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[–] 57 points 8 months ago (29 children)

There are four main flavors

  • Debian - For every day
  • Red Hat - For work
  • Arch - To tinker and learn
  • OpenSuSe - To German
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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    also ...

    Debian - for when you want to wait two years

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    The popular Debian based distros are up to date. That said, core Debian stable is indeed boring, but sometimes boring and stable is what you need.

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  • I use Kubuntu LTS for that exact reason. Even though I am an experienced Linux user for over 20 years, I don't have time to fuck around fixing my PC when something goes wrong. It's stable and it works. And, yes I game on my PC and it's doing just fine with my 3070 RTX NVidia card with the drivers provided by Ubuntu through their 3rd party driver system. No hassle, no crashing, just me using my computer doing the things I need to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Its not even stable though😭 I spent 6 hours fixing my networking on my debian 13 stable server, after it randomly got 90 percent packet loss with no explanation

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Definitely a brick of an operating system, boring as hell, but reliable and has been that way since ancient times.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

    Also the additional flavours of

    • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
    • Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer
    • Alpine – small and simple
    • Slackware? – for old people
    • Void?? – like Alpine but not small and simple
    • LFS??? – like Gentoo but takes longer
    • AOSP???? – not even really Linux anymore
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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer

    Supports full binary versions since december 2023.

    Slackware? – for old people

    Aka people who know what they're doing and what they want, noted.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I've always wondered what the use case for Gentoo-but-binary is. I'm sure there is one, I just can't think of one.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Adding a binary package host allows Portage to install cryptographically signed, compiled packages. In many cases, adding a binary package host will greatly decrease the mean time to package installation and adds much benefit when running Gentoo on older, slower, or low power systems.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.

    And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
    • Void - the most BSD Linux (according to BSD people)
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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    the most BSD Linux

    Try CRUX.

    (Or KISS/Carbs, Side, Parch, Aeryn, Shebang, ... and there are other new ones I've forgot the name of, that have either BSD userland or BSD style ports packaging systems).

    I don't know which is "the most BSD Linux", but I suspect "BSD people" may not be the most familiar with the distroverse, having their own things to tend to.

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