Previous Manjaro user here. You can place it in F.
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Why is OpenSUSE at the bottom? I'd heard good things about it. EndeavourOS is my current OS but I'm always looking for a new distro.
It's in the "Unranked" tier because OP hasn't used it enough to have an opinion.
When I used it decades ago, I was a kid. It seemed pleasant enough for me back then. On one hand, I'd say "works for children" is an endorsement. On the other, child-me never tried any of the advanced stuff I'd care about today.
Thanks for that. I've permanent donkey-brains and overlooked that entirely.
How dare you rank Debian at....oh. I see what you did there. Nice.
~~In all honesty i don't get it the E for endravourOS on my old ass laptop everything works just fine, even the nvidia card~~
I was getting really mad, the I realized what you did there.
Wait, where's Gentoo?
the dark and forbidden G tier
I love nixos for my homelab! Out of curiosity, why C tier for KDE Neon? (My desktop and laptop both daily drive them, and I've loved it since abandoning Ubuntu post-Unity)
Honestly I didn't use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn't like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint's apps.
That's fair enough. I can't say I've used Mint very much, I've just known it as something to suggest to newbies. My brother revived his 2009 Macbook Pro with it, but it's so old he mostly uses it for character sheets during Pathfinder night.
Uhhh, I, uhhh
I use Arch by the way :3
Sorry I couldn't help it. Technically I started this install as Antegos, but since that project ended I used some voodoo to convince my OS that it's Arch now with moderate succes.
Oh I do dislike Manjaro. I tried it a few times on some PCs and every time it ended in a dumpster fire. Can't remember exactly what it was, but it has something to do with pitting me pick the kernel but also completely going to shit if I didn't pick the right one at the right moment. Constant errors, pain and suffering. When I switched that machine to Fedora it was suddenly happily purring like a kitten without any issues.
I use fedora workstation but itβs so boring because it just does what I need and I never have any problems π₯²
I might give Debian a spin at some point
I wish it wasn't built on Wayland.
Whatβs wrong with Wayland? Havnt noticed any problems
I use Anydesk for work and Rustdesk for personal and the lag is so bad. Also added the hot keys and super button doesn't transfer to the remote computer.
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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.
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.
CachyOS in S, based.
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no hannah montana linux??
That's at least two tiers above S, obviously
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I enjoy linux mint a lot
I put LM on my n100 HTPC and hasn't done a thing more besides updates. It just works...
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
Only Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian. Linux Mint (main) is built on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a Debian distro too. Either way mint is a Debian distro.
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.
Here is mine:
Mint
Haven't really tried anything else or it was 10+ years ago.
Haha! You beat me to it! Great ranking. I 100% agree with where you've places each/it.
Void, Debian and Artix being in S tier is just based.
Nobara is the way!
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