I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.
Its… Debian. 😆
Are there even other (good) distros that aren’t based on debian, fedora, or arch?
Considering pretty much all of the best distros are based on those three, probably the best you’ll get is trying BSD. I can’t think of a single distro not based on one.of the three that is still maintained.
NixOS
Favorite? No. Most acceptable: NixOS.
The worst documentation of a linux distro I have ever encountered, but the declarative model has convinced me I don’t want something else. Now I’m just waiting for other distros to pop up that are declarative as well. (Guix? No thanks, I’m not a fan of endless parentheses)
elementary!
Alpine was the most interesting for me. It goes against the tendency of complicating the systems. I have to use Arch because everything can work on that distro.
I’ve become a fan of KDE Neon. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS but with the the most up-to-date KDE release.
On the laptop I got less than a week ago for college, I’ve been having fun using Mx with KDE. It’s been pretty good so far on my galaxy book.
Kubuntu
Custom North Korean linux. Preinstalled missile tracking software.
NSA would like to know your location. Enable?
You would think Pyongyang but really chilling on a rocking chair in McMullen, Alabama. Population: 10.
Solus as the Almighty Todd says “it just works” And that comes from someone which always has at least one problem, that problem being gaming.
It aint solved mind you but it works marginable better on it.
Example, anno 1404, no matter what distro or silly protondb config, or if I use a new steam profile or fresh distro , works.1 out of 10 times.
But Solus, it just works, no hoop jumping needed
I get that there are a lot of novel are cool distros out there, but I just stick with Debian (or one of the other well known distros that have been around for decades).
I do it because from a security standpoint, they have my trust. Maybe in 10-20 years with a good reputation and history, but it’s not there.
NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros’
Yes, that package manager will surely be the best one and not just be another one in the zoo.
The whole system is built using it, so every time your system will be the same when building from the same configuration. Even if you such to another computer, you will download locked versions of all packages and get the exact same system
In Ubuntu installing and removing a package doesn’t even guarantee it’s cleaned up
Toaster Linux or Nobara.
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My reason against using Guix is software availability. NixOS repos are just larger, and I like that on NixOS unfree software can be enabled with a single line.
with nonguix the lines are like five instead of one, but yes there are less packages than nix. the real selling point imho is how everything is human-sized and consistent
:Nervously raised hand: SteamOS 3.5…?
Nobara is superb for gaming.
Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.
