Can I get your opinion?

Part of me wants to main Gentoo just to neutralise any arch smug I come across.

But then I remember I don't really want a 2nd job

Warning: Hot take

Who you are and what your needs are will affect which distro is best for you.

The best way to trigger an Arch user is to use Ubuntu and love it.

I would really like to thank the Arch community for maintaining such a wonderful wiki; it's great that your nuts-and-bolts approach naturally generates the best documentation. That said, Debian will always be my distro of choice.

controversial opinion: distro/software wars are good, because they make people discuss about their software, which motivates the developers. you don't see windows software wars, because they can't choose their de

arch, debian and mint all belong in 1st place

My top five Linux distros:

Debian: It may not be exciting but its rock stability is what makes it good for the vast majority of people (aka what I would genuenly reccomend to people)
Alpine: Not the easiest or most stable but very lightweight
OpenSuse: Stable yet up to date, very good defaults and themeing is amazing (especially on Sway)
Arch: Ignoring the community or documentation you get a distro with up to date packages and not much else to seperate it
NixOS: Way too advanced for me but I love the way it works, seems amazing for a select type of people

Of course my opinion is objectively correct and if you disagree im going to burn your house down with combustible lemons (made by my team of scientists ofc) /s

The desktop environment and package manager has a greater effect on your user experience than the distro

I used to use Ubuntu and Mint now I use SteamOS.

Arrays start at 0, which leaves plenty of room for SCO Linux powered by UnitedLinux

Wait, I think there was an underflow error...

I needed to quickly get something up and running on a laptop so that I could take it in the field. I thought about reinstalling arch for a minute but decided to go with Ubuntu. And you know what? It was good enough. The install was easy peasy, and everything just worked right out of the box. If I was setting up a long term machine I'd probably go with arch, but just to get some shit done on a timeline? Yeah, turned out Ubuntu was good enough.

Well, the Tuxies said it was NixOS...

"Linux heals the heart, no matter the distro"

Someone.

College-aged me would have loved Arch. Maybe retirement me will have to play with it for fun in the vaults.

Present-day me however, in middle age with a growing family and a full time job already working on Linux-based software all day, is a total slut for Linux Mint.

It installs and gets running easier and faster than Windows, and is based on widely used and tested stuff from Ubuntu and Debian. It’s not the “learn how operating systems work” distro for sure, but there is a lot of practical use in the world for the “plug the installer drive into your busted old Windows 10 machine and in 15 minutes have a responsive useful Linux PC where your parents can find the Internet browser” distro!

I am very interested to see if SteamOS makes a big push into desktops, though. A whole lot more of the desktop Linux world could become Arch based.

Why is everybody so shy about liking Fedora? You don't have to name lesser distro's first to make them feel good, you can just outright say Fedora is the best....

Joking. Whatever floats your boat is fine.

-1. WSL.

Recently started using openSUSE Tumbleweed after 15 years of on and off Linux experimentation. I think I’ve finally found the distro to make me stay. :)

They had to invent a package manager for repackaged debs and GitHub repos. Very elite

arch, rhel, opensuse/fedora

@wzl my top distros are arch & gentoo, i use arch for desktop and gentoo for my server

i've a gentoo install for a raspberry when raspbian (now raspberry os) didn't have support for aarch64 binaries in their repos, but beside that it is fun to customize your install using portage

I’ve used Arch for years now but I recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed to a friend recently

I have a computer using Windows because it needed a windows store app and the drm on those thwarted my attempts on Linux

I've got a feeling that I leave arch, just to come back to it... Almost a year without Arch.

Shirt colours are, or need to be, swapped. Blue guy's shirt is more like the Arch logo's colour and green guy is signalling Mint or maybe SUSE.

I guess this means this is the perfect time to say: I use LMDE, btw.

first place is tied with arch and debian, second might include RHEL.

everything else is non deterministic.