Original question by @atmorous@lemmy.world
What Distros do you want to shoutout and why you think they are doing well/are the best at what they do?
I am curious what is out there and have only had some experience with Linux Mint, SteamOS, and Pop!_OS
Debian exists. Ubuntu wants to go Pro. Mint is squished in the middle. Fedora is doing mad science, and OpenSuSE is in full “We have Fedora at home” mode. Arch arches, and Bazzite is in an existential crisis over the coming x86 32-bit apocalypse. Also Nix is nixing, I guess. All the inbetweeners are trying desperately to be relevant and up to date.
You forgot the one that is still compiling…
Gentoo and LFS exist as concepts. The users are compiling their project car linuxes from scratch themselves.
Still using a mix of Debian and Ubuntu.
I tried openSUSE but didn’t like it compared to Ubuntu desktop.
Out of the box?
Fedora Workstation for my VM desktops. For servers usually Ubuntu just because it just works, but for running containers on systems with limited resources? Alphine.
Doing the best for which use-case? The answers will be fundamentally different depending on the situation
It’s an open ended question, just speak from your perspective/use case/problems and solutions
In my experience Ubuntu LTS seems to do the best at checking whatever bullshit checkboxes the know-nothing corporate cybersecurity auditmonkeys care about.
I wanna give a shoutout to Manjaro, an arch based distro with a cascading testing cycle for better stability. That being said, I am using Arch and Manjaro for about a decade now and never really had any stability issues (in contrast to my tries with Ubuntu). The arch wiki stays one of the absolute best resources for Linux users on the internet, the rolling release ensures cutting edge Software, the AUR makes it very easy to provide community built packages. And then there’s Debian. Definitely my choice for servers.