For beginners, and rolling distribution. A beginner should start with something that doesn’t break while you don’t understand if it’s your or the shiny new program that broke the system. But then, I have been using Debian for more that 20 years. For me it’s a tool, not a game.

Ubuntu because of forced Snaps

SUSE because of Yast and the (german) company’s rumored? stance on antisemitism (google banned Jewish holidays)

Fedora for it’s update mechanism with the forced reboot

Arch as the necessary evil

Gentoo.

Ain’t nobody got time for dat!

Ubuntu brings a ton of awkward and shit memories from the course we had on it in secondary school.

Admittedly, Linux Mint is the only distro I have used in a personal capacity.

Well, Ubuntu. I’ve been skeptical of it from the beginning, but I did use it on and off in the 00’s. Canonical has since gone out of their way to make sure I won’t install their shit on my computers.

Recent developments have also somewhat soured me on Fedora.

Anything that includes more software than necessary for the system I want. If I need Steam, I’m gonna install it myself.

That’s why I don’t run one of those many downstream distros that mainly change appearances or improve little things like GUI driver managers etc. For some people that’s the reason to use those distros, I might just to look how they achieve the particular feature (e.g. skin, config).

But in general there aren’t really distros I don’t like, but many which I prefer. Debian, Fedora, Arch, NixOS are all great, especially the more community run distros.

Ubuntu. I can’t stand the way Canonical always decides they know better than everyone else so they reinvent the wheel, only to abandon it two years later. Diversity is good but the history of Ubuntu is littered with garbage that was forced on users and then abandoned.

Slackware. Like I respect the fuck out of it, but every time I’ve used it I’ve borked it in fun and interesting ways.

Ubuntu because they put ads in the terminal

The only one that really pissed me off was a distro called biglinux. It’s arch based and very popular in Brazil. It’s actually very stable. Everything works great. It’s got some nice features.

Butttt, it uses latte dock or panel (kde). They have built in presets for how to arrange the panels and what not. It’s nice, however, I was trying to move some panels around from the base options and broke kde. I wasn’t doing anything more than changing GUI settings and the whole desktop broke. I seriously don’t understand.

Well, scrolling through every comment, it looks like very few people hate Fedora. I’ve always been using Debian and Debian based distros but recently moved to Fedora, and I’m not surprised people like it.

I’m noy going to say I dislike it, but I don’t see the point in a source based distro like Gentoo anymore.

I learned a lot from using Gentoo when I was just getting into Linux 20 years ago, but now looking back on it, why would I want to juggle with everyones build systems and compiler flags? Especially now hardware is so homogenous.

@vettnerk All linux Distros should take example from TROMJARO.

Anything other than Debian or RedHat/CentOS/Fedora. Why? Every other distro bring nothing to the table. For a desktop Debian+flatpak will get you the latest apps and for servers Debian will be stable as a Linux can be. RedHat has its particular use cases.

RebeccaBlackOS

Because I can only use it on Friday Friday!