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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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    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

    Here's mine:


    • Note 1: This tierlist only includes distros I've tried.
    • Note 2: Slackware would rank higher now; I made this about month ago.
    • Note 3: The "noob" tier doesn't mean the distro is bad. If it weren't there, Mint would rank higher.
    [–] 1stQ@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

    Noob here.

    I tried CachyOS because read good things about it. But wifi only worked during installation. After installation it was a hassle to get WiFi running again.

    So Zorin it is for me. Simply runs.

    [–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] albbi@piefed.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    Well, I began in 2019, but I distrohopped a lot.

    [–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

    Gentoo in the top tier, checks out

    [–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Why try so many distros? It's not like most of them are gonna be substantially different.

    [–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

    its like racecars

    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago
    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

    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.

    [–] mal3oon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    The only list I get behind. It is missing NixOS for S tier, but otherwise very logical.

    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    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.

    [–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Gentoo is good only if you got a powerful computer.

    [–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

    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).