

2,329
fighters in the book
7,906
knockouts
777
salvage runs

Most fought distros share of all corners

Debian 15.3%
Fedora 13.9%
Ubuntu 10.1%
Arch 9.1%
Nobara 7.7%
Void 5.4%
Slackware 4.4%
Alpine 4.4%
Garuda 1.9%
CachyOS 1.8%

Share of fight appearances across all 35,149 recorded bouts.

Most fought desktops share of all corners

XFCE 25.1%
GNOME 22.9%
LXQt 14.3%
KDE 10.2%
MATE 8.1%
i3 5.2%
Budgie 3.9%
Deepin 2.2%
Hyprland 1.6%
Openbox 1.6%

XFCE and GNOME carry the most corners between them.

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Most carried packages % of fighters

fail2ban 20.4%
tmux 18.3%
cron 18.1%
zram 18.1%
gzip 17.4%
ufw 17.2%
rsync 14.4%
watchdog 11.4%
htop 10.8%
vim 9.9%
docker 9.1%
neofetch 8.5%

fail2ban is the people's champion: it rides in more corners than any other package.

The divisions share of fighters

3%
Featherweightunder 600 MB
Stripped to the bone. Alpine on a tiling window manager like i3, carrying almost nothing into the ring.
39%
Lightweight600 to 900 MB
Lean installs with a small kit: Debian, Void, Arch and Slackware under light desktops like XFCE and LXQt.
49%
Middleweight900 to 1300 MB
The crowd. Fedora, Nobara and Ubuntu under GNOME or KDE, a full desktop with a working set of packages.
9%
Heavyweightover 1300 MB
Big desktops carrying a heavy kit. Nothing about these builds is minimal, and they fight like it.

Busiest managers fights

Silverblue 470
Dov Egger 376
Hayden James 376
Rufus Fontaine 367
Marge Okafor 357
Dutch Gallo 351
Ernie Pryce 349
Cy Haas 339
Yosef Brick 339
Teo Delgado 335

The managers who put their fighters in the ring the most.

Best win rates 20+ fights

Silverblue 88.1%
Mack Haas 85.7%
Zora Gruber 84.8%
Rufus Duarte 84.4%
Ute Petrov 83.3%
pztrn 82.4%
Dutch Moretti 81.6%
Hana Abramov 79.4%
Gus Ito 78.6%
Lena Ito 77.6%

Managers with at least 20 fights on record.

Most knockouts career KOs

Silverblue 345
pztrn 129
Hayden James 100
TVAffect 84
Marge Gallo 83
Piet Delgado 79
Pearl Mbeki 77
Arlo Costa 69
Marge Yilmaz 63
Dov Egger 59

Fights won before the judges could say a word.

Most wins career wins

Silverblue 414
Hayden James 259
Dov Egger 223
Nestor Fontaine 217
Rufus Fontaine 199
Dutch Gallo 198
Dutch Wozniak 198
Ernie Pryce 198
pztrn 197
Gus Marchetti 196

Every win counts the same here: knockout or decision.

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