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.
Here's mine:
CachyOS in S, based.
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.
Well, I began in 2019, but I distrohopped a lot.
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)
So, why would you pick RedHat over Rocky or Alma?
Or Ubuntu over Debian?
Genuinely curious, not judging
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.
The only list I get behind. It is missing NixOS for S tier, but otherwise very logical.
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.
Yep. I found that when I used GuixSD too. Never yet mustered the time and effort for NixOS. Much the same deal though, just with less transferable skills learned. And yeah, contrary to the advertised hype of safety in fallback, I found it too easy to break. I say easy... It was still a lot of hard work involved though.
GuixSD wasn't an option on Tiermaker, but I have used it. I personally found it hardier than NixOS, but the libre-only package selection was quite restrictive and the lack of the non-free
iwlwifidriver prevented me from installing it on any of my boxes other than my 2007 MacBook. I know this is the point, but it's still annoying.Like 9front and Haiku, I hope to daily-drive it someday; but at the moment it is sadly quite unsuitable for my hardware, workflow, and use-case.
Gentoo in the top tier, checks out
Why try so many distros? It's not like most of them are gonna be substantially different.
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.
Idk, autism?
its like racecars
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.
Gentoo is good only if you got a powerful computer.
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 β like make some tea, go for a walk, or watch TV β instead of staring at the terminal the whole time (I am 100% serious; this is not sarcasm).
Official binhost exists now.
I used gentoo on not-powerful-computer, because it was not a powerful computer. Did not care about the compile times. Cared about the performance when I was using it. Even did a ```USE="-*" setup once or twice, to keep it even more lean on resources, and more focused to meet needs and no more unecessary fluff and bloat than that.
Need to add Qubes os as S+ tier
Aw. Why's PCLinuxOS on the devil tier?
I always think PCLinuxOS deserves more respect. ... But not like that! ;D
For me, it's the combination of its American base, its lack of disk encryption in the installer, the fact that I've never managed to get a usable installation, and the fact that Mageia (another Mandriva derivative) and Salix (a Slackware-based distro with a similar UX) are objectively better.
If you are happy with PCLOS, however, godspeed.