Garuda. It feels like being inside a gaming rig full of blinking RGB lights. Way over the top with the “gamer aesthetic”.
Same reason but different vibe with Kali for me. I’m sure it’s good for its intended purpose, but I get the feeling that there are many who install it in an attempt at being a kewl h4x0r. I used used Parrotsec for work for a while, and it’s a lot less flamboyant about it.
My desktop “breathes” in RGB so it sounds perfect for me. Plug me into the Matrix.
Manjaro, for its incompetence.
I don’t hate Gentoo, but will never use it. I hate compiling.
Upvoted for Manjaro, downvoted for gentoo. (no vote as a result)
This thread has basically devolved into “Ubuntu hate circlejerk party”, as expected. I guess I just hate the distro I’ve spent the majority of my time on Linux using getting constantly dunked on and am a bit sad watching its inevitable death by snap. (Insert Thanos meme here)
Ubuntu. It’s violating many rules of freedom, and just isn’t good. Their DE spins aren’t good, snaps aren’t good
Hard disagree. Their GNOME implementation is great, the distro is stable and snaps are fine. It’s just not quite as libre as some people want.
The first time I tried ubuntu I did not install it because it felt like half of the screen space was used up by the sidebar, top bar and window decoration so yeah.
That little detail put me off of installing linux for like a year or so because I did not knowthat you can easily change stuff like that
ZorinOS, had lots of problems with it right out of the box that weren’t present on any other mainstream distros I tried on the same hardware.
I didn′t like the look and feel either. For a distro that has a paid version, I would expect a very polished a premium feeling experience, but I didn’t get that compared to all the mainstream free distros.
It was ultimately a dissapointing experience all around.
Hannah Montana for being so bloated
I cannot tolerate Hannah Montana Linux slander
Anything that includes more software than necessary for the system I want. If I need Steam, I’m gonna install it myself.
That’s why I don’t run one of those many downstream distros that mainly change appearances or improve little things like GUI driver managers etc. For some people that’s the reason to use those distros, I might just to look how they achieve the particular feature (e.g. skin, config).
But in general there aren’t really distros I don’t like, but many which I prefer. Debian, Fedora, Arch, NixOS are all great, especially the more community run distros.
Redhat. Wouldn’t touch it at this point. All of my servers are Debian.
I absolutely hated myself after installing Arch on one of my machines.
Then I discovered EndeavourOS… I still hate myself but at least my laptop works now.
Holy shit, I installed it on my Lenovo tablet laptop, and everything works out the box… Even the gyroscope! I couldn’t believe it. It’s the first arch based I’ve tried and I think I’m hooked.
To note, I think I tried like 8 other distros before finding endeavor.
The touchscreen working right out of the box is what surprised me.
Dude, this 100%. The touch screen was janky on Windows, and non existent in all Linux distros I tried. Endeavor worked perfectly without any set up. I couldn’t believe it.
Red Star OS, a little too much spyware.
I’ve always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.
Ubuntu: Too many ways to install apps. Arch: I installed everything from aur. I should’ve used flatpaks.
I much prefer the AUR and native system packages to flatpak. It’s the big advantage Arch has over other distros, just how much software is natively available due to the AUR. There are a few cases where flatpak works better but generally I prefer all my apps to share one set of up to date dependencies.
Sure but flatpacks are sandboxed which is much more valuable imo. Aur is easy, i celebrated that you can just yay and install anything.
Arch, I want to get some work done not save 3 extra CPU cycles on boot.
I thought that’s gentoo.
Binary speed is really the least reason to use Gentoo.
There are a lot of thorny issues in package distribution that source builds completely sidestep.
Install-it-yourself plus source updates are a lot to ask, but if you can get the hang of it the benefits are pretty sweet.
Lol, how does booting quicker prevent you from doing work?
It doesn’t. All the time you spent reading manuals and tweaking configs to get it to boot quicker does.
And also, I have work to do… I don’t like wasting my time tinkering with config files trying to get the optimum settings. I just want an OS that helps me do my work and gets out of the way.
All the edgelord kids boasting about using Arch are also a big turn off.
Ubuntu brings a ton of awkward and shit memories from the course we had on it in secondary school.
Admittedly, Linux Mint is the only distro I have used in a personal capacity.
This is gonna be an unpopular opinion, but Linux mint. It’s great if you’re just getting into Linux, it’s absolutely terrible when you know what you’re doing in Linux. The old package base and kernel just kills me sometimes. I get they want a stable base and use the lts versions of Ubuntu, but my goodness it’s always so far behind it’s not even worth using if you’re on AMD. Thankfully they’ve realized this after so many years and are releasing an EDGE iso with updated packages and kernel and LMDE is getting a version upgrade.
Not really an unpopular opinion. My main desktop runs mint, and we’re well aware of that being an issue. But it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make as long as it works. I haven’t had enough issues to look for replacement yet. ZorinOS looks interesting, though.
For servers and work I use other distros.
Yeah there’s just not really a big enough reason to move away from Ubuntu unless you’re really wanting to avoid snaps (which I completely understand)
I love Zorin, probably for more superficial reasons than most. I like a clean UI and Zorin provides that by default, no fiddling. I get that people like customisability and ricing and all that, and if I could design my OS as easily as I could write CSS then I probably would, but I’ve yet to find something that lets me do that. And even if I do find it, Zorin still looks good and just works, which is most of what I care about.
I’ve never cared for mint because I don’t really want my Linux to look like Windows. Which is what mint does.
I tried it years ago after years and years of Ubuntu. I installed Mint Cinnamon, it was the shit at the time, #1 distro and all. I wanted to like it but was never able to. After less than 2 years I switched to MX/Xfce and still use it, best distro ever.
But Mint is really bleh 🙁
How is MX? What do you like over other distros? I see it at the top of the distrowatch list all the time but I’ve never really found anything special or stand out with the distro.
Out of all the distros that I’ve tried, probably Manjaro. The distro itself is ok, I don’t like how kind of bloated the default installation is, but it’s not too bad.
However what really pisses me off,among their numerous other controversies, was when they replaced perfectly functional open source apps with proprietary ones…twice. Though the former has since been reversed.
Vivaldi is a great browser tho
So is Firefox, which is open source
Sure, do you go and read the source code for Firefox for every update tho? I used to be a big fan of FF back in the day, it’s my daily browser on my phone but I just really like Vivaldi for desktop 🤷♂️
Just gonna throw this here too…
