KDE Neon, because it runs Linux in the background.

Fedora.

They have solid community and financial backings, they do tremendous work pushing the Linux desktop forward, it’s close to vanilla and the sweet spot between stable and bleeding edge (aka “leading edge”) for me personally.

void linux. it uses runit and it’s a rolling-release. i like runit because i don’t like the systemctl command for some reason. doing ln -s /etc/sv/serv_name /var/service and sv up serv_name is way nicer imo.

I like Void because it makes me quirky.

Just kidding.

I like Void because it makes me quirky, doesn’t require me to learn how systemD works, AND it is lightweight! Plus it has literally never broken on me.

Fedora Silverblue! 😊

Immutable Linux is the future (and any container-based filesystem )

I’m a Linux noob so I don’t have a distro preference yet but I’m currently using Fedora KDE spin. It’s pretty nice.

Arch is great, but it needs longer explanations considering the user needs to do a lot more. Sometimes you find them, but other times you find a snarky superuser with zero people skills.

It’s a shame they aren’t government standard, so I could take a local course to become a snarky superuser too.

Most of it involves everyday Linux usages, but some of it is specific to Arch and it breaks so hard. It’s not a great thing when you’re stupid busy and don’t have the headroom to get to the bottom of it. Sometimes all you get is vague theories on how a fix might occur. After that you’re playing shell games trying to debug your problems.

Definitely recommend for pro-Linux people that have a breakable laptop that can go on the backburner.

I still have yet to see someone mention Hanna Montana Linux.

Use whatever distro you feel comfortable with. That being said, there are definitely good ones and bad ones. I use Arch btw. That’s the beauty of Linux tho. You can try a distro and if you dont like it you can literally install a new distro over the old one by blowing away everything but the /home partition. Did I mention yet I use Arch? I use Arch btw. The package managers are such a great tool to get a system up and running in a short time, but you can always compile everything from scratch if you want. You can config your programs with the default settings and let the OS do it for you, or you can micromanage every single config option and take a little more time to personalize your machine. I’ve told you I use Arch? I use Arch btw.

Yeah, Linux is great! And in case you were wondering I use a distro called Arch Linux.

Have been having great luck with the move to Linux, Garuda on my main desktop pc and fedora bazzite on my laptop.

While we are starting fights with our opinions, I absolutely love KDE plasma.

Moving to Linux has made me so happy. I feel like a computer owner / user again. It’s not always perfect but nothing has stopped me dead in the water and my issues have resolved in a few minutes of tinkering.

I haven’t used many, but after fucking with Ubuntu, Pop OS and Mint I switched to base Debian 12 and it’s the cleanest my desktop PC experience has ever been. My computer doesn’t do anything I’m not expecting it to, it doesn’t have any bloatware, every program I’ve installed has worked clean out of the box exactly as advertised (except for the occasional Proton/Wine wrangling which is universal).

Nix-Darwin , DayWalker of Distros, all of the strengths, none of the weaknesses

Tumbleweed. I’ve used Linux since the nineties so I know my way around but I appreciate a sane default desktop install so I don’t have to waste time fiddling too much.

People always talk about lean/fast/customizing, in reality most distros are performant and fairly lean/bloat free, it’s just how Linux is. TW is no exception and like all the others it’s easy to customize. I don’t use YAST.

I can get comfortable almost any distro, though I prefer those with systemD+Wayland and Nvidia drivers in a repo so they update with the rest. I like rolling release, also considering the pace of Wayland and KDE development.

For new users I always recommend Mint.

Manjaro, it’s like a pre-configured Arch.

Arch because the packages are recent. Arch has no shiny innovation and even the performance is not that fast, but I always find a way to make everything working. It is the only distro like that for me.