The Linux Tier List
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The definitive Linux tier list. It will make many upset, but I explain why there are so many pointless distros that score so low on the tier list. Timestamps...

Since i see so much linux talk on lemmy i got curious and watched a video about the common distros. How true is the information in this video? The person hardly describes why debian and arch are just better than every other distro. At least i’m definitely now curious about Mint or something for gaming.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago
    • when this was originally posted, it got a lot of flack because Linux users were unhappy Chris Titus dares to use both Linux AND Windows
    • as @bbbhitz pointed out, “Pointless” was probably a poor choice of words, but Chris’ definition for that tier was basically “distros that install a couple stock packages and give it a new name”
    • as for the Devil tier
      • RedHat for closing their source
      • CentOS Stream because it’s not CentOS
      • Fedora guilt by association (they are actually a separate entity from their founder RedHat)
      • Ubuntu because snaps
    • for Debian and Arch, not only are they good distros on their own, but they’ve each also become parents (and grandparents) to a huge number of offshoots
    • for gaming
      • for beginners, Linux Mint is a really popular place to start just in general
      • for the more experienced, options like Nobara or customizing SteamOS
    • andruid@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Fedora is a separate entity with RedHat employment as a prerequisite for some of the key leadership roles. It’s ran and designed to feed into RedHat.

      I love Fedora, heck I like RHEL too, but they have gone from my top recommendation for enterprise solutions to me having to research whether their offering is even FOSS and constant concern that a EULA will put us in legal jeopardy for treating our FOSS product choices like FOSS.