Linux

I swear it is my machine or something, but despite CachyOS claiming being faster and more optimized I have yet to benchmark it as faster than the stock kernel for things I play around with. I wrote an application in rust to process a large text file and it both compiled and ran slower on CachyOS. I play around with llama.cpp and again it compiles and runs slower on CachyOS. I want to like Cachy, but right now all I can see is a bunch of window dressing to stock Arch with KDE and a couple of themes that I would rather change to default.

Also, why in the hell am I being asked to make a wifi password encryption key with the damn USB installer? CachyOS is not the only one. A lot of KDE using distros pop up the encryption window when you setup WiFi on the install image. Why? You want me to temporarily encrypt my wifi password on a temporary live image??? I just slows me down.

Anyways, I'm sure I'm crazy and clearly it is fast for somebody, but I can't even get games to benchmark higher.

I'm going to say Gentoo Linux. It's a good learning tool and I suppose maybe a tiny bit faster if you actually custom-compile everything for your hardware from source, but that's a crazy waste of time.

I don't get the hate for Manjaro, TBH. I never had any problem with it, and I used it as my main OS for a few years now.

I agree with you.

I don't hate Manjaro's developers, but they simply do not know what they are doing. They over promise and under deliver.

Pull out your pitchforks, debian.

Don't get me wrong, it's good in a VM or a server, but it's the worst Linux desktop experience I've ever had.

• Apt sucks, it's the worst package manager imo (and I use Gentoo). Slow, bad a dependency resolution and apt-autoremove nuked my system both times I tried to use debian.

• It's old. LTS is only good for servers, you cannot change my mind and I don't see a reason to use sid or unstable, when I can use literally why other distro with a better prepare manager.

And it just does some bizarre things, like not setting up sudo with the graphical installer...

Manjaro always broke on me. I can't even trust them to keep their SSL certs up to date.

Sorry Manjaro devs, no hate, I just got burned way too many times by this arch-not-arch frankendistro.

OpenSUSE, awfull default software selection on desktop, and pushing users hard to use an "everything configuration tool".

@gianni Perhaps Fedora and parent. Just because...

Evil Linux Suprise™

idk why people even use it. too scary for me.

Fedora. It doesn't really add anything and is just more stuff for people to get distracted by.

Also, red hat is responsible for shilling a lot of bullshit.

Debian.

Everything is so manual, not even system upgrades or enabling automatic updates. Like, this can be easily scripted using sed, why dont they do that?

It gets outdated very quickly and people complain that their apps are outdated, while Debian is simply shipping an extremely outdated package.

I respect what they do, and maybe for a Server it is a good OS (even though I would trust Fedora with SELinux and quick updates more).

VanillaOS looked really promising but it was terribly buggy when I used it.