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.

  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    7 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

    • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      7 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.

    • drcobaltjedi
      17·
      7 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

        • drcobaltjedi
          72·
          7 days ago

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

          • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
            51·
            6 days 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.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    Huh? … Why’s that a Debian swirl and not a Devuan ping/swoosh thing on that top row with void and artix?

    And go on, throw gentoo up there too while you’re at it. ;)

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      …

      Then that’s the standard 4 I first put in my bedrock linux.

      Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Void.

      Solid.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 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.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yep. Void’s been surprising me for over a decade, since it was still “new”, at how well kitted out it is, and what a joy of simplicity and cleanliness it is. Rarely any hunting down the superfluous complexity of a package’s name-extra-words-after-the-program-name. A real joy. Very few complaints. Big love for VoidLinux.

      PS, Runit is niiiiice. :)

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    I switched from Arch to Fedora recently and so far I like it. Faster than any distro I’ve ever run on this laptop.

  • radiouser@crazypeople.online
    3·
    6 days 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
      3·
      6 days 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.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    I wish I was competent enough to install and maintain void 🥲

    Maybe someday

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        What does the install script set up for you? I’d be trying to install gnome and get audio working. Last time I tried I got networking set up even though the ncurses installer couldn’t handle setting it up for me, and I got gnome installed, but wasn’t able to get audio working when I gave up and installed fedora cause I wanted a working computer (I broke my old laptop and was learning on the replacement, so I kinda just wanted it up and running)

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

        • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss

          NixOS also doesn’t show what packages were updated after an update, and doesn’t show which version they changed to, which is slightly annoying.

          • Paulemeister@feddit.org
            3·
            6 days ago

            I can recommend nh. Its a wrapper around the nix* commands and includes nh search, giving you a list of packages (not sure about nixos module options, I think not). It also uses nix-output-monitor giving you a nice dependency graph when building (plus downloads etc) as well as a diff between the current and new generation, with version changes, added, removed etc.

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

              It would have been nice to know about that, I already heard about it before but only after I’d switched to Void anyway. Maybe one day if I try NixOS again I will use it.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I enjoy this comment. I don’t even know, if I’d rank NixOS as S-tier in general, but because I can handle it, yeah, don’t really have a reason to bother with other distros…

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    6 days 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·
      5 days 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.

      • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        That’s fair enough. I can’t say I’ve used Mint very much, I’ve just known it as something to suggest to newbies. My brother revived his 2009 Macbook Pro with it, but it’s so old he mostly uses it for character sheets during Pathfinder night.