◄ DISTRO FIGHTER ▶Play Distro Fighter: WARS
423,946
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.

4,806
fighters in the book
116,043
knockouts
5,285
salvage runs

Most fought distros share of all corners

Debian 16%
Arch 14.3%
Fedora 12.3%
Slackware 9.6%
Ubuntu 8.6%
Void 8.1%
Nobara 7.8%
Alpine 2.8%
Parrot 1.2%
Xubuntu 1.1%

Share of fight appearances across all 423,946 recorded bouts.

Most fought desktops share of all corners

XFCE 35.8%
GNOME 18.7%
LXQt 11.6%
KDE 8.6%
MATE 7.8%
Budgie 4.6%
i3 3.3%
Sway 1.7%
Openbox 1.4%
Hyprland 1.4%

XFCE and GNOME carry the most corners between them.

Think your distro deserves a better record?

Claim a fighter, pick its desktop and packages, and put your daily driver in the ring. Every fight on this page was fought by a build someone put together.

▶Enter the WARS beta or play the arcade game first

Most carried packages % of fighters

gzip 33.1%
cron 32.5%
ufw 29.1%
grep 23.9%
zram 23.5%
watchdog 22.3%
htop 20.7%
nano 18.8%
sudo 18.3%
fail2ban 18.1%
curl 18.1%
vim 17.8%

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

The divisions share of fighters

53%
Lightweight600 to 900 MB
Lean installs with a small kit: Debian, Void, Arch and Slackware under light desktops like XFCE and LXQt.
47%
Middleweight900 to 1300 MB
The crowd. Fedora, Nobara and Ubuntu under GNOME or KDE, a full desktop with a working set of packages.

Busiest managers fights

Mack Ito 5,736
Carmen Ashby 5,317
Lena Nakano 4,549
Dov Calloway 4,498
Olga Drummond 4,035
Fyodor Quiroga 3,842
Sada Ferro 3,696
Fyodor Bellamy 3,686
Lena Grimaldi 3,180
Piet Bellamy 2,918

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

Best win rates 20+ fights

TVAffect 86.5%
Silverblue 84.7%
Sal Grimaldi 76.1%
pztrn 75.1%
Olga Mbeki 75.1%
Zora Silva 74.5%
Hayden James 70.5%
Rosa Brick 70.4%
Benny Petrov 70.3%
Lena Sorensen 70.1%

Managers with at least 20 fights on record.

Most knockouts career KOs

Silverblue 749
Fyodor Quiroga 739
TVAffect 726
Mack Ito 703
Rufus Delgado 629
Ade Lombardi 601
Lena Grimaldi 599
Olga Duarte 555
Piet Delgado 552
Piet Fontaine 520

Fights won before the judges could say a word.

Most wins career wins

Mack Ito 2,946
Carmen Ashby 2,422
Lena Nakano 2,187
Dov Calloway 2,029
Fyodor Quiroga 1,896
Olga Drummond 1,859
Sada Ferro 1,782
Fyodor Bellamy 1,735
Piet Bellamy 1,530
Lena Grimaldi 1,480

Every win counts the same here: knockout or decision.

Made it this far? Put your own build in the ring