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.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 days 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.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Yep. Void’s been surprising me for over a decade, since it was still “new”, at how well kitted out it is, and what a joy of simplicity and cleanliness it is. Rarely any hunting down the superfluous complexity of a package’s name-extra-words-after-the-program-name. A real joy. Very few complaints. Big love for VoidLinux.

      PS, Runit is niiiiice. :)

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    14 days ago

    I switched from Arch to Fedora recently and so far I like it. Faster than any distro I’ve ever run on this laptop.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I enjoy this comment. I don’t even know, if I’d rank NixOS as S-tier in general, but because I can handle it, yeah, don’t really have a reason to bother with other distros…

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      14 days 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
          2·
          14 days 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.

  • radiouser@crazypeople.online
    2·
    13 days ago

    Why is OpenSUSE at the bottom? I’d heard good things about it. EndeavourOS is my current OS but I’m always looking for a new distro.

  • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    14 days ago

    Ive only tried a few but of those cachy is tier S. I tried a lot of others that were ok but had weird issues with my hardware or required a ton of setup by me. Cachy handles a lot of that for me and everything works fine.

    As for gaming ive had 1 crash so far, but that was… OpenLoco, so its no biggie.

    Im happy with my choice and probably not gonna distro hop for the foreseeable future

  • mal3oon@lemmy.world
    52·
    14 days ago

    Why is debian S tier, and Arch A tier? They both use systemd. For me I would switch Artix and Arch tbh. I had lots of issues with the artix repo because of hidden systemd dependencies. Void, probably was the smoothest experience I ever had. Shout out to Luke Smith back in the days who had great rice for void.

    • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      I can see why people rate Debian so highly,

      It’s as strong as a brick, albeit, it’s about as exciting as one too.

      I will admit I’m a newish Linux user starting about 6 years ago, but I use it on a server and it’s just bulletproof … and easy.

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      The answer is simple: when I used Debian, I was just starting out with Linux and didn’t mess with systemctl at all. It was an ok beginner experience (I’d already used Mint before trying Debian, so I was at more of an intermediate level) but I probably wouldn’t like it as much nowadays.

      I like the idea of using different software for different things, why do systemd timers exist when there’s already crontab, for example?

      Meanwhile, I mostly used Arch on my server where I had to deal with all the systemd stuff, which was rarely useful for my purposes.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      I’d not noticed.

      Any especially more buggy than Arch?

      Keeping it upgraded frequently enough?

      • Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        11 days ago

        At least that’s what I’d experienced. Pretty sure the ly-dinit package is still broken. I also never got suspend working properly.