• callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    It depends, best for what?

    Generally, I’d say Linux Mint is the best distro since it’s general purpose and easy-to-use.

    But for gaming on bleeding-edge hardware where you need latest graphics drivers or a kernel update with better game performance, the best ones are Arch Linux and EndeavourOS.

    Or maybe you’ve got the opposite situation, you have a really old device. The best one would be something lightweight, although I’m not aware of any Linux distros that specifically fill that requirement.

    For servers, Debian is a good choice, and in my (not-at-all-experienced with servers) opinion, it’s one of the best distros for a server since it is pretty stable.

    And, for developers, I think the best one would be NixOS since, from what I’ve heard, it’s great with package management and is also immutable, meaning you should have less issues with having multiple versions of packages.

    as for the worst one, it’s ubuntu because i hate it and canonical is the devil /s

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    1·
    11 months ago

    Best: anything active, healthy and nice

    Worst: Amazonlinux, ChromeOS, just every capitalist bullshit.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    0·
    11 months ago

    Best: NetBSD because of documentation, pkgsrc, and is not Linux

    Worst: Ubuntu because of snap

  • Vorter@lemmy.zip
    0·
    11 months ago

    Best: depends on needs and usecases. Obviously, the majority will name the distro they use here, because if they would think another distro is better they would switch.

    Worst: either Pop_OS (the most pointless, with the killer feature of “nvidia blob out of the box”, saving literally one command after installation), or Fedora (RedHat + too unstable + and too much RedHat new experimental shit being tested). Sorry for those who like those distros, but that’s my opinion.

    • j4yt33@feddit.de
      0·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been looking at Pop! OS recently because I want to start using Linux again but I feel like it’s a standard Ubuntu-based distro with a few things preinstalled. How’s that different to any other distro with GNOME UI after I install the same packages?

      • fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org
        01·
        11 months ago

        Everyone has their own opinions. I tried a ton of different distros, the tiling windows manager in Pop! OS was the feature that I couldn’t move away from once I adjusted to it. The OS just gets out of the way and lets me work, and my efficiency is up.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Distros are really not all that different. Just use whatever.

    But Android is worst.