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.

  • Katzenmann@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    26 minutes 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

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 hours 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.

  • mal3oon@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 hours ago

    Why is debian S tier, and Arch A tier? They both use systemd. For me I would switch Artix and Arch tbh. I had lots of issues with the artix repo because of hidden systemd dependencies. Void, probably was the smoothest experience I ever had. Shout out to Luke Smith back in the days who had great rice for void.

  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    15 hours 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·
      12 hours 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.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
    31·
    9 hours ago

    Void for low power desktop/laptop

    Fedora for regular desktop/laptop

    Ubuntu server for servers

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    5·
    13 hours 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.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      14·
      15 hours 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
            31·
            1 hour 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.