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DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025 (distrowatch.com)
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Just a simple run down of DistroWatch's best distros of the year.

Currently using Linux Mint Mate and I gotta agree with them that it's pretty fucking great. Whats everyone's favorite distro of 2025?

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I've been using CachyOS for a couple of years now, so I suppose that makes it my favourite distro of 2025

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    I have been liking CachyOS as well. I reluctantly switched from Fedora after I kept getting weird problems (definitely a "my PC" thing, I wish I could upgrade).

    Features I like about Cachy:

    • Auto-setup of snapper btrfs snapshoting (my fav feature of openSUSE) on all bootloaders (I like the simplicity of limine)
    • Gaming ready fork of kernel-hardened, with some changes, including allowing use of unprivileged namespaces (needed by Bubblewrap/Flatpak/Firefox/Chromium to avoid the need of a SUID binary)
    • AUR (cus it is Arch)
    • Update service which updates from all installed sources (pacman, Flatpak, AUR)

    What I wish was different:

    • Inclusion of a full system Mandatory Access Control policy (SELinux preferably)
    • Compatibility with hardened_malloc (idk why but on Cachy, GTK apps crash because glycin bubblwrap commands fail)
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