I use Arch, btw, but I don't consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago

Does what I want and gets out of my way.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It isn't, it is the least bad

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Which technically makes it the best, doesn't it?

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

No because best implies it's good. Least bad doesn't transmit the same message as best.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

Yeah that's fair.

[–] UNY0N@linux.community 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it's easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it's basically unbreakable.

[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I can't claim it's the best, but it's the best for me right now.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

On a gaming laptop I'm using Aurora because KDE Plasma btw (:

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That's why I like it.

I considered to go back to Debian but... eh, I'm too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.

[–] DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do things not work out of the box on debian?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.

*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Linux Mint has a Debian Edition (LMDE) if you ever wanted a Debian that Just Works.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it's a great distro. I don't recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

The Ubuntu version does have all of Mint's tools and stuff. Pretty sure the Debian edition is missing the Driver Manager and maybe some others.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

All the good parts of Ubuntu have long since been integrated upstream. And Debian's release cycle has increased a lot so you're not stuck with old versions anymore.

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Debian. It works so well that I never even looked at different distros during the last 20 years or so...

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 43 minutes ago

To each its own in accordance to their needs. Debian is great unless you want to add proprietary stuff like GPUs. That's the whole reason so many distros (e.g. Ubuntu) raised to fame and gained popularity while being based on Debian... That, and the fact that until recently Debian installation guide was not updated and called to download an ISO to be burned in 1-2 CDs... that was so f*ing unclear. Of course you can use a pendrive, but if the guide talks about CDs... that's just confusing to newbies. None pointed that out, but to me is like being even less friendly than Arch :P Just my opinion. That said, I have been using Debian based distros for most of my time, even today (desktop PC with MX 'ahs'.)

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 points 17 hours ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_is_the_best

[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 19 hours ago

I don't know that it is objectively the best - but its the best fit for me right now (LMDE).

[–] dhampirdamsel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago

I've been enjoying EndeavourOS over the past three years. It works wonderfully out of the box at default settings, and was really easy for me to use and set up to my liking with minimal know-how needed.

It also works really well on the variety of machines I have in my home. My desktop, modded Chromebook, and my husband's laptop.

It's allowed me to get more familiar and confident with the command line, and enough so that I've switched to Sway from XFCE (and previously KDE).

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

This week alone I've used Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Fedora. Its Arch. By a short way, and mostly thanks to the wiki. Tbh they are all converging, and I go with KDE variants when I use a GUI and no distro does too much to customise it

[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 5 points 19 hours ago

Hannah Montana Linux

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 3 points 19 hours ago

It's extremely stable, and countless other distros are derived from this.

[–] randomwords@midwest.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Void made Linux fun again for me. It gets so much right with the rolling release model.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm convinced it isn't.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 38 minutes ago

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) !