What is the Best Linux Distro? - Its the one you Make the best.

[@619chrismc]

I stuck with arch just because I liked the way the logo looked in neofetch

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

I've never had as snappy of an experience out of a machine as when I was on Gentoo. Arch has come the closest. I switched to Arch because it's so close, and while generally using Gentoo was terrific, the updates could take ffe on my old core2duo. That was during the time when an update to kde's library meant /EVERYTHING/ kde had to be completely rebuilt from the top down(not sure if that's still the case). The last time I updated Gentoo, I had all of kde, the kernel, all of openoffice(before the libreoffice switch), and something else all piled on. I immediately started looking for a rolling release alternative to Gentoo without having to build from source, and fell on Arch. My boss even switched all of our workstations over to Arch.

[@JTKroll12]

LOL

[@user-mi1ub2zo6s]

we the same

[@funkyyy12345]

lol thats why i picked Manjaro xd

[@fgclue]

lol

[@HK_808]

You clearly forget the greatness that is Hannah Montana linux

[@LoganT547]

@@trtrhr welcome to the joke smartass

[@namesurname4666]

i use justin bieber linux (biebian) since 2010

[@Polyglot_English]

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙

[@Adamlol642]

@@namesurname4666 lmao good boi

[@marconiandcheese7258]

Rebecca Black OS

[@linoxyard]

Thank you for being honest and to the point with this video, I'm so sick of all these pointless distro wars

[@isaacfoster2820]

Your welcome. Any questions and I'll get back to u

[@1973Washu]

I have been known to spend 10 days automating a task that would take 10 seconds to do manually.

[@Anon-tj7qb]

I was using gentoo for three years, then i moved into a team lead position at work. I ran out of time to do all my optimizations and compiling. I moved to Arch for now, though I wish to go back to gentoo again one day. Life changes and linux distros can adapt to your needs, its great.

[@daynemyers2324]

Yeah I had to stop using Gentoo at work because I can't (in good conscience) wait for compiling on the company dime.

[@zyansheep]

"Think about the concept of distros" Now what IS a distro? *Vsauce music plays*

[@Ataraxia_Atom]

I'm a newb who moved to mint last November and i love it. Does most everything i need. It's easy to use and bloat isn't an issue especially since you can remove most anything unlike windows.

[@awa0927]

You have much too learn lol

[@RedVRCC]

Same, I didn't move entirely but I started dual booting it with a modded windows 10 installation with the telemetry and ads removed. I use mint for productivity and media consumption and windows for gaming. I don't have time or desire when I get home from work to have to tinker around with linux to make something work, I need it to just work as is cause I just want my entertainment after a long day and mint does that well.

[@Sh-ws5jd]

Top 5 distros: 5. The best distro 4. is the one 3. that makes you feel 2. like you're home 1. Debian

[@goge7152]

Manjaro*

[@holl7w]

@@goge7152 Debian*

[@goge7152]

@@holl7w Manjaro*

[@holl7w]

@@goge7152 Debian*

[@goge7152]

@@holl7w Manjaro*

[@kotiaave5993]

Im running Debian on all my devices, for my friends and family i install kubuntu, because well... ubuntu, and because i think KDE offers the best user experience for non-power users. I've installed gentoo once, i think it took me over 6 hours (lol). Its a good learning experience, but after a while i didnt have time or interest to continue using it. I would say gentoo is more for a linux hobbyists. In general people should stop thinking distros as trials that determite whether you are a experienced user or a noob, if anything that kind of attitude only makes you look inexperienced.

[@caddr]

i do 11 hours install

[@FreeRoger]

I have you both beaten, Gentoo has been compiling on my computer for 72 hours and counting.

[@skinwalker69420]

KDE fucking sucks, it's bloat, slow, and has an ugly mouse cursor.

[@christophernuzzi2780]

I would recommend Mint/Cinnamon for new or non-power users. Plus, power users can use it as well - that's the great thing about Linux. The "power" is all there, just open a terminal if you want to access it.

[@AdamArtzi]

@@skinwalker69420 It looks fine in it’s default state, easy to operate for non tech savvy people because it looks like Win. Also gnome is totally shit, I thought it looked cool and awesome until I tried Xfce, which is my favorite for now. But on my Deb machine (cuz it’s more like a home server) I don’t even use a display manager, just to be cool. But remember that everything can be changed in Linux, you can even install KDE and make it look like Xfce if you want (good luck tho).

[@MyReviews_karkan]

This video is sofa king good. I love it. You're underrated and need more subs. Here is one from me. Thank you.

[@MentalOutlaw]

"sofa king good" never heard that one before. Thanks for watching and subscribing!

[@MyReviews_karkan]

@@MentalOutlaw lol. Trying to keep it curse free. No problem, man.

[@LoganT547]

@@MyReviews_karkan *so *fucking

[@Polyglot_English]

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙

[@Soandnb]

I've taken to describing Distros as "Prebuilt computers", where each one comes with its own unique hardware. Despite different components, each one shares the same type of components - motherboards, CPUs, RAM, Video Cards, etc, and you can more or less freely swap between them and get a system that could look like a prebuilt from somewhere else, or a system that's uniquely your own.

[@tylerdean980]

One thing people seem to not consider about minimalist distros is that you know every component of the system, because you put it there. If there’s a breakage, you likely know exactly what’s wrong or how to fix it. Whenever I’m using a preconfigured distro and something breaks I have to look up where a certain file is or whatever because it’s not where I would have put it.

[@Napert]

"gentoo is too bloated, use LFS instead"

[@Gabryx_]

@z _ 0 also bloated, make your own kernel and os from scratch in holy-asm

[@evildragon1774]

@@Gabryx_ bloated, temple os instead

[@pardal_bs]

@@evildragon1774 that's bloated too, write machine code directly to the disk using electricity

[@evildragon1774]

@@pardal_bs that's way too bloated, create your own hardware and you need to single handedly create quantum technology os on your own

[@Adamlol642]

Or just create an entire os from scratch

[@_Jayonics]

The other appeal to arch is they have documentation for almost everything. Despite not using arch (Ubuntu on desktop, asuswrt on a Linux router). I come across arch docs for most of the software I need to configure and it's the cleanest and most concise documentation I've encountered.

[@M1szS]

idk man, last time i tried to use arch wiki was to install proprietary nvidia drivers, i literally read every single line, and followed every step, it even installed something, but the drivers still didnt work

[@avnzx5177]

"Same look an feel on a different system" *cough* r/unixporn (and comments) *cough*

[@landmimes]

*if you care about looks then go with the distro with the best asci logo for neofetch

[@kekistanifreedomfighter4197]

That's the best thing about Linux. Don't like something? You can remove it, or replace it with something else. Can't really do that on windows.

[@Gabryx_]

probably on linux you can remove root user, imagine pranking your friend by removing sudo/doas and the root user

[@seronymus]

I'm forced to use Win10 for certain games and programs and it's obscene how ugly the aesthetic even is, let alone the programs you can't remove.

[@nxone9903]

That's actually very true, the utility of the OS should be my priority but i got caught up in that needless debate about which one to pick while still using windows. I needed that video, thanks again kenny

[@daynemyers2324]

Another hidden benefit to compiling your own libraries and binaries is that some exploits will not be effective against your very unique executables. That is assuming you leverage all the awesome build-time variables and also build to your specific CPU capabilities against your own custom-built libraries.

[@dorianmajerowski7895]

I would say for me, right now mint is the best. I only started using linux around a month ago, and ive gotten used to and am comfortable with the gui side but im still learning how to fully utilise the shell. Its great using the command line whenever i want to but always having a gui crutch whenever i need it:)

[@РустемФахрутдинов-ш8ш]

I want to use dwm and suckless utilities on my gentoo system. What would you recommend: to compile dwm from source code manually or to use portage for this purpose?

[@MentalOutlaw]

compile from source, and make sure to backup the source code once you're satisfied with the config, that way if you ever have to re-install you can get your custom config up with 1 compile.

[@slavko5666]

@@gl3nda96 What happened? I might know, but I'm not 100% sure lol

[@bbseal6174]

@@gl3nda96 what, why ?

[@gayusschwulius8490]

@@MentalOutlaw Best practice is to use git for that, btw. Put all patches and config changes into different branches, then merge them with the master branch. Backup on Github (or your own git server). Boom, now you can have dwm with any combination of patches and configs that you want within a few commands.

[@slytherinsalazar4668]

Or you can just use the flag savedconfig

[@glowiak3430]

0:42 BSD has distros, Solaris has distros, Darwin has distros, More operating systems has distros

[@niteowl17]

Android has distros(custom OSes) need the phone unlocked tho

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

@@niteowl17 Android is a Linux distro, though.

[@niteowl17]

@@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou ah yes, Phoenix OS

[@ringotheflamingo6900]

pedantic. anyone who knows what BSD or Solaris is doesn't need to be explained the concept of a distro dipshit

[@glowiak3430]

@@niteowl17 I know ;)

[@TerryMcKean]

In my experience with Linux so far, I found that the best distro is the one that works the best for the particular PC I'm installing it in. Not all distros come bundled with all the drivers needed for all PCs. Long story short: for my Asus Eee PC T91MT mini-laptop/tablet, BionicPup Puppy Linux works the best so far. For my Dell Latitude D630 laptop, Linux Mint works the best so far. and for my Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop, Lubuntu Linux works the best so far.

[@AgentKilo]

I went with Manjaro because I was just trying to get away from Ubuntu and play around with some of the more deep aspects of Linux, building packages from source and stuff, and something arch-based looked like the best next step. The community is great and I'm able to keep the desktop manager I like since there's a community flavor with budgie.

[@skotz3336]

Debian can build from source, it's not something arch has over Debian. Arch has more bleeding edge packages that make it easier to build bleeding edge sources using the newest dependencies, but even this can be done on Debian, by compiling the bleeding edge dependencies outside the realm of the debian repository.

[@CC-fi3pp]

Pop! OS should be mentioned in place of Mint or at least along side it tbf.

[@catomajorcensor]

"The only advantage of Arch is that it takes up less disk space" ... and pacman. You forgot pacman.

[@samienr]

I’d say portage is still superior. From my time in arch I’d say the AUR alone is enough to make arch the best

[@catomajorcensor]

@@samienr Except that Portage is written in one of the slowest (maybe even the slowest) programming languages.

[@samienr]

@@catomajorcensor id take control over speed any day, but I guess that’s up to personal preference. And that’s the beauty Linux, you get whatever you want.

[@catomajorcensor]

@@samienr Yes, exactly. I agree. You get whatever you want.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

Technically, Manjaro has pacman too. I agree, though, that if you have the time, there's no harm in using Arch over Manjaro.

[@tenhundredkills]

I like Ubuntu. I installed it to breath new life into an 12-year old Dell XPS 1645 laptop. Everything runs great and if I have trouble, there are so many resources available!

[@anb1142]

Can you make a guide on "ricing it" ?

[@unicorn_tamer]

At the part where you said about changing WM, well I used to do it back when i was a Linux noob. After some time I realized that doing this, slows down my computer by a lot, and since I don't have much resources, (4 GB RAM) I prefer using a distro that has the look that I want. But I agree with everything else!

[@davidc9640]

Yeah, I also used to hop around quite a few distros (I even used OpenBSD as my main OS for a while) before coming to the same conclusion as you did: a distro is what you make of it. I just use Debian Testing these days, since it takes the least amount of setup to get it working how I want it, and is reasonably up to date. Also, so much software that works right out of the box with little to no config needed, literally just invoking apt, the package manager. I might give Gentoo a spin inside a VM, though, if only for the learning experience.

[@zeckma]

Personally, I use Arch because I wanted to know what was running on my system so I could use as less RAM as possible. I want that performance. I started with Garuda Dr460nized, but then moved to Garuda Barebones. They're are Arch based, and then I wanted to have that feeling of having a clean, vanilla install of Arch. Sooo, that's what I did. Arch has always been convenient for me.

[@lucywucyyy]

ricing is fun, ive riced my windows 7 p hard but windows 10 has very limited ricing options and insane levels of bloat so soon im gonna have to choose a linux distro, makes me happy to hear that it doesnt rly matter which one i choose for ricing purposes, the thing that worries me is running the games and programs i want to run and just having to learn a new os after basically knowing win7 better than microsoft themselves

[@majorgamer4610]

4:53 you get access to the aur on arch and not on Gentoo

[@imst-allison9590]

"Linux is the only operating system to have distros" while it's workable as a simplification, illumos (the FOSS fork of OpenSolaris after Oracle closed the source of Solaris again) also has distros and the differences between illumos distros can actually be more significant than between Linux distros (e.g. only some illumos distros offer the "LX zones" capability to emulate Linux on the syscall level)

[@imst-allison9590]

Either way, I have no dog in this fight since at the end of the day I would prefer to be running a complete, end-to-end developed operating system (like the BSDs) as opposed to a patchwork (which is fundamentally what Linux distros are especially once you start stepping out of the GNU consensus). Each approach has it's advantages and disadvantages, but really, it's all down to what works best for the user

[@seronymus]

@@imst-allison9590 "BSD is a real OS, distros are patchwork" them be fighting words, son.

[@piotrwyrw]

1:10 I love how he shows open source software on a monitor with the apple logo 🤣

[@6Karaboudjan9]

I use Suse & Fedora & This Two Also My Favourite ❤️❤️.

[@slavko5666]

What do you think about Fedora?

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

I use Manjaro because I like Pacman and out-of-the-box functionality.

[@EremittV]

You pick the one that's the most closely alligned with your core values. Do you want something that's easy to set up and use? Pick a distro that's known for that. Like many of the ubuntu spinoffs and of course ubuntu itself. The desktop is something you need to choose for yourself though. Go with mint or zorin if you want an easier transition from windows. Ubuntu isn't perfect but the chance to find a solution if you run into issues is the biggest with ubuntu and it's derivatives. If you're ready to tinker or to customize, you just start with the base. Choose from Arch (rolling release, newest software, more tinkering, more advanced, more complex installation), Debian (stable releases, beginner friendly set-up, lots of apps through package manager) or Fedora (newest software, rolling release available, moderatly difficult setup, less software available). If you have chosen the base, there plenty of distros and spinoffs that you can choose from. When it comes to picking a distro it's a matter of preference. Certain distro's offer a unique feature right out of the box. What I always do is read up about them and decide if these features are useful to me. If there are multiple distros that have interesting features, I figure out which features are the easiest to install on other distros. Sometimes it's as easy as adding a repository and installing the software, sometimes it's not. When I found a distro with unique features that I like, I check if they have the desktop environment I prefer. If they don't I usually look at other options first, but if it's slim pickings I just install the DE I prefer in the distro I want. It just takes a little more time to remove unwanted apps and stuff if I have to install it all by myself. I run Ubuntu 22.04 now. I almost always run a Debian based distro. It used to POP OS, but I wanted a stable distro for the long haul and since Ubuntu 22.04 is an LTS release I can configure it the way I want and keep it that way for years to come. I tried a lot of distros but I'm quite a normie user. So something with good documentation and beginner friendly is important to me.

[@rraygen]

I just stick with Debian based distros (Pop OS atm) because of compatibility. Most of the software and drivers for linux can be found in .deb format, but not others

[@ian-0]

Indeed when posed with the questioned what is more valuable: my time or my hdd space, my time wins everytime

[@syntaxerror831]

What distro/window manager/whatever is that at 3:19?

[@biofluorescence]

Gentoo on WSL on Windows 10 partition, Artix on my laptop on other partition.

[@bonbonpony]

Can you make a review of tiny Linux distros? I'm curious about how small it can get and still remain usable. Or how small it can be and still have some graphical user interface. It used to be easy to find minimalistic Linux distros in the past, but nowadays it's become quite hard to find anything below 500 MB, and if there is one, it often has some troubles running in VirtualBox (kernel panic, blank screens etc.).

[@tylerdean980]

I know it’s an old comment but you can easily get void Debian gentoo or arch well below 200MB idle. Using DWM on all, void is around 90, Debian 100, arch 120, gentoo 150(genkernel, could be lower if you used your own kernel; I’ve seen a vid of mental outlaw using gentoo with 69MB idle, but I don’t think he was at full HD resolution)

[@albiemer]

because gentoo is too much time consume to install, i decided to use funtoo.. its very difficult for me to adapt funtoo which is more time consuming to learn fixed compatibility issue for some software than to install gentoo because its less community and lots of compatibility issues ive experienced.. now i learned a lot about funtoo, i could say that funtoo is a more speed version of gentoo for compiling and syncing..

[@Nicolussius]

I like Arch and its deivates bc I want to have the Noob-like comfort features with selective extensibility. I don't care about installing everything from scratch to have a minimal system, I want to start from a usable/familiar foundation and build upon that. That's also why I use a DE, not a WM. I don't want to spend my time on learning how to use multiple different concepts for example since I'm stuck with Windows for work anyway. But that really is the beauty of it all, everybody gets to do whatever they please with their system.

[@jadelkhaleqghalayini5552]

I agree about the minimalism, but as someone that uses both a DE and a WM, you should try it. WM is really better for *certain* tasks, while I use the DE for browsing the web on my laptop and such

[@fordprefect859]

I have found Q4os to be very well-rounded. It is really lightweight (the TDE version needs at least 256MB of RAM and 3GB of disk). Despite this, it is actually a pretty user-friendly OS. It does have some irritating quirks, but I have the feeling they have more to do with the ewaste of a laptop I'm running it on.

[@reverenddick8562]

I jumped like 30 distros this year. I've settled with Arch, after playing pretty much everything except RedHat or Fedora. Gentoo #2, LFS #3.

[@MiguelX413]

I think Illumos (the descendant of OpenSolaris) also has distros in a very similar sense to Linux!

[@mustangrt8866]

It's more like freebsd, you have complete os variants with their own features.

[@seronymus]

Who should use Illumos?

[@MiguelX413]

@@seronymus not sure tbh

[@MiguelX413]

@@mustangrt8866 I see

[@FoulUnderworldCreature]

My favorite is MX Linux. It's Debian-based and systemd-free with loads of custom applications to make administration easy.

[@unique_handle_1066]

I'm using MX Linux right now and it (along with Devuan) is one of the best Debian-based distros out there. However, it could probably ship with a lot less software bundled in. I'm surprised MX doesn't get recommended to beginner users more

[@FoulUnderworldCreature]

@@unique_handle_1066 I think all of the software it ships is high quality and generally well used. Nothing feels unnecessary imo.

[@kendarr]

I generally chose a distro with a good default for me, i love zorin os, it looks nice, works great, can run snap, flathub, store is pretty good, since it's based on Ubuntu anything from it usually works too, comes with Nvidia drivers. It did came with one or two softwares that I don't use, but it's much easier to remove 3 programs then to install other 10 and support for snap /flat. In general, it comes default close to what I like.

[@littlecaptin_yt7357]

Which distro are you using?

[@kendarr]

@@littlecaptin_yt7357 That comment was made a while ago, at that time I believe I was running Arch GUI because I wanted to understand how arch worked, I had to move away from it because my Unreal Engine did not work under it, but it did under an Ubuntu based system, so right now I'm on Linux Mint, I really enjoy it, and I'm only using it instead of Zorin because I wanted to try it out since I had used Zorin before.

[@littlecaptin_yt7357]

@@kendarr I am also currently using arch, do you think I should switch to linux mint?

[@kendarr]

@@littlecaptin_yt7357 It depends, is there something broken on arch that you could not fix? In my case was unreal engine, that's the only reason I switched, maybe I don't see a big reason to use mint, maybe it's stability but that's almost any Ubuntu based system

[@sid__art_6614]

Opensuse tumbleweed. You'll love it once you use it.

[@TJUntame]

I just started getting into linux, I'm running Zorion (Ubuntu based) on a vm and so far I love it. I also much prefer it to regular Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

[@drewberchtolzthofen886]

I really enjoyed to use Debian and Arch. i'd installed Arch only because I was told it will make my 4gb RAM laptop run fast, so it did, yeah sure it's a rabbit hole, hours of reading/ also you need to learn how to manage and store your backups, how to do some shell scripting and store your configs, but it's cool. And I've never felt that computer may be fun without gaming, ricing or whatever observing cool programming languages by editing configs may be very entertaining for a lot of people also is a cool thing to figure out.

[@dalescorcher5568]

Still rocking my Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon. Have no intention to switch. Pop_OS is my second option but for now sticking with mint.

[@DJNightchild]

I use EndeavorOS for simpel reasons: 1. AUR access 2. Don't want to compile everything from source. 3. Bleeding Edge, perfect for gaming. 4. Though I can install and troubleshoot Arch, installing EndeavorOS takes less time.

[@samdeur]

Excellent vid going to share it. Was debating/ considering going for gentoo but to be honest I don’t know if I want to invest the time since I have other things waiting for me like starting university in a few months and having to finish my c# and c courses still his argument is you only invest once and then get a perfect machine and only install what you want and don’t need to update your complete system like you do on fedora currently I can life update but every now en then I do a clean install because there is always something that breaks like last update signal messaging broke apparently I need flatpak version don’t really like that would prefer just regular install of package but since there’s is no other option for fedora 37

[@cyberp0et]

So far Linux Mint is fine for me. Also Zorin OS. I am about to check out Debian.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

Reminds me of a saying from a certain Cajun man: "Home is where you make it."

[@CarlosHernandez-dv1ib]

I fall in love whit popOS if someday I have to switch to Linux, I would be to popOS

[@ExtraLargeWindow]

i run pop os on my laptop

[@Adamlol642]

@@ExtraLargeWindow try get manjaro

[@Jupiter__001_]

Pop OS behaved poorly on my laptop with Optimus, so I went straight to Arch so that I could fix things without having to reinstall (because starts in command line).

[@KSPAtlas]

@@Jupiter__001_ you can do same things with display switching. If I get a bug during login, just switch to a tty and fix it.

[@Jupiter__001_]

@@KSPAtlas I tried that, but X seemed to override my keyboard inputs, making it impossible to switch to another tty. I was therefore stuck on a black screen.

[@maximchurilov1889]

and what about LFS? p.s. your vids inspired me to get into Linux, thank you so much and keep up with good work!

[@gotija]

You have to choise the desktop enviroment first, then the distro (advice for windows users)... With the time you ll find the best distro for you, ubuntu, mint and Manjaro has more comunity support but all are goods

[@MysticMylesZ]

Gonna install gentoo. If I I have a "fuck I messed up" or "fuck I don't know what I'm doing" moment. Which is a good fall back to dual boot on? Mint or Ubuntu?

[@TheToxiss]

I tried Ubuntu, Fedora and got into problems with a few programs I tried to run. Then I installed Mint and everything works perfectly so far, no issues.

[@mobilturka]

Hello, I recommend you to review TeArch Linux. Debian packages are installed and run on the Arch system.

[@xanri7673]

Do you actually see a performance improvement with Gentoo? I've tried it a few times and have never seen any benefit, much less one worth the extra compile times.

[@mario7501]

Ever tried to compile wine from source. Takes about an hour. Don‘t wanna do that tbh :D

[@dr-deep8353]

I stuck with void Linux because I'm too lazy to switch

[@ermannobassi8005]

Can you make a video on how to edit boot parameters, set up secure boot and measured boot in Linux and other security enhancing stuff in the future?

[@theosexpertdaymon2774]

2:12 I know this is a video about Linux but I'd like to pose a question to anyone willing to answer: where do you think FreeBSD falls on the beard scale?

[@TheDiner50]

Not on the beard scale. More like on the eyebrow scale... Or Evil horns scale? Yea that works... Really BSD and Linux is like comparing a Fedora dork (Edit: I do not mean Fedora distro but the image of a Fedora hat "gentlemen") and someone broken in outer ways like banning hugs. But all in all very a like. All wrong and twisted ways wrong. Linux, BSD, Apple, Microsoft are all twisted and shit in there own ways. And hard to compare.

[@jpwillm5252]

Artix for three years: Arch based, no systemd, active and friendly forum.

[@SuperPukebucket]

Hey, I distro hop to just obtain experience with other package managers, other init systems, etc. Although I use Gentoo on my main desktop and keep the distrohopping to my fun laptop, and I use debian on my school laptop cuz I need something that never requires me to do anything or think in case I have deadlines

[@jjebus2427]

I run KDE Fedora 35 on my laptop and Arch on my desktop (on a separete ssd from windows). This is facts, I'm just a casual user and the only difference I've seen so far is what logo comes up in neofetch and what syntax I use for installing stuff

[@genericgamer1319]

yeah gentoo probably the best if ya got the time & power otherwise you can just use bedrock & whatever software from whatever distro security is impacted seinux won't work the best you need custom policies for that i haven't tried too much but what i have works

[@stevie1da_]

why is the debian logo backwards?

[@arnaud1633]

I think that you forgot to take into account the documentation or the community (like with AUR)

[@gabrielcoronelcascante9111]

Bro, did you know you can make a Debian minimal install, and it is pretty much the same as installing Arch?

[@Adamlol642]

lol I never knew

[@MakeLinuxSimple]

mate debian can be build from scrach via debostrap. Can beinstall from net boot cd or from full robust dvd with predefined desktop. so it can be kinda gentoo-ish or arch-ish. As you call it can be special distro if you knoew what you do

[@sanderd17]

My only issue with Debian as a development and tinkering OS is the age of the packages. I often need to check out the latest features in different packages, and with Debian it's not that easy to do when there are dependencies. The main upside of the choice Debian made, is that debian is stable, so to me is the ideal server OS.

[@MakeLinuxSimple]

@@sanderd17 good point mate. Debian can be bleading edge but even if apt-listbugs apt-listchanges are used with sid there is no guarantee that system will be stable. and dealing with dependencies can be done but it may be a headache .So any true rolling release will be a better option then.

[@WolvericCatkin]

**when I first installed Mint** _"Why tf won't my Bluetooth applet stay off!?"_ **reads some forum posts** _"Oh, I can just install a different one!??"_ 😂

[@MysticMylesZ]

2:40 that's a chonky boy! 😂

[@BryceMWalter]

Excellent points

[@laughingvampire7555]

ok, I used Gentoo back in 2003-2008 and back then compilation was needed especially at the beginning that Gentoo was the only distro with the patches that help to compile everything into faster binaries. But today, the time invested ain't really worthy because how much cycles are you saving really in total, how much seconds, at this point is almost microptimizations what you can do with special purpose compilation. The real gain in speed comes from different algorithms in the software not in -O3 that is broken for a lot of packages. It sucks there are no more binhosts, for those with slow laptops because if you already have a fast computer to tackle the compiling you don't need binaries you can recompile every time. As a former Gentoo fan and I'm using it right now, but just for nostalgia, today I think the superior distro is NixOS hands down, then GUIX and for the security nerds. NixOS is the deal because you can reduce the impact of surprises of new versions and thus reduce downtimes. I mean Nix is what Portage wants to be when it grows up.

[@cfbmoo1]

I went from Mandrake to Gentoo to Red Hat to Ubuntu and now I'm on Linux Mint. When Mint goes from Ubuntu base to Debian base for good that'll be my next switch. Might go back to Ubuntu but only the Mate or XFCE versions since base version Gnome stinks when they went 3.0 if something ever happens to Mint. Maybe I'll try something new, Fedora wasn't to bad when I tested it once. Wasn't perfect but seemed to work. Maybe I'll just go vanilla Debian. Who knows?

[@EngineerNick]

Having just installed about 4 different distros on my raspbery pi... hitting a brick wall and reverting to the stock Raspberyy Pi OS... My view is that the best linux distro is the one that *someone else* has already configured for the job I am trying to do!

[@kajoma1782]

2:10 Funny because when I installed Ubuntu my beard suddenly started to grow faster.

[@GT-tj1qg]

"The closest thing to Linux distros is probably Windows versions" Android wrappers: ...

[@tquad8699]

Well arch is good for running linux on a Sd Card then?

[@yosfis]

I recently switched to linux. I chose Ubuntu because it looked user-friendly enough for me. I will probably continue using it until I get accustomed to Linux itself then I'll probably consider installing Gentoo. I run a Thinkpad from 2015. It has been getting a little bit slow lately, not to mention that the included Network adapter has driver issues in windows. A few months ago, i decided to give Ubuntu a go with the live CD. I loved it, and thought it fit well with my needs. My computer ran incredibly and i decided to dual boot until i was ready to switch. Linux is great and I would recommend it to my colleagues.

[@ClosetsMedia]

I started on arch. Later I switched to Ubuntu cause I liked using apt on things like my server. I decided I hated and switched back to arch like you said I like it more because I can install only what I want.

[@Luc-SA-Hi-World]

I agree and here is my point of view. The thing that fascinates me in a OS/Distro is the challenge. So far for me Gentoo is being the best distro. But I also like Windows because for me the MS OS is the best OS for gaming, When I want to play games, I want to fix, discovery, complete the challenges of the games instead of the OS/Distro. I think that in the end of the day, they are just an "easy way" to manage, drive a bunch of electrons that change and fills pixels in a screen a lot of times per sec or vibrate the speakers coils in different frequencies generating sound, running all the way around between millions of transistors, capacitors, chips... , letting us to decide where those electrons will reach through a bunch of keys, mouse movements, IO and so on. Each one has your own taste. Nice video explanation.

[@LucianC137]

Redstar will always be my go to.

[@samueljoly7191]

Gentoo is more of a personnal dilemma. Are you willing to take the risk ?

[@chop8557]

i like arch and kali. havent tried any others except mint, manjaro and ubuntu

[@michaelweichhardt]

we all do it for that nice gentoo or arch linux badge on the terminal...

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

after 5 months using manjaro xfce as a secondary system fro my laptop while main work I still do in Win, I could say, for daily routine except increasing the working speed I haven't any difference or difficulties to use linux (ryzen 5:2600 + 32gb ram + 2060super - on win vs ryzen 5:5500U + 8gb + Vega 8 - on linux). Maybe 5 years ago I tries Mint, but after a week I screw in up off, I really hated it, I couldn't do anything in it. Manjaro for me, as for noob in linux, is pretty simple distro and I feel comfort to use it (Fedora 36...nah, I use it a day, and every second I feel that I lost something important, some freedom, some flexibility to use)

[@nepnep1057]

for me it's arch, slightly annoying to install, but has less issues than any other distro i've tried with daily use

[@seronymus]

I loved Mint but it was annoying to deal with updating some programs like Krita and junk data got in the way. Now I'm indecisive and lazy for my new pc

[@nepnep1057]

@@seronymus yeah managing programs is the worst part about nint, since it doesn't have the AUR, i recommend using endeavour

[@fgclue]

guys is the gentoo logo a 9 or a g? (general anger)

[@necrotafeio]

I use arch because the wiki and the user repositories are so good

[@hankai7]

0:38 BSD has different versions kinda like "distroS" You got FreeBSD NetBSD macOS etc

[@nekoill]

"But the best kind of cat is your own"