I grew tired of bad “Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}” articles so I wrote one that I would consider useful myself when starting out.

  • @rtxn
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    -21 year ago

    Manjaro, and I’m not joking. It has all of the advantages and disadvantages of Arch, but at the same time has a very user-friendly default configuration, and a GUI tool that lets you choose which kernel version to use (LTS, latest, real-time, etc).

    Unlike most Arch-based distros, it’s not a bleeding-edge rolling release. It’s always behind Arch with a rapid point-release schedule, but that also means that each update gets tested and commented on by users (and I do encourage reading and contributing to the release forum thread - it is how I avoided the GRUB bug that killed many Arch installations).