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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them

So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:

  • Write the name of the Linux distro as a first-level comment.
  • Reply to that comment with each reason you like the distro as a separate answer.

For example:

  • Distro (first-level comment)
    • Reason (one answer)
    • Other reason (a different answer)

Please avoid duplicating options. This will help us better understand the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them.

Lamy ,

Garuda

shapis ,
@shapis@lemmy.ml avatar

Arch.

I don’t love it, like at all. But it’s the least buggy and easiest to use one I’ve tried.

I really wish there was a simple plug and play, everything just works and doesnt break on updates distro.

gobbling871 ,

Arch (BTW)

gobbling871 ,

I’m currently happy with it

gobbling871 ,

So many powerful tools that are not easy to find on other distros.

gobbling871 ,

Basically, have fine tuned my setup so much that it’s almost impossible to think of another distro.

InternetPirate OP ,

dupe

DigitalPortkey ,

And with archinstall I’d argue it’s about as easy to install as most “normal” distros these days.

ReakDuck ,

I’d also agree… but everytime I tried to use archinstall, it always failed, felt impossible for me to install arch

mrdelmo ,

I’ve been a Mint faithful for a few years now

Lotsen ,
@Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Nobara

  • easy to use
  • fast on my hardware
  • fedora based
  • KDE
InternetPirate OP ,

dupe

agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

Also, gaming works out of the box on my hardware (my gfx card wasn’t fully supported by 5.x kernel)

Lotsen ,
@Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Another reason to use :)

xoggy ,
@xoggy@programming.dev avatar

Alpine – In praise of Alpine and apk

guyman ,

Manjaro. I love it’s simplicity and ease of use. It’s the closest I can get to Windows without actually using Windows. I’m glad it makes using an Arch distro easy and accessible. KDE is a godsend as well.

dovedozen ,

MX Linux

dovedozen ,

The MX Snapshot utility & other built-in tools make it instantly functional as a daily driver, even for people new to Linux, and the Quick System Info is such a handy baseline for troubleshooting if you run into problems and need help from the community. All the stuff that’s provided out of the box just makes it a really practical distro to learn on!

hobbsc ,

MX Linux

Option for no systemd, great community, good overall appearance, great set of custom tools.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

– Debian Testing

  • Debian packaging
  • Rolling
  • Newer than Stable
  • Debian Free Software Guidelines ( DFSG)
  • Good support of old systems and random architectures.
hexagonwin ,

Slackware

  • the most rock stable distro imo. No systemd or snap stuff. Packages are almost (if not fully) vanilla version from upstream. Simple yet efficient unix-style approach to everything like package management, slackbuilds are really good too.
downhomechunk ,

Slackware gets a lot of hate, especially from the btw bros. People are spooked about having to manage their own dependencies. But I couldn’t agree with you more on simplicity and stability. I’ve been daily driving slackware since 99 or 00, and I don’t think I’ve ever broken something I couldn’t immediately roll back and fix.

I tried to install Ubuntu on a sbc recently. And within an hour of installing this and that with all the different dependencies, I had a completely unusable system. And I had no idea how to fix it. It was totally my fault but reminded me what I love about slackware.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Slack got me through undergrad on an IBM 600e ThinkPad (which was really old even then — around the time of the early 2.6 series kernels iirc). Great distro, fond memories.

maniac ,
@maniac@lemmy.world avatar

Arch

  • Minimal and I install whatever the hell I want on it
  • AUR
alfredb ,
@alfredb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

LMDE

  • Because it’s Mint & Debian
gortbrown ,

Debian

-Simple distro free of too much bloat without being too bare-bones

-Stable, but can also be changed to be a bit more updated if you want that instead-

Raphael ,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

Now now, saying Debian is free of too much bloat is going way too far, dude, even as as Debian enjoyer I cannot allow such statements to pass.

gortbrown ,

Haha fair, I guess that is a pretty objective statement. In my opinion, compared to some other distros and operating systems, it’s pretty bloat free, but I guess if you’re used to something else that is even more bloat free that you would probably disagree.

RegularIndependent98 ,

Arch, antix and linuxmint

ReakDuck ,

Arch Linux

ReakDuck ,

I always am going to run into heavy issues when using Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora. On Arch, things also aren’t always smooth, but the issues are mild, always solvable and transparent.

ReakDuck ,

The Arch Wiki is in a language made by users for users. Meaning that its easy to understand because the wiki allows to talk about issues, alternatives and more hints about each small topic, every other wiki has some structure where important details are missing or not taken seriously.

CrabAndBroom ,

Arch and KDE as a DE because I’m a borderline-obsessive tinkerer.

Although NixOS is tempting me, but I haven’t moved past the virtual-machine-specimen-jar phase with that yet lol.

milo128 ,

Starting with a blank slate is so refreshing. It takes time to build everything up from scratch and I understand that you can get a great experience out of the box with other distros, but I love the simplicity of not having any bullshit I didn’t install myself.

ReakDuck ,

True, yeah, didn’t think about the downside that you need to build it up from scratch. But people could use arch based distros I guess? Never used them.

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