What is the very best Linux Distro? - best to make a poll about that

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Blue Miaplacidus said:
I have been using slackware since 2003, I have arch and fedora on some old hardware and my ghetto nas, but slackware has never failed me. It's not even on the poll, that's retarded.
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These newfags list shitty fad meme distros like Zorin and Manjaro in their polls instead of the REAL distros like Hannah Montana Linux, NixOS, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, and LFS. smh
 
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Obviously the best choice is Arch Linux, all of the distro these days are quite solid, but Arch towers over them in how effectively their website is organized. Its just clean. Its positively trivial to find information on packages both in the official repositories and the AUR, the Wiki is decently written and covers most topics you will encounter. Even though I've been using Arch for nearly a decade I've hardly felt the need to write up pkgbuilds until this year, that is how good the AUR is for sourcing programs. Though Arch is easily the best distro for day-to-day desktop work I would never use it as a server distro, Debian or Ubuntu would be my choice for that.
 
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Tekken Enjoyer said:
I'll be honest, I'm not Linux guy at all I have no idea what the option I picked means and I only picked it because it seemed like a funny/troll option.
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slightly talking out of my ass here, any nerds with higher power levels feel free to correct me.

systemd is a system manager program that provides a whole bunch of low-level OS functions, like background process management, file system mounting, that kind of thing. there's a faction among the really deep Linux nerds, the blessed mutants who actually develop and maintain Linux components and software, who consider systemd basically the antichrist for a wide variety of reasons. some are technical foibles I'm still too much of a noob to understand, but the big ones are thus: first, systemd violates the UNIX philosophy of software being self-contained and modular (systemd's needs have pushed into the design of the holy kernel itself, which some worry will become an acceptable standard in the future); second, the guy who made it rubs a lot of people the wrong way, because he's seen as a "my way or the highway" type personality in a community where everyone values doing things their own way. the arguments I've seen on the topic are basically nerd thunderdome since the autism level of the community skyrockets the deeper you get into the weeds, and many of the points at issue are basically incoherent to anybody below intermediate wizard status. therefore, being really mad about systemd is usually a sign of powerful autism and deep wizarding knowledge.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Which distro would you reccomend and why?
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Void (for desktop use). Currently the best compromise between leave-me-alone minimalism and ease of use. No community insanity I'm aware of. Documentation could be more extensive, but there's always the Arch wiki.

I'm Retarded? said:
being really mad about systemd
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I was never mad about it. It just doesn't solve any problems I needed to solve, so I couldn't be bothered to deal with the added complexity.
 
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