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.
Here's mine:
CachyOS in S, based.
Gentoo in the top tier, checks out
Damn, you've tried a lot of different distros. I've been using Linux for 15 years but only been on like 8 different ones. Installed personally about 5.
Well, I began in 2019, but I distrohopped a lot.
The only list I get behind. It is missing NixOS for S tier, but otherwise very logical.
I want to like NixOS. I love the idea of declarative system configuration, but I always found NixOS quite easy to break. It also didn't seem to like Eduroam much.
Gentoo is good only if you got a powerful computer.
I used to run it on my Raspberry Pi 5 without complaint.
Some stuff did take a while to compile, but the trick is to do other things β like make some tea, go for a walk, or watch TV β instead of staring at the terminal the whole time (I am 100% serious; this is not sarcasm).
Why try so many distros? It's not like most of them are gonna be substantially different.
its like racecars
Idk, autism?
You never know, the grass might be greener elsewhere. I will say though, to me that only applies to independent distros. At this point i only bother trying distros that are actually different at their core. Arch- or debian-based distros are all kind of the same to me.
Need to add Qubes os as S+ tier
Redhat and Ubuntu are controversial for me. Don't want them for desktop, but for any professional server I would choose them over any of the others (and preferably alpine for any docker containers running on them)
So, why would you pick RedHat over Rocky or Alma?
Or Ubuntu over Debian?
Genuinely curious, not judging
It's way easier to explain to customers "these companies have enterprise commitments and long term support available if needed", I realize that they all essentially run the same stuff but frankly I can't guarantee I'm always gonna be the one supporting them and it is an added safety net for when they decide not to upgrade for an eternity. Not to mention just about every VPS provider has at least one of those two options available out of the box, they're frankly the safe boring choices.