CentOS. We were stuck on an old version at work. The OS is already designed to use old packages for security/stability, so imagine how outdated they are on an old version. It was a nightmare getting new software running on it. That coupled with the other news surrounding CentOS and RHEL, I’m not touching those anymore w a 10 foot pole. I wish it just crumbles and Debian takes over. I have had amazing success with like 20 years on Debian and it just gets better and better.
Not sure you can really blame an OS that is out of support and that you should have upgraded to the new version years prior. I used CentOS in an enterprise environment for close to 10 years and really had no problems, except when we tried to shoehorn new software onto old versions it had no business being on instead of just upgrading.
I remember the upgrade from CentOS 6 to 7. It changed a bunch of stuff including making systemd the default init system. I’m assuming your company just wanted to avoid doing that work? But at the same time most other distros were switching to systemd so you would have had to do that work regardless.
No longer using Ubuntu at all because they force snaps down your throat. While I do like snaps on the server environment, (I think a lot of the haters out there don’t see how nice they are on servers), I prefer to use Debian and then to just install snapd on my terms.
My Linux from Scratch install. It was built by a moron.
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.
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
Manjaro feels like a bit of a mess to me and always ends up with problems.
Ubuntu releases too many buggy updates and dumps their idiosyncratic tastes in software on everyone whether people like it or not.
Arch and any arch based distro. It’s overused, deb is better and the absolute chads will always be distros like NixOS or Guix System. There is no use for an unstable, beginner-unfriendly, distro where you constantly encounter dependency hell.
Of course I’m just being edgy, every Linux Distro is good for the sole fact of it not being Windows.
OpenSUSE, mostly because they differ too much from other distros, often even without any (obvious) advantages.
For example a lot of file paths (config files and such) are different, and when being used to other distros (or just following a guide from the internet) it takes longer to find it (I know there is Yast but I’m not a huge fan of that tool either)
Also, Manjaro
My only real gripe is their default sudoers config.
which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?
The one with the most elitist gatekeeping users.
Red Star OS, a little too much spyware.
I was using Manjaro until the day my install started giving me problems.with dependencies and duplicated packages (?), so I went with Fedora and it’s been smooth so far.
Manjaro, for its incompetence.
I don’t hate Gentoo, but will never use it. I hate compiling.
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.
Ubuntu. Snaps are a buggy mess. I know you can remove them but I like sane defaults. Snap drives me insane. Mint, PopOS, Debian are better choices for a stable distro.
edit: I also don’t like Fedora and CentOS. The installers tend to be very buggy for me.
When I learned that snap has a hardcoded requirement for a
snapdirectory polluting your home directory, and that the devs answer is basically to shrug their shoulders, that was enough to turn me into an anti-snap zealot.
Manjaro. Team is really sketch.
