instead of all the hate bromanchu,
make lists
no i hate blah blah, you have to fill in all five
Top five distros:
1)Fedora
2)Ubuntu
3)Debian
4)Arch
5)Mint
The only reason i put arch in is not because it's a great distro. It breaks often and their idea of simplicity doesn't take into account time wasted but, it is the best distro to learn linux, because it will force you too.
actually the best distro to learn Linux is Slackware.
If you're just starting out, no.
I'd say Ubuntu for a starter, arch for when you want to learn about the os, and then Gentoo or Slackware if you have no life
Slackware is the purest of Linux distros. When you learn Ubuntu, you learn Ubuntu. When you learn Gentoo, you learn Gentoo. When you learn Slackware, you learn Linux.
I didn't realize Slackware users were as delusional as Arch users.
Top 5 Distros:
1. Mint
2. Mint
3. Mint
4. Mint
5. Mint
Honorable Mention: Mint
Anyone who disagrees is a no-life virgin. End of argument.
Why Fedora is good? I wanna try it.
We are using the oldest surviving distro. We are entitled.
Also, once you go Slack you never go back.
Just try it, it's a simple install and there's no obstacles in the way before you can use it. I'd recommend going to rpmfusion after the install.
Ubuntu is for the kid
Arch is for the young man learning the ways
Fedora is for the older man that just wants to get the work done
Slackware/Gentoo is for the hobbyist/hacker, at least in the original sense of a hacker.
1.) Manjaro
2.) Fedora
3.) Mint
4.) Kali
5.) OpenSUSE
More people should know about manjaro, man. It's good.
Samefag?
1) Slackware
=2) Arch
=2) Debian
=2) Fedora
=2) Mint
>ie. anything else that's popular
Follow the source.
Why is Slackware any better?
I'm the poster above that, but Slackware is rock solid, and supports everything out of the box, thanks to the default huge kernel.
Also, the hands-on approach means that any problems with dependencies or broken packages are easily fixed, because you have a better understanding of what's what. Dependencies aren't that bad either, the average new program has between zero and two dependencies, not this fantastical picture Sup Forums likes to paint of years spent searching and compiling.
Init system is really easy. There was minor controversy over pulse audio being introduced recently, but the init system means all you need to do to disable it and go back is something like 'sudo chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio' and you're done. The scripts are really nice and simple, and everything is well-commented, because the devs are expecting someone to look there. Even in I think it is /etc/init.d/ there's a note that you're in the wrong folder, stuff like that is appreciated.
The community is pretty friendly and nice, too. Any questions, head over to Linux Questions.
Everything is optional. Some people complain that the software is all outdated, but that's just because you haven't opted in to the third party repos that are maintained by devs, like alienBob's repo for KDE5, or the official current repo. Everything you'll find there is basically in testing phase, but even that stuff is rock solid.
The slackbuild compile scripts you get are really nice and uniform across the community too, which means you can probably recompile the bleedingest edgiest source by some minor changes to a script.
Also, because Bob.
1.) Devuan
2.) Salix OS/Slackware
3.) Void Linux
4.) Gentoo/Funtoo
5.) Alpine (without X)
1) Lubuntu
2) Debian LXDE
3) Xubuntu
4) Mint XFCE
5) LMDE XFCE
(aka, 5x debian)
Fedora breaks more than arch btw
Oh I just became a vegetarian hipster after reading that
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