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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Stop arguing over the best Linux distro

Ubuntu is great
Arch is fun for tinkering
Fedora is good for workstations
Mint is good for newbies
Manjaro
Pop!_OS has a cool interface
EndeavourOS is interesting for easy Arch installs

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Chocula

@gamingonlinux

Debian is great
Arch is fun for tinkering
Fedora is good for workstations
Mint is good for newbies
Manjaro
Pop!_OS has a cool interface
EndeavourOS is interesting for easy Arch installs

😉 I changed ubuntu for debian. I think this is better

Alan Twigz

@gamingonlinux the idea of the "best" way to do anything is against the spirit of open source imo

doragasu

@gamingonlinux That's the cool thing about Linux: there's a distro best suited to your needs... and Manjaro 😂

Jón

@gamingonlinux I just want my os to get out of the way to get shit done, work or game.

lj·rk

@gamingonlinux

Edit because some people cannot read: I'm not saying Manjaro is bad but there's a gap it filled, yet at a cost. Even so, this gap ought to be filled and Manjaro showed us how big this gap is.

IIRC a lot of the Arch User's hate against Manjaro/Endeavour came from bad/repetitive forum questions of things that were actually well-documented in the wiki and clear to anyone who'd installed it manually... or already fixed in Arch but not in Manjaro.

That really poisoned the well and I still don't like the "Arch but easy" marketing of some parts of their community. Manjaro and EOS (just like Arch) can and will break and one shouldn't expect otherwise.

Ironically the quality of Arch makes it appealing to not only those who want to learn deep distro internals and fully control their system (which is how it used to be). So there's a real demand for something that has some of the upsides of Arch (a great package manager like Pacman, a flexible and incredibly huge amount of packages in the AUR) without requiring to learn Arch. There's no reason why you shouldn't have one w/o the other. But IMO Manjaro/EOS ain't it, because of the reasons above.

I'm mostly hoping for fedora (Silverblue) to fill that gap as an accessible, up to date, vanilla and fully stocked (with Flatpak) distro.

@gamingonlinux

Edit because some people cannot read: I'm not saying Manjaro is bad but there's a gap it filled, yet at a cost. Even so, this gap ought to be filled and Manjaro showed us how big this gap is.

IIRC a lot of the Arch User's hate against Manjaro/Endeavour came from bad/repetitive forum questions of things that were actually well-documented in the wiki and clear to anyone who'd installed it manually... or already fixed in Arch but not in Manjaro.

Dwemthy

@gamingonlinux
I use Mint and don't think of myself as a newbie.
But I'm no power user either. Comfortable in the terminal, but I have no idea how the OS _actually_ works.

aproposnix

@gamingonlinux it's the arch guys! They started it! I'm going to tell my mom!

Jay Deiman

@gamingonlinux OMG, thank you. This has gotten so tiresome over the years, especially with the people who go the elitist route (unfortunately, usually Arch/Gentoo/Debian users).

Instead of playing the "which distro is the best", we should all just be laughing together at the Windows and Mac users with their inferior operating systems ;-)

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@gamingonlinux yeah you're right, let's argue over desktop environments

Botch Frivarg

@gamingonlinux nixos for when you like it weird?

(Note currently running nixos on my desktop, and kinda like it)

Vile Lasagna

@gamingonlinux ubuntu is pretty bad but a lot of other distros have their charms and strong points, yeah

klihfuhrd

@gamingonlinux and Debian is the best ;) Sorry, had to be the guy

Jon Maddox

@gamingonlinux ChimeraOS for the ultimate couch/controller gaming setup!

Icedrous

@gamingonlinux what is the easiest to learn Linux distro for absolute beginners? I installed Ubuntu and it works for what I really want it for which is a secondary OS on my laptop, however I don’t quite understand why there’s two different stores (snap?) or how the terminal is useful (never really tinkered with terminal on windows either)

Zoey Ahmed

@gamingonlinux manjaro is great!
...if you want none of the benefits of a begginers distro like ubuntu/fedora and all the drawbacks of arch

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@gamingonlinux im not sure if Manjaro and Ubuntu are so great.. Manjaro is unstable and enterprise maintained distros shouldnt exsist, terrible decisions

katzenberger

@gamingonlinux As a Manjaro user, I saw what you did here…

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@gamingonlinux
Continuing list:
Tails is best for privacy
Kali is good for hackers

young man yells at the cloud

@gamingonlinux >Ubuntu is great

eeeeeeeehhhhh... maybe "was" great, if we're being generous

Eugene Nine

@gamingonlinux those are all nice, but Slackware is still the best.

Kat

@gamingonlinux NixOS is fully managed, and has rollbacks for recovery.

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