EOS is awesome

I just tried a load of distros and ended up with Mint. You have to theme it to make it look nice but it is just so stable. Once Themed it looks as good as any...

The schools force me to use chromeOS and I hate it.

I would like to know which linux distro do not fall into wokeness. Any alternative to run proxmox without debian?

Debian is asking for censorship?

EndeavourOS. All of the Arch power and none of the installation fuss.

thanks, was very interesting

Hmm no EndeavourOS ?

5:50 Debian believes in treating all humans with respect. If you have a problem with that, use another distro.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu 24.04 still does not detect Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio controllers so no sound, just Dummy Output listed for audio output device.

if you have a laptop, Debian a pc? Debian a sarver? DEBIAN it's just the BEST!

Interesting watch. Would love to see something breaking down stuff Like best server, best productivity desktop, best gaming, etc.

You should do a DE ranking

im not gonna pick a distro called Fedora because im not a freaking REDDITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the new steam deck will be released only a couple of years After switch 2. It's usless fight nintendo at the top of their power period (the marketing will obscure the steam deck), better move when the attention drop with a more powerfull CPU

I suppose it depends on your use case. Personally got over 400 Steam games and about 90 percent run without any issue, little to no tinkering. Gaming on Linux is as good as it has ever been! If I tried the same 5 years ago, it would be a totally different story.

This rank sucks😂😂😂

Tried logseq, how it could be so slow !? It is just txt!

Saying Arch is not good for beginner because it's hard to install is a ridicule argument. It's like saying people should not drive cars because they don't know how to build them. Beginners don't install their OS themselves. I installed Arch on a multiple of laptop for other people and they love it. They are beginners so they just need to use it not build it. It's clean, simple, fast and stable. It's very suitable for beginners.

Ubuntu should've been rated higher. It has great support (specially LTS), comes in many flavours, snaps have improved and it just is overall a pretty solid well-rounded beginner-friendly distro.

LMDE > Linux Mint

Thank you very much...

Pretty sure a sample size of 5000 is fantastic, but you’re right it’s probably biased

Rule-of-thumb for Distrowatch: it's for gauging CURIOSITY about a distro, not "popularity." Kinda like search term rankings.

It can drive you up the wall trying to make FreeSync (or anything else for that matter) work.

Software on Windows is never auto updated. Some software might check if a newer version is available, but most don't. On linux you can check from the store for all software if a newer version is available or not.

You seem to express a lot of your own biases about big companies and ai. I wish this wouldn't be the case since this is first and foremost about news and current events. Thank you for putting in the time and effort this series clearly requires!

This is my first time hearing about bazzite, and it's not on distrowatch. That's probably one of the main reasons for it's low popularity.

cachyos ,endeavour os,arch people having hyprland mostly

I have some real fondness for Slackware but I'm not sure I want to go back. I may need to fiddle with it on a spare computer.

LWIAY???????

No NixOs? :(

I'm glad to hear this! I've been using Linux on the desktop as my main OS for about 5 years as of now. While using Linux as a secondary OS aside from macOS since about 2013 it was in late 2019 when I anyway got the presumption that Linux may become the platform of the upcoming decade. So many things have changed ever since and it looks like my presumption will be right. Aside from some dwonsides that I'd experienced it has become better every year and I'm sure that it will continue. Especially the recent technoloigal imporvements in AI technology will become one of the devempement drivers hence Linux is the platform which AI models run on.

The Switch2 will be lucky to even have %5 of titles that are on steam. So I don't think its really competing but if its cheaper then that will hurt SD1 for sure. There are things like ROG Ally that are already faster btw. I think Valve has been cooking up something big in conjunction with their VR department.

Nah, real Manjaro fan here: It's just as bad as everything else but in different ways. It's just a "right tool for the job" situation. Like using Windows server for AD Management. It's fine for what I want from it and that's all I need

I use Bazzite as my daily driver on my desktop. I like its immutability, that it's set up with everything I need for playing games OOTB, but still works great for general usage (you can print on Bazzite).

FEDORA! 2ND PLACE! ❤0❤

Nobody should ever take the linux community into account when choosing a distribution. Especially the Arch community, they are so toxic. This is why I'll rarely use linux because of 1. fragmentation and 2. sick community. Elementary below Solus seems wrong.

It takes several hours for a new person to do what Nobara does automatically. If you're experienced, sure it will take minutes. I hope Fedora learns from Bazzite/Nobara, because the default experience isn't perfect.

Before watching the video I'm guessing the top ones are going to be Mint, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, PopOS!, Debian, SUSE.

I know technically FreeBSD is Unix, but i bet it probably would have ranked. I'm sure many in the community here have tried it.

I find the fact that the last 10 places are hidden by timestamps annoying, because I'm new to Linux and I cant make out the distros names. For example number ten is Nubara, Numbaara? No idea. It would be good to have text of the distro next to the logo, or just put it in the timestamps. Just a suggestion in the future, was a bit frustrating as I'm researching about moving to Linux and would appreciate clarity in these kind of vids! :) <3

the reason i love arch and read those patch note to say if i want to update or not because if things working i leave them as it is new feature not gonna change my life but if it's some security patch or something i would like to see, test and apply it myself. i don't want be that one of those windows guy and see blue screen for a day. but no worry i still use windows 10 and 11 on other machines and win 11 breaks with almost every update.

That was interesting!

If you want to give Silverblue another try I would recommend you to check out Aurora/Blurfin as well, since they are built on a similar stack but with a more "user friendly" target

Now we just need to get all the distros and all the KZbinrs to push the same survey at the same time so we can get an representative sample