As I said in a previous post I like more stability then cutting edges distro, such as Arch Linux.
For my experience on Linux distros I tried:
- Arch Linux is fun because using of aur and it’s fancy repository, but it’s too bleeding edge system in my opinion no suitable for everyday working sessions.
- Fedora branch is pretty updated and for what I saw more stable then Arch, but I don’t like the rpm packages and in general I don’t like too much using Red Hat
- Vanilla Debian is the grandaddy, the father that grans the maximum stability, suitable for production machines or servers. I love using it in my workflow, I love Debian philosophy and the APT packet manager, but it’s not the best choice for daily computer usage cause it’s packages that are very old. BTW this is the this distribution I choose for my critical work virtual machine.
- Debian sid / Debian testing would be a great compromise between stability and system updates. I was in this distribution for a long time, but sometimes I encountred some broken packages while updating the system.
- Ubuntu is one of the best daily home usage Linux distro, but the fact is Canonical is gathering your data with telemetry. Someone said Ubuntu is the devil for this
- Linux Mint is one of the best home distribution, I was also trying to stay with this distribution for a while, but some videogames won’t run (still need to understand why)
- POP!_OS is also one of the best distribution, but still in 22.04 LTS release, who knows when they will release their Cosmic desktop and release 24.04 LTS. I was trying using POP!_OS as well but I find it too old distribution, also as I already said in a previous post I don’t like POP!_OS boot loader. I prefer a distro with native grub. Altough POP_OS is using it’s weird packages as system utility, for example for server audio. For me is a big no.
- Kali Linux I don’t know very well this distribution, I know it’s for network experts with alot of useful network tools, but I don’t know with packages if it’s updated the same as Debian Vanilla or Debian sid/testing, but for my workflow Kali is un-necessary. Let’s say I’m not too much into Kali.
- Linux Lite is the choice I did for my workflow, as I already said, because it’s stable, from my point of view one of the most well done balance between system updates and system stability. It’s default shipped with XFCE, quite outdated Kernel version, but I tried to run some games and everything goes very well. Better then what happens in Linux Mint, for what I tested.
So yes that’s my experience, the evaluation and the choice I did in my 5-6 years Linux experience.
Ricky