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DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025 (distrowatch.com)

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Just a simple run down of DistroWatch's best distros of the year.

Currently using Linux Mint Mate and I gotta agree with them that it's pretty fucking great. Whats everyone's favorite distro of 2025?

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

How can you say a distribution is the best? There are lot of use cases where many distributions are optimized for. They are just not an allrounder general one like "Ubuntu" in example. There should be some categories, at least some popular categories like "Gaming" that is separate from "General Purpose" or "Server".

I'm surprised Bazzite was not mentioned. I'm glad EndeavourOS was mentioned.