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    My Linux distro tierlist (pawb.social)
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    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.

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    [–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    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 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    Only Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian. Linux Mint (main) is built on Ubuntu.

    [–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu is a Debian distro too. Either way mint is a Debian distro.

    [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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.