That's at least two tiers above S, obviously

So high it wouldn’t fit on your screen

“High” in every sense

I've been recommending it as the beginner's distro for years. Default DE is very windows familiar, install is easy, out of box experience is great, built on Debian so it's stable as fuck. There's nothing really wrong with it unless you need newer drivers or something

I put LM on my n100 HTPC and hasn't done a thing more besides updates. It just works...

Debian + nix home-manager is hard to beat. Confining my bleeding edge software to be rootlesson top of a bulletproof distro is very much the same -- boring (in the best way). Plus the latest apt in debian 13 just feels nicer than dnf to me somehow.

I wish it wasn't built on Wayland.

CachyOS in S, based.

Damn, you've tried a lot of different distros. I've been using Linux for 15 years but only been on like 8 different ones. Installed personally about 5.

Gentoo in the top tier, checks out

The only list I get behind. It is missing NixOS for S tier, but otherwise very logical.

Why try so many distros? It's not like most of them are gonna be substantially different.

Redhat and Ubuntu are controversial for me. Don't want them for desktop, but for any professional server I would choose them over any of the others (and preferably alpine for any docker containers running on them)

Aw. Why's PCLinuxOS on the devil tier?

I always think PCLinuxOS deserves more respect. ... But not like that! ;D

Need to add Qubes os as S+ tier

Gentoo is good only if you got a powerful computer.

I was getting really mad, the I realized what you did there.

In all honesty i don't get it the E for endravourOS on my old ass laptop everything works just fine, even the nvidia card

How dare you rank Debian at....oh. I see what you did there. Nice.

Wait, where's Gentoo?

Haha! You beat me to it! Great ranking. I 100% agree with where you've places each/it.

I "tried" installing gentoo once but i didn't know what a tarball was at the time so i can't really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.

i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i'm not sure on the details.

Yep. Void's been surprising me for over a decade, since it was still "new", at how well kitted out it is, and what a joy of simplicity and cleanliness it is. Rarely any hunting down the superfluous complexity of a package's name-extra-words-after-the-program-name. A real joy. Very few complaints. Big love for VoidLinux.

PS, Runit is niiiiice. :)

Today might be that day. Give it another go. :)

Void has an install script

I thought this was pretty normal for Linux nerds. I’ve tried loads but I keep coming back to openSUSE.

Why do hikers travel to different mountains to conquer?

I was curious

Everyone has different needs and preferences. Finding something early on and being able to stick with it is great, but many don't find that right away, or things change with their needs or the distro.

Plus it depends also on how long you stick around each time. I know I dipped in and out of dual booting for a long time, only now in the past year settling in well. And each time I tried Linux again, lots had changed so I couldn't just go back to what I used before.

Isn't part of being in the Linux culture to experiment with things, even if it's just the window manager, settings, or particular apps?

When I started my Linux journey I switched distros every weekend. But later I found Qubes OS and been using it for 8+years now...

Out of curiosity, what is it you like about openSUSE? It's been forever since I've messed around with it and was considering switching to it from Mint (having some graphics stability issue possibly coming from my bizarre monitor layout giving X11 headaches while using KDE, which Mint doesn't really optimize for)

I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

I enjoy this comment. I don't even know, if I'd rank NixOS as S-tier in general, but because I can handle it, yeah, don't really have a reason to bother with other distros...

Honestly I didn't use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn't like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint's apps.

The answer is simple: when I used Debian, I was just starting out with Linux and didn't mess with systemctl at all. It was an ok beginner experience (I'd already used Mint before trying Debian, so I was at more of an intermediate level) but I probably wouldn't like it as much nowadays.

I like the idea of using different software for different things, why do systemd timers exist when there's already crontab, for example?

Meanwhile, I mostly used Arch on my server where I had to deal with all the systemd stuff, which was rarely useful for my purposes.

I can see why people rate Debian so highly,

It's as strong as a brick, albeit, it's about as exciting as one too.

I will admit I'm a newish Linux user starting about 6 years ago, but I use it on a server and it's just bulletproof ... and easy.

...

Then that's the standard 4 I first put in my bedrock linux.

Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Void.

Solid.

I'd not noticed.

Any especially more buggy than Arch?

Keeping it upgraded frequently enough?