Solus Is now the 6th most popular distro in the last month on

Why is mint so obscenely popular? Is it a legit choice or just a meme?

>>58554069
It's for people that think they are too advanced for "baby first linux ubuntu" so they move to basically the same thing

>>58554056
This means exactly shit. It doesn't measure a distros popularity or usage. Just the number of page hits that a page gets. Fucking retard.

>>58554141
I put it on my gf's laptop because it's essentially babby OS and it looks decent enough for her to want to use it.

>>58554069
The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more.

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>>58554056

>opensuse is ranked above fedora

bullshit list

mpv wouldn't even work on opensuse and i couldn't get the applications menu to turn on

>>58554069
Because the best that can be said about Unity is "unfortunate". I still use Ubuntu, anyway.

>>58554291
k-pop is basically cock teasing harlots selling their body for (You)'s in real life.

j-rock is real music.

>>58554291
Plastic

>Fedora and Arch fags on suicide watch.
You act like I care what you faggots do hyperlul

Congratulations /g/. You've memed this garbage distro into relevancy.

>>58555335
>k-pop is basically cock teasing harlots selling their body for (You)'s in real life.
not to mention they're all fake. every one of them ahs had plastic surgery.

>>58554056
fuck off kevin

>>58554291
MPV is shit though. No one seriously uses it.

>>58554056
Debian is and forever will be the best OS.

>Debian powers most of the internet.
>All the most successful special-purpose distros are based on Debian (Kali, Tails, Ubuntu)
>Debian has the largest organically formed open source community in the world.
>The NSA wants you to use RHEL and derivatives
>Debian implemented systemd in a straightforward way.

Just use Debian.

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>Manjaro is 3rd
The true patrician's choice.

Nice shilling done there!

>>58556016
has manjaro improved at all in the last few years? I remember trying to use it awhile ago but it was kinda shit

>>58555982
Meh.
I just cant get myself to use apt-get.
It just sucks to type (dnf, yum or zypper just "flow" much more naturally) and not having apt-get search is just retarted.

>>58554056
3. Largest distro is based on arch.
Why would anyone be on suicide watch?

>>58556360
apt-get is a bit more flexible than yum actually. Not sure about dnf.

You can search with apt-cache search, which made sense under a stateless design where you don't know if a remote host has that package.

>>58556299
I don't know. I switched to Manjaro last year when Win10 turned out to be just as retarded as Win8. GPU passthrough was a big reason for using Manjaro. Wanted more of a rolling release than the others. Redhat is what I'm used to though since the 90's (oldfag from the beginning).

>>58556539
dnf should be very similar to yum, but I don't know about flexibility. All three do what I want them to do, but apts syntax sucks.

>apt-get
OK, something called apt gets me something, so this is probably the command to download a package and then I probably have to apt-install it and apt-search before…
>apt-get install
WTF? That's like saying RIP in Peace
>apt-cache?
It's a total clusterfuck. Sure, takes 3 minutes to memorize, but it's triggering my OCD

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>>58554056
:)

>>58554056
That's a top list distros SEARCHED / PAGES HIT on DW.

>>58557147
Your OCD needs to calm down
It's apt install, apt update etc. now

>>58556016
Manjaro is complete shit.

Tons of bloat, slow updates, and breaking things for no reason whatsoever.

>>58555838
um... I exclusively use it and I feel like at least a few others do

Just sayin

What do you think is so shit about it? I'm curious

>>58559029
don't listen to him. mpv is where it's at.

>caring what distro you use

most people end up modding the shit out of it anyway, does it really matter if you use debian or arch or whatever other bullshit when everything but the core has been modified, uninstalled or replaced?

>>58554056
>Solus
Is that the distro with almost no packages?

>>58555838
OH REALLY NOW?

>>58559149
No you're thinking of Void.

>>58554056
Click shilling. You can do this on phones by resetting your IP, or on some routers and SIM-card routers. Basically, solus shills are spammingly clicking on Solus. Notice the page says
>measured by the number of clicks in a period of time (month)

>>58558983
>Tons of bloat
Use the net installer
>slow updates
Pacman is the fastest package manager there is my boy
>breaking things for no reason whatsoever
That's linux in general though, at least Manjaro has the decency to offer an Openrc version

>>58559133
Yes it does, because trying to mod Debian will end up with a burning house and a tactical flashlight up the bum

>>58555778
Still hot.

>>58554056
Arch is primarily made for hardcore hackers and serious programming and top-notch server stuff
There aren't many geniuses around to actually use it
That's why n00b distros like Debian are so far up

>>58560484
>implying the Kevinnet doesn't do it automatically

>>58560732
> .... top-notch server stuff

Umm... Why would anyone use Arch for a server? It is a rolling release; things will definitely break, and a broken server means less money.

>>58560780
Can't Arch be both a rolling release and a stable distribution? I find that hard to believe. Why would anyone choose Arch then if Debian offers both?

>>58560794

Not as far as I know. Closest thing to stability they have is a mailing list telling you if something will definitely break.

And, I guess the reason people use Arch is primarily because rolling is a priority; Debian testing has freezes, but Arch doesn't.

Additionally, it first-class citizen PPA equivalent, unlike Debian.

>>58560867
>Debian testing has freezes, but Arch doesn't.
Debian unstable doesn't freeze.

>>58560879

I know. I would guess Arch is a little more stable and Debian unstable, though. If I'm wrong on that, then I couldn't really tell you why someone would use it other than AUR + hipster.

>tfw no based CentOS in the top 5

>>58554291
That webm depresses me. Look at how happy she is when she's dancing with her suitcase or whatever it is. Then, when she has to flash pantsu for all the masturbating salarymen, watch the smile disappear. She hates it. She hates what the bosses are making her do. We are basically witnessing a rape here. It's agony to watch.

>>58556360
use an alias then

So does anyone here actually use Solus? Is it any good?

What would be the one most meaningful positive feature in the following:
- Ubuntu
- Elementary OS
- Solus
- Manjaro

It sounds like these distros have the potential to be for everyone, but which one should be the one that's polished for that purpose?

>>58554056
That's not popularity. That's how many times people have viewed the DW page for the distro. The only thing that ranking shows is that people that browse DistroWatch have clicked the link to read about the distro and isn't an indicator of whether or not they went on to the actual distro's site, downloaded and installed it.

>>58554239
This.
Arch or gentoo users, or other rolling release distro fans don't check distrowatch every day to see if that new iso is available.
Distrowatch page hits are based on the first distro link each visitor clicks each day.

>>58556539
Being more flexible than Yellowdog Update Manager is like saying "well, I'm more skinny than rms"... It's just not an impressive feat.

>>58560962
> installing a browser on your server to click an online survey

Frankly I would be more upset if it DID show up.

>>58554056
Jesus fucking christ, meme magic works.

>>58554069
it's for the 16-22 gamer crowd of absolute idiots who are somehow even too stupid for ubuntu flavors

So now that the dust has settled, is solus actually worth using or is it just a meme?
I've seen a lot more people start using it, even other /g/entoomen.

Looking at the site it looks like an aesthetic and comfy little distro. Is it worth installing?

>>58555838
>install mpv
>just works
>low battery usage on laptops
>better quality
>hardware rendering
>shit

>>58561936
MPV is literally shit tier. No one seriously uses it.

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>>58562663

>>58554056
Arch has never cared about being popular. If they gave a shit about perpetual growth of the userbase, they wouldn't have deleted the beginner's guide on the wiki.

>>58562663
but it's literally objectively the best video player ever made

>>58562663
Here's your (You)

>>58560994
Ubuntu- Amazon teehee
Elementary- Pantheon drains my laptop battery like fuck
Manjaro- Bloated and ugly, why not just install arch and not deal with the shitty stock config manjaro comes with?

Solus' DE, budgie, is pretty gud too. I might switch back to arch later, but for now I'm pretty happy with it. The only thing that I absolutely fucking hate is the Alt-tab functionality of budgie. It's absolute garbage.

tfw no install memtoo in the list