I labeled some of the lesser known logos. The criteria are arbitrary and I made this based on how much I liked using it.

Note that Fedora Sway Atomic isn’t bad, but I had a bad experience because I was trying to install NIri on it and it clearly wasn’t meant for that. Basically, it’s just not for me.

I wanted to rank Manjaro low because I heard bad things about it, but I think I used it for like a few minutes because I wanted to try Gnome, and I didn’t like Gnome after trying it and didn’t want to deal with uninstalling all the Gnome stuff manually, so I just hopped to another distro.

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

        • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss

          NixOS also doesn’t show what packages were updated after an update, and doesn’t show which version they changed to, which is slightly annoying.

          • Paulemeister@feddit.org
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            1 month ago

            I can recommend nh. Its a wrapper around the nix* commands and includes nh search, giving you a list of packages (not sure about nixos module options, I think not). It also uses nix-output-monitor giving you a nice dependency graph when building (plus downloads etc) as well as a diff between the current and new generation, with version changes, added, removed etc.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      I’ve been recommending it as the beginner’s distro for years. Default DE is very windows familiar, install is easy, out of box experience is great, built on Debian so it’s stable as fuck. There’s nothing really wrong with it unless you need newer drivers or something

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Void and NixOS in S tier is based, my two favorite distros. Because of me using void though i kinda miss using Runit when i want to use a declaritive system like nix. I’m working on a gnu guix config in a vm now to see if i can use that as an alternative instead. It’s not runit per se, but who knows, maybe i’ll still like shepherd better than systemd.

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOP
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      1 month ago

      I “tried” installing gentoo once but i didn’t know what a tarball was at the time so i can’t really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.

      i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i’m not sure on the details.

      • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Yes, NixOS and GNU Guix are both technically source-based, but they pull from a binary cache server by default to prevent it from building everything. You could disable it, but i don’t really see the point since as far as i’m aware, nix and guix don’t have the use flags stuff like Gentoo has.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Worth revisiting now. :)

        You want the USE flags. *enticing gesturing*

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Here’s mine:

    • Note 1: This tierlist only includes distros I’ve tried.
    • Note 2: Slackware would rank higher now; I made this about month ago.
    • Note 3: The “noob” tier doesn’t mean the distro is bad. If it weren’t there, Mint would rank higher.
    • phorq@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Redhat and Ubuntu are controversial for me. Don’t want them for desktop, but for any professional server I would choose them over any of the others (and preferably alpine for any docker containers running on them)

  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I use fedora workstation but it’s so boring because it just does what I need and I never have any problems 🥲

    I might give Debian a spin at some point

    • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Debian + nix home-manager is hard to beat. Confining my bleeding edge software to be rootlesson top of a bulletproof distro is very much the same – boring (in the best way). Plus the latest apt in debian 13 just feels nicer than dnf to me somehow.