The Linux Tier List

50 thoughts on “The Linux Tier List”

• im only planning to install lunix but i think im not ready yet. also since i got none to guide me. like half of the stuff happening in this video just suprised me. like 4 of the distros i heard the most about are in devil tier for example.
  i currently keep diging trough linux videos and stuff like this is rly interesting and fun to watch

• Thank you for explaining.

• Manjaro is really not that bad … I like Arch but I am too lazy 😅😅

• I don't disagree with most of this list… However, you did Pop and System76 a little dirty 😀 It is great for new users. The Nvidia support alone is huge.

• Can you do a speedtest on which Linux distro boots fastest, the end point being that it launches a browser to a page and instance of LibreOffice calc

• Arch ❤

• I watched the entire video just just to find out about nobara

• Isn't like almost every distribution kind of pointless? A couple of them are different enough to make me install them, but most of the changes are around the look and feel.

• Thank you for this listing & your episode on NALA. Tried Mint, Lubuntu & Elementary several years ago. Wanted a lean fast system so I went with the latest Peppermint based on Debian 12 for a very slim install and selected only the apps I wanted. Working nicely so far. Only issue was Aorus motherboard & Windows 11 would not create a readable USB installer after hours of attempts. In Windows made a DVD in 15 minutes that booted immediately.

• Best s tier: debian

  Best for beginners: debian

  Best lightweight: debian

• Forks are good, otherwise you get 1-3 distributions that at some point merge together and then we have a new microsoft or apple. The more forks the better!

• I'm gonna simplify it for you:
  – if you want stable but old: debian
  – if you want new but potentially unstable: arch
  – if you hate systemd: void
  – for the noobs I am not sure to be honest, probably mint, ubuntu and kubuntu may also work, but snaps are shit…

• Thanks for this re-evaluation, some interesting thoughts on several distros I am using personally or install on friend's computers who want to get started with Linux.
  I missed thoughts on Vanilla OS though, any comments on that?

• archlinux or freebsd 🙂 rest=poo

• capitalism doesnt work can causes scarcity with king have 100 room free from king and teen harems women produce 0 so get em into harem out of way of white men and gak jew n boot irish italian n other non white

• Kali Linux is useful, who in the world is going to manually install all those programs especially when they switch computers, just Kali Linux is not pointless and not Parrot noooooooooooooooooo.

• I love my Pop_OS! I'm a sysadmin and it has been my daily driver for the last 7 years.

• Nobara web 0age 😅
  "It should be clarified that this distribution is NOT to be considered a ‘Fedora Spin’. A Fedora Spin is an official Fedora released version of a desktop environment "

• I love Garuda Linux, I don't care what this guy says.

• I agree with you on the uselessness of distros like Kali: if you really want to go into hacking, customizing your own system should be the easiest thing on your todo-list. HOWEVER, for regular users, distros like Pop and Zorin and Feren aren't useless. Most people just want to pick up a computer and get their work done, they don't want and don't have time to learn how to tinker, picking up a distro for their look and feel is entirely valid.

• I am using Fedora and Ubuntu because that’s what I’m used to; I did try Manjaro, Zorin OS, and Linux Mint, but they didn’t really last all that long, with Zorin OS being the longest.

  However, I use the GNOME desktop, as I don’t know how to use XFCE, Budgie, Cinnamon, or MATE that well. I do also use KDE Plasma at times.

• imo kali is not pointless because it's really nice to have a distro that you can quickly spin up in a vm and have all your security/hacking tools ready to use
  (but I agree that it doesn't make sense to use it as a daily driver)

• PopOs is not outdated.
  Currently is upgrading kernel, Mesa and other important packages.
  Now ship with kernel 6.5.6 and mesa 23.1.9.
  The version remain 22.04 but its more like a "rolling release"

• i think you missed the point on kali and parrot

• 4:20 my alpine book (previously a chrome book | dell chromebook 11 3120) runs so well than w/ alpine and i3. the hardware is terrible but alpine is so lightweight and optimized i can browse the modern web w/o noscript 😮

• What do you recommend for new users who want Plasma?

• I love many distros even though some may seem pointless.

• So you think Kubuntu is good for new users but EndevourOS isn't?

• where is chromeos

• Hahahah, Arch. Yeah, what makes Manjaro vastly superior to Arch is that you can INSTALL it. Fully. With an optimal kernel. From a GUI. Without a computer science degree. I would gladly try Arch if it allowed that. Otherwise, it's only point is to feed distros that want me to install and use them.

• what about blackarch?

• Your pointless tier became pointless when you threw kali there. A point in a distro is to combine enough good things you'd want in a new install. Are you saying security researchers only have one PC? And kali makes sense for anything more amateurish like a programmer with hobby projects and wants to use one old ThinkPad just for running some tools easily. So your argument is just useless gatekeeping

• Completely disagree with his reasonings for Kali and Parrot OS.

• Hi, i am going to use for the first time Linux. I have some questions. Bodhi Linux is lightweight, it looks very good, but other Distros have also lightweight options.
  I am not a programmer or IT guy. But i know basic things about computers. I want something Debian based, because i heard that Debian is most stable.
  1) I have an imac from 2009 with 8gb Ram.
  Which lightweight, user friendly, complete and good looking Linux Distro do you recommend for my Imac?
  2) I have also a new laptop from HP. Just bought. It has a i5 processor with 16gb Ram.
  Which user friendly, complete and good looking Linux Distro do you recommend?
  3) If i can use a lightweight Distro on an old computer. Can i use it also on a new computer?
  4) What are the benefits to use a lightweight Distro on a new computer, especially a laptop?
  5) I was thinking also about KDE plasma, Ultra Marine Linux, Alpine Linux, Open Suse, NixOs
  Actually, I prefer to use the same Distro on each computer. The same Distro in lightweight and Normal or both in lightweight. I am not a gamer. Only sometimes. I want to do also some simple video editing with the Distros. Vacation videos.
  I want the best possible option. I will wait for your reply. Thank you very much.

• Coming from Windows. Thinking about getting SteamOS, but maybe I should try Mint or Debian ? – I cant code though

• Perfect…other than MX for me personally. I like MX, but I am going to give Debian a try. Thanks for sharing 👍

• NOOBara😂

• Hello, I like this vid debunking some myths. But I must admit I use Mint Cinnamon and Big Linux (arch->manjaro-> big linus) And I can tell that's the same dilemma. The base is Supreme (Debian, Arch), the intermediate is pointless or not as sharp as it was (Ubuntu, Manjaro) and the "3rd" generation is a breeze to beginners especially if they come from windows (Mint Cinammon and Big Linux). I've tried Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu, Zorin OS, Pop OS, Peppermint, Puppy Linux and some I d'ont even remember the name, Deepin' (don't recommand at all), plus Red Hat 5.2, Mandrake, Mandriva back in the old days). Always came back to Mint. This is my daily driver on four computers and I have the Big Linux alternative when needed. All cool.

• Arch was my personal choice for a while, but shortly after they switched to systemd, the problem I ran into again and again was that their documentation lagged behind their latest packages. And I chose Arch as a Linux novice: a nice middle ground between Gentoo & Fedora or whatever. You write the configs yourself, you watch the chained installations, if you have a problem read the docs.

  It's still a good model for a distro for people who want finer control but don't know where to begin — it solves the whole "you don't know what you don't know" issue.

• Whats the difference between all these pokemon?

• NixOS should have its own tier way above the one beginning with a 's'

• Unfortunately, neither Nobara nor Linux Mint nor Fedora would get hardware acceleration working with my Nvidia graphics card (RTX 2060 Super) so I used Pop_OSS! and it works fine 'out of the box'.

• I got curious after you mentioning how great Debian is, and I agree, but I haven't checked it out in a while.
  And I just installed Debian 12 in a VM and damn, it has changed since I last used it.
  I like it more now. I might try daily driving it at some point.

• I used to daily drive Linux Mint, and I tend to recommend it as a distro for people who want to try Linux. But personally I have grown past it, and I just got tired of circumventing apt and manually installing stuff to get up to date stuff (I'm a developer, and apt doesn't always have the tools I need/want, and if it has it, it's usually really old), and when I tried to update it to a new version it just broke, so I got tired of distros with point releases, and just bit the bullet and moved on to Arch, and I love it.
  It's great for beginners, but when you begin to get better at Linux and notice that you begin to fight the package manager, etc it might be better to move on.

• Kali Linux:
  Yeah it's good to not use it and use other things instead to learn more, but it has it's uses as a good way for beginners to get a foot in the door.
  But other than that it's pointless. Also, it's horrible to daily drive, I know because I used to daily drive it. If you really want to use it, just use it in a VM.

• Ubuntu is overrated

• Arch is if you want to get your hands dirty and get the bleeding edge stuff.
  Debian is if you want reliability above all else.
  Nothing else matters.
  (well, Tails may matter if you want privacy above all else)

• Watched this on Arch btw.

• Fedora is S tier

• Kali, Parrot, Tails and Qubes are what I would like to call Wardrive systems. Keep em on a drive for a rainy day. That being said they are very good at what they do and solve one of the Hacker commandments "Do not solve a problem that which has already been solved" Why build from scratch if Kali can provide for your needs in less time, now if it can't that's a whole other story. I don't get mad at script kiddies everyone starts there, it's about what you contribute later and until you get a good look at the catalog of stuff already there it's hard to decide where to start.

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