I labeled some of the lesser known logos. The criteria are arbitrary and I made this based on how much I liked using it.

Note that Fedora Sway Atomic isn’t bad, but I had a bad experience because I was trying to install NIri on it and it clearly wasn’t meant for that. Basically, it’s just not for me.

I wanted to rank Manjaro low because I heard bad things about it, but I think I used it for like a few minutes because I wanted to try Gnome, and I didn’t like Gnome after trying it and didn’t want to deal with uninstalling all the Gnome stuff manually, so I just hopped to another distro.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Uhhh, I, uhhh

    I use Arch by the way :3

    Sorry I couldn’t help it. Technically I started this install as Antegos, but since that project ended I used some voodoo to convince my OS that it’s Arch now with moderate succes.

    Oh I do dislike Manjaro. I tried it a few times on some PCs and every time it ended in a dumpster fire. Can’t remember exactly what it was, but it has something to do with pitting me pick the kernel but also completely going to shit if I didn’t pick the right one at the right moment. Constant errors, pain and suffering. When I switched that machine to Fedora it was suddenly happily purring like a kitten without any issues.

  • radiouser@crazypeople.online
    2·
    14 hours ago

    Why is OpenSUSE at the bottom? I’d heard good things about it. EndeavourOS is my current OS but I’m always looking for a new distro.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.org
      2·
      11 hours ago

      It’s in the “Unranked” tier because OP hasn’t used it enough to have an opinion.

      When I used it decades ago, I was a kid. It seemed pleasant enough for me back then. On one hand, I’d say “works for children” is an endorsement. On the other, child-me never tried any of the advanced stuff I’d care about today.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    I love nixos for my homelab! Out of curiosity, why C tier for KDE Neon? (My desktop and laptop both daily drive them, and I’ve loved it since abandoning Ubuntu post-Unity)

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Honestly I didn’t use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn’t like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint’s apps.

  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    I use fedora workstation but it’s so boring because it just does what I need and I never have any problems 🥲

    I might give Debian a spin at some point

        • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          14 hours ago

          I use Anydesk for work and Rustdesk for personal and the lag is so bad. Also added the hot keys and super button doesn’t transfer to the remote computer.

    • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Debian + nix home-manager is hard to beat. Confining my bleeding edge software to be rootlesson top of a bulletproof distro is very much the same – boring (in the best way). Plus the latest apt in debian 13 just feels nicer than dnf to me somehow.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    452·
    2 days ago

    Here’s mine:

    • Note 1: This tierlist only includes distros I’ve tried.
    • Note 2: Slackware would rank higher now; I made this about month ago.
    • Note 3: The “noob” tier doesn’t mean the distro is bad. If it weren’t there, Mint would rank higher.
    • 1stQ@feddit.org
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Noob here.

      I tried CachyOS because read good things about it. But wifi only worked during installation. After installation it was a hassle to get WiFi running again.

      So Zorin it is for me. Simply runs.

    • Albbi@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Damn, you’ve tried a lot of different distros. I’ve been using Linux for 15 years but only been on like 8 different ones. Installed personally about 5.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Why try so many distros? It’s not like most of them are gonna be substantially different.

      • juipeltje@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        You never know, the grass might be greener elsewhere. I will say though, to me that only applies to independent distros. At this point i only bother trying distros that are actually different at their core. Arch- or debian-based distros are all kind of the same to me.

      • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I want to like NixOS. I love the idea of declarative system configuration, but I always found NixOS quite easy to break. It also didn’t seem to like Eduroam much.

      • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I used to run it on my Raspberry Pi 5 without complaint.

        Some stuff did take a while to compile, but the trick is to do other things — like make some tea, go for a walk, or watch TV — instead of staring at the terminal the whole time (I am 100% serious; this is not sarcasm).

    • phorq@lemmy.ml
      51·
      2 days ago

      Redhat and Ubuntu are controversial for me. Don’t want them for desktop, but for any professional server I would choose them over any of the others (and preferably alpine for any docker containers running on them)

      • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        So, why would you pick RedHat over Rocky or Alma?

        Or Ubuntu over Debian?

        Genuinely curious, not judging

        • phorq@lemmy.ml
          7·
          2 days ago

          It’s way easier to explain to customers “these companies have enterprise commitments and long term support available if needed”, I realize that they all essentially run the same stuff but frankly I can’t guarantee I’m always gonna be the one supporting them and it is an added safety net for when they decide not to upgrade for an eternity. Not to mention just about every VPS provider has at least one of those two options available out of the box, they’re frankly the safe boring choices.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      17·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been recommending it as the beginner’s distro for years. Default DE is very windows familiar, install is easy, out of box experience is great, built on Debian so it’s stable as fuck. There’s nothing really wrong with it unless you need newer drivers or something

          • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
            51·
            1 day ago

            There’s the Linux Mint main distro build off Ubuntu and a separate Linux Mint Debian distro build directly from Deb.

            Specificity is useful, especially in the context that you said “Mint is built on Debian so it’s stable as fuck” - well actually, not directly. It’s built on Ubuntu, which a lot of people complain has a more bloat and thus less stability than Debian.

            Personally I’ve not had issues with any of the three, they’re all good, but there are differences. Mint includes a number of packages that Debian does not (PPAs, Snap, Wayland infegration), because it’s inherited them all from Ubuntu. Mint is 64-bit whereas Debian supports 32/64 and other architectures, because again… Mint (standard) is based on Ubuntu, which is 64-bit only.

  • Katzenmann@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Very nice. I would rank down debian because it has weird defaults like not having /sbin in the user PATH but other than that I agree

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I mean, NixOS has lots of weird “defaults” in that sense, too. 🙃

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Void and NixOS in S tier is based, my two favorite distros. Because of me using void though i kinda miss using Runit when i want to use a declaritive system like nix. I’m working on a gnu guix config in a vm now to see if i can use that as an alternative instead. It’s not runit per se, but who knows, maybe i’ll still like shepherd better than systemd.