For me
Mint
Manjaro
Zorin
Garuda
Neon
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Gentoo. I say this as someone who used to daily drive it.
And arch too.
Arch
All of them: communities are so used to blow their own horn that every Distro becomes overrated in the public debate.
Each single distro is “fine” at best.
Except for Debian.
Debian is Great, Debian is Love.Pop_OS!
Manjaro
Ubuntu
Fedora
Linux Mint
What you hatin on fedora for :(
For all its strengths, Arch is kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. I daily drive it but I risk breaking something if I don’t update regularly. My youtube laptop can’t update at all anymore from something I don’t care to fix (when Firefox breaks then its a big deal lmao) and my main rig needed to use the fallback initramfs for a while after I forgot to update for a while. mkinitcpio -P (I think) fixed it though
What do you mean exactly? A running system shouldn’t spontaneously break from not being updated. It’s just that partial upgrades can break compatibility/dependencies, but running full system upgrades should be fine, as long as you pay attention to breaking changes and major version bumps. Also with timeshift it should always be possible to get back to a working state.
Mint is definitely not overrated. It has done much for the community because they created a distro that is easy to understand if you switch to Linux, easy to maintain and mostly works out of the box. Also they don’t use snap.
Noob mint user here; first distro, I really like it. What’s up with the snap contention that I keep seeing?
Snap is container Software. It’s a program that runs software in an isolated area. Snaps is made by canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. And it’s really hatred because, IIRC, it’s very slow and not completely open source
Agreed. I just have better things to do than muck about with my OS. Just slap Mint on that fucker and get on with your life. Now, of course I i know that many people like to tinker and have everything just so. I’m not in any way knocking that. But if you just want minimal hassle Mint is the shit.
The good/bad Linux distro circlejerk.
People are constantly speaking about what’s the best or worst distro in long argumentation loosing their time. Instead, it would nice to make people actually switch to a Linux distro and stay on a distro. Each people people switching from another OS is a win. This matters and how making Linux distros more accessible to everyone.
I’ve been on arch for 4 or 5 years now. I think the “distro hopping” is mostly a meme my noobs. No hate.
I didn’t mean distro hopping. I mean people actually staying on Linux after trying it and not going back to another os.
NixOS for sure, it’s poorly documented and even worse designed.
NixOS does have poor docs, but why don’t you elaborate on why you think it’s poorly designed?
I have an entire writeup on the issue. https://github.com/CuBeRJAN/nix-problems
I recently switched to NixOS and GNU Guix was also a possible option, and while in retrospective, I can agree with your points, there were two things NixOS does that I want that Guix doesn’t offer:
- Non-free packages (though I guess I could have used Nonguix)
- An option for Secure Boot
I don’t think the assessment “it’s badly designed” is fair and your conclusion
Years and years of technical issues plague the project and there seems to be little interest in actually resolving these issues. Guix is comparatively much newer, yet the UX is much better and there are constant improvements in many areas. It also has the advantage of being built from the ground up with a clear design mind."
(emphasis mine) is misleading ; it’s not better despite being newer, it’s better because it is newer and was able to learn from Nix and improve upon it. Also what would you call the Nix whitepaper if not the design behind Nix?
Linux Mint. People praise it as the perfect Window replacement yet when I tried it for a week, it didn’t do anything better than default KDE Plasma Desktop. And since the devs haven’t even started to work on Wayland support, the Distro will soon fall way behind.
It might. Then we can still switch. For the time being it works just fine. The maintainers are a bit conservative for good reasons though. Mint is supposed to just work and for the most part it does just that.
