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[โ€“] jakeCubes@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Can't say it's the best, but I love Alpine. It's light, fast, versatile and easy to use, runs on anything, and despite it being used mostly in containers and VMs, it makes for a great desktop distro aswell. :)

[โ€“] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? I guess everyone was 15 at some point and hadn't heard that distro wars are useless ๐Ÿคฃ

There is no best. Period.

[โ€“] woelkchen@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no best. Period.

But there are bad ones. For example Ubuntu and derivatives broke Flatpak support in 25.10. This was known ahead of release but because only Snap matters, the fix will only roll out after release.

[โ€“] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

So, it's the worst for you and still the best for others, right?

Arch is the worst because... And the best because...

Same with every other.

In fact I'd argue that every single distro is the best for at least one person.

[โ€“] greplinux@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

BunsenLabs Boron - Debian 12 with Openbox Window Mgr - no desktop, no icons. The machine is not burdened by having to run a heavy desktop environment. All navigation and execution is done with mouse (right click), keybindings or command line. Linux without the Windows artifacts. On my HP i7, boots to login in 19 seconds.

[โ€“] frostypanda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

It's not the best, but Pop OS because it's the only one that actually worked without any other setup (Mint didn't appear on my screen, and I couldn't find anyway to access a terminal or troubleshoot that). Starting to regret it, though, especially as the Pop community devolves into the Cosmic cult and 22.04 has more issues (some of my flatpaks refuse to open now, sometimes I get a black screen when starting the computer, bluetooth headphones no longer work, etc.).

[โ€“] Sidhean@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

It was the first one I got used to, and I haven't had a reason to switch; it does what I want well enough. The best reason, though, is interjecting (I use mint btw) occasionally.

[โ€“] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Because it lets me use a list of packages instead of needing to remember what to install, has every package I need and let's me use them without installing them, and has a good rollback system to go along with cutting edge packages.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Zorin is boring. uses ubuntu stable, out of the box distro so you can do anything you want to do right after installation (including installing a windows program with play on linux but also like burning a disk), emulates windows. Add kde if you want to spice it up (distro really needs to change to kde out of box.). If someone is from windows and does not want to learn all that linux stuff they can pretty much go for most things right away and they can use the software store, choose the debian download for anything they find online if its available and if not they can download the windows right click and say install with play on linux. Its the lazy mans linux and im plenty lazy.

[โ€“] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You mean my distros?

Different distros are the best for different purposes.

My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

My Arch is the best because it's a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn't waste memory or CPU doing things I don't care about.

My mint is the best because it's simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I've ever used.

Etc.

[โ€“] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Because it gets out of my way and lets me focus on the things I really want to do.

[โ€“] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

Mine's best for me:I get it set up the way I want, the updates are frequent but not too frequent, and it has all the packages I need.

My choice isn't necessarily (or even likely) the best for everyone. There's a lot to consider when selecting (or recommneding) a distribution. It's not a one-size-fits-all scenario.

[โ€“] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 months ago

CachyOS, cause its Minimal and "Fast"(maybe) ik i can try out normal Arch but I dont wanna rebuild my system everytime I mess something up + Arch based distro its better then Arch Install(in my opinion)

[โ€“] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My distro is the best because I don't have the patience to try them all to see which is actually the best for me. Until my distro decides to do some silly decision that makes me think I should try another, I will stick to it.

[โ€“] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

It works for me.

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