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

[Quote Cursor]

Just use one of the mainstream ones, they tend to work well ootb. Its based on use case like what are you actually gonna do?

 

[The Ugly One]

Some people just want to write C programs without wanting to kill themselves from abysmal toolchain support. When I used Windows I had to use msys2 and other crazy shit just to write a fucking makefile. I think even Python is somewhat painful on Windows.

I write C++ code in WSL using either Alma (RHEL 9 derivative), Oracle (RHEL 8 based), or Ubuntu, with VS Code as my IDE. Right now, Windows is my favorite Linux development platform, which is a very weird time in computing.

 

[Slav Power]

Honestly, I would never ever daily drive MX Linux because of this little fact:

Hmm gee I wonder what will happen if I click on that antiX hyperlink.

Gee where to begin. "Proudly anti-fascist" in the header? The disgusting genderless blob on the front page? Or maybe the fact that they name their major releases after various leftist revolutionaries? Or maybe the fact that if I go back to the MX Linux site, the "core primary team leader" of MX Linux is someone that goes by the moniker "anticapitalista"?

Truly a trustworthy bunch. Surely they wouldn't be capable of introducing a disk wiper that would activate for anyone that shows signs that their views aren't to the left of Mao. And it's not like this is an unreasonable fear because something like that has already happened.

Meanwhile I go to Linux Mint's front page and not only is their page looking way more professional, I can't find a single sign of the project maintainers being leftist zealots, which automatically builds up more trust for the project, since it's clear that their priority is making a functional OS for the masses, not a political message disguised as one.

 

[prodigylogic]

It definitely depends on your use cases. I prefer Debian for production servers (I can almost always find a guide on how to do x in a Debian environment), and use Arch for development. I find the Debian update packages rarely break things, and find the bleeding edge Arch repositories are good for developing with the latest and greatest tools.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Honestly, I would never ever daily drive MX Linux because of this little fact:
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Hmm gee I wonder what will happen if I click on that antiX hyperlink.
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Gee where to begin. "Proudly anti-fascist" in the header? The disgusting genderless blob on the front page? Or maybe the fact that they name their major releases after various leftist revolutionaries? Or maybe the fact that if I go back to the MX Linux site, the "core primary team leader" of MX Linux is someone that goes by the moniker "anticapitalista"?
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Truly a trustworthy bunch. Surely they wouldn't be capable of introducing a disk wiper that would activate for anyone that shows signs that their views aren't to the left of Mao. And it's not like this is an unreasonable fear because something like that has already happened.

Meanwhile I go to Linux Mint's front page and not only is their page looking way more professional, I can't find a single sign of the project maintainers being leftist zealots, which automatically builds up more trust for the project, since it's clear that their priority is making a functional OS for the masses, not a political message disguised as one.

TBF Apartheid Linux is also on that poll.

Politispergs must really like Linux gee.

 

[888Flux]

Ubuntu Unity or Kubuntu

 

[seri0us]

Ubuntu Unity or Kubuntu

Ubuntu Unity

 

[888Flux]

Ubuntu Unity

I was saying both are good choices. Unity being revived is the best thing to happen recently. GNOME isn't even that bad it's just not my preferred DE.

 

[Computer Guardian]

in the context of a day to day use, Artix Linux would be my best pick since It's basically Arch, minus a fair bit of the bullshit that you'd normally have to sift through when you try and install Arch through your prefered method, and without SystemD to drag down what you install it on. it feels really good to run KDE Plasma under 1GB of RAM so I can actually run what I'd like fairly freely compared to Windows and other Linux distros with SystemD.

 

[Ether Being]

Gee where to begin. "Proudly anti-fascist" in the header? The disgusting genderless blob on the front page? Or maybe the fact that they name their major releases after various leftist revolutionaries? Or maybe the fact that if I go back to the MX Linux site, the "core primary team leader" of MX Linux is someone that goes by the moniker "anticapitalista"?

If you care about that political sperging that much, you could send an email to the Antix devs telling them to remove the anti-fa bullshit in their site.
MX-Linux is just a fork from Antix, only some using borrowed code and programs from antix, separating influence away from antix's communities, basically they don't want any involvement being political for just a operating system that is going to used by whoever as a software solution.

Politispergs must really like Linux gee.

Not going to lie, but I'm just tired of it all. People should just treat free software without having to spread political sperging whatsoever, and just sharing code in unison, Terry Davis would've wanted this for all of us.

 

[Betonhaus]

in the context of a day to day use, Artix Linux would be my best pick since It's basically Arch, minus a fair bit of the bullshit that you'd normally have to sift through when you try and install Arch through your prefered method, and without SystemD to drag down what you install it on. it feels really good to run KDE Plasma under 1GB of RAM so I can actually run what I'd like fairly freely compared to Windows and other Linux distros with SystemD.

I'm looking at Artix and there's like 4 different init systems offered in the graphical installer, which one is the best? I'm googling and people are suggesting runit is the fastest, with s6 requing more learning but is worth it.

 

[Ether Being]

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I'm looking at Artix and there's like 4 different init systems offered in the graphical installer, which one is the best? I'm googling and people are suggesting runit is the fastest, with s6 requing more learning but is worth it.

OpenRC has some good documentation on the Gentoo wiki, S6 and Runit are pretty gud I'm curious about checking them out too, might have to find documents about them to figure out for example: run and start service commands

 

[Betonhaus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/2on5ln/windows_init_system/

I was curious about the Windows init system and systemd is more of a monolithic system then what Windows 7 uses. I'm still trying to find info on windows 10&11 but it's probably even more microcode now.

 

[Rungle]

Whatever my BMI can handle

 

[PapaJohnTheMergeMaestro]

I'm considering jumping off of Arch/KDE, onto an easier distro with XFCE. I hate Gnome, but I also don't think I'm ready for KDE's insistence on using Wayland, because I have NVidia. I'm a little overwhelmed by all the distro choices. I tried to narrow it down to these options:

- OpenSuse
- Linux Mint (Afraid of Canonical going full retard, otherwise seems pretty great)
- Debian

Also, what's the best prepper distro with everything preinstalled already? I've heard that Kali/Parrot were OK, but those are more geared towards hacking, rather than out of the box functionnality, maybe MX, or something else?

 

[Betonhaus]

- Linux Mint (Afraid of Canonical going full retard, otherwise seems pretty great)
- Debian

Linux Mint Debian Edition completely bypasses Canonical by using Debian as the core instead of Ubuntu. I've looked at it and it seems pretty great, still properly supports proprietary drivers and everything.

 

[PapaJohnTheMergeMaestro]

Linux Mint Debian Edition completely bypasses Canonical by using Debian as the core instead of Ubuntu. I've looked at it and it seems pretty great, still properly supports proprietary drivers and everything.

I actually forgot about LMDE! I think I'd prefer that one over either Linux Mint or Debian, in spite of the smaller userbase. Only issue is that I've heard is that apt-get is a nightmare to manage (I'm only familiar with pacman), I hope people are just being hyperbolic about it.

 

[Trapped Under Rice]

I've been daily driving Mint for two and a half years. I have never had a problem I haven't been able to solve on it and I'd never go back to windows. I've been playing morrowind on openmw the past few weeks and it's been a blast. The only thing I miss is FLStudio. I've been thinking of virtualizing win10 for that but I'm a bit nervous about fucking up my OS with some sketchy ISO and the cracked FL exe I have.

Update on this, I have been running FL Studio and Adobe CS6 in bottles. It's totally seamless and worked out of the box with no windows iso required. I always had trouble with Wine and VMs. Took me only half an hour to spin these up. There is now no use case for windows ever. This is total linux victory.

 

[Grin Machine]

I've heard is that apt-get is a nightmare to manage

I really can't fathom why someone would say this other than to shill Arch. I use both on different systems, and they're both better than any of the other package managers for Linux. In my experience, apt has a more coherent syntax and has broken my configuration much less than pacman, but pacman is a bit faster. Apt is the default in Ubuntu/Pop!/Mint for a reason. You really have to be LinusTechTips levels of retarded to fuck your system up using apt.

Also don't use 'apt-get' use 'apt'. They are similar - but distinct - executables, and apt is better in current year.

 

[Susanna]

nix-shell -p whatever --run whatever though. Perfect for those things you'll use exactly once and don't want permanently installed. Can apt or pacman do this? I think not! I won't bother researching though because Nix is already perfect and my opinion cannot be changed.