Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently? (lemmy.world)

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Original question by @atmorous@lemmy.world

What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?

I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS

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[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 week ago

RHEL because it's the stable distro, Arch for being best desktop distro, Fedora for building seamless experience and being arch-lite for people that don't need arch.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Arch seems so interesting because you install the system component by component in the command line but I've heard it has poor long term stability. Is there a distro that's like Arch for installation but more stable?

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

What do you mean by poor long term stability? It's a rolling release. I run the same installation for basically forever, while fixed releases' life-time is measured in just a few years before you lose support and need to do a full distro upgrade... which rarely seems to work without problems.

PS: I just looked it up. The first date in my pacman log in from 2014...

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