The 11 Best Linux Distributions

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• Debian looks almost ideal for me, but I tend to prefer newer packages and DE releases while Debian usually prioritizes stability. Is the best solution a different distro, or is just changing the sources sufficient? Heard one can easily change to their testing branch from a terminal, but no idea if that's notably less stable than OpenSuse Tumbleweed or anything else that uses newer packages

• Before I even watch this, I already know for some reason you decided to light the Internet ablaze with this video.

• Different strokes for different folks. I'm happy with Fedora, it's been my daily driver for 4 years or so. No stability issues, makes me happy to use it, everything seems new and it just works.

  I have a Tumbleweed install that I boot into on weekends for the fun of it, and I'm really impressed.

  I also have a Debian 12 install that I really don't like but I keep around because I want to keep my toes in the Debian water. Frankly it's only 6 months from release and I'm already running into issues with software not building because of outdated dependencies. That and the old Gnome kinda grates on me after being in Fedora all day.

  I had a Mint Cinnamon install around also and was impressed. That would definitely be my recommendation for anyone new, or for an install for my parents to use.

• Yep. Debian is what i use

• openSUSE Tumbleweed is rock solid. However the installer could be a little bit confusing for a beginner.

• But what about RHEL?

  lmfao just kidding – have you seen the leaked documents James O'Keefe just got his hands on? Some of the most racist Wooooo buddy.

  I daily drive Gentoo for everything but gaming and Adobe apps 👀

• I don't think it's funny at all to "jokingly" recommend something like Gentoo to a completely new-to-Linux user. If you want people to switch permanently to Linux and not just crawl back to Windows, """jokes""" like fork bombs and sudo rm -rf * and 'install Gentoo' are not the way to do it.

• Redhat is almost ubiquitous still in enterprise but even with open shift, they seem to be fading. Im not sure theyll do anything but decline with all the containerization stuff becoming more popular and evolving.

• I just dont understand linux , i have tried kali Linux in Vm in as a curiosity , moved to cinnamon mint , then mate , kubuntu , than solus os , then manjaro xfce , the only reason i was moving out is that with every update the system somehow find a way to break , printer wont work , wifi wont work , system dont boot , get slow for no reason , the software provided doesnt have the right tools . I spend 90 % fixing the system instead of actually working or studying , on windows the only problem is viruses and random slowness that is it ! Everything works .
  Edit : also gaming !! You dont have to install 3 programs to just game with reduced performance its just a hinder

• Lmde 6 is rokc❤❤

• My favorites, just for me personally.

  1) NixOS has been my main distro for the past 5-6 months. It's far from perfect (in fact its flaws have come into sharper focus as I've spent more time with it), but overall it offers so much to fix the problems people typically have with linux, and I can't imagine leaving it.

  2) Mint is the reason I'm using cinnamon on NixOS. It's mostly Ubuntu, which is helpful for interfacing with my research collaborators but it offers a really pleasant user experience. I have Mint (with nix home-manager, allowing me to keep a lot of my nix goodies) on one of my work machines.

  3) PopOS is another pleasant user experience, along with unusually good hardware support. I have a PopOS dual-boot on a personal laptop because it really helped with the machine's battery life.

  4) I dunno. I tried out Void Linux and liked it, but I couldn't find any reason to keep using it. Tumbleweed sounds cool (I haven't tried it), but I heard the updates take a long time. I like the idea of immutable distros, and I had a fun time messing around with Fedora Silverblue, making a cinnamon build with the universal blue community, but once I got into NixOS, I never looked back. I want to try Guix sometime because I have a background in lisp, but it mostly seems like a less-developed version of NixOS with a community that's militantly against proprietary software. I have no interest in trying Arch, as I don't see what it could offer me.

• RHEL (pronounced R-HELL) is demon spawn of a devil of a company. IBM and Redhat are simply evil. If anyone doesn't already know this from the last few years of experience, just look at what OMG showed the world about their vile discrimination practices. Devils.

• Yesterday I wiped my windows 10 and installed linux mint. Best distro so far

• For me: 1. Kubuntu 2. Ubuntu 3. Mint 4. Debian for desktops and 1. Debian 2. Ubuntu for servers.

• Debian always feels like home, BUT, as a German, it's OpenSUSE that has a special place in my nerdy heart. ❤🦎

• Catching. up on your vids.
  I started following you in the 2016 timeframe. One of the first vids you said pick one and make it your own. At the time I was distro hopping for the sake of distro hopping. Picked one, modified it for my own liking and needs and still there. and using and modifying as needed. Distro hopping is fine for those who like it (free country) or use to make income content. Just not for me.
  Having said — THANKS! Good vid. I look forward to the next iteration.

• I've actually daily driven Gentoo and didn't mind it at all. Wouldn't probably pick it for work, but its really not that bad.

• I found MX 21 to be Meh, but MX 23 is my new favorite, just seems to have everything I want, looks good and easy to run .

• I love how the list says "for power users" and he gets to Gentoo, and is like "wow, I think someone is trolling newbies" like did you even read the article you are going over? Did you pay attention? It's not for newbies, it clearly says that right in the title

• Still waiting for Chris to try void.

• Left Ubuntu for Mint. It seem to me Ubuntu is getting bloated and sluggish, and not a fan of Snaps. LMDE5 became my daily driver. Currently using LMDE6 on my second laptop. Very happy with both.

• I do like the fact that there is wholle lot of linux distros but i still feel most comftable on debian. I know debian updates aren't as fast as most would want but for me it wokrs great and i am oldcshool in many things. I played around with Debian and it's not as complex as you'd think and you Chris know it better than most.

• 11:40 I'm using the 6.6.7 Linux Kernel, although I use the Zen Kernel.

• I use Garuda Gnome plus the BlackArch repos… I'll get my coat 😉

• If you are not a strong person, gentoo is not for you.. 🙂

• I did some sysadmin work and a lot of daily driving on RHEL servers and desktops. It's okay. I didn't have problems with how it's set up, but vs something like (open)SUSE, it's just lacking a lot of tooling that makes things comfortable.

• I have used several distros from first starting to use Linux back in 2012. Ubuntu was first, then Mint, MXLinux, Manjaro, back to Ubuntu and also Zorin. For new comers, I would recommend Zorin. There are a lot of things like getting a printer set up that are automatic with Zorin and not with Ubuntu. At least, not in my experience. However, one uses a particular distro to better fit their needs, not to be popular. I am dual booting Zorin on an external drive with Windows. Have Ubuntu running on a VM on another computer with Windows 11. I like Manjaro and Garuda, but right now they are too much for the external drive combo I have with the old computer I am dual booting from. I am getting my husband in to Linux and the Ubuntu layout he does not like so we will be installing Zorin. The good thing is for him to get familiar the concept of Linux and then pick the distro he is most comfortable with that is better for his needs. Thank you for all the informative videos you do.

• Prioritizing availability of software, good tiling, consistency in UX, and confidence it will not break:

  1. PopOS – all the software I need, great tiling, and consistent experience. Some out of date packages I need to build from source like Neovim. Cosmic DE is super exciting.

  2. Arch with AwesomeWM/Polybar/Rofi – up to date software is great but the AUR is needed to meet all software needs. Loses on consistency of experience as it takes quite a bit of configuration to get most app visual styles to match. If I could get everything without AUR, it would probably be my #1 choice.

  3. Debian with KDE Plasma – very customizable and useable tiling scripts. Not sure when the tiling scripts will break as these sometimes don’t survive big updates.

  4. Fedora with PopOS shell installed was an option to get more up to date software and good tiling, but I ended up preferring just PopOS so used this setup the least.

• All the "professional pentesters" I've ever had to deal with don't even run Linux, they just run web based script kiddie tools. They are some of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with. Pretty sure they are just in a sweatshop somewhere following a script.

  For example, the last pen test report that i got at work complained that there was no sha256 digest on a "from scratch" line in a dockerfile, or any of the "from earlier stage" lines.

• Still using Thorium?

• Currently running Debian 12 (KDE Plasma) on my 2013 desktop PC (Asus X79-Deluxe, Xeon E5-2667 v2, Nvidia 1080 Ti) and on a 2019 laptop (Core i7-9750H, Nvidia RTX 2070), and Linux Mint Debian Edition (Cinnamon) on a 2011 Asus Eee PC 1215B netbook (AMD E-450 APU, Radeon HD 6310).

• Kali is for Anonymous-wannabes… is like people buying a factory tuned-up car, just to brag about having a tuned car.

• I can't speak much for Fedora, but Nobara I think is pretty great. It isn't too disconnected from Fedora, but does take over in terms of repos and such quite a bit. It's kind of akin to how Garuda is to Arch. It's also made by gloriouseggroll and is in my opinion probably one of if not the best distro for gaming out of the box. Especially if you are an Nvidia user!

• Plasma Manjaro or Mint

• Gentoo constantly compiling.

• Debian isn't as stable as many make it out to be, I upgraded my mothers debian install from one release to the next and it broke the system, the upgrade completed but it rebooted into a broken system, couldn't find sysroot I think was the problem, so I replaced it with nixos, now I don't have to worry about an update breaking anything, because nixos is basically unbreakable.

• Youve got gentoo all wrong

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