Linux

10723 readers

509 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev

DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025 (distrowatch.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by WorkingPie@feddit.online to c/linux@programming.dev

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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)