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    My Linux distro tierlist (pawb.social)
    submitted 1 day ago by callyral@pawb.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    [–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    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 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 points 4 hours ago

    Thanks for that. I've permanent donkey-brains and overlooked that entirely.

    [–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    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)

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 1 points 55 minutes 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.

    [–] jim3692@discuss.online 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

    How dare you rank Debian at....oh. I see what you did there. Nice.

    [–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    ~~In all honesty i don't get it the E for endravourOS on my old ass laptop everything works just fine, even the nvidia card~~

    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Wait, where's Gentoo?

    [–] orenj 8 points 20 hours ago

    the dark and forbidden G tier

    [–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

    I was getting really mad, the I realized what you did there.

    [–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Here is mine:

    Mint

    Haven't really tried anything else or it was 10+ years ago.

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Haha! You beat me to it! Great ranking. I 100% agree with where you've places each/it.

    [–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I use fedora workstation but it’s so boring because it just does what I need and I never have any problems πŸ₯²

    I might give Debian a spin at some point

    [–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I wish it wasn't built on Wayland.

    [–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    What’s wrong with Wayland? Havnt noticed any problems

    [–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

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    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

    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 points 8 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.

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    [–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    no hannah montana linux??

    [–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

    That's at least two tiers above S, obviously

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    [–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I enjoy linux mint a lot

    [–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

    I put LM on my n100 HTPC and hasn't done a thing more besides updates. It just works...

    [–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Only Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian. Linux Mint (main) is built on Ubuntu.

    [–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu is a Debian distro too. Either way mint is a Debian distro.

    [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 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.

    [–] bootleg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

    Artix really needs an archinstall like script though. Setting it up more than once is really tiring.

    [–] Katzenmann@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

    I mean, NixOS has lots of weird "defaults" in that sense, too. πŸ™ƒ

    [–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

    Void, Debian and Artix being in S tier is just based.

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