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What Linux Distribution Should I Use?

You were probably sent this page by me so I don't have to reiterate my self for the thousandth time.

TLDR: Whatever works for you! Try a bunch out and see what you like!
Although you might get roasted by me and others for the one you use. That does not matter as long as it works for you.

For my actual meaty opinionated opinion on this subject scroll further

What Linux Distribution Should I Use According to You

New Users

For a desktop use Fedora KDE or CachyOS
For a server use Alpine Linux

Experienced Users

For a desktop use Arch Linux or CachyOS
For a server use Alpine Linux

Lower End Hardware

For a desktop use Linux Mint XFCe Edition or Alpine Linux
For a server use Alpine Linux

Raspberry Pi

Use Raspberry Pi OS

The Bad Ones (In my opinion)

Manjaro? ManjarNO!

Do not use manjaro linux. While it will still work fine they have done some stupid ass fucking things I will not go over them here but you can go here for a great summary

Instead if you want an arch based distro either use Arch its self or CachyOS which is what i use personally on my desktop.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu might work for you but it has had so so so many stupid things done to it which i will list

  • Using uutils while its not really production ready
  • Using sudo-rs while its not really production ready
  • Using snaps which are just a worse flatpak and cause issues which is detailed well by the linux mint user guide