37 points

Best distro: the one you are currently using on a daily basis.

Worst distro: windows

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Worst distro: windows

Mhh, yes WSL

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Distros are really not all that different. Just use whatever.

But Android is worst.

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I thought this was true. Then I found NixOS.

Technically a lot of the great stuff on NixOS could be done on other distros though. By using Nix package manager along with ansible or something.

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But Android is worst.

Depends on what you’re looking for…and what you mean by “Android.” As in solely AOSP? Or any of the derivatives to include OEM ones? If done right, Android can be more secure than desktop OS, so it actually might be the best distro, depending on what you’re looking for.

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OEM Android is truly malware

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For my use cases at workstation level, Manjaro makes it really easy to work with whatever tooling I need - but I’m comfortable on CLI and aware of the risks/benefits.

Wouldn’t suggest it to a noob, ofc, but for me it’s a good middle ground where I can get things done, and also easily work with edge cases.

Not that I can’t build whatever I need to in the deb world, but I prefer to work with instead of against a distro’s packaging.

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Best (for me) is ArchLinux, it’s never in the way and has the best wiki at https://wiki.archlinux.org, which is also a great resource for other distros.

Worst are probably Ubuntu and derivatives.

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Best: the one I use.

Worst: the one I don’t use.

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More like

Best: the one I use.

Worst: also the one I use.

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Also true, but only if I’m the one criticizing it. 😉

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Also true, but only if you can’t use the same argument to criticize it

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