I've been running Ubuntu Studio for almost a decade, but I'm pretty fed up with it. Maybe I'll switch to Arch. I dunno. Having a turnkey media production distribution was handy. It did audio well. But with pipewire, that seems redundant now.

How about Qubes? if you have the specs, you get sandboxes (VMs) and all distros are available into 1. Heck, you can even have windows VMs...

And if you don't have the specs, just use any linux and install distrobox (docker) !

My distro is the best because I don't have the patience to try them all to see which is actually the best for me. Until my distro decides to do some silly decision that makes me think I should try another, I will stick to it.

CachyOS, cause its Minimal and "Fast"(maybe) ik i can try out normal Arch but I dont wanna rebuild my system everytime I mess something up + Arch based distro its better then Arch Install(in my opinion)

Really? I guess everyone was 15 at some point and hadn't heard that distro wars are useless 🤣

There is no best. Period.

You mean my distros?

Different distros are the best for different purposes.

My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

My Arch is the best because it's a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn't waste memory or CPU doing things I don't care about.

My mint is the best because it's simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I've ever used.

Etc.

Because it gets out of my way and lets me focus on the things I really want to do.

Mine's best for me:I get it set up the way I want, the updates are frequent but not too frequent, and it has all the packages I need.

My choice isn't necessarily (or even likely) the best for everyone. There's a lot to consider when selecting (or recommneding) a distribution. It's not a one-size-fits-all scenario.

I like secureblue the most, because it's simply the best in class when it comes to bridging the difference between Desktop Linux and GrapheneOS in terms of security. As being secure is at the very top of my priority list, my preference for secureblue -therefore- follows rather naturally.

Mine is best for me. I started with an rpm based distro in the late 90s. I tried out gentoo when it first came out. Spent a little time, maybe a year, on Arch years and years ago. I go back to mine because it works, hasn't caused an issue for me in years, and I don't like having to dick around learning new systems anymore.

NixOS best👍👍

Gecko Linux because it's OpenSuSE Tumbleweed with all the useful nonfree stuff included.

i'm using Alpine, but I'm not considering it as the best. It's minimal, no bloat and doing all what I want.

Using Manjaro and Artix. Both are really great.

Artix is a healthy systemd-free distro, so I'm slowly migrating everything to it.

Manjaro just works, is stable, reliable, updates never break my system, their tools are very handy (Pamac GUI is the best software manager I've used in 21 years of Linux, with Synaptic).

I only installed Manjaro once 7 years ago, and ever since I've had that install copied on several partitions with success and reliability. The day I move away from systemd entirely (it's a matter of when, not if), I'll regret Manjaro deeply.

Artix is pretty damn good though, so I'm also looking forward to it.

I do not consider Arch the best. Artix is better because is is systemd-free. I have not switched yet.

CachyOS with NiriWM. Cachy is Arch with none of the install drama. The performance tuning makes it blazing fast on older hardware. Installs with no bloat.

Niri is superior to Hyprland in my opinion because it's a scrolling tiling WM that is super intuitive and fast.

For server workloads, however, not much beats pure Debian. It's stable, well supported, and has a huge package library.

i personally really love devuan! i liked void linux but now i needed a stable distro and devuan was exactly what i needed + it doens't has systemd so this is a plus for me :)

Any Arch-based distribution gives you a ton of control to do whatever you want with it as long as you know what you're doing. Having used Linux myself for 5 years, nothing beats Arch-based for me. Sure, I started with Manjaro (a big mistake for a beginner in my opinion), though I used around four or five distros (including the now defunct Arco Linux while editing for CoculesNation on YouTube), and stuck to CachyOS (same with my producer, actually).

LMDE - no idea if its the 'best' but its the best for me right now in that it does what I want, looks how I want and stays out of my way.

BedrockLinux is the best because it has the features of any and all of the other distributions listed here. ;)

Mint baby, it just works.

in a world where everything is dominated by convenience, eg. AI being a convenient source of information, GUI's being a conveniet way of navigating information. I chose my distro to do the complete opposite. I wanted a distro that if an error arises it would give me a detailed message, not some vague response like "check the logs" where It doesn't explain how to navigate there.

you may know where im going with this, I went with Cauchy OS and hyprland primarily for the speed of the kernel and the surplus amount of information and documentation with AUR. I cannot leave arch on the basis of how fast it is, for a massive update to install the latest core packages of the OS it takes about 2 min whereas fedora takes 15 and well windows (comediaclly, stereotypically popularized by space force) takes 45 minutes, we'll leave it at that. The reason I chose hyprland is strictly on the same notion that learning skills does make the tools you use convenient, hyprland uses keybind over traditional mouse for navigating, launching apps, opening terminals, etc... and you become much faster with keybinds whereas a mouse is limited by the performance of it. using hyprland came to me as an extension when my professor taught me emacs (a TUI based text-editors). its why over the years (despite having used one initially) I just continue to despise IDE's for writing code especially with most editors shipping proprietary AI into the mix. It's not convenient anymore when I have to delete every code suggestion the AI makes.

"convenience" has effectively lost all of it's meaning in technology. To me, convenience has been popularized to justify intellectual laziness, and embraced by tech orgs because they can capitalize off of it.

Because it lets me use a list of packages instead of needing to remember what to install, has every package I need and let's me use them without installing them, and has a good rollback system to go along with cutting edge packages.

BunsenLabs Boron - Debian 12 with Openbox Window Mgr - no desktop, no icons. The machine is not burdened by having to run a heavy desktop environment. All navigation and execution is done with mouse (right click), keybindings or command line. Linux without the Windows artifacts. On my HP i7, boots to login in 19 seconds.

Ubuntu , i use Lubuntu