Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?

For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

danielfgom,
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Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Like Peppermint this is a fantastic distro for anyone wanting to use Debian without the pain of self installing. Plus you always have the latest cinnamon.

It’s also good for anyone wanting to get away from Ubuntu all together.

I’d also like to get away from the stigma that mint is only a newbie distro. It’s not. It’s full fat Linux so pros can use it too, and should. It’s very reliable, fast and use friendly.

Above all, it’s true FOSS and LMDE is 100% community 💪

corsicanguppy,

PCLinuxOS is the bastard child of mageia, itself the child of mandriva, of mandrake and conectiva, the last a very, very excellent RH derivative from way back but loved by its Brazilian parents and truly groundbreaking. Live upgrades between major distro versions!

It’s an RPM distro - thus massive validity checks all the way down - with highly versatile app versioning and ranges, and no fucking systemd.

It just has a terrible installer and no templates or boxes for vagrant / etc.

makeasnek,
@makeasnek@lemmy.ml avatar

Qubes

radau,

I would never go back from qubes. VirtualGL seems promising for the hardware accelerated apps and GPU passthrough for a gaming VM is insane

AceFuzzLord,

I can’t say how popular it is amongst Linux users/fans, but Sparky is pretty cool. I had it on my shitty laptop for a while because I need a distro that worked with low ram and storage.

Also, not Linux based, but I’d love to see more work done on the Amiga based AROS. It’s hella niche, but I’d work on it if I had the knowhow and skills.

mfat,

Have you tried Spiral too?

AceFuzzLord,

No. First time hearing about it. I’ll definitely have to boot it in a VM on my desktop and check it out.

ultra,

Bedrock

lupec,

Bedrock looks crazy impressive and ambitious but, adding to your point, I have to admit I keep forgetting it exists.

On that note, I’ll add Vanilla OS.

theshatterstone54,

I tried it once, and it was hella impressive, but I didn’t stick with it, I don’t know why. It just seems a little too much for me.

ultra,

It kinda fucks up your FS (not in a data-loss way, but it gets really messy): it was showing 3.2TB… on a 509gb partition of a 1tb ssd. Heck, I only have 3TB in my whole PC

backhdlp,
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reminds me of /proc always being 128TB for no reason

rizoid,
@rizoid@midwest.social avatar

Honestly I’ve really enjoyed Zorin. It’s made life simple when it comes to migrating friends and family to Linux. Specifically the way they handle fonts and scaling in office programs when opening Microsoft files. It’s been easy to get my wife to get off of windows after they started bombarding her with adds on her fuckin desktop screen.

mfat,

Can you send a screenshot please? I’m curious how the fonts look.

molochthagod,

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    worldofgeese, (edited )
    @worldofgeese@lemmy.world avatar

    The old homegrown Pardus was really something special with its Kaptan system configuration tool and PiSi package manager.

    Quazatron,
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    +1 for Peppermint. I installed it on a thumb drive and always carry it with me while travelling. This way I can boot it on the company laptop to safely steam video and browse social media while not touching the (encrypted) company disk.

    MigratingtoLemmy, (edited )

    Void, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan (although I’d like for them to remove even the slightest semblance of systemd), FreeBSD

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    I stopped looking at PepperMint when the founder passed away. It was a sad day.

    Another sad day was when they could no longer keep using LXDE because it fell out of support. Very unfortunate

    ares35,
    @ares35@kbin.social avatar

    dietpi. besides rpi and other sbc, there's also vm images and it can be put right on x86 or x64 pc, too.

    rodbiren,

    Mint is surprisingly loved and disliked from what I have seen. Having used it since 2007 I am in the category that likes it for what it is. But I am somewhat surprised by the open hostility it gets for simply existing. Main arguments being that it is a dinosaur, uses X11, should not exist because anything not KDE or GNOME is just diluting desktop Linux and is part of the problem. It has no fancy corporate sponsor, it has a small team, and it for sure has warts, but you can claw Linux Mint from my cold dead hard drive because I have distro hopped like an addict and it just checks the boxes for me. It shows up and works, even on newer hardware with a little tweaking here and there, but I can use Nvidia, find network printers without effort, scan, install and update flatpak, backup the system, game, and get actual work done that is not fiddle farting around with esoteric configs all the time. I can post on actual forums with actual users on it and not some discord where someone will just post memes over my questions. I have a strong feeling it will exist for a long while given it’s history. And it is mind numbingly borning as an OS. I just sit down and compute, what a concept.

    jennraeross,

    If there was only a way to get automatic tiling on cinnamon it’d be my favorite desktop by far. Everything you need, nothing you don’t, sensible by default. It’s the right option for most people I think

    glue_snorter,

    Excellent - I’m about to install it for my aged mother, because windows keeps moving her cheese.

    I want something that doesn’t change the workflows once she’s learned how to do a task, and that local techs can help her with, and that I can VNC to when I have to.

    rodbiren,

    You can configure the system for backup and auto updates which is handy to keep it secure without any interaction. Only reason I ever had it fail was entirely me screwing it up, usually by distro hopping and formatting wrong.

    notaviking,

    How can someone speak such truth. Agree it is not perfect. But it just works and really well. Only big controversy I can think of is the website being hacked a couple of years ago, but they were open and transparent in my opinion about the hole thing. Also disto hoped a lot but I am always brought back to “green Ubuntu”. Can Mint team get ontop of Wayland please

    Stillhart,

    Speaking as a relative linux noob, Mint is probably the most recommended distro I’ve seen now that Ubuntu jumped the shark. Not sure how anyone could think it needs more recognition.

    visnudeva,
    @visnudeva@lemmy.ml avatar

    All of them, thanks a lot for all the Devs hard work, I’ve tried and loved so many distros that I can’t choose any of them but lately I have been using cachyos which is a clean and fast arch based distro.

    intrepid,

    Void Linux for the arch and gentoo crowd. It’s a system that can be assembled more cohesively.

    Nix and Guix - the ideas they bring to the table are revolutionary. I prefer Guix due to its use of Scheme (guile). But Nix is more mature and has more packages.

    nik282000,
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    I’ve used Debian for years but tried Void on a really low spec netbook and it’s pretty nice. The install is pretty painless and not having systemd is an interesting change for me.

    just_another_person,

    SteamOS

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