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347,324
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.

4,776
fighters in the book
97,830
knockouts
4,109
salvage runs

Most fought distros share of all corners

Debian 15.5%
Arch 13.9%
Fedora 12.2%
Slackware 8.8%
Ubuntu 8.7%
Nobara 7.9%
Void 7.5%
Alpine 3%
Parrot 1.3%
Xubuntu 1.1%

Share of fight appearances across all 347,324 recorded bouts.

Most fought desktops share of all corners

XFCE 33.5%
GNOME 19.3%
LXQt 11.7%
KDE 9%
MATE 8.1%
Budgie 4.5%
i3 3.6%
Sway 1.8%
Openbox 1.6%
Hyprland 1.4%

XFCE and GNOME carry the most corners between them.

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Most carried packages % of fighters

gzip 32.6%
cron 32.5%
ufw 28.6%
grep 23.8%
zram 22.7%
watchdog 21.8%
htop 19.8%
nano 17.8%
sudo 17.4%
curl 17.2%
vim 17.2%
fail2ban 17.1%

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

The divisions share of fighters

2%
Featherweightunder 600 MB
Stripped to the bone. Alpine on a tiling window manager like i3, carrying almost nothing into the ring.
48%
Lightweight600 to 900 MB
Lean installs with a small kit: Debian, Void, Arch and Slackware under light desktops like XFCE and LXQt.
46%
Middleweight900 to 1300 MB
The crowd. Fedora, Nobara and Ubuntu under GNOME or KDE, a full desktop with a working set of packages.
3%
Heavyweightover 1300 MB
Big desktops carrying a heavy kit. Nothing about these builds is minimal, and they fight like it.

Busiest managers fights

Mack Ito 4,375
Carmen Ashby 3,727
Lena Nakano 3,173
Dov Calloway 3,096
Olga Drummond 2,677
Fyodor Quiroga 2,605
Fyodor Bellamy 2,570
Sada Ferro 2,493
Piet Bellamy 2,380
Ade Lombardi 2,107

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

Best win rates 20+ fights

Silverblue 86.6%
TVAffect 86.1%
Sal Grimaldi 76.1%
pztrn 75.7%
Olga Mbeki 75.6%
Zora Silva 74.4%
TheFran25 72.5%
Hayden James 72.1%
Ximena Brick 70.8%
Rosa Brick 70.4%

Managers with at least 20 fights on record.

Most knockouts career KOs

Silverblue 745
TVAffect 668
Mack Ito 582
Fyodor Quiroga 570
Rufus Delgado 562
Ade Lombardi 508
Olga Duarte 503
Piet Delgado 498
Piet Fontaine 466
Wes Abramov 427

Fights won before the judges could say a word.

Most wins career wins

Mack Ito 2,281
Carmen Ashby 1,646
Lena Nakano 1,503
Dov Calloway 1,344
Fyodor Quiroga 1,296
Piet Bellamy 1,256
Fyodor Bellamy 1,191
Olga Drummond 1,189
Sada Ferro 1,174
Ade Lombardi 1,058

Every win counts the same here: knockout or decision.

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