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.

Tierlist of Linux distros. S Tier has: Void Linux, Nix OS, Debian and Artix Linux. A Tier has: Arco Linux (RIP) and Arch Linux. B Tier has Linux Mint. C Tier has: Aurora Linux and KDE Neon. D Tier has Fedora Sway Atomic. F Tier is empty. There is an unranked tier at the bottom, with distros unranked due to not enough usage, these are Manjaro Linux, OpenSuse and standard Fedora Linux.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 8 months ago*

I like the GeekOSDaw Audio packages (especially QJackCTL);

I prefer KDE Plasma over Cinnamon (I know you can use Mint with Plasma);

It's stable, reliable (apart from some issues with Nvidia drivers, though they've gotten less frequent and easier to fix), and up to date.

I probably could have tried more distros, but I'm perfectly happy with where I am and thus see no need to experiment all that much.

I've previously installed CachyOS on the PC I've now got Debian on, to use it as a guest Gaming PC, and that was fine as well.

I'm mostly using X11 since everything runs on it (I've got a 3-to-4 monitor setup - 3 normally, with a beamer I can additionaly connect). Wayland works well for the most part, too, but some things are more glitchy on it.

Also, i found it pretty nice to have a centralized control panel (Yast) for things I didn't/don't know how to do in the terminal yet.

A Point of friction: Printer Drivers didn't include the one we had when I installed Tumbleweed. Our roommate took the printer when he moved out, so it's irrelevant for now, but i'm thinking of getting a laser printer sometime.

  • source
  • parent