Linux Mint is really easy to use and install. Great to begin with for windows users

MX is a brilliant distro, I have used Mint for years , and as far as recommending distros go these are my personal top two. I do plan to try try Debian, and Fedora. Great video...I feel like there needs to be a 'Part 2'. Thanks for sharing 👍

Linux Mint is a great choice for Linux desktop, it is "Ubuntu as it's must be", without current Ubuntu's oddities and twists.

Since Solus released an update in July, I think it became great again. They went through some hard times with the main maintainer leaving the party (and working on a different project: Serpent OS), but they are back with it now, they are keeping up with the Blog and Solus really does feel fresh. They fixed a few annoying nuances (like crashing when going into the multitasking settings, breaking, if it doesn't get updated out of the box, etc.). Budgie also feels refreshing, partially because it is now more of an independent project. I really feel, like Solus deserves more love. It is very unique, it is a rolling release, while maintaining that stability and usability. Plus, it is the quickest complete distro, that I have experienced. Alpine is quicker, but not suitable as a daily driver and NuTyX has its ups and downs.

I've played around with 45 different distros over the past quarter century, dual-booted Ubuntu & Windows for about a decade, but I currently run Linux Mint and/or LMDE6 on my two desktops and laptop. I gave Bodhi with the Moksha desktop a try recently on my secondary system and loved it, but eventually switched over to LMDE6. Haven't used Windows in years.

My understanding is that right now the Pop!_OS team is focusing on developing the new Cosmic desktop environment, and are less focused on updates. Once the new Cosmic desktop environment is released, I think they will get back to keeping Pop!_OS more up to date like in the past.

I follow the Distrowatch top ten. From Distrowatch I use Fedora, Leap1.55, Tumbleweed, Debian 12. I will not deal with snap packages, so any distros that do, I do not bother to use for some development work.

Thank you for the video! Maybe you could have added a "for advanced users only" tier.

Well done, your explanation is clear and understandable 👍👍👍

I've used ubuntu, pop os, elementary, manjaro, raspian, linux mint, mx linux, and maybe a few others I forget. I currently use mx linux, because it was really light and boots fast to revive an old laptop. It really came down to linux mint or mx linux, but mx linux was much faster for boot up.

way to go! I would buy the magazine and spend a few weekend loading new os... thanks so much for this. I still have a stand a lone mini pc with mint and an old laptop.. mint was cool but Fedora was my answers to new computer installs and learning linux as a hobby..

I appreciate the effort involved for what some may think ''its only 16mins video '', also good to see the potential for future add-ons. Mahalo !

NixOS is my daily driver since June 2023 and I am not regretting it.... :-) And I run Collabora Office via an Ubuntu container running in distrobox..... So even if I cannot find the package (like Collabora Office) in the NixOS repositories, I can use distrobox-export in the Ubuntu container.

Would really appreciate it if you could have graded Linux Mint. It's one of the few distros that a beginner is likely to choose. I realise it's not something that you personally would use often, but surely you must know enough about it to put it on your chart?

Linux Mint - easy to use, has zfs pre-installed (zfs create & zpool create), updated frequently, & stable. I run a headless zfs storage server. Set it & forget it. Keep making videos Don. We love your work.

I have tried LMDE5 (worked great) and LMDE6 (had some problems I didnt have with LMDE5 probably due to the disppearance of the driver manager). Then I tried Nobara and it had good language input options (writing different languages). And games worked much better than on LMDE. But other than that it felt clunky and the German translation was really bad (while the German Mint translation is the best thing I have ever seen).

Nice video 👍 The entire video, there's MX Linux. And no comment about it? I think it's interesting in that they sort of have like a toggle for the init for systemd on/off. I am pretty sure I saw you using MX Linux in one of your videos in the past, too. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

I always find it weird that no one explains is this a general list or a all list. Few people mention SUSE which is more for business yes but is rock solid. I tend to go with debian or OpenSUSE for my home and work machines due how stable they're

Actually Solus OS has had a new ISO released recently. I like it… but would put it under bad because of the lack of packages, and it seems like a dying distro. The Budgie Desktop environment is my favorite DE though, and as long as you have a fairly modern PC it runs well and has a strong Windows 10 similarity to it but it’s much more customizable.

It seems to me that you categorized Alpine Linux too narrowly or hastily. I want to let you know that I've been using this distro for more than 3 months as my daily driver on my laptop. I don't deny that it was somewhat tedious to resolve certain issues during the setup, and I even use Gnome as part of the challenge :-), but today everything is going perfectly. I even have a VM with Win10 for work purposes. Greetings, and your videos are as excellent as always.

Solus has been updated and is using kernel 6.4 and Budgie 10.8,all packages are up to date and it is running smoothly

Just a correction , Kali has removed the root user stuff since 2 years .

oh hey thats my tierlist, really fun seeing it in the wild ^.^, also i apologise for all the duplicates, tierlist is just very buggy it seems :p also based fedora in the top

Thoughts on FreeBSD and other BSD's?

I currently have an older laptop which I would like to turn into Linux machine. I want to run some older version of bitwig or reaper on it for music production purposes (scribing ideas). Will sorting it out on Debian be too much clutter for a newbie?

Ubuntu sold users info for millions of dollars to Amazon. They’re long done for me.

Use Debian everywhere, on servers, on my desktop and on the Orange Pi things I accumulate since years... Special mention to ArchLinux for the Docker Containers.

"Kali Linux is not recommended" is a very right point. However, everything you said behind this is wrong and "out of date". 1) From kali website and my experiences, the kali linux doesn;t ship with root user by default now. 2) Kali is basically a toolbox for penetration testers and ethical hackers. So it just provide the convenience for these people, and this is great. Not everyone want to build every tool from scratch. Anyway, this is a good video and please make more🤯

Agree with you on on top 2 Debian & fedora(currently using from last 3-6 months). Before that Ubuntu from last 8-10 years.

I still love Elementary and Mint for my older systems

good choices. I agree mostly with your choice! Cheers

Hey everyone, Im starting to use kali linux as my first linux os and please guide me does kali linux can be used for all purposes like coding, developing, testings,etc as I learn through?

Raspberry pi have a version for desktops and it's really light, great for old pcs

I think it is best stick to distros with a strong dev team, longevity and track record. Many derivatives are fairly pointless, although the likes of maybe Mint and Gecko that bring added value to the disto they are based off are welcome. Go to the source distro in most cases. You did’t even discuss the likes of OpenSuSE - Leap, TW and the immutable Micro OS all top tier especially if you value security and reliability. TW the safest option for a rolling release IMO. Endeavour maybe the best Arch based distro? Not an Ubuntu fan for the reasons you hint at and more, but Ubuntu Budgie is the best Budgie implementation I think. The UI / UX choices are brilliant. So good, that I might put it in the top tier, **despite** my distaste for anything Canonical. Of course, there is no best distro, just the one that subjectively works best for each of us - and however we define ‘best’.

I've been playing around with Antix on my old eeepc 701, and it's pretty good. Though it is definitely one of those build it yourself distros, especially if you need to keep the install size below 4gb. The small screen on 701 makes most desktop environments pretty unwieldy. But I have been enjoying the Herbstluftwm tiling window manager on Antix. I've used Puppy on that machine too, but there was something about it that I didn't like. Though I can't remember what that was. Both of those distros still have 32 bit versions though, which is great.

@Novaspirit Tech I was waiting for your views on Linux Mint and Red Hat :(

Huh I've been using Arch on servers for years. The only main breakage I experienced was when systemd was introduced. Systemd also caused breakage when introducing "predictable network interface names".

I'm very drawn to try Linux Mint or Zorin OS personally coming from Windows. Yet, I know I won't fully switch given how many Microsoft applications I use.

I wonder how secure it is to use a secure linux system in the vm that is installed on windows 11.

I have been on Arch for a decade now, and on Linux for 11 years, I don't just have a production desktop, but a network with all computers on Arch via EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma! I haven't had any problem that was devistating, caused data loss... It just steam rolls ahead getting better and better at a great pace!🥳🐧🥳🐧🥳🐧

Fedora it is. With gnome, you don't even have to touch the terminal for installing codes and nvidia drivers. Its all in the software manager, scroll down to the very bottom and there you'll see other main categories for codecs and hardware drivers. Fedora just works. It's surprisingly simple, and stable. There were no other linux distros that I've fallen in such a deep love as Fedora!

Is “Chronicle” something I haven’t heard of, or did he mean to say Canonical?

Would agree with Manjaro's placing. Was recently using it but things just started slowly falling apart to the point were I couldn't access programs from the desktop as it kept claiming they were not secure. Things just broke one after the other with only limited use of the AUR (one or two AUR packs at most).

Fun video!

I’m slightly biased since my favorite OS is Zorin. Anyway, it’s funny how different our experiences are using the same OS; even on the same hardware. Fedora might have the latest and newest this and that, but my user experience of Fedora is like driving a Cadillac, with the smallest engine option, from the 70s in really mint condition. So, it’s shiny, big as whale, pretty reliable and looks smashing, if you into that kind of thing. But it’s not super fast and cumbersome to move around. Zorin, on the other hand, might be old, but it’s like driving a modern, medium sized Subaru with a reasonably powerful enginge. It’s snappy, very easy to drive and very stable. I can do any kind of modification I want and it will still be stable. What more do I want from a daily driver? That being said. I like Fedora too. It’s kind of the flagship of Linux distros. So, I say live and let distros live.

I tried to install Fedora. But it wont work due grafuc issues..i tried gaduda, it had also some.iasues. pop os was nice, but my monitor kept dimming (i use a desktop) and no way to turn off that issue. I tried nobara and so on. Using a nvidia card and that seems to make trouble for most distros.

I'm 100% kubuntu. Activated prime nvidia 100% and using steam snap. It fixed every issue related to vsync, gaming, stability and vsync video playback as well as compositor vsync.. Omg! I went from using Linux for years since 1997 writing scripts per app to repair vsync issues, then shot over to windows for VR gaming. I'm back on Linux. Sadly not trying VR on it just yet. It just works. I just bought an acer nitro with dual gpu and swapped out the internal for a 4tb pci-e and a 8tb ssd. I'm soooooo happy with it. I added a 32 inch 4k monitor and some other bells and wistles just to get my feet wet again. I love how dolphin sftp to my 100tb Nas server like nothing.

I wonder that which Linux Distro can use run Android and Windows software?

I tried Mabox it's Manjaro with open box and alot of customizing abilities

I started on Ubuntu in the early 2000s..then moved to Mint and now on pure Debian with KDE.

Thoughts on LinuxMint.

I am using antiX on my older laptops. Great for the lightweight category with a Debian Bookworm base.

Thanks, with my dual HD laptop, I looking for a LinuxOS as a startup. One found the very best production, engineering CAD works. The Windows 7 Ultimate be secondary until New HHD/SSd to replace it? No more Microsoft OS, and Win10, 11, or other! To costy it nickel time you NOW!

Are you saying Canonical but it sounds like Chronicle?

And what about Linux mind ? Where would you put that ?

No openSUSE tumbleweed? One of the best rolling distro' s

can someone tell me which distro to use my specs :- i5 8365u 16 gb ram intel uhd i want a good linux distro for daily driver and use my laptop only for web and study i want good good battery life but no laginess PLZ TELL ME as i dont have any os installed in it

Ive been daily driving OpenSuse for YEARS at this point. I use it as a desktop / gaming OS and it works really well for that use case. I actually uploaded a video demoing SteamVR running on Opensuse -Tumbleweed playing Halflife Alyx.

Arch is the best distro for a new user. It was my first Linux distro and it was really fun.

I've been using Debian in production and personal servers since Bo, 27 years ago. I just don't see any need for the other sub-distros unless you're a very new linux user and you need extra care with the desktop. People complain that Debian Stable can be a little behind, but that's the point. And if something is still really vital for you, just do it manually.

What are your thoughts on openSUSE (leap/tumbleweed), tails os, parrot, antix, Alma, and endeavour?

Humm do you have one for most similar to windows ???

Don , I had to hit that stop button at 7:28. I like your channel and I find it quite informative, but... I've been a Linux user and admin since 1999, my first distro was Slackware, and one thing I can say, the best distro is the one that works for you. Not how it looks, not how often they update the base but does it serve it's purpose and is it stable. I've tried many distros over the years, some of them don't even exists anymore. So, my issue with your review in first place is that You cannot slam a distro as BAD just because it's OLD, or using 20.04 base or whatever. Or the developers are too slow to post updates. These are not benchmarks in any way. I agree with you when developers start acting like MS and Apl, pushing, even forcing their ideas to the user in the case with Ubuntu, Canonical and some others. Given most Linux users have knowledge well above the average PC user, I find distro rankings a bit odd and should focus on function rather than looks. Let everyone try and choose. That's why it's called Free software. As I said, the best one is the one that suits you the most so in my case as main desktop MX with KDE and Liquorix kernel, for my kids gaming desktop dual boot Mint/Zorin with Steam, I've Mint laptop for every day use as well as Mint 18 laptop for specific tasks and software that wont run on anything newer. I'm currently testing newly assembled Mini ITX desktop with Peppermint12 with XanMod kernel and so far so good. Regards

Frome when Fedora its rock solid?

what about Red Hat linux? It is mostly used on servers?

I noticed that Debian 12 uses the Linux Kernal version 6.1. I have a Ryzen 7 7800x3d and 7800xt gpu; they require Linux kernal 6.4 and up; therefore I can't use Debian right? I noticed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is coming out on April 25th, 2024 and will use Linux Kernal 6.8. If anyone know other distros which will work with recent gpus or cpus please let us know thanks. I don't about Fedora but it didn't work good with my laptop with a Nvidia rtx 3060; but Ubuntu 22.04 worked better and easier to use. Perhaps, the next Ubuntu you will have an option to use snap or not; seems like 1 of the major reasons not to use it.

BlendOs appears on your tear list when you talked about kubuntu but you never discuss BlendOs. Very confusing

I currently use Debian with Distrobox containers (think: Debian Sid/Unstable on top of Debian 12 Bookworm/Stable) and Flatpak to get around older packages. Some stuff, like the DE, being left absolutely alone for the majority of a release's lifespan is a critical advantage for production, as I can't stand the weird decisions of GNOME or the spurious breakages of KDE, so I stick to XFCE since it has good synergy with Debian. For the sake of KDE, if you absolutely need KDE, Debian Testing/Unstable is the only way as 5.27.5 is WAY too buggy for daily use from my experience. Immutable distros like Silverblue are great, I've daily driven it for about almost a year, but I am certainly waiting until the new dockerfile based system is production ready for 39, maybe 40. Solus did have a new release back in July 2023, except the way they went about the announcement left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. It's one thing for a founder to ghost a project, it's another to say you did so while working on another one in the background.

In my little Box o" Distros, full of USB sticks, way back in the back corner, sits a little 8 GB drive with Mabox Linux on it. It's my guilty pleasure. My secret sin. I love it and I hate it. Picture Manjaro without the a$$-hattery on the backside and there you have it. It's based on Openbox, so it is indeed lightning fast, but it's also a different learning curve to your average experience, and I'll tell ya', it's frickin' *beautiful*. If you've ever messed around with window managers, you know they are usually kind of...austere. But the Mabox team has kicked it up thirty notches. If nothing else just try the live USB and play around with it. But mostly, just LOOK AT IT. I'm triple booting Linux Mint 21.2, Sparky Linux, and Garuda Cinnamon. Linux Mint is my favorite all-rounder. There's just enough hand-holding to get past the tedious stuff, and it's so smooth and well-put-together. Garuda is my answer to when I feel that recurring Arch draw, but it's ten million times less tedious than Arch. It'll probably be what I install on my gaming laptop when I convert it from Windows 11 one day, if I don't go the Nobara route. Sparky is deb-based, but is curated to a comfortable point without being stuffed full of stuff you'll never use. It kicks around much fast (on my machines) than Mint does...it feels lean and mean. My goal is to run Fedora on everything I have. The only thing stopping me is one Windows program I use quite a lot, but which is notoriously hard to get to run on Linux. The few successful guides to installing it require a Debian distro, so I'm stuck in that realm, at least on my writing machines. But I LOVE Fedora.

Can you show us these 5 distros ? 1. Crowz linux 2. Joborun linux 3. Openstage linux 4. Slitaz linux 5. refracta linux Thanks!

It's ... I don't know ... very personal and use case specific.Alpine is great for docker images for example, I don't even know if it's trying to be a desktop distro as well. Debian got better with one ISO that contains binary packages. Before it's was only good for servers imho and it was not great desktop. I never particularly liked Ubuntu without specific reason, but it has good release cycle. My feeling was like that kubuntu was made with zero effort and I prefer KDE. openSUSE is underrated imho, but it has it's issues: btrfs is somewhat hard to maintain and understand, leap is way too conservative, tumbleweed is the exact opposite, but i'm really curious about slowroll which might be competition to Fedora. Fedora is great, i would just prefer less updates, I don't need a new kernel every week. But in my opionion Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Debian, Arch?, Ubuntu, Mate are only distros worth using. Rest has various problems such as lack of support, user base, quality, packages and are focused on one thing (desktop) and lacking in other areas.

Slackware. It fits in all your categories, depending on the level of the user ;)

the suspense builds as you see a daunting list of distros and taking a bit of time explaining each one… will he finish them all? 😅 correction on kali: they haven’t had root as default user since 2019. with the start of 2020.1, it defaults to kali as a normal user with sudo access. but i agree it’s not that useful for the general user.

Alpine Linux is not actually a bad distro, it's just that the distro itself is not designed for desktops but rather for servers and iot stuff. The pros of using this distro is that it is really lightweight, secure.

EndeavourOS is my go-to. All the power of Arch without the initial headache.

I tried Nobara Linux and revision 38 kinda worked then got borked on 2 PC's, tried 37 and 38 and it failed to boot, with rufus and ventoy, called it in discord but they never answered, using Garuda Linux for gaming, Mint for old hardware, Even thou you are right about manjaro, it works for me flawlessly with what I do, issues I get in all distros, is impossible a perfect one. By the way, I had lots of problems using Debian and its clones, rater go back to kubuntu or the likes but not ubunto or gonme at all, is just not me.

What about linux mint??

You have complied with the requirements of my religion and put Debian at #1. Well done.

Kali linux can be real fun, but it's not for newbies for sure.

used to like ElementaryOS, but honestly they should just switch to Debian considering how small the team is, it still feels very buggy, on my machine even the Plymouth on startup are like wrong size icon, window snapping is weird, and they still use that browser, sure it is usable now, but gnome has everything out of the box compared to the current state of eOS, the only thing i like about it is just the code text editor (weird name, considering ppl associated it with vscode, but still better than gnome-text-editor)

what about MX Linux ???

Debian user since Debian 7. Moved to Qubes, never looking back.

OpenSUSE, fastest distro ive tried and somewhat easy to use. KDE works flawlessly.

I just installed linux mint the other day. Back when i was in college, i played with fedora and centos. I always understood that fedora was red hat's test distro, and centos was the most stable, basically red hat itself.... I am not a crazy Linux nerd, so correct me if im wrong. Although, i do know that ubuntu is meh tier. I was never a fan of their UI to be honest.

im on manjaro unstable and i dont care about drama, it works fine

As an olde head, If Debian wasn't on or near top, the entire list was gonna be sus AF, NGL... so great start. By old head I mean the first version of Linux I installed on my PCs was Yggdrasil.

Old Network/System Admin here.... IMO.... It was Ubuntu 16.04 when Canonical started to ruin Ubuntu. 16.04 was the 1st version that was not 100% tested before release. More or less turning it into a Beta that the "End-User" would help debug. Sounds like what Microsoft did with Windows 11 doesn't it!?!?!?! That's when I decided that I would not have any BETAS in my server room. I used 14.04 until EOL and stuck with my other server picks: Debian, Slackware and Redhat. Now... Redhat is off my list this year.

What about Spiral and Gecko linux

Been running Debian on multiple RPi;s for more than half a decade (24/7). Versitile, updateable, upgradeable. Never looked down (pun intended).

Perfect....

gento is great for new users btw

I like Linux Mint and Peppermint Linux

It is not true that Solus Os is not updated. The last version is 4.4 plus, you can read a lot of information on the blog about the distribution itself, what happened. And what will change in the future, so I don't see a problem. The only drawback is the somewhat modest application repository, although you can use the flatpak, and app image applications. Moreover, it works very well and is stable. There are no problems after updating the system, that something went wrong, etc.

When I came back to Linux years back I started with Ubuntu and quickly to Kubuntu but after a while it was clear it was having problems and I was hearing about the privacy issues. I went to Manjaro and it was great at first but then it started happening where things would break down and even after new installs so then I moved to POP. Now I’m starting to have boot drive issues with POP and I was thinking of just going straight Debian and you’re making that more likely

MX wasn't even mentioned. My fav

I think Arch Linux gets ratted on too much. It really isn't that hard to maintain. It's the best OS if you want to build everything from the ground up and are happy to learn. On the scale of full control to no control it is a solid 9 and maybe for some people this is hard. But I've run it for 6 months with Hyprland, the only issue I have had with it was after the release of Plasma 6 some KDE stuff on Dolphin didn't work with my theming, but that was quickly fixed

Linux mint made me switch to linux it' awesome

Fedora is my choice of os also, its really stable and easy to use, ive been using it for 6 months everything smooth as butter.

PoP os should of been in the great category. Because of the fact, there system just works. its the only system that is hassle free. I don't have to constantly meddle with things like Linux is known for.

Where is OpenSUSE??