I appreciate the fact that the distro community is diverse enough to accommodate even people whose personal preferences are this objectively wrong. ;)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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My personal list is short:
- Debian (Testing) - evertything works OOTB. Great performance. Stable. Plenty of current packages. Works on my workstation, laptop, RPi.
- FreeBSD ;) - if you really want an alternative.
Wait a minute. Since when are LXQt and XFCE "Distributions" ?
I don't even know what that vaguely gear-like one in the top tier is, or the one next to the geeko in the second tier are.
(Just as a sidenote, as one of the openSUSE LXQt maintainers, and sometimes LXQt Upstream contributor, if we're providing our own distro somewhere, this is the first I've heard of it.)
I apologize, I meant to include Lubuntu, not LXQt in the logo.
PopOS is not too far off from a DeCanonicalled Ubuntu with extensions. It is little more than the Gnome extensions it contains, and the project could just as easily be just the pop-desktop package. They ship a year old desktop and it is rather unrefined.
a DeCanonicalled Ubuntu with extensions
You say that like it's a bad thing. Flatpak and no snaps by default is pretty decent
They ship a year old desktop
Wait until you hear what Linux Mint uses lol. Also, it's no rolling release but they do keep packages and the kernel up to date
I don’t know. I just feel it is better suited to be maybe a script and extensions, rather than an entire distro.
Why's pop so low? I haven't used Linux for a while, but I recall liking it.
Most likely personal preference; some people really dislike heavily customized DEs out of the box, and some prefer faster releases than PopOS has.
Somewhat correct. For other reasons refer to this comment.
A lot of Distros could just be scripts run on other mainstream distros, but PopOS, as you have mentioned, has a different release cycle. So it needs different repos, and that could be a little bit hard to maintain as a script.
They also have a separate installer that has features for a better Nvidia experience, which is very hard to pull off as a script (also very hard to pull off in general; because Nvidia).
With the new Cosmic DE and the new tools they've written using a different toolkit, it will be a lot harder to maintain that script, and they may need to make a new flavour of Ubuntu; "Cobuntu", that will not be an official flavour, because it doesn't use snaps.
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