Original question by @atmorous@lemmy.world
What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?
I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS
I’ve always liked Fedora or its various derivatives like Bazzite. They seem to have defaults that make sense, and fairly up to date software.
I also find
dnfon Fedora to be a bit nicer and more streamlined compared toapt, and I’ve heard it’s significantly easier to package software fordnfas well.Debian exists. Ubuntu wants to go Pro. Mint is squished in the middle. Fedora is doing mad science, and OpenSuSE is in full “We have Fedora at home” mode. Arch arches, and Bazzite is in an existential crisis over the coming x86 32-bit apocalypse. Also Nix is nixing, I guess. All the inbetweeners are trying desperately to be relevant and up to date.
We’re simultaneously in a place where there are more options than ever, and yet it’s become increasingly clear there are really only 4-5 options.
I would have loved to see elementaryOS as a viable option, but the whole “reformat to install new release” hurdle is a mega huge downside.
Out of the box?
Fedora Workstation for my VM desktops. For servers usually Ubuntu just because it just works, but for running containers on systems with limited resources? Alphine.
In my experience Ubuntu LTS seems to do the best at checking whatever bullshit checkboxes the know-nothing corporate cybersecurity auditmonkeys care about.
Still using a mix of Debian and Ubuntu.
I tried openSUSE but didn’t like it compared to Ubuntu desktop.
Doing the best for which use-case? The answers will be fundamentally different depending on the situation
It’s an open ended question, just speak from your perspective/use case/problems and solutions
I wanna give a shoutout to Manjaro, an arch based distro with a cascading testing cycle for better stability. That being said, I am using Arch and Manjaro for about a decade now and never really had any stability issues (in contrast to my tries with Ubuntu). The arch wiki stays one of the absolute best resources for Linux users on the internet, the rolling release ensures cutting edge Software, the AUR makes it very easy to provide community built packages. And then there’s Debian. Definitely my choice for servers.
