Linux

Fedora

I want to preface this by saying that Red Hat absolutely deserve your ire in light of the recent news.

I appreciate that Fedora has relatively recent packages for a fixed release distribution. I really appreciate how they ha e pioneered in desktop-oriented technologies to help make Linux a more palatable experience for regular users, and I'm glad to see these gradually be adopted by others over time.

I'm happy to hear that the Fedora project still mostly operates Independently under redhat / IBM, but I'd be lying if I said the IBM acquisition didn't worry me to the point of looking into alternatives.

Arch linux (btw). Because it's easy to install and has the most accessible package manager of em all.

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...before you shoot rocks at me and try to burn me alive.... download an arch iso, run it, and then type "archinstall". Thank me later.

"Oh, but its still veeeeeery hard to inst-"

Fedora KDE.

Fedora Workstation

Debian.

LMDE

• Because it's Mint & Denian

Fedora

Arch (BTW)

Gentoo

Arch. It's a "build-your-own" distro without the hassle of compiling everything from source, like with Gentoo (still love Gentoo, though). Also, it has pretty big repos with the AUR on top of that.

And no, it's not unstable, if you can read. My oldest Arch install was 5 years old and even then, it didn't break. I just wanted to do a fresh install for no particular reason.

Garuda Linux

Void Linux

It has it's own package manager which is nice and performant, it has another script similar to the AUR to an extent, runit is simple and sensible.

Linux From Scratch

Manjaro, it's just very stable, has access to the AUR, actually looks good and feels like a modern OS should feel.

Nobara

YiffOS

Linuxmint.

We're looking to create a comprehensive list of the most popular Linux distributions and the reasons why people use them.

I'm curious, do you intend to put up the results somewhere?