What is the best Linux distro?

Antergos.

>>57639888

Only Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu are serious contenders. Every other distro is snowflake or edgy. Debian is the best one since it doesn't belong to en evil corporation.

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>>57639888
Exherbo > Gentoo > Debian > Fedora > the rest

>>57639888
Linux Lite or Solus

>>57639916
This

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In my experience, Fedora and Ubuntu are the best pre-configured distros and the most professional distros.

Gentoo is the best distro if you want to build your OS your self.

Arch is for people too stupid to install gentoo.

Debian is for people who think Ubuntu still sucks like it did in 2008.

OpenSUSE is a more bloated fedora basically.

CentOS is a placebo for people who think it's better than Fedora.

Elementary, Mint, Ubuntu spin-offs, etc are for Linux babbys.

Slackware is for true autists.

>>57639888
the best linux distro is the one you like the most, anon

>>57639977
/thread

>>57639975
The exclusion of Manjaro is alarming
>inb4 Manjaro is just a spin off of Arch

>>57640093
>implying there is something good about an os that is a fork of an os that is just an installer script for another os.

>>57639895
There's no reason for Antergos to exist. If you want an automated install, don't use Arch.

>>57639977
what if i don't like any linux distro?

Why can't all the distro teams combine manpower and produce something that works

>>57640093
Just use an automated Arch installer if you can't spend 30 minutes of your super-busy life to install an OS

>>57640264
Then you get to decide between Windows or macOS. shit vs shit

>>57640386
I personally installed Manjaro before I knew it was a derivative of Arch.

My main reason for getting it was because it seemed both lightweight, stable and beautiful. Was I wrong?

>>57640264
Install Plan 9

>>57640312
Because of the very same reason there are so many. They disagree on just about fucking everything. You think there would be 50+ different distros if there were broad concepts all linux developers totally agreed on?

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>>57640264
Maybe you are one of the truly enlightened ones?

>>57640312
>>57640423
At least everybody can agree on using SystemD :^)

Suicide Linux.

>>57639922
can you tell me some advantages of Exherbo over Gentoo?

Fedora

As someone new to linux, but not a mongoloid, any decent reasons for me not to go with Arch?

With virtual Whonix or Tails for shitposting.

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>>57640427
fresh

They're all shit, what's amazing is that Lintards will argue between them.

>>57640185
Some people just like AUR, faggot. Not even fucking Stallman can be bothered to install that shit himself.

>>57639888
Ubuntu for beginners. Literally anything else based on tastes.

suicide linux is not a distro you fucking autist

>>57641326
>challenging Stallman's autism
heh, you have much to learn kiddo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

>>57641351
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQL37AC_YM

>>57640598
Paludis is faster than Portage. Other than that I don't know.

openSUSE cause it is the only distro with thumbnail preview for the file picker in Firefox.

>>57641296

Yep.

Fedora for non-rolling. If rolling is required, you should realize that it's not.

the best distro is either Ubuntu or Mint because they are the easiest to install, work on more computers, have a bigger userbase and more support than other distros

>>57639916
enjoy your outdated repos

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>>57639888
Mandriva-based is where it's at.
Straight outta BASED PUTINLAND

>>57641858

Enjoy your cutting edge exploits and bugs fag.

>>57641888
I'm on Windows 7 right now so you're stupid

>>57641858
http://beta.repology.org/statistics.html

>>57641915

>I'm using the one where the sticky notes and gadgets are an attack vector for a remote exploit that grants control of the machine, so you are stupid XDXDXDXD ;)

Gas yourself.

>>57641959
well I don't use notes and gadgets so JOKES ON YOU

>>57641985

>he doesn't know that you don't have to use them in order to be vulnerable

Cuck.

>>57641326
Then use Manjaro if you crave the AUR so much, Antergos is just a shitty installer for Arch.

>>57641277

That is a fucking shitty shoop.

Great concept, but shitty. I would fix up a better one myself but I'm too busy phoneposting, away from my powered down desktop.

>>57641996
no shut up I win lalala

>>57639888
Solus

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>>57639888
>>57639888

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>>57639888
>>57639888
>>57639888

>>57642334
>>57642327
I actually like Solus, but fuck off.

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>>57642314
>>57642327
>>57642334
>>57642357
>>57642362
Fuck off Kevin.

>>57639916
what about opensuse?

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>>57639888
Noobuntu Vanilla

>>57644804

No. Everything that downstream is a pointless meme distro.

itt paid Canonical shills steering new users towards Jewbhewntjew with Jewnity

>>57644887
How do you shill for something that is free? More like satisfied with the OS and now want to expand the ecosystem.

>>57639925
/thread

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>>57639888

nixos

>>57644887
you can always use lubuntu or xubuntu though I prefer mate myself.

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What does /g/ think of Mageia?

>>57644928
I tried using it years ago. It was a clusterfuck full of bugs. I don't there's any reason to actually use it.

>>57644804
it's my favorite distro and werks out of the box

>>57644928
I think you should use Rosa.
It's the best Mandriva fork, and Mageia and OpenMandriva depend on them for all the important stuff.

GNU/Windows 10

>>57644804
use it as main os for 3 years. i don't play games on it, werks just fine

>>57639888
Ubuntu for desktop, CentOS for server

>>57639916
>evil corporation
Careful with that edge

>>57640427
Id agree but this thread is about Linux distributions

>>57644876
How is openSUSE downstream?

OSx

>>57639888
The one you know better.

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>>57640410
mhwd is lovely, makes life a million times easier. calamares is easily my favorite installer for any linux distro, and its themes look fuckin nice. my only beef is that it handles having two seperate gpus painfully bad. an r7 250x and an rx 480 dont play well, i think its because fglrx and amdgpu arent compatible. i wouldnt need fglrx if the distro wouldve shipped with kernel 4.8, because in 4.8 amdgpu adds support for southern island cards but lolno manjaro sticks to 4.4.

>>57641888
Isn't the whole deal with rolling release that you have less bugs and exploits?
Potentially there could be a new serious bug, say firefox sends the history to your spouse. But thats what nightly is for.
Never had any bugs with bleeding edge distros, just had to change some configs 6 times a year when upstream renamed options.

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Kevin OS

>>57647959
Is it on par with Ubuntu in terms of software and game support via PlayonLinux?

>>57647959
>tfw I am actually loving solus but will never be able to have a decent conversation about it on here

cheers kevin

>>57639888
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#GNU.2FLinux_distributions

any of these distros list are good

>>57639975
> for people who still believe ubuntu sucks like in 2008
Implying it doesn't suck nowadays
And btw i actually use debian

>>57649362
I use Solus

>>57649596
Hm, I have one old pc at home that i want just want to use for browsing/ watching tv or something.. How is solus? I never used it before. Has it apt-get or yum or whatever?

>>57639916
What's wrong with snowflake?

>>57649865
It uses eopkg. It's its own packaging manager made specifically for Solus. It's perfect for what you want and I would say is even more user friendly than Ubuntu.

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>>57639888
Where is arch?

>>57650390
In the trash, where it belongs.

>>57642327
This widespread exclusion of Arch is alarming.

>>57650408
Says the BSD user.

>>57650417
Arch was sitting at 80 seconds and didn't fit on the chart.

>>57650470
80 seconds? Jesus what hardware was that done on? I boot my KDE full Arch on a 3.0 flashdrive in a 2.0 port and it only takes 30 seconds at worst.

>>57650535
Solus takes 3 seconds.

>>57650647
On a monster PC with multiple SSDs

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>>57650661
Hopefully this screenshot clears some things up.

TempleOS

>>57639888
Arch Linux if you have at least a hobbyist level interest in computer. Linux Mint if you don't.

netinst/minimal versions of debian and ubuntu

>>57639895
>>57642100
both Antergos and Manjaro are shitty derivatives. Use Arch Anywhere.

>>57639975
Arch user and I guess I agree with this list. I was gonna complain that Gentoo doesn't have the AUR but then I realized the AUR is just an easier way to compile software and keep compiled software up to date, not exactly completely new functionality.

>>57640410
>and beautiful
this is dependent on the DE and other programs installed out of the box and shouldn't really be taken into considering due to the fact that you can change these later on any distro

lightweight and stable are so-so points but they are mostly subjective (for example I have found Arch to be way more stable than Debian, but people laugh at me when I say this, so stability in itself is honestly just a stupid meme and not worth mentioning)

lightweight is similar to beautiful with what's installed and can be changed, although depending on your definition maybe some distros are more lightweight than others even with the same packages installed

>>57640396
Mac OS isn't shit. It's roughly on par with Ubuntu. A decent unix-like OS, even if it's not the best.

>>57641296
replace shit with good and I'd agree

>>57641339
this

I have had some friends start out with Arch, but they need a bit more help from me this way. Can't really go wrong with Ubuntu

>>57650440
Do you really think so? I figured most Arch haters were on one of the bigger meme distros like *buntu/Mint

>>57651032
>Linux Mint if you don't.
What is your reason for choosing this as your non-Arch distro to recommend? As an Arch user myself I think I'd be more likely to recommend Debian, or maybe Ubuntu. What is it about Mint that you like?

>>57650390
What's the colour bar in the terminal?

Gentoo if you actually have the time to install it. The best distribution that just works is openSUSE

>>57650203
Couldn't they have given it a friendlier name?

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bundsenlabs crunchbang successor
kalilinux
opensuse
mint
manjaro xfce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzRTYPaN9M

>>57641369

Freetards BTFO!

Systemd

>>57640396
>>57640264
*BSD? Haiku? TempleOS?

>>57651182
Just alias that shit, mang.

>>57651243
In other news today, systemd's next update confirmed to add a web browser and office suite...

>>57646424

It's like a 4th or 5th level distro...

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>>57639888
Sabayon.

>>57640312
Because of the reason there are so many in the first place: people want different things from an OS and thus develop different kinds of distributions based on what they want from one. It's not some corporate where you can just pool resources into project.

>>57651182
They're going to be changing it to sol soon.

>>57651368
Well it's past time. How can systemd claim to be a complete OS without a browser?

>>57640427
>tfw you will never have a holyC IDE.

Is it just me or has Debian taken a huge nosedive in terms of stability? Even Mintbuntu has better stability now and the packages are newer.

It's sad because I liked starting out with a minimal install with Debian, and after installing/configuring all my stuff it ran really fast. Mintbuntu is slow and bloated no matter what you do to it.

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>>57639975
>CentOS is a placebo for people who think it's better than Fedora.

You clearly have no clue what you're talking about do you?

>>57641858
enjoy doing a yum update and bricking the kernel and all your apps.

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>>57639888
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>57639888
deepin or solus

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>>57639888

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>>57654347
deepin is love

>>57639888
Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE in order of ease of use. Using anything else literally just makes you a meme that doesn't need a stable, working computer. At the end of the day they're all the same shit so you're better off having proper support and a wide user base.

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>>57654353

>>57654410
Enjoy your Chinese spyware and bloat.
It does look pretty though.

>>57641369
Ya know, this is very much in line with the FOSS line of thought, is it not? Similar to e.g. distribution wikis providing tutorials on installation

I simply don't get the extreme intense autism that arises when discussing distro's but then again I'm posting here as well so I'm probably to autistic myself to notice.

The question is rethoric. The vast amount of distro's and spin-offs is what is great about linux in general. There are all sorts of distro's that do a great job at delivering what they intend to deliver.
For example, Ubuntu is aimed at more "consumer oriented" users who want an out of the box solution. Arch on the other hand is way more "freedom oriented" and aims to provide users with a great amount of freedom (as in free software, little to none influence from developers etc). Spin-offs usually aims to combine certain aspects. Manjaro aims to bring the freedom expierince of Arch in a consumer frindly way. Offcourse this is not in line with the philosophy of neither arch nor ubuntu, hence the independent spin-off.

People should chill the fuck down, figure out what kind of philosophy fits their needs, help the devs of that project out to develop that project to the best of its intentions.

How the hell do you guys even use computers when you're so goddamn obsessed with a philosophy that you insist everything operates that way? Not only is it the most proufound display of autism on can imagine, it's also impractical and toxic to development and therefor experience of a distro.

Aren't distros basically just custom collections of packages which exist for all the distros? Isn't linux completely modular? Is there anything stopping you from taking Mint and turning it into Fedora? Is anything actually "locked" to a particular distro?

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>>57639888

This tbfh

>>57641888
Only true if you roll unstable, even then, the bugs are fixed faster due to roll outs

>>57641277
lol

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>>57654249
>gentoo
>yum

>>57642114
So was I until I got off my ass to do it in 1 minute. Good enough for me

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>>57639888

Fedora XFCE Spin

Puppy or die you autists

>>57655881
thank you, the people on this board running over each other just to yell about which distro is better drives me fucking nuts

>>57639922
You're using Virtualbox instead of KVM?

>>57648364
t. kevin